IXL Quizzes H.2, H.3, H.4, H.5, C.2, C.4 GRADE A
Q&A
Consider this claim:
"Daily stress contributes to long-term health problems."
Which is the strongest evidence to support the claim? - (correct 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? - (correct 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. - (correct 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. - (correct 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
In the following passage, author James M. Cain gives his view of Los Angeles during
the 1930s. Select the best evidence to support the statement "The author believes that
diversity will be a huge draw for people to Los Angeles culture."
Where this place is headed is to be the leader in commerce, art, citrus production,
music, rabbit breeding, oil production, furniture manufacture, walnut growing, literature,
olive bottling, short- and long-distance hauling, clay modelling, aesthetic criticism, fish
export, canary-bird culture, playwrighting, shipping, cinematic creativeness, and
drawing-room manners. In short, it is going to be a paradise on earth. And, with such
vaulting ambitions, it might pull off something: you can't tell. It is keenly aware of Asia,
and also of Mexico; streams are meeting here that ought to churn up some exciting
Q&A
Consider this claim:
"Daily stress contributes to long-term health problems."
Which is the strongest evidence to support the claim? - (correct 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? - (correct 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. - (correct 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. - (correct 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
In the following passage, author James M. Cain gives his view of Los Angeles during
the 1930s. Select the best evidence to support the statement "The author believes that
diversity will be a huge draw for people to Los Angeles culture."
Where this place is headed is to be the leader in commerce, art, citrus production,
music, rabbit breeding, oil production, furniture manufacture, walnut growing, literature,
olive bottling, short- and long-distance hauling, clay modelling, aesthetic criticism, fish
export, canary-bird culture, playwrighting, shipping, cinematic creativeness, and
drawing-room manners. In short, it is going to be a paradise on earth. And, with such
vaulting ambitions, it might pull off something: you can't tell. It is keenly aware of Asia,
and also of Mexico; streams are meeting here that ought to churn up some exciting
