1. PART A: Which statement best expresses the central idea of the text? A. False news stories will likely never be completely removed from Twitter as people are more interested in false news than true news.

B. By studying how false news spreads on Twitter, scientists can better understand why false news is being spread more than true news and how to prevents its distribution.

C. While some false news stories can cause problems, a majority of false news is harmless and merely meant to entertain the public.

D. False news stories are usually easy to spot and don’t have a large impact on a majority of the users on Twitter.

Which statement best describes the narrator's reliability? the narrator is unreliable because o she does not reveal how old she is until the end of the passage.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. but there is another story as well. information about sugar spread as human knowledge expanded, as great civilizations and cultures exchanged ideas. in fact, while sugar was the direct cause of the expansion of slavery, the global connections that sugar brought about also fostered the most powerful ideas of human freedom. how do the details in this passage support the authors’ purpose? the details about the expansion of sugar inform readers about how widespread the use of sugar was. the details about human knowledge inform readers about how humans learned about sugar. the details about ideas and global connections persuade readers that sugar’s story has multiple consequences. the details about the spread of information about sugar entertain readers with stories of travel.

Read the excerpt from act iv, scene iv of romeo and juliet. capulet: good faith! ’tis day: the county will be here with music straight, for so he said he would. [music within.] i hear him near. nurse! wife! what, no! what, nurse, i say! 30 re-enter nurse. go waken juliet, go and trim her up; i’ll go and chat with paris. hie, make haste, make haste; the bridegroom he is come already: make haste, i say. [exeunt.] 35 this scene is an example of dramatic irony used to create suspense since the audience knows that the musicians will not arrive on time. capulet approves of the match to paris. romeo is already married to juliet. the nurse will be unable to rouse juliet.