Citing Evidence in Informational Texts

Which detail from the text best supports the idea that computers can’t always complete translation work accurately?

• “only a human brain can grasp”

• “Learning software can accurately translate sentences.”

• "the Japanese term arigata-meiwaku"

• “Every language has its slang and colloquialisms.”

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What is the author saying about translation work?

• Some translation work will require a human being instead of a computer.

• It’s impossible to think that computers can do translation work.

• Some translation work is better completed by a computer.

• It’s impossible to rely only on humans for translation work.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

Read the sentence.

Even the best translation software struggles to interpret the quirkyness of language.

Which rule can be used to correct the spelling of the underlined word?

• Double the final consonant when adding an ending that starts with a vowel.

• Change y to i when adding an ending.

• Drop a final e when adding an ending that begins with a vowel.

• Use i before e except after c.

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Which evidence best supports the idea that selfies and self-portraits are the same thing?

• Sometimes the artist did not just do a plain self-portrait in which he or she was the main subject.

• There are now selfie sticks to make taking pictures with camera phones much easier.

• Creating a self-portrait photograph became much easier with the invention of digital cameras in the 1990s.

• A self-portrait is a representation of an artist that is drawn, painted, or photographed by the artist him or herself.

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Read the sentence.

Unsupervised learning occurs when systems like Google’s Neural Machine Translation can operate independent of programers.

Which rule can be used to correct the spelling of the underlined word?

• Double the final consonant when adding an ending that starts with a vowel.

• Drop a final e when adding an ending that begins with a vowel.

• Use i before e except after c.

• Change y to i when adding an ending.

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A