Dialogue #1

My name is Ron. My mom has been really stressed out lately. She works a lot and comes home late. When she finally does come home from work, she always gets on to me for not having finished my chores and my homework already. I used to try to out more by doing the dishes or the laundry, but then she would criticize me for doing chores the wrong wat because I didn’t do them exactly the same way as she does. I’m tired of fighting with her all the time. I can’t ever seem to get it right, so I just don’t bother trying to help around the house anymore. It’s her fault that I stopped doing my chores.

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Dialogue #2
My name is Laura, Thomas is a new boy at my school. He is so cute! I sit behind him in class and I practice writing my first name with his last name all the time. We’ve been talking on the phone every night, and he asked me to go to the football game with him this Friday. I’m so excited that I can’t even focus on anything else except for him! Sure, my friends are mad at me because I canceled my plans with them on Friday night. And my little brother is upset with me because I haven’t had time to help him with his soccer drills like I promised him. I just can’t focus on anything else except for Thomas, even when I’m not talking to him, I think about him all the time. Does this mean I’m in love?

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Dialogue #3
My name is Ethan. Yesterday I was upset because I found out that I didn’t make the basketball team. I was telling my friend, Kelly, how upset I was, but she kept staring off into space during our conversation. When I asked for her opinion, all she could give me was one-word answers. She was slouched in her chair the whole time I talked. Now I’m annoyed with her because I don’t feel she was listening to me. Answer Choices Kelly made the team and is embarrassed. Kelly is not a good active listener. Kelly’s body language makes it seem that she didn’t care that her friend didn’t make the team. Answer Choice Feedback That can’t be. Kelly doesn’t play basketball. She’s not athletic. Kelly is not listening to me. At least she is acting like she’s not listening. Kelly’s body language seems to say that she really does not care about my feelings

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Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. people throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. we even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. when the lewis and clark expedition met up with the shoshone, who had little previous contact with old world products, sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. he loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty. sugar changed the world. we begin that story with a man who could never know enough. how does the conclusion of the prologue support the authors’ purpose? select two options. it introduces the topic that will be addressed next. it provides information about the authors. it states why the topic is relevant to readers. it cites sources the authors used in the text. it explains how the authors came to study the subject.

Read the passage. excerpt from "why equal pay is worth fighting for" by senator elizabeth warren, april 17, 2014 i honestly can't believe that we're still arguing over equal pay in 2014. when i started teaching elementary school after college, the public school district didn't hide the fact that it had two pay scales: one for men and one for women. women have made incredible strides since then. but 40 years later, we're still debating equal pay for equal work. women today still earn only 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, and they're taking a hit in nearly every occupation. bloomberg analyzed census data and found that median earnings for women were lower than those for men in 264 of 265 major occupation categories. in 99.6 percent of occupations, men get paid more than women. that's not an accident; that's discrimination. the effects of this discrimination are real, and they are long lasting. today, more young women go to college than men, but unequal pay makes it harder for them to pay back student loans. pay inequality also means a tougher retirement for women. . for middle-class families today, it usually takes two incomes to get by, and many families depend as much on mom's salary as they do on dad's, if not more. women are the main breadwinners, or joint breadwinners, in two-thirds of the families across the country, and pay discrimination makes it that much harder for these families to stay afloat. women are ready to fight back against pay discrimination, but it's not easy. today, a woman can get fired for asking the guy across the hall how much money he makes. here in the senate, sen. barbara mikulski (d-md.) introduced the paycheck fairness act to give women the tools to combat wage discrimination. it would ensure that salary differences have something to do with the actual job that they are doing, and not just because they are women. senator warren states that the effects of pay discrimination are long-lasting. is this a valid argument supported by accurate evidence? no; warren weakens her point by claiming that the paycheck fairness act would "give women the tools to combat wage discrimination." yes; warren supports her point by noting, "for middle-class families today, it usually takes two incomes to get by." yes; warren supports her point by noting, "pay inequality also means a tougher retirement for women." no; warren weakens her point by noting, "today, a woman can get fired for asking the guy across the hall how much money he makes."