Question

Drag the correct words into the boxes to compose a sentence that has parallel construction.

His childhood daydreams consisted of _______ evil dragons and owning a huge ______ , but his adult realities consisted of grooming pampered pets and _______ a small apartment.

1. castle
to castle
to rent
renting
to slay
slaying

Answer 1

@Elsa213

Answer 2

@JustSaiyan

Answer 3

Any ideas?

Answer 4

i think it is slaying for the first one
2nd is castle
and 3rd renting

is it right

Answer 5

Correct.

Answer 6

Item 2
Read the passage.

excerpt from "Edison Marvels at the Magic of Electricity" from the New York Tribune, October 19, 1922

From a Staff Correspondent

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. October 18

When, in 1877, Thomas Alva Edison, then spoken of as “a rising young inventor,” announced the invention of the phonograph, the world exclaimed, “What next?” He answered the question by perfecting the incandescent bulb, the motion picture, the electric cable, and many other devices now become commonplace utilities. And at each new announcement, the world could but repeat its inquiry of, “What next?” Today the same Thomas Alva Edison, smiling like a small boy on going to see Charlie Chaplin, and acclaimed by the greatest wizards of modern electrical invention as “our master,” visited the Schenectady plant of the General Electric Company, the largest of its kind in the world, for the first time in eighteen years.... And after being shown its myriad mysteries, many of them inventions elaborating and improving its own discoveries, Thomas Alva Edison, too, asked the question, “What next?”

Two New Inventions

Among the plant exhibits he inspected were two highly important inventions given public announcement for the first time: a machine successfully transmitting sound by means of light and a boiler utilizing mercury, as well as water, in the generating of steam for the driving of turbine engines. The first, officially called the “pallo-photophone” but immediately christened by newspaper correspondents as the “talking movie" — for that, with the voice recorded on ordinary motion picture film and synchronized precisely with the action, is exactly what it is — has possibilities of revolutionizing radio broadcasting wireless photography and a number of similar related fields. The principle of the mercury boiler is the utilization of mercury between the fire and the under-boiler surface exposed to the flame — the mercury, when vaporized, going into a mercury turbine and then into a condenser, remaining hot enough to generate steam in a steam boiler. Roughly, it is a case of getting double the boiler and turbine power at less expense for fuel than for operating only one steam boiler. This invention may work radical changes in turbine power transmission.

Meets Old Associates

The white-haired dean of electrical invention, accompanied by Mrs. Edison and their son, Charles, arrived at the plant at 9 o’clock. He was greeted by the chief officials of the company and by a group of its oldest employees, including several of his associates from when he founded the Edison Works in Schenectady in 1886.... Among them was Jules Tourneur, a consulting engineer, proud of the fact that he “started with Edison” forty-four years ago. From the time he entered the main gates, Mr. Edison’s tour was a triumphal procession, the workers flocking by the hundreds to obtain a glimpse of him and later assembling in full force of 18,000 to watch a parade in his honor down the main plant street, a mile long. Studio lights had been placed in all the buildings scheduled for visit, and motion picture cameramen were kept busy photographing him during the inspection.

Edison Marvels at New Magic of Electricity

Mr. Edison first was escorted to the research laboratory, where he met Dr. W.R. Whitney, the director. He was shown the process of making tungsten lamps by Dr. W.E. Coolidge, the inventor, and was next taken in charge by Dr. Irving Langmuir, who explained the manufacture of 100,000-candlepower glass lamps, the largest and most brilliant in the world. He then went to the radio room and looked over a contrivance for visualizing radio waves, which he said “takes the place of mathematics,” and the 20-kilowatt Langmuir amplifying electrotubes, which have superseded the Alexanderou alternator in long distance radio broadcasting. His next object of inspection was the talking movie, and it was here that he exclaimed, “What next?” He declined an invitation to talk into the machine for a record of his voice, saying, “You can’t get me to talk even into a phonograph.” Probably the most spectacular demonstration of the day — as well as the most picturesque, as it brought Edison and Charles P. Steinmetz together — was the staging in Mr. Steinmetz’s laboratories of one of his now-famous lightning shows. Mr. Edison was so interested that it required several repetitions to satisfy him, in one of which he checkmated some insulator shattering by having one insulator placed above the other. During the demonstrations, the two electrical wizards kept up a running conversation of questions and answers on technical points, with a little joshing thrown in. On the rest of the tour, Mr. Edison was chiefly interested in the mercury boiler. “I never thought that water was the best for steam power,” he told W.L.R. Emmet, inventor of the boiler. Following the tour and a plant luncheon given him and his early associates, Mr. Edison was interviewed. “It is a very remarkable layout,” he said. “Some of the things I have seen I am quite familiar with, and some I am not.”

