Read the Paragraph Below and Answer the Questions That Follow

question 6

Multiple Choice

Read the paragraph below and answer the questions that follow it.
(1) To calm yourself when you're feeling stressed, try a simple but effective deep breathing technique. (2) First, sit up straight, and place one of your hands on your chest and the other on your abdomen. (3) Next, pull a deep breath in through your nose so that your abdomen expands and the hand on it rises. (4) The hand on your chest should not move much at all. (5) Then, as you exhale through your mouth, push out the air while you pull in your abdominal muscles. (6) The hand on your abdomen should move inward while the other hand stays still. (7) Inhale again, and repeat the process. (8) As you continue this cycle of inhaling and exhaling while your abdomen rises and falls, you will get more oxygen into your lungs and bloodstream, and you will begin to feel less tense and more relaxed.
-Which of the following sentences in the paragraph does NOT contain a transitional expression that indicates time?

• A) Sentence 2
• B) Sentence 3
• C) Sentence 4
• D) Sentence 5

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Definitions:

Chocolate

A sweet, typically brown food preparation of roasted and ground cacao seeds, often sweetened and consumed as candy or dessert.

Independent Variable

The variable that is manipulated by the researcher to observe its effect on the dependent variable.

Hot Milk

A warm beverage made by heating milk, often consumed for its comforting effects or as a sleep aid.

Control Group

A group in an experiment that does not receive the treatment and is used as a benchmark to measure how the other tested subjects do.