Question
Question 1
A)Drag and drop the words into the correct locations to complete the sentences.(1 point)
Put responses in the correct input to answer the question. Select a response, navigate to the desired input and insert the response. Responses can be selected and inserted using the space bar, enter key, left mouse button or touchpad. Responses can also be moved by dragging with a mouse.
A Response area is a statement that helps to explain or justify a point of view, or Response area.
Question 2
A)Drag and drop the words into the correct locations to complete the sentences.(1 point)
Put responses in the correct input to answer the question. Select a response, navigate to the desired input and insert the response. Responses can be selected and inserted using the space bar, enter key, left mouse button or touchpad. Responses can also be moved by dragging with a mouse.
Authors of informational text usually write to convey a central idea or a Response area about a specific topic. They then develop and refine those reasons with details, examples, and other kinds of Response area.
Question 3
"Disappearing Ohio Butterflies Affects All Insects"
by Vicky Stein
For my 11th birthday, I received a perfect, weird, road-trip amusement: a book filled with pictures and descriptions to help kids decode the splatters of insects that smacked into the front of a moving vehicle. Whether that sounds like macabre fun or makes you grumble about keeping the windshield clean, a steep decline in reported bug splatters in recent years should actually make us worried, entomologists and ecologists say.
In a new study published Tuesday in PLOS ONE, a group of researchers analyzed one of the rare data sets that tracks butterfly abundance, taken from 21 years of volunteer surveys in Ohio. They found an average population decline of 2 percent per year, which means that over the course of the study, Ohio lost more than a third of its butterfly population.
Some species of butterflies showed no change in abundance, however, and a few others actually became more common.
“Not everything is going to decline in exactly the same way,” said Corrie Moreau, an entomologist and evolutionary biologist from Cornell University who was not involved in the new research. “But we are seeing, in this study and others, that insects are in a rapid fall.”
© NewsHour Productions LLC. All Rights Reserved.
A)Use the excerpt from “Butterflies are disappearing in Ohio. Here’s what that means for insects everywhere” to answer the question.
What main claim does the author make in the passage?(1 point)
Responses
Butterfly populations are declining.
Butterfly populations are declining.
Some butterfly populations are stable.
Some butterfly populations are stable.
People dislike having to clean their windshields.
People dislike having to clean their windshields.
A study about butterflies was recently published.
A study about butterflies was recently published.
Question 4
"Ignaz Semmelweis Saved Lives: Wash Your Hands"
by Dr. Howard Markel
On this date in 1850, a prickly Hungarian obstetrician named Ignaz Semmelweis stepped up to the podium of the Vienna Medical Society’s lecture hall. It was a grand and ornately decorated room where some of medicine’s greatest discoveries were first announced. The evening of May 15 would hardly be different — even if those present (and many more who merely read about it) did not acknowledge Semmelweis’s marvelous discovery for several decades.
What, exactly, was the doctor’s advice to his colleagues on that long ago night? It could be summed up in three little words: wash your hands!
At this late date, we all expect our doctors to wash their hands before examining us or performing an operation in order to prevent the spread of infection. Surprisingly, physicians did not begin to acknowledge the lifesaving power of this simple act until 1847
It was then that Dr. Semmelweis began exhorting his fellow physicians at the famed Vienna General Hospital (Allgemeines Krankenhaus) to wash up before examining women about to deliver babies. His plea was far more than aesthetic; it was a matter of life and death and helped to prevent a deadly malady known as “childbed” or puerperal (from the Latin words for child and parent) fever.
A photo shows soapy hands being washed in a sink.
1 of 5
A)
Use the passage to answer the question.
Considering the content of the entire text, what is the author’s purpose in bolding the two scientists’ names, Joseph Lister and Robert Koch?
(1 point)
Responses
to draw attention to the doctors and scientists who expanded on Semmelweis’s breakthroughs
to draw attention to the doctors and scientists who expanded on Semmelweis’s breakthroughs
to indicate that in the digital form of the text there are links to more information about these physicians
to indicate that in the digital form of the text there are links to more information about these physicians
to show how different physicians made the same discovery as Semmelweis but at a later time
to show how different physicians made the same discovery as Semmelweis but at a later time
to emphasize the landmark scientists who were more successful than Semmelweis
to emphasize the landmark scientists who were more successful than Semmelweis
Question 5
"1847: Wash Your Hands"
by Marguerite Vigliani, MD; Gale Eaton
Ignatz Semmelweis was appalled. The Vienna hospital where he worked was world famous for its obstetrics department,1
but women would rather give birth outside on the street. It was safer.2
Inside, more of them died of childbed fever, especially if they were put in First Clinic. The two maternity wards or clinics accepted patients on alternate days, but whenever their babies arrived, mothers begged to be put in Second Clinic. The death rate there was lower.3
Childbed (or puerperal) fever was a bacterial infection common in nineteenth-century hospitals and even after doctor-assisted home births. It tore through the reproductive systems and blood streams of women exhausted by childbirth. In America, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. announced in 1843 that the disease was carried on the unwashed hands and clothes of doctors, but he was largely ignored.4
In 1847, Semmelweis came to the same conclusion. As assistant to Professor Johann Klein, he was put in charge of First Clinic and found the patients were right about it. His ward’s 1841–846 death rate was 9.92 percent, compared to 3.88 percent in Second Clinic.5
Was it because of miasma? No. The two clinics were under the same roof and shared an anteroom; all patients breathed the same air. Overcrowding?
