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ELA Assignments

Climbing Space
Climbing Space
Excerpt from President John F. Kennedy’s Speech Given at Rice University in Houston, Texas on the United States Space Effort There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? . . . We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too. It is for these reasons that I regard the decision last year to shift our efforts in space from low to high gear as among the most important decisions that will be made during my incumbency in the office of the Presidency. © 2014 ReadWorks®, Inc. All rights reserved.
Climbing Space
[. . .] The growth of our science and education will be enriched by new knowledge of our universe and environment, by new techniques of learning and mapping and observation, by new tools and computers for industry, medicine, the home as well as the school. Technical institutions, such as Rice, will reap the harvest of these gains. [. . .] To be sure, all this costs us all a good deal of money. This year’s space budget is three times what it was in January 1961, and it is greater than the space budget of the previous eight years combined. . . . But if I were to say, my fellow citizens, that we shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away from the control station in Houston, a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of this football field, made of new metal alloys, some of which have not yet been invented, capable of standing heat and stresses several times more than have ever been experienced, fitted together with a precision better than the finest watch, carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion, guidance, control, communications, food and survival, on an untried mission, to an unknown celestial body, and then return it safely to earth, re‐
entering the atmosphere at speeds of over 25,000 miles per hour, causing heat about half that of the temperature of the sun . . . and do all this, and do it right, and do it first before this decade is out–then we must be bold. [. . .] Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, “Because it is there.” Well, space is there, and we’re going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God’s blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked. Thank you. © 2014 ReadWorks®, Inc. All rights reserved.
Questions: Climbing Space
Name:
Date:
1. Where does John F. Kennedy want America to go?
A
B
C
D
Mars
the moon
Mount Everest
Venus
2. What does John F. Kennedy try to persuade the listener of?
A
B
C
D
the necessity of increasing the space budget next year
the necessity of cooperating with other nations
the importance of sending astronauts to the moon
going to the moon is as important as climbing Mount Everest
3. At the time of this speech, the United States placed great importance on the space
program. What evidence from the speech supports this conclusion?
A “Well, space is there, and we’re going to climb it, and the moon and the planets
are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.”
B “But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may
well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic?”
C “We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and
do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
D “This year’s space budget is three times what it was in January 1961, and it is
greater than the space budget of the previous eight years combined. . .”
4. What is a reason why John F. Kennedy may have given this speech?
A
B
C
D
to
to
to
to
get students at Rice University excited about the space program
convince members of Congress to increase the space budget
tell scientists about the exciting new technology they will soon have
explain the goals of the space program and the plan to achieve them
5. What is the main message of this speech?
A
B
C
D
Going to the moon is difficult and expensive.
America needs to beat Russia to the moon.
Going to the moon is a worthy and important pursuit.
Rice University can help America land on the moon.
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6. Read the following sentence: “The growth of our science and education will be
enriched by new knowledge of our universe and environment, by new techniques of
learning and mapping and observation, by new tools and computers for industry,
medicine, the home as well as the school.”
As used in this sentence, what does the word “enriched” mean?
A
B
C
D
made better
made worse
repelled by
taken from
7. Choose the answer that best completes the sentence below.
_________ going to the moon will be difficult and dangerous, it is still a worthy pursuit,
says Kennedy.
A
B
C
D
As a result
Initially
Above all
Even though
8. Why did explorer George Mallory say he wanted to climb Mount Everest?
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9. According to Kennedy, how will going to the moon help science?
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10. What is Kennedy’s answer to the question, “Why the moon?” Support your answer
using information from the speech.
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Fanhood
Fanhood
By ReadWorks
Sam Martinez knew baseball. He couldn’t count the number of Los Angeles Dodgers
games he had been to: his Uncle Gabriel had season tickets and had been taking Sam to games
ever since he was three years old. When spring turned into baseball season, he got so excited
that his parents practically had to bolt him to his desk after school so that he would do his
homework before the night games. His little sisters knew that if they bothered him when he
was either watching or listening to the game, they would get yelled at. Even Sam’s friends
tended to steer clear and tread softly when baseball season began.
Sam couldn’t help it: he was obsessed. The smell of freshly cut grass, the feel of the hard
and perfectly aerodynamic ball, the ping of the bat as it made contact, the crunch of peanut
shells as you made your way down the aisles to the seats, the groans and shouts of the
crowd—what could be better than all of this?
