Read the following conclusion and identify the strategy the writer has used to make it effective.
By the time the last Sutherland sister died virtually penniless in 1946, the public had all but forgotten the famous sisters. Their ornate mansion, which had been bought and turned into a museum, burned to the ground in 1938 and with it much of the memorabilia of the sisters' years of fame. The Sutherland Sisters were one of the most popular entertainment acts of the 1880s, the first celebrity models and pioneers in the marketing of beauty products. But who remembers them today? Perhaps the fleeting nature of fame is what today's celebrities can best learn from the Sutherland Sisters.
a. The writer ends with a call to action.
b. The writer ends with a summary of key points.
c. The writer ends with a reference back to the introduction.
d. The writer ends with a reflective statement.
Ques. 2What's a dominant impression in descriptive writing?
a. what you think about something
b. an overall feeling that specific and concrete details create
c. what other people think
d. what something looks like
Ques. 3If you wanted to protect yourself on the Internet, which of the following tips
would you do?
a. Work from a computer that has no hackers.
b. Use the same passwords for all your online accounts.
c. Only do business with companies with recognized brand names.
d. Buy from the cheapest retailers online.
Ques. 4After an amputee has been fitted for a new prosthetic limb, what happens next?
a. The amputees are discharged and sent home.
b. The amputees are sent back into active duty.
c. The amputees are retired from the Army and given a pension.
d. The amputees move into Occupational and Physical Therapy to learn
how to use their new artificial limb.
Ques. 5According to the article, how have new advances in prosthetic technology
changed the future for soldiers who have lost limbs in the war?
a. They can now walk with prosthetic legs.
b. They can now re-enlist in the Army and return to active duty if they can
do everything a regular soldier can do.
c. They can find jobs that don't require manual labor.
d. They can use their military benefits to go to college or technical school.
Ques. 6According to the article, what is the one disadvantage of prosthetic limbs that
use Bluetooth technology?
a. The Bluetooth computer chips in each limb send signals to the motors in
the joints to enable them to move in a coordinated manner.
b. Like cell phones, Bluetooth prosthetics must be recharged.
c. Some prosthetic legs can determine their resistance with the ground and
give the amputee better balance and a more natural gait.
d. Amputees who have lost arms are fitted with three different arms: a
computer-programmed myoelectric arm, a body-powered arm, and a
cosmetic arm.
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