Birth in Poland B. Exile to Russia C. Death of parents III. Dissatisfaction with school B. Years as a merchant marine sailor in France C. Suicide attempt V. Sailing under the British flag A. Lack of need for English when a seaman B. Need for English to pass tests for promotion C. Length of service VI.
A natural feel for the rhythm of English B. A psychological attachment to English IX. Of writers differently. If our guesses are wrong, we may misunderstand the work. Writers often base the characters in their A literary character is never exactly like a works on real people.
Unless we know who real person. A good author can write about evaluating his or her experience. For example, an author can easily write whales in Moby Dick seems more reliable about depression without having it. January 2. July 3. June 4. In general, average precipitation increases as average temperature increases 8. Review a Skill: Outlining p. Possible answers: I. A sample case A. Witness statement B. Weather expert refutes witness II. What forensic meteorology is A.
Backcasts III. Weather records A. Records kept over centuries B. Kinds of information recorded IV. The value of an expert A. Presents and interprets data V. Qualifications A. No special training B. Because the sound energy would not have reached her ears. Their denial of his claim energized him to take some action. The energy from the falling hail is directed from above, not from the sides, and would affect the roof but not the tires.
Any energetic and entrepreneurial science student can become one. A meteorologist should understand the energy of different weather phenomena. Lightning storms exhibited them. They are examining them in sections.
TGFs are tropical phenomena, and Canada is not in the tropics. Before You Read p. The shrubland biome has the widest range of temperatures. Rainforest has the smallest range. The desert and tundra biomes are the driest. The desert and shrubland biomes occur between specific latitudes. Children like to have a clear beginning, middle, and end to stories. Directions to a destination have to be clear, or the person may not find it.
A painting, especially an abstract one, does not have to have a clear interpretation. That is for the people looking at the painting to decide. It is a good idea to study in an organized way so that you review all the important material on the test. It is helpful for city streets to have some kind of clear pattern for people who are not from that place to figure out.
You can find what you want in a grocery store if it is organized logically. Like art, music does not have to have coherence. The order of the notes can be whatever the writer wants. T Reading Skill: Summarizing p. Review a Skill: Scanning. Possible answers:. She is totally committed to her daughter.
His leaving early shows a lack of commitment to the team. The government has honored a commitment to allocate more money for the school lunches program. He went to prison for committing crimes. They would love to take a vacation, but they have a lot of other commitments. Studies have shown that antioxidants affect older adults mentally by helping us to retain memory skills and other cognitive functions. Antioxidants react with free radicals and reduce their ability to damage bodily tissue.
The overall effect of free radicals is to promote the deterioration in body tissues that we associate with aging. One of the most disturbing aspects of aging is how it affects the brain, as our reactions slow, we lose memory. Some older people have improved their prospects of staying mentally sharp by eating foods high in antioxidants. The cognitive abilities of older people who take antioxidants in pill form, however, seem to be unaffected by the supplements.
A college career usually goes through series of discrete levels: freshman, sophomore, junior, senior. In some workplaces, the highly varied jobs are seen as discrete from each other, whereas in other workplaces they are seen as part of a larger whole. The Minnesota Starvation Experiment was broken into three discrete stages: adequate diet, semi-starvation, and recovery. The people in my life promote my health and well-being in discrete ways, such as exercising with me and showing concern for and helping me.
T Reading Skill: Making Inferences p. They have transformed from one continent into seven. It led to a transformation from catastrophist theory to uniformitarian theory. Antarctica was transformed from a mild place where plants could grow into a cold, barren place. It was transformative, turning a theory that seemed physically impossible into one that seemed the most probable. Geologists are trying to use plate tectonics to estimate how Earth's surface will evolve over the next million years 3.
Christopher Scotese envisions the evolution of a new supercontinent, which he calls Pangaea Ultima. Many geologists predict that the Mediterranean Sea will be displaced by a new mountain range as Africa collides with Europe. After Australia and Antarctica collide with Afrasia, only a small area will be left to accommodate the Indian Ocean.
As South America moves north, it will displace the Caribbean islands. Scotese predicts that the movement of the Americas will eventually reverse, so that they will start heading east toward Afrasia and displace the Atlantic Ocean. Other geologists predict no restraint on westward movement by the Americas, causing the Pacific Ocean to eventually disappear. When making predictions about the next million years, one must be prepared to accommodate many surprises.
F Reading Skill: Making Inferences p. Inside Reading Level 2 6. For now, it might be beneficial to areas that are cold but are able to grow crops and raise livestock.
However, this warming is transforming cold habitats whose occupants are having a hard time surviving. An example is the polar bear in North America. Events like this may aid areas of the world that are normally dry and could benefit from the wet and cool weather.
But events like this are also similar to a nuclear explosion and probably transformed the Mt. Pinatubo surrounding area by causing death and destruction in populated areas.
The new volcanic island named Surtsey that evolved off the southwest coast of Iceland from to might have been beneficial as a new harbor to accommodate ships. But populations on the nearest coast in Iceland may have been displaced by the activity. On the contrary, if it is not reversed or at least restrained, the area will always be desolate. The passing of a streak of vaporized asteroid transformed the forest area into a cleared area that people could perhaps cultivate or build on.
But the random destruction of 80 million trees, which injured people a great distance away, must have been similar to a nuclear blast.