How does the lead paragraph, or first paragraph, of the article help the author develop his ideas?


A. It introduces Thomas Edison with a brief biographical sketch.

B. It provides background information about the science behind the article.

C. It answers the question, What next? that the author has asked.

D. It addresses the Who, What, Where, and When questions of news journalism.

Is it A

Answer 7

Correct.

Answer 8

Read the passage.

The Neolithic Revolution

Key Questions

Why did some early peoples make the transition from hunter-gatherers to pastoral and agricultural societies?
What kinds of changes occurred as people settled in one place to farm?
The hunter-gatherers who used stone tools and mastered the use of fire lived in an era of prehistory called the Paleolithic period, or the Old Stone Age, which lasted from about 2,000,000 B.C. to about 11,000 B.C. Beginning about 11,000 B.C., the Old Stone Age gradually gave way to the New Stone Age, or the Neolithic period, when stone tools were increasingly used for farming.

The Agricultural Revolution

Over the long course of human history, there are key turning points when life changed so dramatically that the impact is still felt today. These moments of dramatic change are often described as revolutions. One such revolution occurred during the Paleolithic period when, more than a million years ago, human ancestors first learned to make use of fire.

As the Ice Age ended around 11,000 B.C., the Paleolithic period gave way to the Neolithic. As the glaciers retreated, changes in climate created changes in the life patterns of Neolithic people. In western Europe, for example, hunters who for centuries had fed their clans by following massive herds of reindeer found the game increasingly scarce as the global temperature warmed.

To adapt and survive, these people had to find new sources of food. Groups in some parts of the world made innovations so dramatic that historians call it the Neolithic Revolution. The Neolithic Revolution is also referred to as the agricultural revolution. It marked a great shift, as humans turned from hunting and gathering to farming—from food getting to food producing.

The Beginnings of Agriculture

Great changes seldom take place all at once. The agricultural revolution was more of a series of hits and misses than a single event. Human beings were not hunters and gatherers one day, then farmers and herders the next. That change took place very slowly and almost always near river valleys, where the first producers of food had a helping hand from Mother Nature.

The first people to produce food were probably women. Well before 8000 B.C. in the Middle East, women learned to cut the wheat and barley grasses growing wild along the hillsides. Next, the women made an important discovery. They learned that if they let some of the ripe grain seeds drop to the ground, more grasses would grow in that place the next year. Eventually, the women learned that they could sow those seeds in fields where such grasses did not usually grow. Using sharp-pointed digging sticks, they could break the ground and plant the seeds. With plentiful water and good luck, they could harvest the life-giving grain to make bread or porridge at season’s end.

Keeping Track of the Years

Various initials can be used to designate dates. The initials B.C. (“before Christ,” that is, before the birth of Jesus) are interchangeable with B.C.E. (“before the common, or current, era”). The initials A.D. (anno Domini, Latin for “in the year of the Lord”) are interchangeable with C.E. (“common era” or “current era”). The bigger the number B.C., the earlier the date; thus, 1500 B.C. is earlier than 150 B.C.

This new endeavor—deliberately planting seeds—was the beginning of the agricultural revolution. Agriculture was a momentous change indeed. It meant that human beings were beginning to control their physical environment.

People soon tried to improve the way they farmed, expanding the areas they could plant. For example, some farmers learned that fire could help them grow more grain. They cleared land by cutting trees, bushes, and grass, and then burning them. The remaining ashes left the soil rich in nutrients. This kind of farming is called slash-and-burn agriculture, and it helped early people maintain fertile soil. The first farmers used simple wooden sticks to plant their crops. People soon invented new tools, including sharp-bladed hoes of wood or stone. The growth of farming also led to advances in pottery. Early humans learned to make clay jars and storage containers to stockpile the grain harvest. Farming also led to new human relationships, because growing enough crops to feed an entire clan required cooperation and organization.

