Read each paragraph and respond to the questions that follow by choosing the letter of the correct answer.
(1) Janice Boucher, author of How to Love the Job You Hate, says it’s possible to recapture your love for a job gone bad. (2) One approach is to redesign your job so that it offers more challenge, more variety, or less stress. (3) For instance, you could delegate1 to someone else some task that you do not like to do, or you could develop a special project that gives your job greater meaning. (4) Also, you can do things that make you feel good about yourself and your job again. (5) As an illustration, a supermarket cashier might begin to pay genuine attention to customers in order to improve service, and a newspaper reporter pressured to emphasize sensationalism2 could establish higher standards for truth in reporting.
1. The topic sentence of this paragraph is
a. sentence 1. c. sentence 3.
b. sentence 2. d. sentence 4.
2. Which of the following sentences begins with a transition that signals a major supporting detail?
a. sentence 1 c. sentence 4
b. sentence 3 d. sentence 5
3. Which of the following sentences begins with a transition that signals a minor supporting detail?
a. sentence 1 c. sentence 4
b. sentence 2 d. sentence 5
1. a.
2. c.
3. d.
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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What will be an ideal response?
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