The integration of northeast Asia and what is now Alaska up until to 7, years ago accommodated the movement of humans so that all of North America and South America eventually became populated. That fact was not beneficial to the wildlife that had also crossed over to those continents.
Their survival instincts had to evolve, or they would perish. They are the result that they were integrated in the past: of random movement and do not prove similar fossils, similar mineral deposits, they were part of a supercontinent. The theory of plate tectonics is scientific. It There are many traditional explanations of allows us to gather evidence, make how the world took shape, and none of predictions based on that evidence, and them mentions moving plates.
Plate then test our predictions. It has done an tectonics ignores wisdom that is thousands excellent job of accommodating of years old. Many in the scientific observations experts have carefully community overestimate their abilities if recorded. F Reading Skill: Highlighting and Annotating p. University of Evansville in Indiana 5. Orkut, or QQ 2. Ohio 6. Brazil and India 8. Sarah B. Colleges in the U. It is only through interaction that people can get to know one another.
Part of the problem is that some freshmen expect that a roommate is guaranteed to become their friend. Inevitably, two new students, with no other friends available, will look to each other for support. A problem can develop if one of the roommates is socially passive, unwilling to go out and seek new friends. If a college orientation program is honest about the inevitability of roommate separation, there will be less anxiety.
Freshmen who are socially successful can give some social assistance to their roommates who are the converse. One roommate cannot be expected to guarantee a friendship with the other, since college students ought to have social skills of their own. They are unsure how to react to behavior that deviates from what they are familiar with. Telling lies in a social network profile is not completely deviant behavior. Many people do it. It would be a real deviation from the norm for a college to let freshmen choose their own roommates.
The student and his or her parents would certainly warn the college that the roommate might be a deviant. Reading Skill: Highlighting and Annotating p. Eating and drinking during class deviates from most school policies, so there is usually a rule about not doing this.
It should not be a guaranteed right because it can be a source of disruption and also make a mess. Wearing an extreme amount of make-up can be disruptive in a class, so this should not be a guaranteed right.
There is a place and time for discussion between students and principal, and the front of the school and shouting in public does not seem like the proper place. It should not be a guaranteed right. For example, a perspectives. They should maximize student interested in literature needs to be exposure to new people and ideas and not around others who can discuss books and restrict themselves.
During the teen years, students need the Passively blending in too much with others security of a group of friends. They are discourages students from being moving away from the protected individuals. Teenagers who could be environment of home and should be leaders fail to step up, preferring not to call guaranteed a safe, comfortable refuge. Students inevitably form social groups.
Teenagers appreciate adult intervention Rather than wasting time trying to tell when it comes to choosing friends. When students who they can socialize with, adults assert their experience, teens may act parents and the school should give these annoyed.
In the long run, however, they groups constructive things to do. Possible answer: I think it is about news and how it is essential to check that information is true before the public reads about it. T Reading Skill: Understanding Sequences p. Possible answers: The Voricks b. People harass the Voricks.
The New Yorker a. The magazine is known for excellent fact-checking. The quality of fact-checking at the magazine declines. The fact-checking department once again becomes famously thorough. The Newsweek story a.
A single source tells the magazine about misbehavior by soldiers. Newsweek publishes a story about it. Riots over the report kill more than a dozen people. No one can be found to confirm the story. The colors of a rainbow. The driver said he was ignorant of a change in the speed limit, but he still got a ticket. The police officer told him that ignorance of the law was no excuse for breaking the law.
While the reporter was in Malawi, she embarrassed herself several times because she was ignorant of local customs. The editor dropped the story because she thought the reporter had deliberately ignored some information. The editor said that ignoring a problem will not make it go away. A Washington Post reporter submitted a story about a child drug addict.
Janet Cooke, the reporter, was granted a Pulitzer Prize for the story. It soon became apparent that the boy did not exist. Successive investigations found several untruths in the story and in other statements Cooke made about herself.
Shortly after the prize was given, the Post had to submit to the obvious and apologize for the fake story. Cooke quit and gave back the prize, but she assigned blame to her editors. Possible answers in order : photographer taking pictures photographer altering pictures photographer selling them to news service news service distributing photos errors discovered in photos news service stopping distribution of photos Reading Skill: Understanding Sequences p.
Possible answer: President Franklin Roosevelt had contracted polio before he became president in He had to use a wheelchair in public every day of his year presidency, but during that time, most editors of newspapers and magazines never published photographs of him in a wheelchair.
So the public always had the impression of a strong president. Another case of the public being allowed to see only certain things in a photograph involved U.
First, the photographers were told to shoot pictures from certain places only. Then Reagan stood in such a way that he and graves of Nazi soldiers were not captured together. Meaning 1: offer Meaning 2: defer 2. Meaning 1: a and b Meaning 2: c and d 3. The emphasis changed from a negative review of the restaurant to a positive review. No, the decision was not justified. If service or the food was bad at the restaurant, customers have a right to know.
The restaurant was probably just having a bad night, and advertising brings in a lot of money. No, the decision was not justified because the story was false, and the press should never print anything that is not true. Related Books Free with a 30 day trial from Scribd. Dry: A Memoir Augusten Burroughs. Related Audiobooks Free with a 30 day trial from Scribd. Empath Up! Prasad Karunanayaka. Aby Holden. Muath Alanzi. Daisy Sunny. Javiera Kaori. Bench Bani , -- at Prankratai Pittayakhom School.
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