1. according to the information presented in the article, video games are so successful because:
a their graphics and storylines appeal to a wide variety of people.
b. they meet basic human psychological needs.
c. game designers share many personality traits with gamers.
d. players are directed through the game in a way that seems natural.

It's to know your purpose before you read something because a purpose can:

Read the excerpt from hemingway’s a farewell to arms. we parked the cars beyond the brickyard. the ovens and some deep holes had been equipped as dressing stations. there were three doctors that i knew. i talked with the major and learned that when it should start and our cars should be loaded we would drive them back along the screened road and up to the main road along the ridge where there would be a post and other cars to clear them. which best describes hemingway’s style of writing in the excerpt? straightforward and simple, while still relating a lot of information to the reader long-winded and offering far too much information to the reader overly complicated, making it difficult to interpret and understand the text effortless and uncomplicated, with little meaning for the reader to interpret

Amaple syrup producer records the amount of sap collected from each of his trees. the line plot shows the results of one day