Read the passage carefully. Cell phone use in schools is an issue. Even though 82 percent of the parents of middle-schoolers wish their children did not have cell phones in class, 55 percent of schools allow them. Eliminating cell phones from the classroom will improve students’ academic success and their ability to stay focused.

Cell phone use in school can lead to poor grades. A study of 118 college students permitted half of them to use phones, tablets, or other devices in class. The other half did not use them. The half that used electronic devices in class scored at least 5 percentage points lower than their peers on their final exam. That’s half a letter-grade difference. Middle schoolers would probably be affected even more.

Too much cell phone use can also lead to attention problems. Data show that middle schoolers with higher cell phone use have trouble paying attention. They may be tempted to look at social media when they should be doing school work.

Choose the sentence that best answers each question.

What is the author’s claim?

What is one reason the author offers to explain the claim?

What is one piece of evidence the author offers in support of the reasons for the claim?

What is the author’s claim?

- Cell phones should be banned in schools.

What is one reason the author offers to explain the claim?

- Cell phone use was linked to lower test scores.

What is one piece of evidence the author offers in support of the reason for the claim?

- Cell-phone use lowered grades by 10%.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.