Tosk 1: Read carefully each given poragraph. In your notebook write NO for irrelevant or straying sentence and YES for relevant or not straying sentence.

A. Education
(1) At one time in the history of education, one had to be wealthy to attend school. (2) At other times, women were kept
from attending school despite their standing in finances. (3) Financial aid was widely available to aid those less fortunate.(4)
Today, this is not the case because school attendance is obligatory. (5) The law requires students who are between six and 16
years of age to attend school.

B. Renaissance Women
Tu During the Renaissance period, all of the women wore a corset (2) Moreover, a woman was put to shame if she was
found absent of a corset. (3) Corsets resembled a cone, as they were small at the waist and uplifting at the bosom. (4) They
have been with us for many centuries. (5) They were used to hide the thick waist since at that period in time, a 15 to 18 inch
waist was acceptable.

What point is the author trying to make by comparing the travel times of the first transcontinental railroad and the first transcontinental flight?

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

Hurry 20 mins all the animals were now present except moses, the tame raven, who slept on a perch behind the back door. when major saw that they had all made themselves comfortable and were waiting attentively he cleared his throat and began: "comrades, you have heard already about the strange dream that i had last night. but i will come to the dream later. i have something else to say first. i do not think, comrades, that i shall be with you for many months longer, and before i die i feel it my duty to pass on to you such wisdom as i have acquired. i have had a long life, i have had much time for thought as i lay alone in my stall, and i think i may say that i understand the nature of life on this earth as well as any animal now living. it is about this that i wish to speak to you." which historical figure does old major most likely represent? tsar nicholas ii an imperial guard vladimir lenin joseph stalin