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2c Word Study: Similar Meanings Choose from the two words provided and use each word only once when completing the sentences. One space should be left blank. torrid / hot 1. The waters off Greenland’s coast were once rich in cod. 2. Temperatures on Venus reach a 460 degrees Celsius. 3. As it gets iron begins to glow a dull red. ingenious / clever 4. The dog could sit, stay, and roll over on command. 5. The escape plan was so that there was a good chance it would work. 6. When things start to get it’s time to go home. extol / praise 7. They made a great effort to the problem before it got bigger. 8. If you people for good behavior, their manners may improve. 9. Most leaders hard work as the best way to get ahead. zenith / peak 10. Astronomers calculate the sky’s as ninety degrees above the horizon. 11. Demand for electricity reaches its during very hot weather. 12. The bottom rung was broken at the ladder’s visage / face 13. Looking at the teacher’s stern reminded us to behave. 14. Applying sunscreen to the will help keep it from getting sunburnt. 15. The thin of the mountain made it difficult to breathe.
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2D Understanding Contextual Meanings Read the following sentences. If the
word in bold is used correctly, write C on the line, If the word is used
incorrectly, write a new sentence

Christmas is just around the corner! Regardless of the current conditions, it remains the most anticipated season among Filipinos. It is time to celebrate life, relationships, and blessings through gatherings and lively events.
This year, the same spirit of the holidays continues to live but a new kind of celebration awaits. In an effort to
celebrate the season while ensuring safety, Ayala Land brings joy to families through the country’s first-ever
interactive digital lights and sound show!
type of claim:
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ical Education 2 Crossword
Across:
Acronym for badminton federation
Best of three games founded in 1934
Vanes used to be made of them
Done with a flicking motion
A shuttlecock weighs one-sixth of a tennis racquet
This is always an underhand shot
A badminton racquet is than
The only player who can score a point
Name of badminton played by British in India
A rarely used high and deep defensive stroke
The ultimate attacking shot
Motion similar to throwing a ball
A controlled smash
Shuttlecocks are now made of this
When a shuttlecock falls out of bounds
Where badminton was played hundreds of years ago
What you hit in badminton
The traditional shuttlecock base was made of this material
Number of points needed to win a game
This is 22 feet long and 17 feet wide
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A participant reported migraine headache and missed work for a day. Is this an AE?
A. Check baseline medical history
B. Assess the severity level
C. Assess if there is change from baseline.
D. All of the above.
A participant missed a study visit as he was hospitalized for pneumonia, and then he reported to the study clinic a week later. What is the most appropriate course of action?
A. No action is required.
B. Report it as an adverse event (AE).
C. Remind the participant of the importance of attending study visit as scheduled without exception
D. Report it as a serious adverse event (SAE).
Which source document may NOT be used to determine whether an adverse event is expected or not in clinical studies in which an investigational new drug is used?
A. Investigator Brochure
B. Protocol
C. Informed Consent Form
D. Annual Safety Report
E. All of the above may be used.
Examples of adverse events (AE) include which of the following?
A. Damaged wheelchair.
B. Anxiety.
C. Decreased blood sodium.
D. Enlarged thyroid on physical examination.
E. B, C, and D only
F. All the above are adverse events (AEs).
A serious adverse event (SAE) should be reported to the local IRB within what period of time after learning of the event?
A. 5 days
B. 2 weeks
C. 24 hours
D. Follow the local IRB reporting guidelines.

English 30-2 assignment booklet Assembly Line Poem by Shu Ting In time’s assembly line Night presses against night. We come off the factory night-shift In line as we march towards home. Over our heads in a row The assembly line of stars Stretches across the sky. Beside us, little trees Stand numb in assembly lines. The stars must be exhausted After thousands of years Of journeys which never change. The little trees are all sick, Choked on smog and monotony, Stripped of their color and shape. It’s not hard to feel for them; We share the same tempo and rhythm. Yes, I’m numb to my own existence As if, like the trees and stars -perhaps just out of habit -perhaps just out of sorrow, I’m unable to show concern For my own manufactured fate. Paper Matches My aunts washed dishes while the uncles squirted each other on the lawn with garden hoses. Why are we in here, I said, and they are out there? That’s the way it is, said Aunt Hetty, the shrivelled-up one. I have the rages that small animals have, being small, being animal. Written on me was a message, “At Your Service,” like a book of paper matches. One by one we were taken out and struck. We come bearing supper, our heads on fire.’
