DIRECTIONS: Read the passage. Then, answer the questions that follow. Protein bars may not be so healthy after all. Every grocery store checkout line now seems to feature an array of protein bars that claim to be healthful alternatives to not-so-nutritious snacks. But experts say those claims may not hold up. Despite advertising on the bars’ labels, there is little scientific evidence that protein bars will curb your hunger, cause you to lose weight, boost your stamina, or build your muscles. Of course, everyone needs protein. But why get your protein from what is essentially a candy bar—loaded with sugar and saturated fat—that has been fortified with some processed soy or whey protein?

1. What is the writer’s claim? Where in the passage does it appear?

2. List three pieces of evidence that support the claim. Put an X by what you think is the best evidence for the writer’s claim.

3. What kind(s) of evidence could make the argument stronger?

Magine you are writing a love poem. which of the following words use the appropriate connotation? flower buds harsh tune sudden attack grave digger

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion

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