Advancing College Reading Skills Plus Ideas
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Each of the following groups of statements includes one main idea and two or three supporting details. Click on the
main idea in each group.
Group 3
a. Certain behaviors are considered especially serious signs that a child may later engage in violent criminal acts.
b. Cruelty to animals, such as beating or torturing pets, is often a sign of serious psychological problems in children
c. Children who show a fascination with setting fires have a strong tendency to later engage in violent criminal
behavior.

Read the following conclusion for an essay that claims that extreme sports should be more highly regulated because they are too dangerous: whether it is a high level of physical exertion, or extra doses of the "fear factor," it is common for extreme athletes to beat at the door of fate. it is these people who tempt their own mortality, while curious onlookers wait anxiously for the outcome, who must be protected from themselves. which statement provides the most accurate evaluation of the paragraph? a. the closing statement is unsatisfying b. the passage introduces new evidence. c. the thesis is not restated. d. the style is informal and inconsistent.

Fitzgerald describes eleanor as being amory’s last “weird” love woman mystery relationship

4friends evenly divided up a nn-slice pizza. one of the friends, harris, ate 11 fewer slice than he received.