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Read the definitions.bio = life anthrop = human micro- = small meteoro = high in the air -logy = study of

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anthrology
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biology
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microbiolgy
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meteorlogy
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Read the excerpt from "A Latina Judge's Voice" by Hon. Sonia Sotomayor.First, as Professor Martha Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.

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to emphasize the value of a Latina woman's experience
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to add entertainment value to the speech for the audience
C
to distract the audience from the reality of the courtroom
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to demonstrate that an effective judge needs an education
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Read the passage from chapter 17 of The Prince.Among the wonderful deeds of Hannibal this one is enumerated: that having led an enormous army, composed of many various races of men, to fight in foreign lands, no dissensions arose either among them or against the prince, whether in his bad or in his good fortune. This arose from nothing else than his inhuman cruelty, which, with his boundless valour, made him revered and terrible in the sight of his soldiers, but without that cruelty, his other virtues were not sufficient to produce this effect.

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Words like inhuman, cruelty, and terrible support a tone of fear.
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Words like wonderful, boundless, valour, revered, and virtues support a tone of admiration.
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Words like sufficient, enumerated, virtues, and dissensions support a critical tone.
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Words like dissensions, bad, inhuman, cruelty, and terrible support a tone of sorrow.
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Read the definition.censorcen·sor[Latin censor, the Roman magistrate tasked with registering Roman citizens]noun1. a person who supervises conduct and moralsverb1. to examine something in order to suppress it2. to delete anything considered objectionablesensorsen·sor[Latin sentire, "to perceive”]noun1. a device that responds to a physical stimulus and transmits an impulse in response

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censor, sensoring
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sensor, censoring
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censor, censoring
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sensor, sensoring
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What is the definition of anecdotal evidence?

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Anecdotal evidence is evidence that is based on scientific research, experiments, and observation.
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Anecdotal evidence is evidence that is based on personal experience or short narratives.
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Anecdotal evidence is evidence that is based on accepted truths, facts, and definitions.
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Anecdotal evidence is evidence based on historical examples and events.
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How are prefixes and suffixes alike? Select two options.

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Both are a type of affix.
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Both are the root of a word.
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Both can change a word’s meaning.
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Both can be added to the end of a word.
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Both can be added to the beginning of a word.
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Read the excerpt from Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech.Where four decades ago there was rubble, today in West Berlin there is the greatest industrial output of any city in Germany—busy office blocks, fine homes and apartments, proud avenues, and the spreading lawns of park land. Where a city's culture seemed to have been destroyed, today there are two great universities, orchestras and an opera, countless theaters, and museums. Where there was want, today there's abundance.

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Reagan uses repetition to focus attention on history.
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Reagan uses hasty generalizations to encourage hope.
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Reagan uses parallelism to compare the past to the present.
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Reagan uses hyperbole to emphasize changes that have taken place.
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How does Machiavelli work to achieve his secondary purpose—to inform his readers? Select two options

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He explains that principalities don’t know how to rule themselves.
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He describes the steps people take when they join rebellions.
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He describes the emotions of people in a conquered republic.
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He shows the different roles within a royal family.
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He argues why a prince should sometimes ruin a city.
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Read the passage from chapter 17 of The Prince.against my will, my fateA throne unsettled, and an infant state,Bid me defend my realms with all my pow'rs,And guard with these severities my shores.

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It changes the tone to make it more threatening.
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It supports the overall tone of fear.
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It changes the tone to become more serious.
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It suggests a tone of loving concern.
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Which ideas from the excerpt would be most appropriate to include in a summary? Select two options.

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“Art is the foundation of what it means to be a human.”
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“We should not cut the funding to the school's art department, because the students will suffer.”
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“We need to refocus ourselves and reevaluate our priorities.”
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“Everyone thinks that art class is just fun and games.”
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“But it is everything else that will suffer when we lack art and beauty in our lives.”
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Read the passage from Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech.Where four decades ago there was rubble, today in West Berlin there is the greatest industrial output of any city in Germany—busy office blocks, fine homes and apartments, proud avenues, and the spreading lawns of park land. Where a city's culture seemed to have been destroyed, today there are two great universities, orchestras and an opera, countless theaters, and museums. Where there was want, today there's abundance. . . . From devastation, from utter ruin, you Berliners have, in freedom, rebuilt a city that once again ranks as one of the greatest on earth. . . .In the 1950s, Khrushchev predicted: "We will bury you." But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind—too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor.

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The Berlin Wall is a reminder of the past and of the war.
B
The United States is more powerful than the Soviet Union.
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Democracy leads to greater prosperity than communism does.
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Berlin is a thriving city that can boast of many accomplishments.
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Which features of the passage are typical of a compare/contrast structure? Select three options.

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It identifies two groups that will be discussed.
B
It explains the reasons invading forces did not succeed.
C
It uses the signal word nevertheless to indicate a difference.
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It uses the signal phrase for example to introduce evidence.
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It describes similar and different outcomes to similar actions.
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Read the passage from an argumentative essay.(1) Bernie Sanders has argued that no one should have to pay tuition to go to college. (2) This will only increase the tax burden on the middle classes.

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explaining the concept of a tax burden.
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adding "however" to the beginning of the sentence.
C
placing "therefore" at the beginning of the sentence.
D
connecting it to the preceding sentence with "and."
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Read the passage from chapter 17 of The Prince.Therefore a prince, so long as he keeps his subjects united and loyal, ought not to remind the reproach of cruelty; because with a few examples he will be more merciful than those who, through too much mercy, allow disorders to arise, from which follow murders or robberies; for these are wont to injure the whole people, whilst those executions which originate with a prince offend the individual only.

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A cruel prince risks robberies and murders.
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A cruel prince may be better for his subjects in the long run.
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A cruel prince should not mind having murders and robberies.
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A cruel prince will always have subjects who work hard for him.
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Read the definitions. shear = v., to cut sheer = adj., thin soar = v., to fly at a great height sore = adj., feeling pain

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sheer, soar
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shear, sore
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shear, soar
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sheer, sore

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