Keeping a journal is always a personal endeavor and should serve personal needs. Many people use journals to record their impressions of daily events and people that they meet. Serious readers and students sometimes keep reading journals, or they record in their personal journal what they have been reading. Exactly what they record in these reading journals is determined by their needs. Will they
be writing essays about the readings or taking tests? Do they merely want a record of what they read because they have a goal of reading all of one writer's mystery novels? Do they write their own stories and are studying the ways various writers handle plot or character, and so forth? Since everyone might have different reasons for keeping a reading journal, each person needs to decide how to make the practice personally profitable.
The purpose of the paragraph is
a. to persuade the reader to keep a journal and record according to individual needs.
b. to entertain the reader with information about personal journals.
c. to explain to the reader that keeping a journal is a necessity for scientific writing.
The tone of the paragraph is
a. humorous. b. condescending. c. persuasive.
a, c
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The German states were locked in a political stalemate3 as a result of certain factors. After Austria and Russia had blocked Frederick William’s attempt to unify Germany “from above,” tension grew between Austria and Prussia as each power sought to block the other within the German Confederation. Stalemate and reaction also prevailed4 in the domestic politics of the individual German states in the 1850s. Which word or words in the topic sentence indicate a cause/effect pattern? a. result, factors b. were c . locked d. stalemate
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A. ?5% B. ?3% C. ?25% D. ?10%
Item #4
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Complete the following sentences with (a) quelqu’un or (b) personne.
1. ____________ de célèbre est dans cet hebdomadaire. 2. Je ne connais ____________ qui écrit un blog. 3. J’ai fait la connaissance de ____________ sur un réseau social. 4. ____________ n’aime les magazines de mode. 5. Il n’y a ____________ d’intéressant sur la messagerie instantanée ce soir. 6. ____________ de très important a publié cette revue.