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Assignment Booklet 2A – Section 2 Read Module pages 42 – 48 Following are some lines from the poems “Assembly Line” Between the Lines 12 on page 81 and “Paper Matches” on page 44 in Lesson 4 Section 2. Beside each line, label the language as either literal or figurative. (1/2 mark each) /3 “In time’s assembly line” “I’m numb to my own existence” “The stars must be exhausted” “I have the rages that small animals have” “The uncles squirted each other on the lawn with garden hoses” “One by one we were taken out and struck.” 5. Now identify the particular figure of speech (simile, metaphor, or personification) and explain the comparison:
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Unit Test Active TIME REMAINING 11 01:46:29 Read the paragraph. What does the gerund phrase “volunteering at the animal shelter” contribute to the text? has been a very rewarding experience. I started volunteering with a good friend of mine during summer vacation last year. Volunteering at the shelter is a lot of hard work, and it isn’t always fun. Volunteers spend a lot of time cleaning out cages.
The phrase conveys significant interest and variety.
The phrase adds a specific detail about time and place.
The phrase acts as a noun that is the subject of the sentence.
The phrase adds more details by providing a direct object.
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Nikolai Gogol, “The Nose”
What evidence from the text gives you the impression that Kovaloff is intimidated by his nose?
A. “What do you want?”
B. “It seems to me strange, most respected sir”
C. “How can I get at it?”
D. “Pardon me, I do not understand what you are talking about.”

Just how dishonest are most students? By christian b. Miller
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ANSWER ONE QUESTION Topic 1: Based on your own ideas and experience, write a preliminary essay that discusses THREE root causes of academic dishonesty. Refer to two ideas from “Just how dishonest are most students?” to support your viewpoint. OR Topic 2: Based on your own ideas and experience, discuss THREE ways how schools can raise awareness among students about academic dishonesty Refer to two ideas from “Just how dishonest are most students”? to support your viewpoint. OR Topic 3: In the article, the author states that students who are dishonest find a way to cheat in the exams. Based on your own ideas and experience, suggest THREE ways how students can keep themselves away from any kind of cheating in the exams. Refer to two ideas from “Just how dishonest are most students?” to support your viewpoint. DELL

Question 20
Read the following passage carefully before you choose your answer.
The following passage is an excerpt of an online article on teens and sleep.
(1) In October 2019, the state of California passed a new law that mandates a change to the starting times for the state’s public schools. (2) The law—which was supported by the California Medical Association, the California Psychiatric Association, the CDC, and the American Academy of Pediatrics—requires middle schools to start no earlier than 8:00 a.m. and high schools to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m.
(3) The law is a state-level solution to a problem that doctors, school administrators, and researchers have been justifiably lamenting for decades: adolescents need eight to ten hours of sleep per night, but more than two thirds of high schoolers get less than that. (4) Even more troubling, about forty percent of students get fewer than six hours. (5) Simply telling teenagers to go to bed earlier isn’t effective; teens build up sleep pressure—the regulatory force that builds up and allows a person to both fall and stay asleep—more slowly than adults or younger children. (6) For this reason, they are simply not equipped to fall asleep earlier on command; they are truly designed to go to bed later and sleep later into the morning.
(7) Sleep deprivation among adolescents has been proven to affect overall health, often resulting in weakened immune systems and other problems. (8) It also compromises memory consolidation, thus resulting in decreased overall academic performance as reflected in lower test scores. (9) If that’s not enough to support later start times, consider this: one school district that voluntarily implemented the time changes long before the California law reported a 70% reduction in student car crashes. (10) It’s tough to argue with data that shows an increase in student safety in addition to an increase in student performance.
(11) Despite this rather obvious data in support of later start times, many school administrators lament the challenges of bus schedules, lunch services, childcare, and even athletic practices, all of which have traditionally been built around much earlier start times than the 8:00 to 8:30 a.m. requirements. (12) But the experts are emphatic in reminding the public that the challenges are worth facing, and the adjusted start times will result in greater health and safety and increased student learning.
The writer is working on a new version of the passage and wants to include an explicit statement of the passage’s thesis.
Which of the following would best serve as a thesis statement for the passage?
A. Based on irrefutable evidence, schools around the country should consider later start times for middle and high school students.
B. Good quality sleep is needed by all students in order to improve their memory and thus increase their academic achievement levels.
