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Suppose the author wants to add the following sentence to the passage: Artists still record music and people still buy music, but not in traditiona...
Which of the following sentences, if added by the author to the end of Paragraph 3, would serve to close that paragraph most effectively?
The author wants to add a sentence to help conclude Paragraph 4. Which sentence would be the most effective choice?
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than humans do
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Okay See th s spyros Here we go Two of
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twelve van humans d'oh All right That's our focus here
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Here's paragraph We just read it But if you have
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the attention with goldfish let's just do it again Everything
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they believed in jaws gravy train my mind killer Depending
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on how the truck's interviewed our future nfl fantasy animals
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have shocked when viewed in terms Probability of death by
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shark attack is extremely rare Unless you're right middle of
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shark nato or meg nato coming to a theater near
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you soon point In reality great white sharks pose less
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of a threat to humans than humans do in all
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other shark species for that matter No So let's think
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about this Perhaps we're biased but it's hard for us
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to imagine a great white shark posing less harm to
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humans than humans posed to ourselves or to great whites
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Nonetheless the author's making a strong case for that line
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of thinking While the author has a point her sentence
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doesn't do a great job of communicating It says great
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whites pose less threat to humans than humans do That's
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what she said What are humans posing a threat to
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hear dinosaurs Yeah only by adding than humans posed too
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great white sharks Yeah that's the thought Finished in a
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way that's grammatically correct right So the answer's got to
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be b loser bowl here Changing the original order of
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sense doesn't clarify anything And while adding another proposition and
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sentence makes the comparison even more confusing like indie there
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do you have The answer is b and it would
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read In reality great white sharks pose less of a
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threat to humans than humans posed Too great white sharks
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and all other shark species for that matter Yeah what's
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with that plastic island the size of texas floating around
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out there Isn't that like a shark trapper shouldn't we
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be ashamed that we created something like that It's just 00:01:59.306 --> [endTime] anger
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Which of the following would be the most logical order of sentences in Paragraph 2?