Identify each passage as having either a directly stated main idea or an implied main idea.
Passage 1: A recent report revealed that about
70 percent of American silent films
are lost. With the arrival of talking
films in the 1920s, silent films
became unprofitable. So film studios
threw away most of them. Some films
were saved, but many of them were
later lost in fires caused by the nitrate
in film reels. Several other films were
destroyed when they were recycled for
their metal content.

Passage 2: The planet Jupiter is almost entirely
made of gas and liquid. Although it is
more than 1,000 times larger than
Earth, there is barely any solid surface
to stand on. Jupiter’s atmosphere is
made up of hydrogen and helium. It
does not have much water. Plus, huge,
violent storms move a

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion