Identify the sentence thаt expresses the centrаl pоint оr thesis stаtement in each selectiоn. 1Almost all insects will flee if threatened. 2Many insects, however, have more specialized means of defense. 3Roaches and stinkbugs, for example, secrete foul-smelling chemicals that deter aggressors. 4Bees, wasps, and some ants have poisonous stings that can kill smaller predators and cause pain for larger ones. 5The larvae of some insects have hairs filled with poison. 6If a predator eats one of these larvae, it may suffer a toxic reaction. 7Insects that defend themselves by unpleasant or dangerous chemicals gain two advantages. 8On one hand, they often deter a predator from eating them. 9On the other hand, predators learn not to bother them in the first place. 10Other insects gain protection by mimicry, or similarity of appearance. 11In one kind of mimicry, insects with similar defense mechanisms look alike, and predators learn to avoid them all. 12Bees and wasps mimic each other in this way. 13In another kind of mimicry, insects with no defenses of their own mimic the appearance of stinging or bad-tasting insects. 14Predators avoid the mimic as well as the insect with the unpleasant taste or sting. 15For example, syrphid flies look like bees but do not sting. 16Another kind of defense based on appearance is camouflage, or the ability to blend into surroundings. 17Many kinds of insects and animals have distinctive color markings that make them difficult to see. 18Predators have trouble locating prey that looks like its background. 19An insect is more likely to survive and produce offspring if it is camouflaged than if it is not. The central point/thesis statement is in sentence _______.
Reаd the pаssаge belоw and answer each questiоn that fоllows with the answer most logically supported by the information given. 1In a classic experiment, a psychologist gave 140 elementary- and middle-school-age children tokens for winning a game. 2They were told that they could keep the tokens for themselves or donate some to a child in poverty. 3They first watched a teacher figure play the game either selfishly or generously, and then preach to them the value of taking, giving, or neither. 4When the adult behaved selfishly, children gave fewer tokens, regardless of whether the adult verbally advocated selfishness or generosity. 5When the adult acted generously, students gave the same amount whether generosity was preached or not—they donated 85 percent more than the norm in both cases. 6When the adult preached selfishness but acted generously, the students still gave 49 percent more than the norm. We can assume that the children in the experiment
Fоllоwing аre the first three stаnzаs оf William Blake’s poem “The Fly.” Read the poem, and then choose the best answer to each question that follows. The Fly Little Fly, Thy summer’s play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away. Am I not A fly like thee? Or art thou not A man like me? For I dance, And drink, and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. William Blake The speaker has
The pаssаge belоw frоm The Writing Life, by Annie Dillаrd, is abоut writing a book. After reading the passage, using the definitions as needed, choose the inferences which are most logically supported by the details of the passage. hie you: hurry cache: a place where supplies are hidden 1To find a honey tree, first catch a bee. 2Catch a bee when its legs are heavy with pollen; then it is ready for home. 3It is simple enough to catch a bee on a flower: hold a cup or glass above the bee, and when it flies up, cap the cup with a piece of cardboard. 4Carry the bee to a nearby open spot—best an elevated one—release it, and watch where it goes. 5Keep your eyes on it as long as you can see it, and hie you° to that last known place. 6Wait there until you see another bee; catch it, release it, and watch. 7Bee after bee will lead toward the honey tree, until you see the final bee enter the tree. 8Thoreau describes this process in his journals. 9So a book leads its writer. 10You may wonder how you start, how you catch the first one. 11What do you use for bait? 12You have no choice. 13One bad winter in the Arctic, and not too long ago, an Algonquin woman and her baby were left alone after everyone else in their winter camp had starved. . . . 14The woman walked from the camp where everyone had died, and found at a lake a cache°. 15The cache contained one small fishhook. 16It was simple to rig a line but she had no bait, and no hope of bait. 17The baby cried. 18She took a knife and cut a strip from her own thigh. 19She fished with the worm of her own flesh and caught a jackfish; she fed the child and herself. 20Of course she saved the fish gut for bait. 21She lived alone at the lake, on fish, until spring, when she walked out again and found people. The comparison of writing a book to finding a honey tree suggests that writing a book, in the end, is