Alаn аnd Bоb gо hunting in а public fоrest. Alan starts to set up a tent when he sees a deer. Alan says to Bob, "Look there's a deer. Use my gun that's sitting next to you." Bob picks up Alan's gun and shoots the deer. The wounded deer stumbles away and dies. Who owns the deer?
Identify the sentence thаt expresses the centrаl pоint оr thesis stаtement in each selectiоn. 1Because teams in many sports earn a large part of their revenue from television contracts, they will sacrifice the interests of paid spectators, even compromise the games themselves, to increase their television income. 2A good example of this is the so-called “TV time-out.” 3In the old days, commercials occurred during natural breaks in a game, for example, during a time-out called by one of the teams, at half-time, or between innings. 4But this meant that commercials appeared too intermittently, and infrequently led to bringing in the increasingly large fees advertisers were willing to pay. 5This led to regular TV time-outs in sports such as football and basketball. 6The owners of sports franchises may be maximizing their incomes from advertising, but they may have sacrificed the quality of the sports. 7For example, the momentum of a team may be lost because of an inopportune TV time-out. 8Thus, these time-outs do alter the nature of some sports; they may even affect the outcome of a game. 9Also, for the fans who watch in person, these time-outs interrupt the flow of the game. 10The fans at home can at least watch the commercials; the spectators at the games have little to watch until the commercial ends and the game resumes. 11But the owners consider such negative effects on the quality of the game insignificant compared with the economic gain from increased advertising. The central point/thesis statement is in sentence _______.
Identify the sentence thаt expresses the centrаl pоint оr thesis stаtement in each selectiоn. 1When president John Adams and his wife moved into the White House in 1800, the building was still being completed. 2There was not even a toilet, and Mrs. Adams had to hang the family laundry to dry in the East Room. 3Trying to stay warm in the enormous building, the family had to keep thirteen fireplaces going and soon ran out of firewood. 4During the Abraham Lincoln presidency, the building functioned as military headquarters, with troops often staying in spare rooms. 5When Lincoln’s mentally unstable wife, Mary, redecorated the White House, spending far more than the $20,000 allotted by Congress, the President was furious. 6He asked how she could spend taxpayers’ money on “Flub dubs for this damned old house, when the soldiers cannot have blankets?” 7Teddy Roosevelt and his wife bought six very lively children to live in the White House. 8Aged 3 to 17, the youngsters turned the house into a huge playground, galloping ponies across the lawns and scaring visitors with pet snakes. 9John F. Kennedy’s First Lady, Jacqueline, left a lasting mark on the White House by privately raising more than $100,000 to furnish it with a beautiful collection of American antiques. 10Her famous TV tour of the White House was immensely popular and watched by millions of Americans. 11As these examples show, life in the White House has varied according to the times and the interests and activities of the president and his family. The central point/thesis statement is in sentence _______.