Directions: Select ALL the correct answers. What are two reasons the narrator states in the passage that First Sergeant Price is "honorably grinding law"?
Price is diligent to keep up with the codes of law for his police work.
As a police sergeant, Price is working on a report for a criminal case at hand.
Price is fondly recalling his career experiences in law while stationed in the Far East.
Price is tempted to study something more interesting than law.
Price's hopes of becoming a lawyer will be difficult to achieve for a working policeman.

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as you read the passage below, consider how dana gioia uses

evidence, such as facts or examples, to support claims.

reasoning to develop ideas and to connect claims and evidence.

stylistic or persuasive elements, such as word choice or appeals to emotion, to add power to the ideas expressed.

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recent brain research has shown some surprising benefits as a result of formal musical training. learning to play a musical instrument appears to develop parts of the brain that can even influence academic results. the studies indicate that the earlier a child begins training, the more benefits there are. one such study showed that children who began musical studies before the age of seven had a more developed brain in the region where language production and auditory processing take place. scientists believe there is mounting evidence to show that early musical training can improve brain function.

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