Ocean Exploration Test

Other ocean explorers soon descended deeper.

Walsh and Picard did not discover anything of value.

The location of the Mariana Trench was too far away to be of interest.

People were more interested in the race to the moon.

The space shuttle program has come to an end.

There is nothing more to be learned from space research.

Ocean research will cost less than the space program.

Ocean researchers can learn from discoveries made in space.

The ocean covers more than 70 percent of our planet.

His grandfather co-invented the SCUBA system.

We've explored only about 10 percent of the ocean.

The ocean supports life as we know it.

The ocean contains knowledge waiting to be discovered.

People will be surprised at what the ocean reveals.

Ocean exploration is like a gift from his father and grandfather.

People do not appreciate the ocean as they should.

to suggest that the money was not well spent

to suggest that the money might now be available for ocean research

to suggest that the scientific advances were worth the cost

to suggest that exploring the oceans will cost less

to tell stories about his father and grandfather

to summarize the history of the space program

to persuade readers of the importance of exploring the oceans

to explain how people have polluted the oceans

Leaders discuss policy with leaders of other countries.

Political leaders are chosen on Election day.

Laws limit the kinds of fish that can be caught.

Fishing boats overfish local fishing stocks.

The city ignores its local fishing industry.

Citizens rely on their city to clean up polluted areas.

Young children attend school for six hours a day.

Young children work long hours in factories.

We now have a golden opportunity and a pressing need to recapture that pioneering spirit.

Despite this life-giving role, the world has fished, mined and trafficked the ocean's resources.

In the long term, destroying our ocean resources is bad business with devastating consequences.

With an estimated price tag of $200 billion, the program had its champtions and its detractors.

an argument

a claim

a logical fallacy

an author's tone

Either he supports our position wholeheartedly, or he wants us to fail.

Cats are more pleasant than dogs, because cats have better personalities.

Athletes spend a lot of money on their sports equipment and sports drinks.

She thinks that curfews are a good idea, but she's a dull person.

circular reasoning

either/or fallacy

overgeneralization

bandwagon fallacy

circular reasoning

either/or fallacy

overgeneralization

bandwagon fallacy

circular reasoning

either/or fallacy

overgeneralization

bandwagon fallacy

hasty generalization

appeal to nature

name-calling

circular reasoning

hasty generalization

bandwagon

either/or fallacy

circular reasoning

Claim

Evidence

Tone

Counterargument

Sarcastic

Joyful

Outraged

Captivated

Excited

Sarcastic

Complimentary

Furious

His thin lips were constantly compressed into a rude—it might almost be called a vicious—smile. A special feature of his face was its death-like paleness, which gave to the whole man a starved appearance in spite of his hard look.

She was what is called a fine looking woman for her time of life, and must have been handsome; she was tall, but not thin, and dressed in black velvet, and looked rather pale, but with a proud and commanding expression, though now agitated.

The pure black cat is such a noble, gentlemanly fellow. If well-bred and trained—and he is capable of a very large amount of training—he is one of the best and most useful cats you can have in the house. There is no namby-pambiness about black Tom, and no delicateness either.

Shoooooooossssh! Like a silver flash, the contents of a water jug descended upon the back of the moth-eaten sandy cat, engaged in excavating Mrs. Bindle's geranium bed. A curve of yellow, and Mrs. Sawney's "Sandy" had jumped the dividing wall between No. 7 and No. 9 in one movement.

I grew very fond of him, he was so gentle and kind; he seemed to know just how a horse feels, and when he cleaned me, he knew the tender places and the ticklish places; when he brushed my head, he went as carefully over my eyes as if they were his own.

I had begun to watch the bird out of boredom; I ended in keen excitement. The sight of it seemed to open up my eyes. I realized the zest of liberty, the passion of life again. I felt that beyond this dim underworld there was the great joyous earth, and I longed for it. I wanted to live now.

It was almost worse to see so much misery in one so young. He regarded himself with bitter contempt and abhorrence—he feared, with a kind of insane terror, to see the child again, whose eyes, so like hers, he had robbed of all expression of happiness, and clouded by eternal sorrow.

The catastrophe served him right. Unquestionably he should not have taken the car without asking. He had never run it all by himself before. Goodness only knew what was the matter with the thing. Probably something was smashed, something that might require days or even weeks to repair. How angry his father would be!

For some time the two men amused themselves with watching the movement of vague forms on the edge of the firelight. By looking closely and steadily at where a pair of eyes burned in the darkness, the form of the animal would slowly take shape. They could even see these forms move at times.

It was a fire! A fire in the meadow grass! Some one had dropped a lighted match, and now little red flames were running through the grass in all directions. The Merry Little Breeze hastened to tell all the other Little Breezes and all rushed over as fast as they could to see for themselves.

But as I walked down the steps I saw that the evening was not quite over. Fifty feet from the door a dozen headlights illuminated a bizarre and tumultuous scene. In the ditch beside the road, right side up, but violently shorn of one wheel, rested the new sports car which had left Gatsby's drive not two minutes before.