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CAHSEE 1.1 English Language Arts Passage Drill. Which line is an example of a metaphor?
CAHSEE 1.3 Passage Drill. Which of the following is the best way to express the meaning of the word alumni in this sentence?
CAHSEE 1.2 Passage Drill. Which of these sentences from the story best illustrates the sensitive side of the narrator's nature?
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CAHSEE 8.4 Passage Drill. What is the main purpose of the passage?
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Sorry And here's her shmoop douceur brought to you by
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sky farming Flying tractor not required All right check Falling
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past humans have used constellations have trained him a thousand
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years ago backto night traveling favorite line this guy from
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earth and sky fall when they're a james bond movie
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but yeah all right stories and start an ancestor people
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of today in the world All right what's the main
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purpose of this passage going to confuse you and hear
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the potential answers not to continue not conventional All right
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Well one way to figure out the main purpose of
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this passage is to take a good hard look at
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the subheadings The author includes let's See we've got stories
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in the stars night traveling and sky farming Wait guy
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farming that sounds like something a care bear do that
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would probably have to enslave my little pony to pull
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the plow But we digress The point is that this
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passage covers lots of different ways that constellations have been
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used over time We'll keep that in mind as we
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sort through these answer options Let's get choice d out
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of our lives First of all the passage doesn't say
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anything About how constellation stories were written on ly that
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they were written to bad We could go for a
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story right now or maybe we're too old for that
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option A doesn't make the cut either A reader might
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be inspired to learn about the constellation after reading the
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article The whole sky farming thing sounds especially exciting However
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This author has something else on the agenda the passage
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might as c suggests inspire readers to support local astronomy
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groups Well that would be good We hear amateur astronomers
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are pretty median require all the support they can get
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But again though this passage has its eye on bigger
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things Choice He is clearly the correct answer All those
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subheading tip us off that this author is taking us
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on a tour of the many ways humans have used
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constellations Over time somebody really ought to send the constellations 00:02:03.06 --> [endTime] Thank you card with that Hello
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