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Hey there, kitchen utensil aficionados! It's Bob Thurman again, bringing you a brand-new piece of equipment for your home food station! Are you tired of your blocks of premium aged cheddar getting all crumbly when you try to slice them? Don't you hate leaving your fingerprints in that hard stick of butter? Well, worry no more! From the company that brought you the SmackDice comes the Dairy McGrabs! You no longer have to worry about your firm sweaty grip destroying your cheese or your butters. All you have to do is slip on our patented heat-deflecting mitten, complete with plasti-grip palm pad, and slice your smooth dairy products with no threat of them melting or crumbling from your body heat!Stimulus 3 of 3Which of the following options best describes the purpose of this infomercial?
Answer Choices:
Correct Answer:
To persuade the audience to buy the dairy McGrabs.
Rationale:
🔹 The infomercial aims to highlight the benefits and features of the Dairy McGrabs and provides a solution to common problems like crumbly cheese and fingerprints on butter.
🔹 By emphasizing how the product will solve everyday frustrations, it directly appeals to the audience's desire for a convenient and practical solution, which is a classic tactic for persuasion.
🔹 The tone, with its enthusiastic language and emphasis on ease, is clearly designed to convince viewers to make a purchase.
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Bessie Coleman, the first civilian licensed Black pilot in the world, was born in 1892 to sharecroppers in Texas, where she attended a segregated school and world with her family in the cotton fields. She dreamed of becoming a pilot but no flight schools in America would accept her, so she moved to France to earn her pilot's license.When she returned to the U.S, she wanted to open a flight school for Black students. She became a stunt flier and performed for paying audiences, which she insisted be desegregated. Following her death in a plane crash in 1926, the Bessie Coleman Aero Club was established in Los Angeles in 1929. She was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2006.Stimulus 1 of 2Which of the following statements correctly identifies the sequence of events in the reading?
Answer Choices:
A. Bessie Coleman’s parents were sharecroppers who sent her to France as a child to become a pilot, after which she returned and opened a flight school.
B. After life as a sharecropper, Bessie Coleman raised money as a stunt pilot to attend flight school in France.
C. Born to sharecropper parents, Bessie Coleman moved to France to take flight training and then returned to the US as a stunt pilot.
D. Bessie Coleman was a pilot, then a sharecropper, who lived in France, where she was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame.
Bessie Coleman, the first civilian licensed Black pilot in the world, was born in 1892 to sharecroppers in Texas, where she attended a segregated school and world with her family in the cotton fields. She dreamed of becoming a pilot but no flight schools in America would accept her, so she moved to France to earn her pilot's license.When she returned to the U.S, she wanted to open a flight school for Black students. She became a stunt flier and performed for paying audiences, which she insisted be desegregated. Following her death in a plane crash in 1926, the Bessie Coleman Aero Club was established in Los Angeles in 1929. She was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2006.Stimulus 2 of 2Which of the following sources would be useful for gathering more information about Bessie Coleman?
Answer Choices:
A. The National Museum of African American History and Culture.
B. A documentary film of female pilots in World War I.
C. A biography of the Wright Brother, Orvillie and Wilbur.
D. A comprehensive history of sharecropping in eastern Texas.
Hey there, kitchen utensil aficionados! It's Bob Thurman again, bringing you a brand-new piece of equipment for your home food station! Are you tired of your blocks of premium aged cheddar getting all crumbly when you try to slice them? Don't you hate leaving your fingerprints in that hard stick of butter? Well, worry no more! From the company that brought you the SmackDice comes the Dairy McGrabs! You no longer have to worry about your firm sweaty grip destroying your cheese or your butters. All you have to do is slip on our patented heat-deflecting mitten, complete with plastic-grip palm pad, and slice your smooth dairy products with no threat of them melting or crumbling from your body heat!Stimulus 1 of 3Which of the following phrases from the infomercial contains instructions about how to use the advertised product?
Answer Choices:
A. Bringing you a brand-new piece of equipment for your home food station.
B. No longer worry about your firm.
C. Leaving your fingerprints in that hard stick of butter.
D. Slip on your patented heat deflecting mitten.
Hey there, kitchen utensil aficionados! It's Bob Thurman again, bringing you a brand-new piece of equipment for your home food station! Are you tired of your blocks of premium aged cheddar getting all crumbly when you try to slice them? Don't you hate leaving your fingerprints in that hard stick of butter? Well, worry no more! From the company that brought you the SmackDice comes the Dairy McGrabs! You no longer have to worry about your firm sweaty grip destroying your cheese or your butters. All you have to do is slip on our patented heat-deflecting mitten, complete with plasti-grip palm pad, and slice your smooth dairy products with no threat of them melting or crumbling from your body heat!Stimulus 2 of 3Which of the following options best describes how Thurman supports his argument?
Answer Choices:
A. By appealing to a shared sense of community and values.
B. By assembling evidence and logical explanation.
C. By addressing his audience at just the right moment.
D. By evoking feelings of annoyance and relief.
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- Category: ATI TEAS
- Subcategory: English &Language use Exam(s)
- Answer Choices: 4