7. Read the passage. The Dust Bowl
During the 1930s, extreme drought and high winds made life incredibly difficult in the Great Plains
region of the United States. In many areas, rainfall was forty percent less than normal. The soil
became extremely dry, and when strong winds blew, they created tremendous dust storms. These so-
called "black blizzards" were so thick that they made daylight seem like dusk. During this terrible
period, the Great Plains region of the United States was named the "Dust Bowl." Over the next few
years, the drought continued, and the winds created more dust storms. In some places, the drought
and high winds lasted for eight years. Many people wondered if the black blizzards would ever end.
Which statement about this paragraph's main idea is true?
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1. This paragraph's main idea is stated in the topic sentence.
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2. This paragraph's main idea is implied.
3. There are not enough details to support the main idea.
4.This paragraph does not express a main idea.

answer; ; self control is necessary in becoming a "winner" in this sort of situation .

below i present a summary with the most relevant aspects of chapter 2, which were taken from karangan bahasa inggeris (english essays) spm: argumentative essays.

tuna wira

credit to mohana ram murugiah.

i hope to be of

teacher smiles at the students who wait for his signal to sit down. he nods briefly and the students sit down and get ready for the lesson to start. there is an air of quiet expectancy when teacher refers to the unusual things found underneath their houses that morning. whispers of bags of rice ran among the students and a student muttered reluctantly that the rice is rent for the landlord. this starts off the discussion on the issue of paying rent for the use of the landowner’s land. da wan raises the question of why the landlord owns the land rather than the farmer although they have spent a lot of time farming it. the three reasons of labour, need and inheritance are listed as reasons for the landlord’s ownership of the land. they are discussed and dismissed as inadequate reasons. they suggested a system of collective farming to the farmers. the headmaster comes down the corridor to observe the lesson. teacher very quickly changed the lesson to a geography wesson. the students followed his cue and no one gave the slightest notice < of the headmaster ‘s presence. when the headmaster leaves, teacher explains the implications of winning the scholarship. it involves bearing respontsibilities and the scholarship holder should master what is useful and return to the village. he should understand the injustices in the present system and change it to a fairer system. then, he announces the wiimnuir of the scholarship to be dawan.

one thousand and one nights, also known as arabian nights is a collection of stories whose basic structure is that of embedded narrative. this technique refers to a main story which works as the common frame - or framing narrative - for the other stories, and then this series of stories which are connected to the main one. this technique can also be referred to as a story within a story. the stories stem from the original tale, some begin and end on their own, some are connected to the previous or following one, by means of questions that are answered in the subsequent tale, or characters which reappear.