Heritage and Multicultural American Identities — Test
Question 18 • TPS EdX English Language Arts 11
Read the excerpt from "How the Internet and Other Technologies Came About." Because most cities would no longer exist, messages would have to be broken up into pieces, scattered throughout the system, moved around cities that no longer existed, and then reassembled at the destination. ARPA combined these ideas with an existing system to create what is now called e-mail. Which reading strategy would most help in comprehending the sentence?
Answer
A
breaking it up into shorter sentences and phrases
B
looking up the longer words
C
relating the content to personal experience
D
rewriting each line by hand
Explanation
The sentence contains several connected ideas: messages are divided into pieces, sent through the system, and put back together at their destination. Breaking it into shorter sentences or phrases makes each step easier to follow. Looking up long words or copying the sentence would not clarify its complex structure as directly.
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