Sam had turned his bedroom into a Dodgers shrine, complete with pennants, framed
newspaper articles, glass-encased fly balls, and a few autographed headshots. He didn’t like
other people to come into his room, though—sometimes he was worried it was a bit too
much. He had once made the mistake of bringing a friend to a Dodgers game when Uncle
Gabriel couldn’t go, and it had been a disaster. Jordan had wanted to talk the entire time and
barely paid attention to the game. He had then gotten annoyed at Sam for not wanting to talk:
it was awful. Sam had felt too embarrassed to take notes and jot down the stats for the game,
which had really messed up the seasonal scorecard he and Uncle Gabriel usually kept.
The first game of this year’s season found the Dodgers pitted against the Chicago Cubs,
those eternal underdogs. Sam and Uncle Gabriel handed their tickets to the collector and
made their way to the section they had sat in for the last ten years.
“Think Puig will be as awesome as he was last year, Uncle G?” Sam asked, pulling his
blue baseball hat down over his eyes to guard against the sun.
Uncle Gabriel, his pinstriped Dodgers jersey stretched across his heavyset belly, stepped
gingerly aside as a family of six rushed past holding containers of popcorn and cotton candy.
“Puig is the gift that keeps on giving,” he said, looking back at Sam. “Don’t worry—he’ll make
us proud.”
They finally reached their section and headed to their seats. Uncle Gabriel took small
steps down the row, shouting out greetings as they passed by old friends and fellow seasonticket holders. These guys had been sitting in the same row and section for years together and
shared Sam and Uncle Gabriel’s passion for the game.
Sam plopped down and took a sip from his Coke, taking in the scene of the half-full
stadium in front of him, the brown mountains beyond, and the beautiful bright lights that
made Dodger Stadium visible from airplanes. Uncle Gabriel leaned forward to talk to Mr. and
Mrs. Salvatore, and Sam closed his eyes and smiled. He felt like he was home.
Fanhood
“Ehem… Pardon me… Excuse me… Sorry… Just need to get in here.”
Sam looked up. Jessica Alder, from Sam’s eighth grade math class, was leading her dad
down the row of seats, looking glum. She sat right next to Sam and made a production of
setting her purse down on her feet so that it didn’t touch the ground.
“Hi Jessica,” Sam said.
She looked up in fake surprise. “Oh hi, Sam. How are you?”
“Pretty good. I didn’t know you liked baseball,” he said.
She twitched her head toward her dad, who was looking around at the stadium with the
same rapturous expression that had been on Sam’s face just a few moments before. “He loves
it. He just bought season tickets, and my brother couldn’t go tonight, so my mom decided we
needed some father-daughter time.” She rolled her eyes. “I don’t even understand how
baseball works.”
Sam smiled. “Want me to teach you?”
Jessica smiled back and nodded.
It was the first time Sam barely paid attention to a baseball game without being overly
upset. He liked talking to Jessica: despite her initial negativity, she actually seemed to get into
the game and had even heckled a player or two by the top of the seventh. She didn’t laugh at
Uncle Gabriel, who was watching with extreme concentration, a small pencil pressed to a pad
of notebook paper filled with numbers and notes about the individual players. During the
seventh-inning stretch, she sang the baseball fan’s pledge of allegiance with gusto, and let her
dad hug her when the Dodgers won. Sam couldn’t help wondering if maybe, at some game in
the future, he himself would hug her if the Dodgers won.
“Maybe I’ll come to the next game with my dad,” Jessica said, as she, Sam, her dad, and
Uncle Gabriel made their way down the stairs, following the slow-moving crowds to the
parking lots.
“That’d be cool,” Sam said. “See you in school.” He waved briefly and followed Uncle
Gabriel to their car in the first lot.
Sam was quiet as they got into the car and waited in a long line of traffic to exit the
stadium.
“Good game, huh?” Uncle Gabriel asked, looking at him out of the corner of his eye.
Sam felt conflicted: he had really liked watching the game with Jessica, but he had
barely paid attention to the action itself. He didn’t regret talking with Jessica, but he definitely
regretted missing the game. “Yeah, I guess so,” he said.
Uncle Gabriel laughed. “Will that young lady be at many games this season?”
“Probably,” Sam said, feeling sick—how many games would he miss?
“Don’t worry about it, Sammy!” Uncle Gabriel said. “Baseball games should be fun in all
sorts of different ways. Don’t be too hard on yourself.” He chuckled and patted Sam’s
shoulder. “You can always stay home and watch on TV!”
Sam punched his shoulder and grinned.
