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ACT Aspire Reading: Summarizing Events
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Which of the following sentences provides the best description of the events in the passage?

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ACT Aspire English: Recognizing Colloquial Phrases 1 Views


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Choose the best alternative to the text below.
gone long


Transcript

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Okay Ct english s spire Er's That's colin You were

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on six to twelve of this tech music industry diatribe

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thinking here Days of going to the record store to

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buy an album are gone long So gun long What

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does that mean All right let's go down to paragraph

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three and let's see where it goes like a quarterback

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yelling was receiver Well the phrase long gone means that

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something has been gone for a long time New sometimes

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idiomatic expressions actually makes sense Our sense is saying that

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the days of buying albums in record stores are over

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but gone long because they give it to you is

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a turnaround version of long gone Yeah close but no

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banana It's like he read it in a mirror in

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a time warp or something because it doesn't exist the

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same way that music stores don't exist anymore Thank you

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Amazon and the internet Yeah all right Well if we

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say that the days of going to the record store

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are gone for a long time it sounds like those

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days might come back You know like a white walker

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Something you try ebay Even if you're looking for old

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albums and finally to save that the days of going

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to the record store are lost like d would have

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you do Well it doesn't convey what the sentence is

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aiming for a cz effectively as a nice little idiomatic

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expression I was in long gone So the answer is 00:01:31.335 --> [endTime] c on uh question is gone too long

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