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Reаd the fоllоwing pаssаge then answer the questiоn. When the Mayflower left Plymouth, England, in September 1620 on its historic journey to the New World, three of its 102 passengers were pregnant. The fate of the three pregnant women and their children illustrate the fears that early American women facing childbirth must have held for themselves as well as for their children's survival. One of the passengers, Elizabeth Hopkins, gave birth at sea to a baby boy she named Oceanus. Oceanus Hopkins died during the Pilgrims' first winter in Plymouth. Two weeks after Oceanus's birth, Mayflower passenger Susanna White bore her son, Peregrine, who lived into his eighties. The spring after the Mayflower arrived in Plymouth, passenger Mary Norris Allerton died giving birth to a stillborn baby. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, nearly one and one-half percent of all births resulted in the death of the mother from exhaustion, infection, dehydration, or hemorrhage. Since the typical mother gave birth to between five and eight children in her lifetime, her chances of dying in childbirth ran as high as one in eight. Even when the mother survived childbirth, she had reason to be anxious about the fate of her child. In even the healthiest seventeenth-century communities, one in ten children died before the age of 5. Less healthy settlements say three out of ten children dying in their early years. Which sentence best expresses the central point of the passage?
Chооse the letter оf the inference thаt is most firmly bаsed on the given fаcts. In 1953, relations between America's two political parties reached a new low. A few conservative Republicans had made a startling claim. They accused the New Deal Democrats under Franklin Delano Roosevelt of stealing the gold deposits from Fort Knox! President Eisenhower was not impressed with the accusation, but under political pressure from the Daughters of the American Revolution, he had the gold counted. The final total was $30,442,415,581.70-ten dollars less that it should have been. The Democratic treasurer under the previous administration sent a check to cover the shortage.
Chооse the letter оf the sentence thаt best expresses the implied mаin ideа of each of paragraph. Imagine a fundraiser comes to your door and asks for a five-hundred-dollar contribution. You laughingly refuse, telling her that the amount is way out of your league. She then asks for a ten-dollar contribution. If you are like most people, you'll probably be a lot more agreeable than if she hadn't asked for the huge contribution first. Similarly, college students were stopped on the street and asked to agree to a substantial favor-acting as unpaid counselors for juvenile offenders two hours a week for two years. Not surprisingly, no one agreed to such an outrageous request. But when they were later asked the considerably smaller favor of taking a group of juvenile offenders on a two-hour trip to the zoo, half the people complied. In comparison, only 17 percent of a control group of subjects who had not first received the larger request agreed.