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Analyzing Informational Texts: Mastery Test
by John Wesley Powell
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately
Select the correct answer.
represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech Itself. The
resources of the visual arts are taxed beyond their powers in
Which sentence best states how the author develops his thesis?
attempting to portray its phenomenal beauty. Language and
illustration combined must fail. The elements that unite to
make the Grand Canyon
the most sublime spectacle in nature
OA. The author gives examples and restates the thesis.
are many and exceedingly diverse. The glant
forms, which
OB. The author provides evidence from experts.
result from the sculpture of tempests through ages too long for
man to compute, are wrought into endless details. To describe
OC. The author provides examples and evidence.
these forms would be a task equal in magnitude to that of
OD. The author answers an Introductory question.
forest with its tracerles of follage presented by oak and pine
and poplar, by beech and linden and hawthorn, by tulip and lily
and rose, by fern and moss and lichen. Besides the elements of
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form, there are elements of color. The rainbow is not more
replete with hues. But form and color do not exhaust all the
divine qualities of the Grand Canyon. It is the land of music. The
river thunders in perpetual roar, swelling in floods of music
when the storm rains play upon the rocks, and fading away in
soft and low murmurs when the infinite blue of the sky is
unveiled. With the melody of the great tide rising and falling,
swelling and vanishing forever, other melodies are heard in the
gorges of the lateral canyons, while the waters plunge in the
ranids among the rocks or lean in oreat cataracts Thus the
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