IXL QUIZZES H.2, H.3, H.4, H.5, C.2, C.4 | QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS | 2026 UPDATE 100% CORRECT
Consider this claim:
"Daily stress contributes to long-term health problems."
Which is the strongest evidence to support the claim? Answer - a. Researchers
have shown that stress can be a factor in the development of heart disease,
depression, and obesity.This answer is correct.
b. On a community health forum, a middle-aged man wrote, "I know for a fact
that my high blood pressure is directly linked to my stress level."
c. In one recent survey, forty percent of respondents reported having trouble
sleeping because of stress.
Correct Answer: a
Consider this claim:
"College is worth the cost of tuition because graduates experience greater
financial success."
,Which is the strongest evidence to support the claim? Answer - a. A prominent
financial blogger writes, "My father dropped out of college in his senior year,
and he always regretted it. I was determined to not make the same mistake."
b. The lifetime earnings of a college graduate are about half a million dollars
more than those of someone with only a high school diploma.This answer is
correct.
c. College graduates are more likely than those who don't have college degrees
to report being in excellent health.
Correct Answer: b
In the following passage, the narrator reflects on his mother's character. Select
the best evidence to support the statement "Photographs of the narrator's
mother don't reflect her personality as he knew it."
She liked to make me laugh by calling herself an Okie even though she was as
glossy and nervy and stylish as a racehorse. That exotic character unfortunately
comes out a little too stark and unforgiving in photographs—her freckles
covered with makeup, her hair pulled back in a ponytail at the nape of her neck
like some nobleman in The Tale of Genji— and what doesn't come across at all
is her warmth, her merry, unpredictable quality, which is what I loved about
her most. It's clear, from the stillness she emanates in pictures, how much she
mistrusted the camera; she gives off a watchful, tigerish air of steeling herself
against attack. Answer - a. It's clear, from the stillness she emanates in
pictures, how much she mistrusted the camera; she gives off a watchful,
tigerish air of steeling herself against attack.
b. That exotic character unfortunately comes out a little too stark and
unforgiving in photographs
, c. She liked to make me laugh by calling herself an Okie even though she was as
glossy and nervy and stylish as a racehorse.
d. and what doesn't come across at all is her warmth, her merry, unpredictable
quality, which is what I loved about her most.
Correct Answer: d
Select the best evidence to support the statement "Patty is a very thoughtful
person."
There were people with whom her style of self-deprecation didn't sit well—
who detected a kind of condescension in it, as if Patty, in exaggerating her own
minor defects, were too obviously trying to spare the feelings of less
accomplished homemakers. But most people found her humility sincere or at
least amusing, and it was in any case hard to resist a woman whom your own
children liked so much and who remembered not only their birthdays but
yours, too, and came to your back door with a plate of cookies or a card.
Answer - a. But most people found her humility sincere or at least amusing
b. There were people with whom her style of self-deprecation didn't sit well
c. who detected a kind of condescension in it, as if Patty, in exaggerating her
own minor defects, were too obviously trying to spare the feelings of less
accomplished homemakers.
d. and who remembered not only their birthdays but yours, too, and came to
your back door with a plate of cookies or a card.
Correct Answer: d
AND ANSWERS | 2026 UPDATE 100% CORRECT
Consider this claim:
"Daily stress contributes to long-term health problems."
Which is the strongest evidence to support the claim? Answer - a. Researchers
have shown that stress can be a factor in the development of heart disease,
depression, and obesity.This answer is correct.
b. On a community health forum, a middle-aged man wrote, "I know for a fact
that my high blood pressure is directly linked to my stress level."
c. In one recent survey, forty percent of respondents reported having trouble
sleeping because of stress.
Correct Answer: a
Consider this claim:
"College is worth the cost of tuition because graduates experience greater
financial success."
,Which is the strongest evidence to support the claim? Answer - a. A prominent
financial blogger writes, "My father dropped out of college in his senior year,
and he always regretted it. I was determined to not make the same mistake."
b. The lifetime earnings of a college graduate are about half a million dollars
more than those of someone with only a high school diploma.This answer is
correct.
c. College graduates are more likely than those who don't have college degrees
to report being in excellent health.
Correct Answer: b
In the following passage, the narrator reflects on his mother's character. Select
the best evidence to support the statement "Photographs of the narrator's
mother don't reflect her personality as he knew it."
She liked to make me laugh by calling herself an Okie even though she was as
glossy and nervy and stylish as a racehorse. That exotic character unfortunately
comes out a little too stark and unforgiving in photographs—her freckles
covered with makeup, her hair pulled back in a ponytail at the nape of her neck
like some nobleman in The Tale of Genji— and what doesn't come across at all
is her warmth, her merry, unpredictable quality, which is what I loved about
her most. It's clear, from the stillness she emanates in pictures, how much she
mistrusted the camera; she gives off a watchful, tigerish air of steeling herself
against attack. Answer - a. It's clear, from the stillness she emanates in
pictures, how much she mistrusted the camera; she gives off a watchful,
tigerish air of steeling herself against attack.
b. That exotic character unfortunately comes out a little too stark and
unforgiving in photographs
, c. She liked to make me laugh by calling herself an Okie even though she was as
glossy and nervy and stylish as a racehorse.
d. and what doesn't come across at all is her warmth, her merry, unpredictable
quality, which is what I loved about her most.
Correct Answer: d
Select the best evidence to support the statement "Patty is a very thoughtful
person."
There were people with whom her style of self-deprecation didn't sit well—
who detected a kind of condescension in it, as if Patty, in exaggerating her own
minor defects, were too obviously trying to spare the feelings of less
accomplished homemakers. But most people found her humility sincere or at
least amusing, and it was in any case hard to resist a woman whom your own
children liked so much and who remembered not only their birthdays but
yours, too, and came to your back door with a plate of cookies or a card.
Answer - a. But most people found her humility sincere or at least amusing
b. There were people with whom her style of self-deprecation didn't sit well
c. who detected a kind of condescension in it, as if Patty, in exaggerating her
own minor defects, were too obviously trying to spare the feelings of less
accomplished homemakers.
d. and who remembered not only their birthdays but yours, too, and came to
your back door with a plate of cookies or a card.
Correct Answer: d