Questions: Fanhood Name:
Date: _______________________
1. With whom does Sam go to baseball games?
A
B
C
D
his
his
his
his
dad
mom
little sisters
uncle
2. How does Jessica's attitude toward baseball change in the story?
A Jessica is interested in baseball at first but loses her interest later on.
B Jessica is not interested in baseball at first but then becomes interested.
C Jessica slightly dislikes baseball at the beginning of the story and hates it by
the end.
D Jessica likes baseball a little bit at the beginning of the story and loves it by the
end.
3. Read these sentences from the text.
“Sam had turned his bedroom into a Dodgers shrine, complete with pennants, framed
newspaper articles, glass-encased fly balls, and a few autographed headshots. He didn’t like
other people to come into his room, though—sometimes he was worried it was a bit too
much. He had once made the mistake of bringing a friend to a Dodgers game when Uncle
Gabriel couldn’t go, and it had been a disaster. Jordan had wanted to talk the entire time and
barely paid attention to the game. He had then gotten annoyed at Sam for not wanting to
talk: it was awful. Sam had felt too embarrassed to take notes and jot down the stats for the
game, which had really messed up the seasonal scorecard he and Uncle Gabriel usually kept.”
Based on this evidence, why might Sam not have wanted to talk during the game?
A
B
C
D
He
He
He
He
missed his uncle.
did not like Jordan.
wanted to give his full attention to the game.
was upset that the Dodgers were losing.
“It was the first time Sam barely paid attention to a baseball game without being overly
upset. He liked talking to Jessica: despite her initial negativity, she actually seemed to get
into the game and had even heckled a player or two by the top of the seventh. She didn’t
laugh at Uncle Gabriel, who was watching with extreme concentration, a small pencil
pressed to a pad of notebook paper filled with numbers and notes about the individual
players. During the seventh-inning stretch, she sang the baseball fan’s pledge of allegiance
with gusto, and let her dad hug her when the Dodgers won. Sam couldn’t help wondering if
maybe, at some game in the future, he himself would hug her if the Dodgers won.”
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Questions: Fanhood What can you infer about Sam's feelings toward Jessica from these sentences?
A
B
C
D
Sam
Sam
Sam
Sam
is
is
is
is
developing a crush on Jessica.
getting sick of being around Jessica.
starting to feel uncomfortable around Jessica.
becoming suspicious of Jessica.
5. What is the main idea of this story?
A
B
C
D
A man has been taking his nephew to Los Angeles Dodgers games for years.
A girl goes to a baseball game without understanding how baseball works.
A boy is torn between his interest in baseball and his interest in a girl.
A boy gets annoyed at a friend of his for wanting to talk throughout a baseball
game.
“Sam Martinez knew baseball. He couldn’t count the number of Los Angeles Dodgers games
he had been to: his Uncle Gabriel had season tickets and had been taking Sam to games
ever since he was three years old. When spring turned into baseball season, he got so
excited that his parents practically had to bolt him to his desk after school so that he would
do his homework before the night games. His little sisters knew that if they bothered him
when he was either watching or listening to the game, they would get yelled at. Even
Sam’s friends tended to steer clear and tread softly when baseball season began.”
Why might the author have italicized the word "knew" in the first sentence?
A
B
C
D
to
to
to
to
emphasize how well Sam knows baseball
question how well Sam knows baseball
imply that Sam knows too much about baseball
provide an example of something Sam knows about baseball
7. Choose the answer that best completes the sentence.
Sam liked talking with Jessica during the baseball game. _______, he did not like
missing out on a lot of the game.
A
B
C
D
In conclusion
For instance
Most importantly
On the other hand
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Questions: Fanhood 8. Sam enjoys watching baseball with Jessica more than he enjoyed watching it with
Jordan. Support this conclusion with evidence from the text.
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9. What is Sam's conflict at the end of the story? Support your answer with evidence
from the text.
______________________________________________________________________
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10. How might Sam's conflict be resolved? Support your answer with evidence from the
text.
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CONCEPTS OF COM PREHENSION: CLAS SIFY AND CATEGORIZE 6th GR ADE UNI T
Reading Passage
On the Prowl
A new leopard species1 is found in Indonesia.
Scientists have "spotted" a new jungle cat. The previously unknown
species of clouded leopard has been roaming the rain forests on the
islands of Borneo and Sumatra in Southeast Asia. The secretive
leopards are the latest of at least 52 new plant and animal species
found in the rain forests on Borneo within the past year [2007].
