Unit 2- English 11A
Leather and Meat without Killing Animals" teaches that biofabrication is the process of using cells to grow tissues and organs. Which excerpt from the presentation explains the most significant reason to introduce biofabricated leather prior to introducing biofabricated meat?
... it is clear that
In which sentence is the word lucrative used correctly?
Gina's part time tutoring job proved to be so lucrative that she was able to purchase a new computer
According to "Calculating the Value of Human Tissue Donations," why did Chris Truitt become an advocate for the tissue-donation business?
He was moved to action when his daughter was a donor
What evidence from "Why People Oppose GMOs Even Though Science Says They Are Safe" supports the assertion that the information in the article explains only scientists' perspective on GMOs?
I recently published a paper Because the mind
In "Leather and Meat without Killing Animals," the author develops the idea that the leather and meat industries are harmful and reckless with resources. In which excerpt does he most effectively refine this idea by suggesting that these industries are also intentionally misleading the public?
Imagine touring this facility
Which excerpt from "Calculating the Value of Human Tissue Donation" most effectively explains the key problem Truitt has with the tissue-donation industry?
Instead of being steward of the gift
Which sentence incorrectly uses a double negative
It won't do you no good
Which sentence most accurately states a key idea in "Leather and Meat without Killing Animals"?
Maintaining the livestock
Which excerpt from "'Rewilding' Draws on the Past to Modify Plants" is relevant to the argument that most modern plant species have been genetically modified?
Researchers delibertly mutated plants with chemicals and radiation Many of the plants grown today
Which option most accurately states a central idea of "'Rewilding' Draws on the Past to Modify Plants"?
Rewilding is the process of introducing genes of ancient plants into modern species
Reread Paragraph 8 from "Why People Oppose GMOs Even Though Science Says They Are Safe." Which option most accurately evaluates the evidence provided to support the idea that "the current (GM) applications have been proven to be safe"?
Since the author does not describe the current GM applications or their effects, there is no evidence to support these ideas
In "Your Average, Everyday Zombie," why does the author refer to the host animals described in the article as the walking dead?
The hosts can physically function, but have lost control of their mind and bodies
Read the excerpt from "Calculating the Value of Human Tissue Donation." The human tissue industry is full of contradictions like that. Tissue can save or better someone's life, but sometimes it will go to plump up lips and smooth wrinkles. Which options most effectively states an inference that can be made based on the excerpt?
The practice of using donated tissue for cosmetic surgery is controversial
Which option most accurately states a key idea from "Calculating the Value of Human Tissue Donation"?
There are positive and negative aspects to practice of the tissue-donation industry
Which evidence from "Calculating the Value of Human Tissue Donation" most effectively develops the idea that tissue donations provide more benefits than organ donations?
Tissue grafts help 50 times more people Tissue is anything that is not a live organ
In "'Rewilding' Draws on the Past to Modify Plants," we learn that people may consider rewilding to be the same as genetic modification.
To be labeled organic
In "Leather and Meat without Killing Animals," why does the author provide statistics about the world's current and projected human and animal herd populations?
To connect to the idea that today, maintaining animal herds takes a major toll on our planet To explain that an increase
What is the connotative meaning of the word snake?
a bad person who tells lies and betrays other people
Reread the "A Golden Incentive" section of "Calculating the Value of Human Tissue Donations." Which option most accurately describes the organizational structure of this section?
chronological
Which words are synonyms of skeptical?
doubtful suspucious
Which most accurately explains the process for locating the definitions of a word in a digital or online dictionary?
enter into search field
Read the excerpt from "Your Average, Everyday Zombie." All of a sudden, you are set upon by a flying nightmare whose body shines iridescent green. Limbs intertwine as she fights to subdue you. You struggle; every muscle in your body tenses and flexes as you try to fling the emerald harpy off your back, but you feel her jaws clamp down, and she remains attached. Which option most accurately describes a figure of speech used in the excerpt? (Select all that apply.)
flying nightmare emerald harpy
Read the sentences. Alexander knew how to watch his money. He understood the importance of budgeting and rarely spent beyond his means. Without fail, he put part of his paycheck into a savings account each month and even subscribed to an investment magazine. Based on the context of the sentences, what is the connotation of the phrase watch his money?
handle his money wisely
Read the excerpt from "Mindsuckers: Meet Nature's Nightmare." The wasp's venom is a veritable punch bowl of different chemicals, and Libersat and his colleagues have yet to determine which ones affect the behavior of the cockroach and how they do. The words veritable punch bowl help the reader understand that the wasp's venom __________. Which option most accurately completes the sentence? (Select all that apply.)
