Language Arts

Select which statement would complete the missing part of the sentence in the excerpt below:"My wife and I have been loyal owners of Skyview computers for over 10 years. We are currently on our third Skyview laptop computer, which we purchased three months ago. The speed and power of our Skyview products have been__________________________. Just last week, however, our new laptop began to freeze almost every time we logged on."

outstanding. Your products are always well-suited to our needs. Because; The appropriate end punctuation (a period) separates two independent clauses to correctly create two distinct sentences.

Select the 3 adjectives that best describe Anne's character.

Dramatic, Enthusiastic, Disappointed because; ou must first consider Anne's personality, including what she says and how she interacts with the other characters in the excerpt. Anne is a dramatic young lady who is brimming with enthusiasm, but is disappointed in her current situation.

Which fact can the reader infer about the narrator?

He was raised in the city rather than the wilderness because; Answer Rationale: The narrator's references to mimes in Central Park and the exclamation "And my parents used to worry about some of the things my friends and I did in New York City!" support the inference that he was raised in the city.

President Truman mentioned the United Nations Commission on Human Rights during his speech to the NAACP in order to show~ Article 1: A Summary of Harry S. Truman's 1947 Speech on Civil Rights On June 29, 1947, the thirty-third president of the United States, Harry S. Truman, addressed the 38th Annual Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In a speech calling for civil rights and human freedom, Truman described the efforts his administration had initiated as well as his hopes for the future. Opening with a determined tone, Truman urged Americans to work together to repair racial schisms. He suggested that the country had reached a turning point—that for the first time in its history, America was ready and willing to guarantee freedom and equality to all its citizens. He continued with an assertion that the government should protect and provide for all its peoples. Accor

His general support of civil rights in the United States and abroad because; Information in paragraph 4 confirms Truman's support for civil rights everywhere. It includes references to his administration's efforts to establish improvements both at home and abroad.

What approach did Eleanor Roosevelt take to encourage acceptance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

She acknowledged the difficulty of convincing different nations to agree on common ideas of democracy and power because; Paragraph 9 provides support for this option, which is essentially a summary of Roosevelt's approach to encourage acceptance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In her speech Roosevelt acknowledged the difficulty of convincing different nations to agree on common ideas of democracy and power.

Select which statement would complete the missing part of the sentence in the excerpt below:I called Skyview again this morning._________________________ The representative with whom I eventually spoke directed me to take our laptop to a repair facility 30 miles from our home.

The phone call lasted 20 minutes as I asked for help with my problem. Because; The phrases appear in an appropriate order with no dangling modifiers or unclear antecedents.

Which quotation from the passage supports the idea that Supeet is teaching the narrator a skill that requires patience? "I'm not so worried about time anymore," I said. He smiled. "Good! You are making progress. Come with me." He led me to a tree not far from the camp. "You must climb as high as you can and find a comfortable branch where you can look out over the savanna." He handed me the water gourd. "You will need this." I took the gourd. "What about you?" "I will be too busy to drink," he said. I didn't know what he meant by this, but I climbed the bone-dry tree anyway and found a large branch near the top that was comfortable. "Can you see the grass of the savanna?" Supeet yelled up to me. "Yes," I shouted back. "Good! What else do you see?" Here we go again, I thought. I looked carefully. Shimmering waves of heat created mirages in the distance. I saw three kopjes1 within a half mile of each other. Trees dotte

each Step was exaggerated and painfully slow because; The word "exaggerated" and the phrase "painfully slow" point to how the activity is drawn out over an extended period of time and therefore requires patience.

Select the correct order of events as they occur in the excerpt.

1) Matthew explains Anne's presence 2)Marilla tells Anne not to cry 3)Marilla decides Anne can stay the night because; The correct answer is to order the events from first to last. 1. Matthew explains Anne's presence. This occurs early in the story immediately after Matthew and Anne arrive at the door. 2. Marilla tells Anne not to cry. Following Matthew and Marilla's discussion of why she is there, Anne "burst into tears" (paragraph 10). Marilla, taken aback, tells her that "there's no need to cry so about it." (paragraph 11). 3. Marilla decides Anne can stay for the night. After telling Anne to stop crying, Marilla attempts to comfort her further by saying that "you'll have to stay here until we can investigate this affair." (paragraph 14). 4. Anne tells why she prefers a different name. As she considers Marilla's decision to allow her to stay for the night, Anne asks Marilla to "please call me Cordelia?" (Paragraph 16).

In this excerpt, Anne asks Marilla to call her "Cordelia". What does this request reveal about Anne? Marilla came briskly forward as Matthew opened the door. But when her eyes fell on the odd little figure in the stiff, ugly dress, with the long braids of red hair and the eager, luminous eyes, she stopped short in amazement. "Matthew Cuthbert, who's that?" she exclaimed. "Where is the boy?" "There wasn't any boy," said Matthew wretchedly. "There was only her." He nodded at the child, remembering that he had never even asked her name. "No boy! But there must have been a boy," insisted Marilla. "We sent word to Mrs. Spencer to bring a boy." "Well, she didn't. She brought her. I asked the stationmaster. And I had to bring her home. She couldn't be left there, no matter where the mistake had come in." "Well, this is a pretty piece of business!" exclaimed Marilla. During this dialogue the child had remained silent, her

She tries to make life more interesting because; Anne asks to be called "Cordelia" because it is "such a perfectly elegant name," and she believes "Anne is such an unromantic name." These details imply that Anne wishes to take this more "elegant" name in an effort to make her life more interesting.

Which definition best matches the use of the word occupied in paragraph 16?

To have taken or filled up ( space, time, etc. ) because; When the narrator "could tell he was moving by looking at the spot he had previously occupied" he is looking at the physical space Supeet had briefly held before moving on to occupy a new physical space.