Domesticating Animals

With the development of agriculture, the human population grew, thriving on plentiful harvests of wheat and barley. But the area around the grain fields was not good for wild animals. When people cleared a piece of land, the gazelles, red deer, wild boar, and goats that once roamed there lost much of their natural food supply, and so they moved on. As time passed, hunters found fewer and fewer animals to hunt. Hunting had always required great skill. Now hunters needed even greater skill if they wanted to eat meat.

Some men chose to remain hunters, and they followed the animals into different regions. Other men, however, began to share in the work of agriculture. For many, farming was a more reliable way to get food than hunting. Still others began to catch some of the wild animals that had stayed behind. Instead of killing them, they domesticated them—they tamed the animals and kept them in herds.

Like agriculture, the domestication of animals was another significant change in human history. By keeping a small herd of goats, sheep, or cattle, people could be sure of having meat close at hand. As these early herders watched the tame goats and cattle feed their young with milk, they learned to milk the goats and cattle.

They learned to use the sheep’s woolly skin to make clothing. In some places, the wolves that traveled along with people, scavenging bones and growling over scraps, became less fierce with each generation. Tamed descendants of those wild wolves became dogs. Domesticated dogs accompanied people on hunts, providing companionship and a way to ward off enemies.

Where Is the Middle East?

The area that today is known as the Middle East is situated at the crossroads of three continents—Europe, Asia, and Africa. The “Middle East” is a general and unofficial label. It is usually considered to include the extensive region that stretches from Turkey in the north to Yemen in the south, and from Egypt in the west to Iran in the east.

How do the Key Questions help the author develop the ideas in this passage?


A. They provide supporting evidence.

B. They make the tone more objective.

C. They introduce important words.

D. They preview the passage topics.

is it D ?

Answer 9

Correct.

Answer 10

it is ?

Answer 11

How does the structure of this passage help the author explain the agricultural revolution in the Neolithic period?

A. It presents conflicting arguments that present different reasons as to why agriculture originated.

B. It includes specific causes and effects that explain how agriculture originated and evolved.

C. It focuses on the problems that existed at the beginning of the New Stone Age to show that agriculture solved them.

D. It compares the origin of agriculture to the first use of fire to support the idea that agriculture was more important.

is it C

Answer 12

> Other question you asked <
Yes, since you can isolate A ~ 'They provide supporting evidence.' because the Key Questions are asking questions, not supporting a question.
B ~ 'They make the tone more objective.' as well. C ~ 'They introduce important words.' Yes - and no at the same time. So in that case, final answer would be D ~ 'They preview the passage topics.' in which you can read most of it, scan read, or fully read what was given.

Answer 13

Same passage from above?

Answer 14

YES

Answer 15

Alright - Then correct.

Answer 16

Read the passage.

excerpt from "Edison Marvels at the Magic of Electricity" from the New York Tribune, October 19, 1922

From a Staff Correspondent

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. October 18

When, in 1877, Thomas Alva Edison, then spoken of as “a rising young inventor,” announced the invention of the phonograph, the world exclaimed, “What next?” He answered the question by perfecting the incandescent bulb, the motion picture, the electric cable, and many other devices now become commonplace utilities. And at each new announcement, the world could but repeat its inquiry of, “What next?” Today the same Thomas Alva Edison, smiling like a small boy on going to see Charlie Chaplin, and acclaimed by the greatest wizards of modern electrical invention as “our master,” visited the Schenectady plant of the General Electric Company, the largest of its kind in the world, for the first time in eighteen years.... And after being shown its myriad mysteries, many of them inventions elaborating and improving its own discoveries, Thomas Alva Edison, too, asked the question, “What next?”

Two New Inventions

Among the plant exhibits he inspected were two highly important inventions given public announcement for the first time: a machine successfully transmitting sound by means of light and a boiler utilizing mercury, as well as water, in the generating of steam for the driving of turbine engines. The first, officially called the “pallo-photophone” but immediately christened by newspaper correspondents as the “talking movie" — for that, with the voice recorded on ordinary motion picture film and synchronized precisely with the action, is exactly what it is — has possibilities of revolutionizing radio broadcasting wireless photography and a number of similar related fields. The principle of the mercury boiler is the utilization of mercury between the fire and the under-boiler surface exposed to the flame — the mercury, when vaporized, going into a mercury turbine and then into a condenser, remaining hot enough to generate steam in a steam boiler. Roughly, it is a case of getting double the boiler and turbine power at less expense for fuel than for operating only one steam boiler. This invention may work radical changes in turbine power transmission.

