Traffic on Main Street has become a pervasive problem. (2) One possible solution is to create a bypass. (3) Traffic records suggest that more than 60 percent of the vehicles that go down Main Street are simply passing through town on their way to someplace else. (4) Right now, these drivers have no choice but to drive on Main Street. (5) If a bypass were built, they would almost always use it, thus reducing the traffic on Main Street. (6) The county engineer says that Riverside Drive can easily be widened to serve as a bypass. (7) This construction costs relatively little and will be finished in a short time. (8) Clearly, the Riverside Bypass is a logical solution to the problem.
9. On which persuasive technique does this passage mainly rely?
a.
repetition
b.
appeals to authority
c.
appeals to reason
d.
appeals to emotions
10. Which word has positive connotations that help make the passage more persuasive?
a.
problem in sentence 1
b.
create in sentence 2
c.
widened in sentence 6
d.
logical in sentence 8
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