The Promise of America: Different Genres' Approaches to the Same Topic
Question 36 • Language Arts 8 - ELA3008 IC
Read this excerpt from When Birds Get Flu and Cows Go Mad! How Safe Are We?.24/7: And working with the CDC has allowed you to do that?DR. SCOTT DOWELL: Right. I joined the CDC as an epidemic intelligence service officer. We’re like medical detectives. We’re the ones who run to a country when we hear about an outbreak of disease. Usually, the nation’s government asks us for help. Their people are dying and they need outside aid.
Answer
A
A video could define the work that epidemic intelligence officers do for the CDC.
B
A video could show epidemic intelligence officers collecting clues about diseases.
C
A video could explain that governments often ask epidemic intelligence officers for help.
D
A video could show Dr. Dowell, an epidemic intelligence officer, answering the question.
Explanation
Video is especially useful for showing actions that are hard to picture from words alone. It could show epidemic intelligence officers investigating an outbreak and collecting clues about disease, matching the excerpt’s comparison of them to “medical detectives.” The other choices mostly describe information that can be conveyed through spoken words or text.
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