Meets Old Associates

The white-haired dean of electrical invention, accompanied by Mrs. Edison and their son, Charles, arrived at the plant at 9 o’clock. He was greeted by the chief officials of the company and by a group of its oldest employees, including several of his associates from when he founded the Edison Works in Schenectady in 1886.... Among them was Jules Tourneur, a consulting engineer, proud of the fact that he “started with Edison” forty-four years ago. From the time he entered the main gates, Mr. Edison’s tour was a triumphal procession, the workers flocking by the hundreds to obtain a glimpse of him and later assembling in full force of 18,000 to watch a parade in his honor down the main plant street, a mile long. Studio lights had been placed in all the buildings scheduled for visit, and motion picture cameramen were kept busy photographing him during the inspection.

Edison Marvels at New Magic of Electricity

Mr. Edison first was escorted to the research laboratory, where he met Dr. W.R. Whitney, the director. He was shown the process of making tungsten lamps by Dr. W.E. Coolidge, the inventor, and was next taken in charge by Dr. Irving Langmuir, who explained the manufacture of 100,000-candlepower glass lamps, the largest and most brilliant in the world. He then went to the radio room and looked over a contrivance for visualizing radio waves, which he said “takes the place of mathematics,” and the 20-kilowatt Langmuir amplifying electrotubes, which have superseded the Alexanderou alternator in long distance radio broadcasting. His next object of inspection was the talking movie, and it was here that he exclaimed, “What next?” He declined an invitation to talk into the machine for a record of his voice, saying, “You can’t get me to talk even into a phonograph.” Probably the most spectacular demonstration of the day — as well as the most picturesque, as it brought Edison and Charles P. Steinmetz together — was the staging in Mr. Steinmetz’s laboratories of one of his now-famous lightning shows. Mr. Edison was so interested that it required several repetitions to satisfy him, in one of which he checkmated some insulator shattering by having one insulator placed above the other. During the demonstrations, the two electrical wizards kept up a running conversation of questions and answers on technical points, with a little joshing thrown in. On the rest of the tour, Mr. Edison was chiefly interested in the mercury boiler. “I never thought that water was the best for steam power,” he told W.L.R. Emmet, inventor of the boiler. Following the tour and a plant luncheon given him and his early associates, Mr. Edison was interviewed. “It is a very remarkable layout,” he said. “Some of the things I have seen I am quite familiar with, and some I am not.”

How does the headline help develop the ideas in this article?


A. It sums up the information in the full article.

B. It identifies the purpose of the article.

C. It states the claim that the article supports.

D. It introduces the main topic of the article.

IS IT B ?

Answer 17

Yes.

Answer 18

Before the introduction of machinery, the spinning and weaving of raw materials was carried on in the working-man’s home. Wife and daughter spun the yarn that the father wove or that they sold, if he did not work it up himself. These weaver families lived in the country in the neighbourhood of the towns, and could get on fairly well with their wages, because the home market was almost the only one, and the crushing power of competition that came later, with the conquest of foreign markets and the extension of trade, did not yet press upon wages. There was, further, a constant increase in the demand for the home market, keeping pace with the slow increase in population and employing all the workers; and there was also the impossibility of vigorous competition of the workers among themselves, consequent upon the rural dispersion of their homes. So it was that the weaver was usually in a position to lay by something, and rent a little piece of land, that he cultivated in his leisure hours, of which he had as many as he chose to take, since he could weave whenever and as long as he pleased. True, he was a bad farmer and managed his land inefficiently, often obtaining but poor crops; nevertheless, he was no proletarian, he had a stake in the country, he was permanently settled, and stood one step higher in society than the English workman of to-day.

What does the word wages mean in the Paragraph 3?

A. expenses

B. earned money

C. taxes

D. cost of living

is it A ?

Answer 19

Correct.

Answer 20

i thought it was between A or B, for a minute i thought it was B cause wages are a payment

Answer 21

Would B still fit if you used it like 'did not yet press upon earned money.'?

