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Which of the following sentences provides the best description of the events in the passage?
Lucy runs to the edge of Kensington Gardens because...
Immediately before Lucy lays her hand on her father's knee, she was...
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Choose the best alternative to the text below.
But most
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Okay Tts spyros the last one in the sharkey section
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here twelve Twelve but most And let's see here But
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most were in paragraph four for the end here Why
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they didn't give us paragraph five like you even have
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to read that thing I wore skim And since fifteen
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years time giving it might seem like tommy guns were
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goingto unhelpfully infected and dying flute and three points I've
- 00:28
known him going by a shark But most people are
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much more afraid of being killed by a shark than
- 00:34
of dying from the flu So let's see where that
- 00:38
fits in around little that stands here So think about
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this The author is trying to make the argument that
- 00:47
despite the very low probability of being killed by a
- 00:51
shark and a very high probability of dying from the
- 00:54
flu people are much more afraid of sharks and the
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art of the flu Duh razor sharp teeth versus a
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fever and body Xia you be the judge What lead
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into the sentence doesn't communicate that message very effectively however
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Still most does a slightly better job like and see
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there but not as good a job Even so even
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so indicates that even with those statistics the fact remains
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that people are much more afraid of sharks Duh Finally
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any sentence that starts with although like indie needs to
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include a second claws like so like Although i don't
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like getting the flu i find sharks much more frightening
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or something like that So the right answer is being
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it would read Even so most people are much more
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afraid of being killed by a shark than of dying
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from the flu But even more people are afraid of
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not doing well on the spire test Yeah you zoom
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in really tightly That's what it says Down there All
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right that's it Enough for sharks will see you with 00:01:53.595 --> [endTime] meg nato to splashing No
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