B. DIRECTIONS: Read the passage below. Then, answer the questions that follow restating the question and using complete sentences.
Hybrid cars have become popular. Hybrids are popular because they are economical.
They use less gas and can travel longer distances than their gas-only counterparts
between fill-ups. For example, one popular hybrid car can travel up to sixty miles per
gallon of gas- that is more than triple the average gas mileage of some conventional
cars
1.
What is the claim made in the passage?
The claim in this passage is that hybrid cars have become popular
2.
What is a conflicting argument another author might make?
3
What evidence might an author include to support the conflicting argument?

Do you think that the american culture has defined what “normal” is and so our perception of chris mccandless is skewed based on that?

Julius caesar. [brutus.] with this, she fell distraught, and, her attendants absent, swallowed fire. cassius. and died so? brutus. even so. cassius. o ye immortal gods! [enter lucius, with wine and taper] brutus. speak no more of her. give me a bowl of wine. in this i bury all unkindness, cassius. cassius. my heart is thirsty for that noble pledge. fill, lucius, till the wine o'erswell the cup; i cannot drink too much of brutus' love. [exit lucius. enter titinius, with messala] brutus. come in, titinius; welcome, good messala. now sit we close about this taper here, and call in question our necessities. cassius. portia, art thou gone? brutus. no more, i pray you. what moral dilemma does brutus confront in this excerpt? brutus lets go of his anger toward cassius and forgives him. brutus decides that he will not mourn portia and will stay loyal to cassius. brutus decides that he is too angry at cassius to remain friends with him. brutus questions whether cassius's life should be ended.

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