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The main idea of this article is best summarized by which statement? |
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| A. | Expect the worst and you will be pleasantly surprised. | | B. | Sometimes winning is not everything. | | C. | Great achievements come easily. | | D. | Money is more important than fame. |
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The author wrote this article primarily to |
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| A. | inform. | | B. | analyze. | | C. | persuade. | | D. | compare. |
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At first, Rodgers's main reason for making a flight from coast to coast was to |
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| A. | get his name in the newspapers and become famous. | | B. | win $50,000 in prize money. | | C. | show that it could be done by an ordinary person. | | D. | get to California to visit his family. |
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Rodgers nearly lost his magneto plugs on his flight from Elmira to Salamanca because |
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| A. | the plane had been damaged in his crash in the Catskills. | | B. | people had removed the nuts and bolts that held them in place. | | C. | the plane was poorly built and was not reliable. | | D. | mechanics who repaired the plane forgot to replace important parts. |
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How is the information in this article organized? |
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| A. | in order of importance, from most to least | | B. | by alternating generalizations and examples | | C. | by alternating descriptions of cause and effect | | D. | in order of the events as they happened |
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