Passage 1

Our vacation to Japan was going great. Then, the town we were staying in was threatened by a tidal wave. The entire town headed for the mountains to avoid the great wave headed to shore. When the wave struck shore, many waterfront properties and boats were damaged. Luckily, everyone had escaped from the town, and nobody was hurt.

Passage 2

Tidal waves are seismic sea waves or tsunamis. They are giant ocean waves made by earth movements such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides. Tsunamis can travel at speeds up to 450 miles per hour. When they approach shallow water, their height can rise to as high as 100 feet.
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What contrast can you make after reading the two passages above?

A.
Passage 1 gives the reader more facts. Passage 2 describes a personal experience.
B.
Passage 1 is a work of nonfiction. Passage 2 is a work of fiction.
C.
Passage 1 presents solutions to a problem. Passage 2 tells the events of a day in order.
D.
Passage 1 probably came from a personal journal. Passage 2 probably came from a science book.

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion