"All you need is a bigger calculator or a computer. A computer would spit out the answer in no time." "Are you sure?" "Of course I'm sure." Robert thought that the number devil was a bit too confident. Maybe he was just bluffing. Robert decided to take a chance and said, "You haven't tried it with 11 111 111 111 x 11 111 111 111 have you?" "No, can't say I have." "Well, I bet it doesn't work." The number devil started doing the problem in his head, but his face turned bright red again and swelled up like a balloon. Was it because he was angry, Robert wondered, or because the problem was hard? —The Number Devil, Hans Magnus Enzenberger What best describes the value of reading this text out loud more than once to improve fluency? How can you tell that the passage has dialogue? How can your reading show the two voices? Which unique part of this text affects fluency?

We must understand the connections between the climate crisis and the afflictions of poverty, hunger, hiv-aids, and other pandemics. as these problems are linked, so too must be their solutions. we must begin by making the common rescue of the global environment the central organizing principle of the world community. which statement best describes gore's use of evidence to support his argument? a. gore makes connections between events to support his argument that solutions to the climate crisis will also solve other problems. b. gore provides dramatic details to support his argument that solutions to problems of this magnitude are often rare. c. gore compares crises in the world to support his argument that the problem of climate change must take a backseat to other problems. d. gore describes positive outcomes to support his argument that people should remain optimistic about finding solutions to climate change.

One of the author’s purposes in the code book is to explain different types of codebreaking to his readers. which line best demonstrates this purpose? a theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding alice's private key mathematicians have been studying factoring for centuries, and modern factoring techniques are not significantly better than ancient techniques a more recent development is the so-called tempest attack, which aims to detect the electromagnetic signals emitted . . in a computer's display unit if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with . . enormous speed

Me? which of the following describes theodore roosevelt’s ideas about the role of the government? a) to keep the powerful from taking advantage of small business owners b) to all citizens get rich and to take care of the lazy c) to break all company trusts because all big businesses wanted to bully the smaller ones d) to close off all wild lands and leave them untouched