1. PART A: Which statement best expresses the central idea of the text?

A. Game companies specifically target children because they know they have a low

impulse control.

B. Children and teens can develop addictions to video games if they don't regulate

how often they play.

C. Game companies research ways to influence gamers, encouraging them to play

longer and to spend more.

D. Playing video games negatively impacts other areas of your life, if you don't take

regular breaks.

common lit story: how video games are getting inside ur head— And wallet

Which choice is a major detail from paragraph two? a) the great wall is a large network of several walls and towers. b) the great wall looks like a long wall snaking its way across china. c) the great wall was constructed over hundreds of years beginning in 221 b. c. d) the great wall construction encouraged several independent kingdoms to unite.

Correct sentence. when her brother boarded the ship bound for america, christina stood on the pier and tearfully waved goodbye.

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”