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What is the most likely reason the author opens the passage with an interesting fact?

(A)The author wants to grab the audience's attention.
(B)An interesting fact will trick the readers.
(C)Beginning with a fact will often please the audience.
(D)Four hundred gallons is not a lot of water.


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All right sy Reading some uppers have gone in there

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Fine Paragraph for you to get to the question here

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What is the most likely reason the author opens the

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passage with an interesting fact Okay four hundred gallons That's

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How much water the average american home uses in a

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day corner the e p a is it any wonder

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you turn on the tap to get a drink But

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we're in the water until it feels cool Our lead

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shower pour until water is hot enough like you're supposed

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to get in there And icy cold shower the toil

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of irrigation system runs a bit chilling Just roger dates

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the clinton administration Many americans finding a solution in technology

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that caruso conservation through innovation from sharon's an employee air

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pressure deliver satisfying shower with lesson i rule We just

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rogers sipping lawn irrigation system was kind of i have

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found a place in our homes Okay so what's the

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question here again what's the most likely reason An interesting

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fact Well to grab your attention right Well today eight

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hundred eighty four million people live without access to clean

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water there Did we grab your attention Eight hundred eighty

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Four million people that's like an eighth of the earth

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well in order to secure the audiences focus from the

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get go writers sometimes start their articles with mind blowing

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statistics or other facts that keep is engaged with the

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passage So the answers they often wants to grab the

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audience's attention the other stuff while cooking readers with an

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interesting fact is more back grabbing their attention is tricking

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them It's useless and somewhat cruel to include facts about

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puppies Of the topic is water conservation The fact doesn't

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have to be pleasing To do its job just has

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to keep people reading right we'll finally four hundred gallons

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is a lot of water We wouldn't want to fill

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up four hundred milk jugs from the bathtub spout all 00:01:35.744 --> [endTime] right that's it

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