Directions: Read the paragraph and answer the question. (1) One final effect of radio and television on the English language should be noted. (2) There is no doubt that these great media of information have considerably reduced the time that used to be devoted to reading. (3) Radio and television may enhance the spoken word. (4) However, they may develop audiences who do not know how to think independently. Which numbered sentence is the topic sentence?
A.
1
B.
2
C.
3
D.
4

The date of a business letter is included in the greeting. heading. inside address. margin.

Select the correct text in the passage. which two lines in this excerpt from shakespeare's romeo and juliet foreshadow the tragic fate of romeo and juliet? friar laurence: so smile the heavens upon this holy act, that after hours with sorrow chide us not! romeo: amen, amen! but come what sorrow can, it cannot countervail the exchange of joy that one short minute gives me in her sight: do thou but close our hands with holy words, then love-devouring death do what he dare; it is enough i may but call her mine. friar laurence: these violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness and in the taste confounds the appetite: therefore love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Read the paragraph. we heard music coming from the auditorium so we crept up to the door in peaked in. i couldn’t believe my eyes! a group of dancers were on stage in the most beautiful costumes i have ever seen. i looked at mabel and she looked back at me with the same expression. our eyes were wide with joy and wonder. which point of view does the narrator use