Scientists compared Borneo's clouded leopards with similar cats found
on Southeast Asia's mainland. They paid special attention to the marks
on the animals' skin. "The moment we started comparing the skins on
the mainland clouded leopard and the leopard found on Borneo, it was
clear we were comparing two different species," says scientist Andrew
Kitchener. Unlike the mainland clouded leopard, the Borneo cat has a
double dorsal (back) stripe and distinct spots within its small cloud
markings. The Borneo leopard also has darker fur than that of the
mainland species.
The newly discovered leopard is Borneo's largest predator, or hunter.
It can grow as large as a small panther and has the longest teeth
relative to body size of any cat.
There are about 5,000 to 11,000 Borneo clouded leopards living on
Borneo, according to scientists. The Sumatra population is likely to be
between 3,000 and 7,000.
Habitat2 destruction threatens Borneo's wildcats. Scientists have
called for increased conservation, or protection, of the rain forest
habitat on Borneo—the world's third largest island. "Provided this
forest can be preserved in the long term, you can expect more
discoveries in the years to come," Olivier Van Bogaert from the World
Wildlife Foundation told WR News.
1
2
species: a category of living things
habitat: the place where a plant or animal normally lives
Text: Copyright © 2007 Weekly Reader Corporation. All rights reserved.
Weekly Reader is a registered trademark of Weekly Reader Corporation.
Used by permission.
© 2010 Urban Education Exchange. All rights reserved.
CONCEPTS OF COMPREHENSION: CLASSIFY AND CATEGORIZE 6th GRADE UNIT
Question Sheet
Name:
Date:
“On the Prowl” Questions
_____ 1. Leopards can be found
a. in Sumatra.
b. in Borneo.
c. in Indonesia.
d. all of the above.
_____ 2. A double back stripe and distinct spots are characteristics of
a. the Borneo leopard.
b. the mainland clouded leopard.
c. the panther.
d. none of the above.
_____ 3. The leopards with the lighter fur are
a. Borneo leopards.
b. Sumatra leopards.
c. mainland leopards.
d. leopards found on islands in Southeast Asia.
_____ 4. There are more clouded leopards found
a. in Sumatra than in Borneo.
b. in Borneo than in Sumatra.
c. in Borneo than on the mainland.
d. in Sumatra than on the mainland.
_____ 5. In what ways would destruction of rain forests in Borneo threaten
the clouded leopard?
_____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________
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The Celebrity
By ReadWorks
Every afternoon, five elderly men converge on the porch of the duplex I live in. They sit
on a dilapidated love seat and a few comfy and weatherworn outdoor chairs. For the longest
time, I accepted their presence without question: they don’t bother anybody, just sit on the
porch with glasses of lemonade, wearing baseball hats and chatting about nothing in
particular. One or two of them have worn-out old canes that they lean on the porch fence
during their afternoons, and which they pick up around five o’clock every day when they make
their slow exit down the five steps to the street and walk their separate ways.
Mr. Ramirez lives on the other side of my family’s duplex, and he owns the house, so, as
my mom says, he can do whatever he likes. My dad doesn’t know about the daily gathering,
because it happens during work hours, but when my brother and I were little, it was something
we thought about daily. We felt awkward leaving our house on summer afternoons to go play in
the park or meet friends—having to pass a bunch of old men who were talking about who knew
what made us uncomfortable. We got over that years ago, though, and now, sometimes, we
even join their conversation.
One day, when summer vacation had just started, the four guys showed up and took
their places on the porch, promptly at two o’clock, but Mr. Ramirez’s door was still closed. I
was sitting on the porch fence, dangling my legs over the side and texting my boyfriend, when
Mr. Toma called me over.
“Afternoon, young lady,” he said. I don’t think the guys, as my brother and I call them,
ever learned our names.
“Hi, Mr. Toma,” I said, standing in front of him, a bit self-conscious. The other three guys
were looking at me fiercely, their old eyes narrowed and glaring so they could see me properly
through their cataracts.
“Have you seen Eddie today?” he asked. His blue eyes were cloudy, like my grandma’s,
but he was more alert than she was. He looked unconcerned, as if we were just chatting about
the weather.
“No, sir, I haven’t,” I said. “I can ask my mom if she has, though,” I continued, turning
toward our door.
“Don’t bother, don’t bother,” he said, waving his hand.
“Sorry,” I said.
Then Mr. Kaiser piped up, with his gravelly smoker’s voice. “Hon, can you knock on his
door for us?” he asked, poking his cane toward Mr. Ramirez’s front door.
“Um…I guess,” I said. I had never been inside Mr. Ramirez’s house, but I had always
been curious about it—it was the exact opposite of our own house in the way it was laid out.
How strange.
