(30) The group had hoped to silence Malala but instead amplifyed her message and created a global hero.

What change needs to be made in sentence 30?

(36) As her fight continues, Malala Yousafzai reminds world leaders “So let us wage a global struggle against illiteracy, poverty, and terrorism, and let us pick up our books and pens. (37) They are our most powerful weapons.”

What change should be made in sentence 36?

(7) Out of this petri dish of the 1970s, my Datsun-driving environmentalist dad hatched his vision of what he called the “electronic newspaper.” It would arrive, “Jetsons”-like, via cable, satellite or telephone lines, accessed and updated around the clock. Subscribers would pay lower rates. Trees would be spared, fuel conserved. Information was his passion, and his goal was to offer as much of it to as many people as possible. (He was such an info junkie that, many years later, when I was pregnant, he couldn’t comprehend my decision not to find out whether I was carrying a boy or a girl.) He believed that the future of news lay in allowing readers to decide what was most important to them, as with today’s customizable home pages. To most editors, this was heresy. This frustrated him and he made little effort to hide it. “This business,” he snapped to a reporter in 1983, “is like the last dinosaur in the swamp.”

In paragraph 7, which term refers to a belief that is contrary to prevailing opinion?

Read these sentences from paragraph 4.

On former publisher told me recently that Barry Bingham, Jr., "was the visionary among us. He said what we didn't want to hear and we ran away from it."

The primary purpose of the text above is to —

(7) Out of this petri dish of the 1970s, my Datsun-driving environmentalist dad hatched his vision of what he called the “electronic newspaper.” It would arrive, “Jetsons”-like, via cable, satellite or telephone lines, accessed and updated around the clock. Subscribers would pay lower rates. Trees would be spared, fuel conserved. Information was his passion, and his goal was to offer as much of it to as many people as possible. (He was such an info junkie that, many years later, when I was pregnant, he couldn’t comprehend my decision not to find out whether I was carrying a boy or a girl.) He believed that the future of news lay in allowing readers to decide what was most important to them, as with today’s customizable home pages. To most editors, this was heresy. This frustrated him and he made little effort to hide it. “This business,” he snapped to a reporter in 1983, “is like the last dinosaur in the swamp.”

In paragraph 7, why does the author refer to saving trees and conserving fuel?

CARVIL: Well, then, go steady with a poor blind man. Blind! Helpless! [He strikes the ground with his stick.] Never mind! I’ve had time to make enough money to have ham and eggs for breakfast every morning—thank God! And thank God, too, for it, girl. You haven’t known a single hardship in all the days of your idle life. Unless you think that a blind, helpless father—

The reader can conclude from this paragraph that Carvil—

CARVIL: [snarls] It’s mine, perhaps. Can I help being blind? You fret because you want to be gadding about—with a helpless man left alone at home. Your own father, too.

BESSIE: I haven’t been away from you half a day since mother died.

CARVIL: [viciously] He’s a lunatic, our landlord is. That’s what he is. Has been for years—long before those damned doctors destroyed my sight for me. [He growls angrily, then sighs.]

The playwright included the stage directions in these paragraphs to emphasize—

Read these lines from the play:

Carvil: But what can be your game? What are you up to? [They pass through garden gate.] Because if it's his money you are after...

These lines show that--

(1) As access to the Internet has increased, more and more people have become daily participants in social networking. (2) In the past, people could separate their online persona from who they are in real life. (3) However, this is not the way things are now.

Which of the following could replace sentence 3 and better articulate the position Kayla is trying to take in this paper?

(5) It’s easy to snap a photo, load it on a website, and a quick synopsis is typed out of where they are and what they’re doing.

What is the most effective revision to make in sentence 5?

(8) The photo a girl posts of a crazy stunt or that negative remark he posts about someone at school might not seem like a big deal now, but it could come back to haunt them later.

Sentence 8 contains an indefinite reference that affects the clarity of the sentence. What is the best way to revise this sentence?

What term is the following an example of?

He ran down the hallway like a cheetah.

What is the following an example of?

The snow was a white blanket across the soccer field.

Which tone means the attitude of a writer towards something or someone?

Which term means the feelings or emotions evoked by a piece of writing?

With more than 500 miles of coastline, people in Texas are offered ample opportunity to surf right here in their home state.

What is the most effective way to revise this sentence?

Which sentence supports the idea that the life of the Inughuits now is not very different from how it has always been?

11 The mountain lion was not running away. His rear end was lowered, his gaze intent. I was reminded of what my dad had said: Ever see a cat jump on a string? That’s what the cougar looked like to me now, a cat getting ready to pounce.

12 There were no sticks nearby. My rod was handy but so thin I doubted it would be intimidating. What was it Dad said? A bite-sized boy like you could make a tasty meal.

13 My fear was so strong and real I was sick with it. Stand up big and tall, my father had instructed. What you want is for that cougar to see you as a meal that’s going to cost him, put up a real fight.

From paragraphs 11 through 13, what can the reader infer about the narrator’s relationship with his father?

Which line suggests that seeing someone else yawn is not the only way to experience contagious yawning?