The Topic Sentence Below Is Followed by a Brainstormed List

question 42

Multiple Choice

The topic sentence below is followed by a brainstormed list of possible ideas for a paragraph. Decide which ideas support the topic sentence and should be kept and which ideas should be dropped. Select "keep" or "drop" for each idea. Topic sentence: Modern fireworks have their origins in tenth-century Chinese pyrotechnics.
Washington, D.C., has great Fourth of July fireworks.

• A) Keep
• B) Drop

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Definitions:

Dancing

The act of moving rhythmically to music, typically following a set sequence of steps, and often used as a form of expression or social interaction.

Diathesis-Stress Model

A model that recognizes the combination of a diathesis (i.e., vulnerability) and sufficient amounts of life stress that, combined, are likely to produce a disorder.

Vulnerability

The susceptibility to physical or emotional injury or attack; it can also refer to a person's increased risk of developing a disorder or illness.

Temporal Lobes

The regions of the cerebral cortex located beneath the lateral fissure on both cerebral hemispheres of the brain, involved in processing auditory information and encoding memory.