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Application of Skills Directions: Apply the Knowledge You Have Gained from Chapter 8

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Application of Skills
Directions: Apply the knowledge you have gained from Chapter 8 to select the best answer to the questions about the following reading passage.
Just Another Night
¹ It was just another night at the frat house. The drinking started early and usually didn't stop until dawn. One of my brothers, a popular easy-going guy named Ryan-not usually much of a drinker-was celebrating a big birthday: his twenty-first. Egged on by the hooting crowd, Ryan bolted down one drink after another, after another, after another.
² By the time Ryan reached 12 drinks, he was slurring his words. As he kept chugging drinks, his face looked flushed; he started sweating heavily. When Ryan lurched to his feet, he swayed unsteadily for a few moments and then collapsed. At first everyone laughed. Then we tried to revive him. We couldn't.
³ "He's not breathing!" I shouted. Someone called 911, and paramedics rushed Ryan to the nearest hospital. His blood-alcohol concentration was several times above the legal limit. Despite intensive efforts by the medical team, nothing helped. Ryan's twenty-first birthday was his last. Our party was over.
-adapted from Hales, An Invitation to Health: Choosing to Change , p. 377
Which transition words does the author use to show the chronology of events?

Definitions:

Eight-Cylinder

Referring to an engine with eight cylinders, typically known for providing a higher level of performance and power.

Automobile Engine

A machine designed to convert various forms of energy into mechanical force and motion to power an automobile.

Probability

An indicator of the probability of an event happening, expressed as a numeric value ranging from 0 to 1, with 0 meaning the event cannot happen and 1 meaning the event is certain to happen.

Poisson Distribution

A probability distribution used to model the number of times an event occurs in a fixed interval of space or time.