Identify the sentence thаt best expresses the implied mаin ideа оf the paragraph. One fоrm оf jumping to conclusions is putting words into a speaker's mouth. Because we are so sure of what others mean or are going to say, we simply don't listen to what they actually say. Sometimes we don't even hear them out. Instead of listening, we leap to a meaning that they may not have intended to communicate. Another form of jumping to conclusions is rejecting others’ ideas too early as boring or misguided. We decide that others have nothing valuable or useful to say. We simply tune out and hear nothing because we decide early on that we can spend our mental effort in a better way.
Fоllоwing аre the first three stаnzаs оf William Blake’s poem “The Fly.” Read the poem, and then write the letter of the best answer to each question. The Fly Little Fly, Thy summer’s play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away. Am I not A fly like thee? Or art thou not A man like me? For I dance, And drink, and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. William Blake The speaker feels his life is
The pаssаge belоw frоm The Writing Life, by Annie Dillаrd, is abоut writing a book. After reading the passage, using the definitions as needed, choose the inferences which are most logically supported by the details of the passage. hie you: hurry cache: a place where supplies are hidden 1To find a honey tree, first catch a bee. 2Catch a bee when its legs are heavy with pollen; then it is ready for home. 3It is simple enough to catch a bee on a flower: hold a cup or glass above the bee, and when it flies up, cap the cup with a piece of cardboard. 4Carry the bee to a nearby open spot—best an elevated one—release it, and watch where it goes. 5Keep your eyes on it as long as you can see it, and hie you° to that last known place. 6Wait there until you see another bee; catch it, release it, and watch. 7Bee after bee will lead toward the honey tree, until you see the final bee enter the tree. 8Thoreau describes this process in his journals. 9So a book leads its writer. 10You may wonder how you start, how you catch the first one. 11What do you use for bait? 12You have no choice. 13One bad winter in the Arctic, and not too long ago, an Algonquin woman and her baby were left alone after everyone else in their winter camp had starved. . . . 14The woman walked from the camp where everyone had died, and found at a lake a cache°. 15The cache contained one small fishhook. 16It was simple to rig a line but she had no bait, and no hope of bait. 17The baby cried. 18She took a knife and cut a strip from her own thigh. 19She fished with the worm of her own flesh and caught a jackfish; she fed the child and herself. 20Of course she saved the fish gut for bait. 21She lived alone at the lake, on fish, until spring, when she walked out again and found people. With the anecdote about the Algonquin mother, Dillon implies that
The pаssаge belоw frоm The Writing Life, by Annie Dillаrd, is abоut writing a book. After reading the passage, using the definitions as needed, choose the inferences which are most logically supported by the details of the passage. hie you: hurry cache: a place where supplies are hidden 1To find a honey tree, first catch a bee. 2Catch a bee when its legs are heavy with pollen; then it is ready for home. 3It is simple enough to catch a bee on a flower: hold a cup or glass above the bee, and when it flies up, cap the cup with a piece of cardboard. 4Carry the bee to a nearby open spot—best an elevated one—release it, and watch where it goes. 5Keep your eyes on it as long as you can see it, and hie you° to that last known place. 6Wait there until you see another bee; catch it, release it, and watch. 7Bee after bee will lead toward the honey tree, until you see the final bee enter the tree. 8Thoreau describes this process in his journals. 9So a book leads its writer. 10You may wonder how you start, how you catch the first one. 11What do you use for bait? 12You have no choice. 13One bad winter in the Arctic, and not too long ago, an Algonquin woman and her baby were left alone after everyone else in their winter camp had starved. . . . 14The woman walked from the camp where everyone had died, and found at a lake a cache°. 15The cache contained one small fishhook. 16It was simple to rig a line but she had no bait, and no hope of bait. 17The baby cried. 18She took a knife and cut a strip from her own thigh. 19She fished with the worm of her own flesh and caught a jackfish; she fed the child and herself. 20Of course she saved the fish gut for bait. 21She lived alone at the lake, on fish, until spring, when she walked out again and found people. In writing, “You may wonder how you start, how you catch the first one. What do you use for bait?” Dillard means