Answer 22

now from your response, i wouldn't think so

Answer 23

So it would fit as 'did not yet press upon expenses'.

Answer 24

yes

Answer 25

So, therefore you're correct.

Answer 26

Harriet Tubman was an abolitionist who had escaped slavery and helped many other slaves escape through the Underground Railroad. She often worked with fellow abolitionist Frederick Douglass, a public speaker and author who, earlier in his life, had also escaped slavery. When Harriet Tubman reached out to Frederick Douglass requesting he speak to her accomplishments for an upcoming book that was soon to be published about her life, he responded with this letter.



Dear Harriet:



I am glad to know that the story of your eventful life has been written by a kind lady, and that the same is soon to be published. You ask for what you do not need when you call upon me for a word of commendation. I need such words from you far more than you can need them from me, especially where your superior labors and devotion to the cause of the lately enslaved of our land are known as I know them. The difference between us is very marked. Most that I have done and suffered in the service of our cause has been in public, and I have received much encouragement at every step of the way. You, on the other hand, have labored in a private way. I have wrought in the day – you in the night. I have had the applause of the crowd and the satisfaction that comes of being approved by the multitude, while the most that you have done has been witnessed by a few trembling, scarred, and foot-sore bondmen and women, whom you have led out of the house of bondage, and whose heartfelt, “God bless you,” has been your only reward. The midnight sky and the silent stars have been the witnesses of your devotion to freedom and of your heroism. Excepting John Brown – of sacred memory – I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people than you have. Much that you have done would seem improbable to those who do not know you as I know you. It is to me a great pleasure and a great privilege to bear testimony for your character and your works, and to say to those to whom you may come, that I regard you in every way truthful and trustworthy.



Your friend,

Frederick Douglass



1. Which of the following statements BEST express the main idea of Douglass's letter?

Question 1 options:

A. Tubman made important contributions to the abolitionist movement, but they were mostly unrecognized by the public.


B. Frederick Douglass is upset that more people do not know about Harriet Tubman and her contributions.


C. Contributions that go unrecognized are more important than those that are recognized and appreciated by the public.


D. Harriet Tubman's contributions to the abolitionist movement are unparalleled by anyone.

IS IT A ?

Answer 27

Correct.

Answer 28

2. Which of the following TWO supporting details from the text best support your response in question 1?

Question 2 options:

A. "I am glad to know that the story of your eventful life has been written by a kind lady, and that the same is soon to be published."


B. "I need such words from you far more that you can need them from me, especially where your superior labors and devotion to the cause of the lately enslaved of our land are known as I know them."


C. "...the most that you have done has been witnessed by a few trembling, scarred, and foot-sore bondsmen and women, whom you have led out of the house of bondage, and whose heartfelt, 'God bless you,' has been your only reward."


D. "The midnight sky and the silent stars have been the witnesses of your devotion to freedom and of your heroism."


E. "I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people than you."

IS IT C and E ?

Answer 29

As I've said about this yesterday - yes.

Answer 30

I said different answers tho, what answers you said yesterday

Answer 31

Ah, I'll recheck. But, yes it is C and E.

Answer 32

i thought it was B and C

Answer 33

What is his reason for stating that Tubman has no need for his words of praise?

Question 3 options:

A. He suggests her contributions to the abolitionist cause have been even greater than his own.


B. He believes truly good deeds do not require recognition.


C. He implies that he is in greater need of public support than she.


D. He believes Harriet Tubman's public reputation is so strong that it needs no further accolades.

Answer 34

Any ideas on this one?

Answer 35

i think it is D

Answer 36

Correct.

Answer 37

4. How does Douglass compare his and Tubman's reputations?

Question 4 options:

A. They are both well-known abolitionists who have worked in the public spotlight.


B. Tubman has a better reputation than Douglass because she put her life at risk for the cause.


C. Douglas is better known than Tubman because his work was in public and hers was is private.


D. Douglass believes he earned a more esteemed national reputation because he faced more public scrutiny than Tubman.


probably C

Answer 38

?

Answer 39

Correct.

Answer 40

1. correct
2. wrong
3. wrong
4. correct

Answer 41

could you help me with 2 and 3

Answer 42

Hmm. Sure - repost, please.