Our ancestors did not have the machines we have today that make ordinary tasks easier. (2) Instead, almost every chore they needed to get done required a workout. (3) Washing clothes, carrying wood, and shoveling coal all required a great deal of physical labor, which forced people to be in good physical shape. (4) Without elevators, cars, and computerized robots, people had to climb stairs, walk to work, and perform backbreaking labor.

Mary’s introduction needs a position statement. Which of the following sentences could best follow sentence 4 and state the position Mary is taking in this paper?

It’s time to build a machine that makes us stronger and in better shape so we don’t really have to work hard.

The cost of labor-saving devices continues to decline, making us do even less work in the future.

While technological advances have their benefits, people should consider returning to the traditional way of completing some activities in order to stay healthy and active.

We need to go back to doing activities that would make us fit even if they take more time and effort.

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Select the correct answer. read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich: her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same. just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him—that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this—and she could not now change that attitude. "you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him—with his legs up." she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up. the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said: "what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancies of that kind, but we must forgive them. . " they all rose, said good-night, and went away. when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better; the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained—that same pain and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harder and nothing easier. everything was worse. again minute followed minute and hour followed hour. everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible. based on the excerpt, how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich? a. she is kind and takes care of ivan, which is why he feels guilty about how he treated her for most of their married life. b. she is vindictive toward ivan while pretending to be worried about him, thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him. c. she plays the part of the worried wife without any real feeling, symbolizing the false propriety ivan upheld but now hates. d. she is young, healthy, and beautiful—everything ivan can never be again and wishes he could return to. reset next

12. involves getting to know and recording information about the characters in story such a physical characteristics action and ways in which they relate others characters and to the plot o a. close reading o b. character mapping o c. note-taking p