No. Second Clinic was more crowded. Semmelweis ruled out one hypothesis after another.6
1 of 3
A)
Use the passage to answer the question.
A line graph tracks and compares the percent of patients admitted to Vienna General Hospital’s First Clinic and Second Clinic who died each year puerperal fever mortality rates, showing that women were more likely to die at the First Clinic.
What is the purpose of the graphic showing “Puerperal fever, Yearly mortality rates”? Choose two responses.
(1 point)
Responses
to show how many total people died of puerperal fever in the clinics
to show how many total people died of puerperal fever in the clinics
to compare the mortality rates at the First Clinic to the Second Clinic
to compare the mortality rates at the First Clinic to the Second Clinic
to compare the mortality rates for puerperal fever in the past to today
to compare the mortality rates for puerperal fever in the past to today
to show how the mortality rates at the two clinics changed over time
to show how the mortality rates at the two clinics changed over time
to compare the mortality rates for puerperal fever to other diseases
to compare the mortality rates for puerperal fever to other diseases
A)Drag and drop the words into the correct locations to complete the sentences.(1 point)
Put responses in the correct input to answer the question. Select a response, navigate to the desired input and insert the response. Responses can be selected and inserted using the space bar, enter key, left mouse button or touchpad. Responses can also be moved by dragging with a mouse.
A Response area is a statement that helps to explain or justify a point of view, or Response area.
Question 2
A)Drag and drop the words into the correct locations to complete the sentences.(1 point)
Put responses in the correct input to answer the question. Select a response, navigate to the desired input and insert the response. Responses can be selected and inserted using the space bar, enter key, left mouse button or touchpad. Responses can also be moved by dragging with a mouse.
Authors of informational text usually write to convey a central idea or a Response area about a specific topic. They then develop and refine those reasons with details, examples, and other kinds of Response area.
Question 3
"Disappearing Ohio Butterflies Affects All Insects"
by Vicky Stein
For my 11th birthday, I received a perfect, weird, road-trip amusement: a book filled with pictures and descriptions to help kids decode the splatters of insects that smacked into the front of a moving vehicle. Whether that sounds like macabre fun or makes you grumble about keeping the windshield clean, a steep decline in reported bug splatters in recent years should actually make us worried, entomologists and ecologists say.
In a new study published Tuesday in PLOS ONE, a group of researchers analyzed one of the rare data sets that tracks butterfly abundance, taken from 21 years of volunteer surveys in Ohio. They found an average population decline of 2 percent per year, which means that over the course of the study, Ohio lost more than a third of its butterfly population.
Some species of butterflies showed no change in abundance, however, and a few others actually became more common.
“Not everything is going to decline in exactly the same way,” said Corrie Moreau, an entomologist and evolutionary biologist from Cornell University who was not involved in the new research. “But we are seeing, in this study and others, that insects are in a rapid fall.”
© NewsHour Productions LLC. All Rights Reserved.
A)Use the excerpt from “Butterflies are disappearing in Ohio. Here’s what that means for insects everywhere” to answer the question.
What main claim does the author make in the passage?(1 point)
Responses
Butterfly populations are declining.
Butterfly populations are declining.
Some butterfly populations are stable.
Some butterfly populations are stable.
People dislike having to clean their windshields.
People dislike having to clean their windshields.
A study about butterflies was recently published.
A study about butterflies was recently published.
Question 4
"Ignaz Semmelweis Saved Lives: Wash Your Hands"
by Dr. Howard Markel
On this date in 1850, a prickly Hungarian obstetrician named Ignaz Semmelweis stepped up to the podium of the Vienna Medical Society’s lecture hall. It was a grand and ornately decorated room where some of medicine’s greatest discoveries were first announced. The evening of May 15 would hardly be different — even if those present (and many more who merely read about it) did not acknowledge Semmelweis’s marvelous discovery for several decades.
What, exactly, was the doctor’s advice to his colleagues on that long ago night? It could be summed up in three little words: wash your hands!
At this late date, we all expect our doctors to wash their hands before examining us or performing an operation in order to prevent the spread of infection. Surprisingly, physicians did not begin to acknowledge the lifesaving power of this simple act until 1847
It was then that Dr. Semmelweis began exhorting his fellow physicians at the famed Vienna General Hospital (Allgemeines Krankenhaus) to wash up before examining women about to deliver babies. His plea was far more than aesthetic; it was a matter of life and death and helped to prevent a deadly malady known as “childbed” or puerperal (from the Latin words for child and parent) fever.
