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Someday we will all have robots that will be our personal assistants. They will look and behave much like humans. We will be able to talk to these mechanical helpers. Amazingly, the robots of the future will be able to learn from experience. They will be smart, strong, and untiring workers whose only goal will be to make our lives easier. 
What is the main idea? 

• Someday we will all have robots to be our personal assistants
• We will be able to talk to these mechanical helpers
• They will look and behave much like real humans
• Robots of the future will be able to learn from experience

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Which supporting detail best supports this topic sentence?
Elle Woods taught us that you can do anything you put your mind to.

• She got into law school and became a lawyer even though no one believed in her.
• Her best friend works at a salon, so she always looks good.
• Elle really likes to socialize and have fun.
• Out of all of the things, Elle loves her dog, Bruiser, the most.

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Please read the following details and determine the main idea of these words.
-tall buildings
-taxis
-noise
-lots of people
-billboards

• In a city
• math
• Spring
• Birds

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Is it an ant, you wonder, or a termite? Ants resemble termites, but they are quite different and can be easily distinguished. In contrast to termites, ants are usually dark in color, are hard bodied, and have constriction between the thorax and abdomen. Termites are light in color and shed their wings. Flying ants do not shed their wings. Also, ants and termites belong to different orders.
Select the best summary of this paragraph.

• Termites are lighter in color and loose their wings at a certain stage of development.
• Ants are dark in color, hard bodied and belong to a different order than termites.
• Ants and termites are both insects and have many things in common
• Although ants resemble termites, they have differences that can be easily seen.

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 Pizza is so old that its origins are not quite clear to historians, but the word pizza comes from the Latin verb pinsere, meaning to press.  It may also be related to the Greek word pitta.  In any event the word “pizza” was first documented in Italy in 997 AD.  Whatever they were eating back then, however, was quite different from the pizza that we know today.  Pizza as we know it could not really have been invented until sometime during the 16^th century, when tomatoes were brought to Europe from America.  This was big, but in my opinion the greatest development in the history of pizza occurred in 1905, when pizza was first sold in America.  The rest, as they say, is history.  

• Cause/Effect
• Problem/Solution
• Sequence
• Descriptive

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What is the Main Idea of this passage?

• Weekends are times to travel

• The writer enjoys spending time with family

• The writer's grandparents live far away

• The writer is sad to leave her cousins.

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Who was Anna?

• Jesse's wife

• Angus's mother

• Miles's daughter

• Miles's wife

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When we think of seaweed, we usually picture brown or green plants a foot or so in length.  Seaweeds are also of other colors.  Some are red.  Some kinds grow to lengths of a hundred feet!  These form giant seaweed forests, where many kinds of fish take shelter.  What is the main idea?

• Why some seaweed grows so large
• What seaweed is like
• Why seaweed is red

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Which of the following details provides the best hint about the landlady’s secret?

• The front of the building is rather shabby.

• The downstairs window is brightly lit.

• The landlady explains that she stuffs all her dead pets.

• The landlady serves tea and cookies to Billy before he goes up to his room.

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Answer the questions or follow the directions for the textbook passages below.
1Stereotyping consists of assigning traits to people solely on the basis of a category. 2Some researchers suggest that stereotyping has four clear phases. 3First, a person distinguishes a particular category of people—for example, economists. 4Second, the person notes that one or more of the people in this category have certain traits—for example, dullness. 5Third, the person generalizes that everyone in this category has these characteristics—for example, that all economists are dull. 6Finally, when meeting someone the person is not acquainted with but knows to be, for example, an economist, the person stereotypes this individual as dull. 
In general, the major supporting details of this paragraph are

• characteristics given to people solely on the basis of their class or category. 
• people who have studied stereotypes.
  
• examples of stereotyping.
  
• the stages people go through when they stereotype. 

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