TSI Reading: Understanding Rhetorical Strategies for an Introduction
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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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day corner the e p a is it any wonder
you turn on the tap to get a drink But
we're in the water until it feels cool Our lead
shower pour until water is hot enough like you're supposed
to get in there And icy cold shower the toil
of irrigation system runs a bit chilling Just roger dates
the clinton administration Many americans finding a solution in technology
that caruso conservation through innovation from sharon's an employee air
pressure deliver satisfying shower with lesson i rule We just
rogers sipping lawn irrigation system was kind of i have
found a place in our homes Okay so what's the
question here again what's the most likely reason An interesting
fact Well to grab your attention right Well today eight
hundred eighty four million people live without access to clean
water there Did we grab your attention Eight hundred eighty
Four million people that's like an eighth of the earth
well in order to secure the audiences focus from the
get go writers sometimes start their articles with mind blowing
statistics or other facts that keep is engaged with the
passage So the answers they often wants to grab the
audience's attention the other stuff while cooking readers with an
interesting fact is more back grabbing their attention is tricking
them It's useless and somewhat cruel to include facts about
puppies Of the topic is water conservation The fact doesn't
have to be pleasing To do its job just has
to keep people reading right we'll finally four hundred gallons
is a lot of water We wouldn't want to fill
up four hundred milk jugs from the bathtub spout all 00:01:35.744 --> [endTime] right that's it