is a potent mixture of many elements has an intoxicating effect on cockroach
How does the table in Paragraph 9 of "Paying Patients for Their Tissue: The Legacy of Henrietta Lacks" help to clarify the information in the article?
it clarifies
Read the excerpt from "Mindsuckers: Meet Nature's Nightmare." A beaver's genes encode its bones and muscles and fur. But they also encode the brain circuits that lead the beaver to gnaw at trees to build dams. The beaver benefits from the pond created by the dam in many ways. It's harder for predators to attack the beaver's lodge, for example, because of deeper surrounding water. If a gene mutation gives rise to a beaver that builds even better dams, that particular beaver phenotype may stand a better chance of survival and, on average, have more baby beavers itself. As a result, the mutation will become more common over the course of many generations. How does this information build on the idea that "genes evolve to make copies of themselves more successfully"?
it explains how the genes influence
Read the excerpt from "Mindsuckers: Meet Nature's Nightmare." The wasp can then walk its drugged victim into a burrow by the roach's antenna, like a dog on a leash. How does the figure of speech affect the meaning of the text?
it helps the reader understand how easily the wasp is to manipulate
Which sentence contains a dangling modifier?
not: with minutes to go is:
Read the sentence. A central idea of "Why People Oppose GMOs Even Though Science Says They Are Safe" is __________. Which option most effectively completes the sentence?
popular opinion about GMOs is negatively influenced by intuition and feelings
Read the information from 1:27-2:37 in "Leather and Meat without Killing Animals." Which option most accurately describes the organizational structure of these paragraphs?
problem/solution
Review the sentence. Margo forgot about a bag of potatoes in her pantry. She was abruptly reminded of this fact one morning when a __________ smell assaulted her senses as she opened the door. It was hard to believe the harmless potato could become so offensive! Which word most effectively completes the sentence to convey the strongest meaning?
putrid
Read the sentence. As soon as she heard the news, Natalie began to flaunt her nomination for class president, making many people wonder if she was more interested in the prestige of the job than the actual work. Why is the word flaunt used in this sentence?
the word flaunt has a negative connotation
What is the purpose of a glossary?
to provide definitions for key terms in a specific text
Which word most accurately describes the meaning of the word inevitably?
unavoidably
Read the paragraph. Kristen is infatuated with skateboarding. She watches skating videos daily to improve her technique and then spends hours at the skate park practicing. You'll never see Kristin without her skateboard by her side! Why is the word infatuated used in this sentence instead of interested or delighted?
The word infatuated has a stronger connotation
Which excerpt from "'Rewilding' Draws on the Past to Modify Plants" helps to develop the idea that there are disadvantages to crossbreeding?
This method works but has its drawbacks but because wheat has three gnomes
Read the excerpt from "Paying Patients for Their Tissue: The Legacy of Henrietta Lacks." Although Skloot's book is moving and compelling, we use caution in using the Lacks example as a model for thinking about compensating patients who provide tissue for research. Although one can point to the many injustices Lacks endured as a poor woman without access to needed medical care, the use of her residual clinical tissue, involving no additional risk or burden to her, does not demand any form of compensation. Furthermore, compensating such patients may have unintended consequences that could work to decrease the availability of tissue for research, and may paradoxically become a source of injustice. Which option most accurately describes the organizational structure of the paragraph?
compare/contrast
Read the sentence. Hikers should be alert for bears when they are climbing trails at higher altitudes. Which option revises the sentence to eliminate the misplaced modifier and correct the sentence?
hikers climbing trails at higher altitudes should be alert for bears when climbing trails at higher altitudes, hikers should be alert for bears
Which option most effectively states a key idea in "Paying Patients for Their Tissue: The Legacy of Henrietta Lacks"?
in majority of cases
Read the excerpt from "Your Average, Everyday Zombie." They will perform their acts as needed by their parasitic puppet master, and only once their bodies have served their function will the zombie be released into the sweet arms of eternity. How does the author's use of the words "released into the sweet arms of eternity" affect the meaning of the text? Your Average, Everyday Zombie
it emphasizes how much the animal
Read the sentence. In "Calculating the Value of Human Tissue Donation," when his employer began competitions and contests to increase profits, Chris Truitt __________. Which response most accurately completes the sentence?
realized that the tissue-donation began to worry that the tissue-donation
