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Chapter 5: Review Test 6

Major and Minor Supporting Details

A. Read the following paragraph from a college communications textbook.

Cultivation Theory

      1According to cultivation theory, the media, especially television, are the main means by which you learn about your society and your culture: What you watch and how often you watch it will influence your views of the world and people. 2Cultivation theory argues that heavy television viewers form an image of reality that is in conflict with the facts. 3For example, heavy viewers see their chances of being a victim of crime to be 1 in 10, yet in reality the ratio is 1 in 50. 4Heavy viewers also think that 20 percent of the world's population lives in the United States; however, in reality it's only 6 percent. 5Furthermore, heavy viewers believe that the percentage of workers in managerial or professional jobs is 25 percent; in reality, it's 5 percent.

—Adapted from De Vito, The Interpersonal
Communication Book, 10th ed., p. 107.


 This activity contains 10 questions.

Question 1.
 
To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 2.
 
To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 3.
 
To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 4.
 
To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 5.
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5-6. What are the two signal words or phrases the author uses to introduce the first and third major details?

a.  

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Question 6.
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b.  
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Question 7.
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B. Read the following paragraph from a college science textbook.

The Soil Body Has Horizontal Layers or Horizons

      1A fresh cut along a road bank or an excavation reveals bands and blotches of color in the layers of soil. 2If you look closer, handling the material, you discover changes in the texture and structure. 3Any vertical cut through a body of soil is the soil profile (see Figure A). 4The apparent layers are called the horizons. 5Each horizon has a characteristic set of features, particularly color, that sets it apart from other horizons. 6Each horizon has its own thickness, texture, structure, consistency, porosity, chemistry, and composition. 7In general, soils have five major horizons: O, an organic layer, and A, E, B, and C, the mineral layers. 8Below the four may lie the R or nonsoil horizon. 9In some soils, the horizons are quite distinct. 10In other soils, the horizons form continuum, with no clear-cut boundary between one horizon and another.

—Reprinted from Smith, Robert Leo and Thomas M. Smith,
Elements of Ecology, 4th ed., Longman, 1998, p. 112.

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7-9. Complete the summary with information from the paragraph.

Summary: Soil profile is ,
  

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Question 8.
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Horizons are ;
  
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Question 9.
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for example, . 
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Question 10.
Judging from Figure A, the best meaning of the term horizon is

 
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