A photo shows soapy hands being washed in a sink.
1 of 5
A)
Use the passage to answer the question.
Considering the content of the entire text, what is the author’s purpose in bolding the two scientists’ names, Joseph Lister and Robert Koch?
(1 point)
Responses
to draw attention to the doctors and scientists who expanded on Semmelweis’s breakthroughs
to draw attention to the doctors and scientists who expanded on Semmelweis’s breakthroughs
to indicate that in the digital form of the text there are links to more information about these physicians
to indicate that in the digital form of the text there are links to more information about these physicians
to show how different physicians made the same discovery as Semmelweis but at a later time
to show how different physicians made the same discovery as Semmelweis but at a later time
to emphasize the landmark scientists who were more successful than Semmelweis
to emphasize the landmark scientists who were more successful than Semmelweis
Question 5
"1847: Wash Your Hands"
by Marguerite Vigliani, MD; Gale Eaton
Ignatz Semmelweis was appalled. The Vienna hospital where he worked was world famous for its obstetrics department,1
but women would rather give birth outside on the street. It was safer.2
Inside, more of them died of childbed fever, especially if they were put in First Clinic. The two maternity wards or clinics accepted patients on alternate days, but whenever their babies arrived, mothers begged to be put in Second Clinic. The death rate there was lower.3
Childbed (or puerperal) fever was a bacterial infection common in nineteenth-century hospitals and even after doctor-assisted home births. It tore through the reproductive systems and blood streams of women exhausted by childbirth. In America, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. announced in 1843 that the disease was carried on the unwashed hands and clothes of doctors, but he was largely ignored.4
In 1847, Semmelweis came to the same conclusion. As assistant to Professor Johann Klein, he was put in charge of First Clinic and found the patients were right about it. His ward’s 1841–846 death rate was 9.92 percent, compared to 3.88 percent in Second Clinic.5
Was it because of miasma? No. The two clinics were under the same roof and shared an anteroom; all patients breathed the same air. Overcrowding?
No. Second Clinic was more crowded. Semmelweis ruled out one hypothesis after another.6
1 of 3
A)
Use the passage to answer the question.
A line graph tracks and compares the percent of patients admitted to Vienna General Hospital’s First Clinic and Second Clinic who died each year puerperal fever mortality rates, showing that women were more likely to die at the First Clinic.
What is the purpose of the graphic showing “Puerperal fever, Yearly mortality rates”? Choose two responses.
(1 point)
Responses
to show how many total people died of puerperal fever in the clinics
to show how many total people died of puerperal fever in the clinics
to compare the mortality rates at the First Clinic to the Second Clinic
to compare the mortality rates at the First Clinic to the Second Clinic
to compare the mortality rates for puerperal fever in the past to today
to compare the mortality rates for puerperal fever in the past to today
to show how the mortality rates at the two clinics changed over time
to show how the mortality rates at the two clinics changed over time
to compare the mortality rates for puerperal fever to other diseases
to compare the mortality rates for puerperal fever to other diseases
Answers
GPT-4o mini
### Question 1
A) A Response area is a statement that helps to explain or justify a point of view, or **claim**.
### Question 2
A) Authors of informational text usually write to convey a central idea or a **claim** about a specific topic. They then develop and refine those reasons with details, examples, and other kinds of **evidence**.
### Question 3
A) What main claim does the author make in the passage?
- **Butterfly populations are declining.**
### Question 4
A) Considering the content of the entire text, what is the author’s purpose in bolding the two scientists’ names, Joseph Lister and Robert Koch?
- **to draw attention to the doctors and scientists who expanded on Semmelweis’s breakthroughs**
### Question 5
A) What is the purpose of the graphic showing “Puerperal fever, Yearly mortality rates”? Choose two responses.
- **to compare the mortality rates at the First Clinic to the Second Clinic**
- **to show how the mortality rates at the two clinics changed over time**
A) A Response area is a statement that helps to explain or justify a point of view, or **claim**.
### Question 2
A) Authors of informational text usually write to convey a central idea or a **claim** about a specific topic. They then develop and refine those reasons with details, examples, and other kinds of **evidence**.
### Question 3
A) What main claim does the author make in the passage?
- **Butterfly populations are declining.**
### Question 4
A) Considering the content of the entire text, what is the author’s purpose in bolding the two scientists’ names, Joseph Lister and Robert Koch?
- **to draw attention to the doctors and scientists who expanded on Semmelweis’s breakthroughs**
### Question 5
A) What is the purpose of the graphic showing “Puerperal fever, Yearly mortality rates”? Choose two responses.
- **to compare the mortality rates at the First Clinic to the Second Clinic**
- **to show how the mortality rates at the two clinics changed over time**