C. Later start times for high school students result in not just increased school performance but also increased safety.
D. Start times after 8 a.m. for middle and high schools might be good for some students, but not everyone agrees they are good for all.
E. The state of California is taking the lead in mandating later start times for its public-school students.
Question 21
Read the following passage carefully before you choose your answer.
This passage is taken from a speech given by President Ronald Reagan to the people of West Berlin in 1987.
“In the Reichstag a few moments ago, I saw a display commemorating this 40th anniversary of the Marshall Plan. I was struck by the sign on a burnt-out, gutted structure that was being rebuilt. I understand that Berliners of my own generation can remember seeing signs like it dotted throughout the western sectors of the city. The sign read simply: ‘The Marshall Plan is helping here to strengthen the free world.’ A strong, free world in the West, that dream became real. Japan rose from ruin to become an economic giant. Italy, France, Belgium—virtually every nation in Western Europe saw political and economic rebirth; the European Community was founded.”
In this paragraph, the speaker uses juxtaposition to contrast the
A. economic growth around the world compared to Berlin
B. intricacies of the Marshall Plan with its actual effects
C. experience of destruction and ruin with that of rebirth and hope
D. past history of the Berlin Wall with the future of the new Berlin
E. expectation of economic growth with the statistical reality of it
Question 22
Read the following passage carefully before you choose your answer.
This passage is taken from a speech given by President Ronald Reagan to the people of West Berlin in 1987.
(4) Behind me stands a wall that encircles the free sectors of this city, part of a vast system of barriers that divides the entire continent of Europe. From the Baltic, south, those barriers cut across Germany in a gash of barbed wire, concrete, dog runs, and guard towers. Farther south, there may be no visible, no obvious wall. But there remain armed guards and checkpoints all the same—still a restriction on the right to travel, still an instrument to impose upon ordinary men and women the will of a totalitarian state. Yet it is here in Berlin where the wall emerges most clearly; here, cutting across your city, where the news photo and the television screen have imprinted this brutal division of a continent upon the mind of the world. Standing before the Brandenburg Gate, every man is a German, separated from his fellow men. Every man is a Berliner, forced to look upon a scar.
A modern writer wants to adapt the ideas from this part of the speech. He wants to add relevant support for the claim made in the fourth sentence (reproduced below) of the paragraph by including a quote from a reliable source.
But there remain armed guards and checkpoints all the same—still a restriction on the right to travel, still an instrument to impose upon ordinary men and women the will of a totalitarian state.
Each of the following sources could help to achieve this purpose EXCEPT
A. a graphic published by an international human rights organization that analyzes health conditions, poverty levels, and educational quality as impacted by travel restrictions
B. an article from an international newspaper which features interviews with three heads of state, each giving reasons for condemning the armed occupation and restrictions
C. a quote from a social media posting which features thoughts and reactions from political science majors around the world as they learned of the checkpoints and restrictions
D. a governmental database that features facts and statistics regarding mental health, unemployment, and crime rates in countries where people are not free to travel
E. an excerpt from a peer-reviewed journal of psychology that analyzes the long-lasting effects of constant military presence on the emotional growth of children under twelve
Question 23
Read the following passage carefully before you choose your answer.
This passage is taken from the concluding remarks of a speech given by President Ronald Reagan to the people of West Berlin in 1987.
(11)And now the Soviets themselves may, in a limited way, be coming to understand the importance of freedom. We hear much from Moscow about a new policy of reform and openness. Some political prisoners have been released. Certain foreign news broadcasts are no longer being jammed. Some economic enterprises have been permitted to operate with greater freedom from state control.
(12)Are these the beginnings of profound changes in the Soviet state? Or are they token gestures, intended to raise false hopes in the West, or to strengthen the Soviet system without changing it? We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace. There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace.
(13)General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
In paragraph 12, the speaker begins by posing two questions primarily to
A. elaborate on the weak message that the changes convey
B. frighten the audience with the threat of extreme violence
C. ease the fears of the audience by revealing hopeful changes
D. highlight his suspicions of the sincerity behind these changes
E. illustrate the importance of strengthening Soviet power
Question 24
Read the following passage carefully before you choose your answer.
This passage is taken from a book that chronicles a man’s exploration of Alaska.
(1)It was now near dark, and I made haste to make up my flimsy little tent. The ground was desperately rocky. I made out, however, to level down a strip large enough to lie on, and by means of slim alder stems bent over it and tied together soon had a home. While thus busily engaged I was startled by a thundering roar across the lake. Running to the top of the moraine, I discovered that the tremendous noise was only the outcry of a newborn berg about fifty or sixty feet in diameter, rocking and wallowing in the waves it had raised as if enjoying its freedom after its long grinding work as part of the glacier. After this fine last lesson I managed to make a small fire out of wet twigs, got a cup of tea, stripped off my dripping clothing, wrapped myself in a blanket and lay brooding on the gains of the day and plans for the morrow, glad, rich, and almost comfortable.
(2)It was raining hard when I awoke, but I made up my mind to disregard the weather, put on my dripping clothing, glad to know it was fresh and clean; ate biscuits and a piece of dried salmon without attempting to make a tea fire; filled a bag with hardtack, slung it over my shoulder, and with my indispensable ice-axe plunged once more into the dripping jungle. I found my bridge holding bravely in place against the swollen torrent, crossed it and beat my way around pools and logs and through two hours of tangle back to the moraine on the north side of the outlet,—a wet, weary battle but not without enjoyment. The smell of the washed ground and vegetation made every breath a pleasure, and I found
Calypso borealis
1, the first I had seen on this side of the continent, one of my darlings, worth any amount of hardship; and I saw one of my Douglas squirrels on the margin of the grassy pool. The drip of the rain on the various leaves was pleasant to hear. More especially marked were the flat low-toned bumps and splashes of large drops from the trees on the broad horizontal leaves of
Echinopanax horridum
2, like the drumming of thundershower drops on veratrum and palm leaves, while the mosses were indescribably beautiful, so fresh, so bright, so cheerily green, and all so low and calm and silent, however heavy and wild the wind and the rain blowing and pouring above them. Surely never a particle of dust has touched leaf or crown of all these blessed mosses; and how bright were the red rims of the cladonia cups beside them, and the fruit of the dwarf cornel! And the wet berries, Nature’s precious jewelry, how beautiful they were!—huckleberries with pale bloom and a crystal drop on each; red and yellow salmon-berries, with clusters of smaller drops; and the glittering, berry-like raindrops adorning the interlacing arches of bent grasses and sedges around the edges of the pools, every drop a mirror with all the landscape in it. A’ that and a’ that and twice as muckle’s a’ that in this glorious Alaska day3, recalling, however different, George Herbert’s “Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright.4”
(3)In the gardens and forests of this wonderful moraine one might spend a whole joyful life.
1 A rare orchid found in northern, mountainous areas.
2Also called Devil’s Club, Echinopanax is a large-leafed shrub that grows in moist, dense forests mostly in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
3 Reference to Scottish poet, Robert Burns’s poem that rejoices over the wide variety of positive traits in his wife.
4 Reference to a George Herbert poem that celebrates the glory found in nature and mourns the fact that it all must die.
What is the effect of the author’s use of “my” in the excerpt, “… and I saw one of my Douglas squirrels on the margin of the grassy pool …”?
A. It convinces the reader that he owns the land he is exploring.
B.  It supports the notion that nature should be shared by all.
C. It shows that he rejects the notion that nature can be owned.
D.  It reveals his desire to keep others away from his paradise.
E. It demonstrates his personal connection with nature.
Question 25
Read the following passage carefully before you choose your answer.
This passage is taken from the concluding remarks of a speech given by President Ronald Reagan to the people of West Berlin in 1987.
(11)And now the Soviets themselves may, in a limited way, be coming to understand the importance of freedom. We hear much from Moscow about a new policy of reform and openness. Some political prisoners have been released. Certain foreign news broadcasts are no longer being jammed. Some economic enterprises have been permitted to operate with greater freedom from state control.
(12)Are these the beginnings of profound changes in the Soviet state? Or are they token gestures, intended to raise false hopes in the West, or to strengthen the Soviet system without changing it? We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace. There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace.
(13)General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
In paragraph thirteen, the General Secretary’s desire for peace, prosperity, and liberalization could be
A. discredited by the removal of the wall
B. used as a way to control the people of Berlin
C. validated by the removal of the wall
D. used to unite Berliners to rebel against the Soviets
E. employed as reasons to maintain the wall

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Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
The house which has been vacant is finally for sale.
The statue, which is made of copper, is well crafted.
One country that I would like to visit is Australia.
One play that I would like to read is Julius Caesar.