Movie theaters have changed significantly over the decades
a. Movie
b. Theaters
c. Changed
d. Decades
b
RATIONALE: A simple subject is the person, place, or thing that the sentence is about.
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Write the appropriate form of the verb aller in the first blank and a phrase or an appropriate verb in the infinitive form in the second blank to show where people go and why in their free time.
1. La femme _______________ au restaurant pour ____________________________. 2. Tu _______________ à la piscine pour ___________________________________. 3. Nous _______________ à la bibliothèque pour _____________________________. 4. Gabriel et Thomas _______________ au parc pour __________________________. 5. Je _______________ au cinéma pour _____________________________________. Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Read the selection and respond to the questions that follow by choosing the letter of the correct
answer. Television Transforms Daily Life It's not surprising that the effects of such a pervasive medium have attracted so much attention from parents, educators, social scientists, religious leaders, public officials and anyone else who wants to understand society's habits and values. TV has been blamed for everything from declines in literacy to rises in violent crime to the trivialization of national politics. Every once in a while it is praised, too, for giving viewers instant access to world events and uniting audiences in times of national crisis. An industry with this much presence in American life is bound to affect the way we live. Someone who is watching television is not doing other things: playing basketball, visiting a museum, or looking through telescope at the planets, for instance. Television can, however, bring you to a museum you might never visit or to a basketball game you cannot attend or to the surface of a planet you can only see through a telescope. Television technology, by adding pictures to the sounds of radio, truly transformed Americans' living and learning patterns. The word television, which once meant programs delivered by antennas through over-the-air signals, now means a television screen, where several different types of delivery systems bring viewers a diversity of programs. The programs Americans watch today are delivered by antennas, cables, and satellites, but they all appear on the same television screen, and as a viewer, you can't tell how the program arrived at your television set and probably don't care. What you do know is that television gives you access to all types of programs—drama, comedy, sports, news, game shows, and talk shows. You can see all types of people—murderers, public officials, foreign leaders, reporters, soldiers, entertainers, athletes, detectives and doctors. The television screen is truly, as scholar Erik Barnouw observed, "a tube of plenty." About 1,600 television stations operate in the United States. Three out of four of these are commercial stations, and the others are noncommercial stations. About half the commercial stations are affiliated with a network. How many television stations are commercial stations? a. 3 out of 4 b. 1 out of 4 c. 2 out of 4 d. 3 out of 5
Read the following paragraph and answer the questions after the paragraph.
Cool is defined by The American Heritage Dictionary as “not excited; calm and controlled” and by A Dictionary of Catch Phrases as “unafraid, unflustered.” A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English describes cool as a “hippy expression for confidence or self-assuredness.” The Dictionary of American Slang characterizes cool as being “in complete control of one’s emotions; hip but having a quiet, objective, aloof attitude; indifferent to those things considered nonessential to one’s individual beliefs, likes, and desires.” —Richard Majors and Janet Mancini Billson 1. What is this paragraph defining? 2. Do Majors and Billson rely on a synonym, a category, or a negation to start off the paragraph? 3. List two examples the authors use to develop the definition. 4. How do the authors organize the paragraph?
Identify the correct sentence.
a. Have you spoken to your professor about your grade in English class? b. Have you spoken to your prof about your grade in english class? c. Have you spoken to your Professor about your grade in English class? d. Have you spoken to your Prof. about your grade in English class?