Relationship Between Ideas

How are these two sentences related?

• The first sentence explains the meaning of the second.

• The second sentence explains why a lack of sleep affects us.

• The second sentence contradicts the first.

• The second sentence proposes a solution.

Read the statements below and then choose the best answer to the question from the list of lettered choices that follows: What is the relationship between the two sentences?

• cause & effect

• contrast

• repetition

• statement & example

How are these two sentences related?

• The first sentence explains the meaning of the second.

• The second sentence explains why the CD is popular.

• The second sentence provides evidence of the first.

• The first sentence contradicts the second.

practice is to tournament as

study is to _____

• luck

• text book

• classroom

• test

How are these 2 sentences related?

• Sentence two offers support for the statement made in the first sentence.

• Sentence two contradicts the statement made in the first sentence.

• Sentence two shows an exception to the first sentence

• Sentence two compares two kinds of speeches.

Which statement best reflects the organization used in this passage? The rise in personal debt in recent years is due largely to aggressive and unwarranted hustling by credit-card companies. Between 1990 and 1996, credit card debt doubled. Today, it is still rising. Credit cards with interest rates reaching nearly 20 percent are a remarkably lucrative (=profitable) part of the loan business. Debtors (=people who owe money) pay an average of $1,000 a year in interest and fees alone, money that could instead have been used for a college or retirement fund. Using subtle tactics to tempt unwary consumers to borrow, credit-card companies have led consumers to hold more cards and to fork over a bigger and bigger fraction of their income to the companies.

• cause/effect

• comparison/contrast

• description

• explanation

__________means that one event happened because of another event.

• Emphasis

• Cause & Effect

• Contrast

• Addition

In a __________ relationship, the second idea shows how true the first idea is. The second idea is more impressive than the first.

• Emphasis

• Sequence

• Similarity

• Addition

___________ means that two people, things, or ideas are the same or have something in common.

• Example

• Sequence

• Similarity

• Addition

Cause and Effect:

• provides factual information

• presents objects, ideas, and information in groups, or classes, based on common characteristics

• shows the relationship between events and their causes

• divides ideas about a topic into the positive and negative points, or advantages and disadvantages