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Read the excerpt from "Flight Into Yesterday." The plane reached the end of the runway, and Amelia swung it around. Home was 7,000
away, on the far side of the Pacific Ocean, and she yearned to be there. But one thing at a
At this moment her job was to get the plane safely off the ground. The runway stretching a
was a strip carved out of the jungle. About 3,000 feet long, it ended at a cliff that dropped
into the ocean.
17. A summary of this paragraph should (1 point)
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O be the same length as the paragraph.
O include details like the length of the runway.
restate each of the ideas in the paragraph.
give an overview of the paragraph's main details.

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