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Fill in each blank with an appropriate transition from the box. Use each transition once. Then, in the space provided, write the letter of the transition you have chosen.

In Egypt, people learn to eat grasshoppers partly by watching others enjoy themselves while eating grasshoppers. ________________________, we learn  patterns of speech, styles of dress, types of energy consumption, methods of rearing children, and many other kinds of behavior by observing others

Which of the following is the main idea?

Identify each item with the letter of its main pattern of organization.  

The main idea of the paragraph above is 

. The main pattern of organization of the paragraph is

In species such as the red-back spider, the black widow spider, the praying mantis, and the scorpion, the female commonly eats the male after mating. Another widespread form of cannibalism is size-structured cannibalism, in which large individuals consume smaller ones. Octopus, bats, toads, fish, monitor lizards, salamanders, crocodiles, spiders, crustaceans, birds, mammals, and a vast number of insects have all been observed to engage in size-structured cannibalism.  Yet another common form of cannibalism is infanticide. Classical examples include the chimpanzees, where groups of adult males have been observed to attack and consume their infants; and lions, where adult males commonly kill infants when they take over a new harem after replacing the previous dominant males. Also, gerbils and hamsters eat their young if they are stillborn, or if the mothers are especially stressed. Which of the following sentences is the implied main idea?

The placebo effect is an apparent cure or improved state of health brought about by a substance, product, or procedure that has no generally recognized therapeutic value.  For instance, it is not uncommon for patients to report improvements based on what they expect, desire, or were told would happen after taking simple sugar pills that they believed were powerful drugs. Although the placebo effect is generally harmless, it does account for the expenditure of millions of dollars on health products and services every year.  Megadoses ofvitamin C have never been proven to treat cancer. Mud baths do not smooth wrinkled skin, nor do electric shocks reduce muscle pain. People who mistakenly use placebos when medical treatment is urgently needed increase their risk for health problems.   The pattern of organization is ______________.

Far from being America’s favorite food, during the early 1900s, hamburgers were considered “food for the poor.”  Restaurants generally didn’t sell them.  Burgers were served at lunch carts parked near factories, at circuses, and at carnivals.  It was widely believed that ground beef was made from rotten old meat full of chemical preservatives. In the mid1920s, however, a man named Walt Anderson set out to defend the hamburger from its many critics.  Walt loved burgers and opened a small restaurant devoted to selling them—the firstWhite Castle—in Wichita, Kansas. Walt grilled the burgers right in front of his customers, so they could see for themselves that the meat and the equipment were clean. He also supported an unusual experiment at the University of Minnesota. For thirteen weeks, a medical student there consumed nothing but White Castle hamburgers and water.  When the student not only survived the experiment but also seemed pretty healthy, people started to view hamburgers in a new light. Now hamburgers seemed wholesome, not deadly.   Which of the following sentences is the implied main idea?

In the United States, an average of seventy-three people are killed by lightning strikes every year, but there are many things you can do to protect yourself. Indoors, the leading cause of lightning injury is from landline telephones, since the electrical charge can travel a long distance through telephone wires.  So get off the phone, and stay away from major appliances, because metal pipes, electrical wires, and dryer vents can all conduct current into the home.  Don’t take a bath or shower.  Water conducts electricity particularly well.  Being outdoors is much more dangerous than being indoors.  Swimming is a bad idea. You never want to be the tallest object in the area, or directly underneath the tallest object.  Don’t take shelter under a tall tree, or in a small structure such as those on golf courses or near athletic fields. They will protect against wind and rain but not against lightning. Take precautions even when the storm seems safely far away, as lightning can travel as far as ten  miles, and a strike can come out of a clear blue sky. If your hair starts to stand on end in a thunderstorm, this is a bad sign, as it could mean positive charges are rising through you, seeking the negative charge in the air. Move quickly to a safe place! Which of the following sentences is the main ide?