Read the Paragraph Below and Answer the Questions That Follow

question 34

Multiple Choice

Read the paragraph below and answer the questions that follow.
(1) We rarely get tired when we are doing something interesting and exciting. (2) For example, I recently took a vacation in the Canadian Rockies up around Lake Louise. (3) I spent several days trout fishing along Coral Creek, fighting my way through brush higher than my head, stumbling over logs, struggling through fallen timber ⎯ yet after eight hours of this, I was not exhausted. (4) Why? (5) Because I was excited, exhilarated. (6) I had a sense of high achievement: six cutthroat trout.
- Chapter 4, "How to Banish the Boredom that Produces Fatigue, Worry, and  Resentment," from Dale Carnegie's How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job , Simon and Schuster, 1990.
How many examples does the writer use to develop the topic sentence?

• A) one
• B) two
• C) three

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Definitions:

Clumped Dispersion

A pattern of population distribution in which individuals are aggregated in patches, often due to environmental factors or social interactions, enhancing survival.

Patchy Distribution

A spatial distribution pattern where entities are clustered in several small areas, separated by areas with no or low occurrences of these entities.

Growth Rate

The rate at which an organism or any of its parts increases in size or number over a specific period.

Population

A group of individuals of the same species living and interacting in the same geographical area.