(1) reality show producers who give their "actors” scripts are not being unethical because everyone knows that the shows are scripted. (2) in the past few years, dozens of entertainment news sites have published articles about the use of scripts on reality shows. (3) one star of a popular reality show even read from her script as a joke on a radio show. (4) furthermore, a recent study indicates that 86 percent of reality show viewers believe that the producers purposely create fights on the shows to make them cooler.

which revision best improves the formality of the paragraph?

(a) using the contraction “aren’t” for “are not” in sentence 1
(b) breaking up sentence 2 into several short sentences
(c) replacing “popular” with “top” in sentence 3
(d) replacing “cooler” with “more dramatic” in sentence 4

The lines "original! we're all as like each other as those dolls cut out of the same folded paper. we're like patterns stencilled on a wall. can't you and i strike out for ourselves, may? " reflect which of the recurring themes of 20th and 21st century american literature?

Read the excerpt from "a modest proposal." the poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress, and to pay their landlord's rent, their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a thing unknown. which statement effectively uses a quotation to show that swift claims that the poor will also benefit from his proposal? “swift writes that poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress.” swift writes that poorer tenants will finally have something to pay their landlord’s rent since they have neither money nor trade. swift writes that poorer tenants will have something to trade for rent since “their corn and cattle” have already been seized. swift writes that “poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own” that can “ to pay their landlord’s rent.”

Why are reading and writing necessary in today’s world