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Central Idea

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What is the central idea of this passage? Native Americans dried strips of meat, pounded it into a paste, and then mixed it with fat. Sometimes they added berries and sugar. They then pressed it into small cakes called pemmican. Pemmican didn't spoil and provided lots of energy.

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How pemmican was used by Native Americans

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What is the central idea of this passage? Microchips provided the power for wristwatches. they are also the brains in our computers, and they control robots. These chips are used in video games and space shuttles. They make cameras, radios, and tvs small and light.

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How microchips are used

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The rain forest is home to many creatures. Monkeys, toucans and macaws live there. Butterflies and anteaters also live in the rain forest.

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The rain forest is home to many creatures.

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"Are you done already?" his father asked. "it seems like you just got in the water." Jacob was finished with his bath in two minutes. He liked fast baths so to have more time to play. In fact, Jacob never took a long bath.

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Jacob likes to take fast baths

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Do you ever wonder how you taste things? Yow owe your sense of taste to your taste buds. We have 9,000 taste buds just on the tongue alone. There are also taste buds on the back of your throat.

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That we taste through our nose.

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We can only taste sweet things.

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Taste buds are in multiple places.

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Taste buds are in multiple places.

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What is the central idea of the passage: Were you born after 1985? If so, how long do you expect to live? Most people born after 1985 can expect to live more than 70 years. Of course, this is just a guess based on past records.

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How long you might expect to live.

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What is the central idea about rare pennies?

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Some pennies are rare and worth a lot of money.

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Soccer players learn many skills when playing soccer. They learn how to dribble and pass the ball. They also learn how to control the ball so they can score. Most importantly, they learn to work with their teammates.

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Soccer players learn many skills.

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What is the central idea of the passage about body language?

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We use body language to communicate with others.