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What is the best way to combine the following sentences: 
Carla, and Bob weren't paying attention to the teacher.
They couldn't do their homework.

• Carla and Bob weren't paying attention to the teacher, so they couldn't do their homework.
• Carla and Bob weren't paying attention to the teacher.
• They couldn't do their homework. They weren't paying attention to the teacher.
• When Carla and Bob couldn't do their homework, they gave their attention to the teacher. 

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R...?

• Restates all parts of the question after including answer
• Restates all parts of the question before including answer
• Replace all parts of the question after including answer
• Run around in circles!

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The explorer Marco Polo left his home in Italy in 1271.  After many years of traveling, his party reached the summer palace of Kublai Khan in what is now China.  Polo remained at the court for seventeen years.  He marveled at things not yet seen in Europe. For example, common people bathed daily.  Roads and bridges were paved.  People used paper money as currency.  They also burned coal as a fuel.  When Polo finally returned to Europe, it took a while before people believed the stories he told or the book he wrote about his travels.  Which title best summarizes this paragraph?

• What Marco Polo Was Like
• Meeting Kublai Khan
• A Wanderer from Italy
• The Travels of Marco Polo

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It started when they got to the bears. Peter felt tired and his stomach hurt. He dragged himself over to see the elephants, which were eating from a stack of hay. Normally, the elephants were his favorite. Without much interest, Peter followed his classmates to the camels, which were busy swatting flies with their tails. Peter knew he should be having fun at the zoo, but he just felt terrible and all he wanted to do was lie down and rest. Even the lions and tigers did not interest him now. 
The best summary of this passage is...

• Peter's favorite animals were the elephants.
• The camels were swatting flies with their tails.
•  It was really hot at the zoo.
• Peter didn't enjoy the zoo because he felt really bad.

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When another old cave is discovered in the south of France, it is not usually news. Rather, it is an ordinary event. Such discoveries are so frequent these days that hardly anybody pays heed to them. However, when the Lascaux cave complex was discovered in 1940, the world was amazed. Painted directly on its walls were hundreds of scenes showing how people lived thousands of years ago. The scenes show people hunting animals, such as bison or wild cats. Other images depict birds and, most noticeably, horses, which appear in more than 300 wall images, by far outnumbering all other animals. Early artists drawing these animals accomplished a monumental and difficult task. They did not limit themselves to the easily accessible walls but carried their painting materials to spaces that required climbing steep walls or crawling into narrow passages in the Lascaux complex. Unfortunately, the paintings have been exposed to the destructive action of water and temperature changes, which easily wear the images away. Because the Lascaux caves have many entrances, air movement has also damaged the images inside. Although they are not out in the open air, where natural light would have destroyed them long ago, many of the images have deteriorated and are barely recognizable. To prevent further damage, the site was closed to tourists in 1963, 23 years after it was discovered.

Which title best summarizes the main idea of the passage?

• Wild Animals in Art

• Hidden Prehistoric Paintings

• Exploring Caves Respectfully

• Determining the Age of French Caves

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It was January, and every year mom made a new resolution. This year, her resolution included the whole family. She wanted to cook healthier meals! Every night, the family had a new healthy dish on their table. A few of the meals she made were delicious, but most were hard to eat more than two bites of. Nevertheless, she kept her resolution all year long and eventually the meals tasted better and better.

What is the best summary of this paragraph?

• Mom's resolution was to cook better meals for the whole family.

• Mom wanted to cook healthier meals but she was not good at cooking. Over time she kept trying and her meals got better.

• Mom wanted the family to become healthier but no one wanted to eat the meals she had cooked. Mom kept her resolution and cooked all year long.

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What's the best way to combine these sentences?:

We wanted to go to the beach.

It started to rain.

We stayed at home.

• We wanted to go to the beach, but it started to rain; otherwise, we stayed home.

• We wanted to go to the beach; however, it started to rain, so we stayed home.

• We wanted to go to the beach; therefore, it started to rain, and we stayed home.

• It started to rain, but we wanted to go to the beach; therefore, we stayed home.

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Which three phrases/words best summarize chapters 11-12?

• acting like a duck, nightmares, doctor visit

• goody-goody Chase, being mean to

  Johnny, playing mah-jong with the

  Portland Street residents

• the hidden object, flashes of memory, Mr.

  Solway great for video project

• warhorse from room 121, bringing the ficus

  back to life, Brendan crushes on Kimberly

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For the walls, Jenny thought she would use a bright yellow paint. She would pick a border that had mostly bright red and green colors, and maybe a little bit of blue. She already had found some curtains that were sky blue with streaks of red, blue and yellow that she thought would go great with the walls. And finally, she had picked a carpet that was mostly blue with specks of red and yellow. Jenny couldn't wait till she was done decorating her room. It was really going to look awesome.

The best summary of this passage is:

• Jenny likes bright colors.

• Jenny was going to paint her room.

• Jenny was picking out colors and materials to decorate her room.

• Yellow is a good color to paint your walls.

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Travis and Frederick went to the mall to buy shoes. Frederick decided that he was going to steal pair of shoes from the mall. Travis tried to talk Frederick out of doing it. When they got to the mall and entered the shoes store Travis went to look at some shoes. Frederick pretended to be looking at shoes, when he suddenly bolted for the door with a pair of Nikes. The security guard reached out and grabbed Frederick's arm and took him to the station. Travis just called his mom to pick him up.

What is the most appropriate summary?

• Travis wanted a pair of shoes from the mall so he got his friend Frederick to steal them.

• Frederick thought he could get away with stealing shoes from the mall and he did.

• Travis had no idea that Frederick planned to steal from the mall when they planned to buy shoes.

• Travis tried to talk his friend Frederick out of stealing shoes from the mall, but when he did it anyway he got caught.

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