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CAHSEE: Passage Drill 2, Problem 1. Which of the following strategies does the author use most frequently to describe the state park?
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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
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by giant redwoods They've given short redwoods across the globe
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a serious inferiority complex Sorry guys All right check the
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following passage Human beings mesmer one two hundred parts to
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choose from Mammoth park big tree park Are you fine
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Come bring your stuff Night Which of the following strategies
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does the author use most frequently to describe the state
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park and hear the potential answers Injuries Easy alright giant
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redwood forest A beautiful place to get lots of exercise
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especially one running from bear Well first we'll eliminate Answer
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be If there were statistics used in this brochure we'd
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see sentences like well fifty percent of bear sightings in
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the parks have resulted in only minor maulings while statistics
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required numbers and fence signs and stuff like that And
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this brochure is pretty light on both choice See tells
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us that the writer uses quotes from riel live visitors
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to sell us on the park's Let's Take a quick
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scan of the taxes see if we see any quotation
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marks No not a one so we can tell option
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seat and take a hike literally answer d is one
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of those that tries to trick us by being a
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little bit right Well when the author tells us about
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fort ring park we learned that it's big with history
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buffs because of its recreated native american structures and informative
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plaques informant of plaques history bus really know how to
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have a good time Fortunately the author leaves us out
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of the fun and doesn't fill us in on any
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of the exciting info on the plaques so really there
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no historical facts to be had in this brochure especially
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since the bits about the other parks don't mention history
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much at all And so we've narrowed it down to
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answer a which correctly points out the author's liberal use
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of nature imagery We're guessing the author moonlights as a
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poet when he or she isn't writing state park brochures
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A lot of these paragraph sound like loads of love
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to a redwood let's go hug a tree to which
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the fifth grader inna says if you love redwood so 00:02:14.89 --> [endTime] much why don't you just marry one
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