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ACT Aspire Reading: Summarizing Events
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ACT Aspire Reading: Describing the Overall Purpose of a Scientific Text 0 Views


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The main purpose of this passage is to:


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Okay Aspiring shmoop er's We got six of ten for

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you here The main purpose of the passage is to

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what Well let's see it's to describe the adaptations of

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the tailed frog and boreal toad So the majority of

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paragraphs describe in detail the individual adaptations of the two

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amphibian species like politics or five the harsh terrain and

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avoid predators The author spends most of passage barracking about

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how cool these two are Yeah somebody's got a perfect

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ecological crush No passage doesn't compare similarities between the tailed

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fraud and bori alto giver to be In fact pastor

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doesn't list any similarities We put it together that the

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other both amphibians with our batman ask detective skills But

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that's as far as we got though we'll see the

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introduction briefly mentions global warming and how that has impacted

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the amphibians in glacier park so that the egg But

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it doesn't say anything specifically about the importance of animal

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adam station's in a changing world Yeah so give it

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a c story doesn't talk about the world at large

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instead of just focuses on the amphibians in the park

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Thank you mr toad In your wild ride That's it

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