Which is more important to your health? Is it getting up early, or is it getting enough sleep? What scientists don't understand
is that sometimes those goals work against each other. If I get up early to start my day, I may not be able to get the
recommended amount of sleep. If I sleep my recommended amount, I may not be getting up early. Some animals sleep more
than humans, and other animals sleep much less than humans. The answer, of course, is to go to bed early enough to be able
to get enough sleep--but that is not always possible. Who knew that something supposed to be relaxing--going to sleep--
could be so stressful?
Which sentence could best be removed from this paragraph to clarify its ideas?
If I sleep my recommended amount, I may not be getting up early.
Some animals sleep more than humans, and other animals sleep much less
than humans.
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What scientists don't understand is that sometimes those goals work
against each other.
If I get up early to start my day, I may not be able to get the recommended
amount of sleep.

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.