Passage: Kitchen Utensils
Hey there, kitchen utensil aficionados! It’s Thurman again, bring you a brand-new piece of
equipment for your home food station! Are you tired of your blocks of premium aged cheddar
getting all crumbly when you try to slice them? Don’t you hate leaving your fingerprints on
that hard stick of butter? Well, worry no more! From the company that brought you the
SmackDice comes the McGrabs! You no longer have to worry about your firm, sweaty grip
destroying your cheese or your kinds of butter. All you have to do is slip on our patented heat-
deflecting mittem, complete with plastic-grip palm pad, and slice your smooth dairy products
with no threat of them smelting or crumbling from your body heat! 1. Which of the following
phrases from this infomercial contains instructions about how to use the advertised product?
1. Which of the following options best describes the purpose of this infomercial?
a. To explain how the Dairy McGrabs works
b. To express frustration with common dairy food problems
c. To amuse the audience with enthusiastic rhetoric
d. To persuade the audience to buy the Dairy McGrabs
2. Which of the following options best describes how Thurman supports his argument?
a. By assembling evidence and logical explanation
b. By evoking feelings of annoyance and relief
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, c. By addressing his audience at just the right moment
d. By appealing to a shared sense of community and values
3. Which of the following information sources contains copyright information for a given
book?
a. Publication page
b. Table of contents
c. Title Page
d. Index
4. Which of the following phrases from this infomercial contains instruction about how to
use the advertised product?
a. Leaving your fingerprints in that hard stick of butter
b. Slip on our patented heat-deflecting mitten
c. Bringing you a brand new piece of equipment for your home food station
d. No longer worry about your firm sweaty grip destroying your cheeses or your
butters
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, Passage: Bessie Coleman
Bessie Coleman, the first civilian licensed Black pilot in the world, was born in 1892 to
sharecroppers in Texas, where she attended a segregated school and worked with her family in
the cotton fields. She dreamed of becoming a pilot but no flight schools in America would
accept her, so she moved to France to earn her pilot’s license.
When she returned to the U.s, she wanted to open a flight school for Black Students. She
became a stunt flier and performed for paying audiences, which she insisted be desegregated.
Following her death in a plane crash in 1926, the Bessie Coleman Aero Club was established
in LA in 1929. She was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2006.
5. Which of the following sources would be useful for gathering more information about
Bessie Coleman?
a. A comprehensive history of sharecropping in eastern Texas
b. The National Museum of Africa American History and Culture
c. A biography of the Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur
d. A documentary fil on female pilots in World War
6. Which of the following statements correctly identifies the sequence of events in the
reading?
a. Bessie Coleman was a pilot, than a sharecropper who lived in France, where she
was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame.
b. After life as a sharecropper, Bessie Coleman raised money as a stunt pilot to attend
flight school in France.
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