I walked up to the front door, painted a faded blue, and lifted the brass knocker
uncertainly, pressing it down firmly a few times.
“It’s open!” Mr. Ramirez’s voice seemed to come to me out of the depths of a very
distant place. I turned to the other guys, and they shooed their hands at me, effectively
pushing me in.
I opened the door slowly onto the front hall. The wood floor was the same as ours, and
the long hallway with rooms leading off from the left side mirrored the hall and rooms on the
right side in our duplex, but those were the only similarities that I could see. Every inch of wall
that was not papered with baseball-themed wallpaper was plastered with glass-covered
frames containing newspaper clippings, pictures, photographs, and magazine articles.
“In the kitchen!” Mr. Ramirez called from the back of the house.
I moved slowly down the hall, trying to discern the images in the frames. They all
seemed to be of the same young man, who wore seventies-style sunglasses, had a picked afro
hairdo, and sported a thick mustache. In many of the pictures, the young man was holding a
long, thin stick in the same position that many people used to swing a baseball bat.
Mr. Ramirez was sitting at a small kitchen table with a box of tissues and a cup of tea
steaming in front of him. His brown eyes were red and watery.
“Hi Sara,” he said. “Is everything okay?”
“Are you okay, Mr. Ramirez?” I asked abruptly. He looked pretty sick.
He laughed. “Yes, I’m fine, I just have a bad cold.” He sounded as if he was pinching his
nostrils together. “Are the boys over on the porch?” he asked.
I twisted my left foot around, a nervous habit that my mom hated. “Yeah, they’re here.
They asked me to come check on you.”
He gestured to the chair next to him and I sat down. “I probably shouldn’t go out there,
don’t want to get those old geezers sick.”
“Mr. Ramirez, I don’t want to be rude, but who’s the guy in all those pictures?” I asked,
jerking my thumb toward the hall.
“You’re not being rude!” he said, a little taken aback. “That’s me!” He laughed at the
shocked look on my face.
“Are you famous?” I said.
“No, no, nothing like that,” he said. “I used to be a big stickball player, though. Me and
the guys were all on a team together.”
“What’s stickball?”
“You don’t know stickball?” he said. “Well, I guess you wouldn’t. It’s a game very much
like baseball, but without all the bells and whistles. We used to just play it in the streets, and
around the seventies some attention was called to it in the local press. It was a fun time.”
“I didn’t realize baseball had bells and whistles,” I mumbled.
He laughed again. “Stickball was a very basic game. We couldn’t afford bats, so we just
used broom handles. Simpler times…” He looked off into the distance. “Anyway, I’d appreciate
it if you could please let the guys know I’m suffering from a head cold today. Do you mind?”
I shook my head. “Let us know if you need anything,” I said, turning back to the hall, Mr.
Ramirez’s young face shining down at me.
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"The Celebrity"
What happens every afternoon on Sara’s porch?
Five elderly men gather to drink lemonade and chat.
Mr. Ramirez plays stickball with his friends.
Sara and her brother talk to a group of elderly men.
A group of men gather to fix love seats and chairs.
What is different about the group of elderly men on the day when the events of the story take
place?
The men decide to start a conversation with Sara.
One member of their group, Mr. Ramirez, is not with them.
Several of them forget to bring their canes.
They decide to talk about stickball instead of drinking lemonade.
Sara and her brother are comfortable with the gatherings on their porch.
What evidence from the text supports this conclusion?
Their mother knows about the gatherings, and their dad is away at work.
Sara lives in the duplex.
The men always leave at 5 o’clock.
Sara and her brother sometimes join in the porch conversations.
How can the relationship between Sara and the group of elderly men best be described?
They only talk to each other if they have to.
They are friendly and polite to each other.
The elderly men like to ask Sara about how she is doing in school.
They like to talk about stickball together.
What is the main idea of this story?
Sara discovers that her neighbor was a well-known stickball player.
Sara finds that Mr. Ramirez has a head cold.
A group of elderly men convince Sara to help them search for Mr. Ramirez.
Sara and her brother learn to enjoy the gatherings on their porch.
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"The Celebrity"
Read these sentences from the text.
“'You don’t know stickball?' he said. 'Well, I guess you wouldn’t. It’s a game very much like
baseball, but without all the bells and whistles. We used to just play it in the streets. . . . [It] was
a very basic game.'”
What does the speaker mean when he says that stickball is "like baseball, but without all the bells
and whistles”?
Stickball is like baseball, but
with fewer sounds.
more complicated.
much simpler.
not as fun.
Choose the answer that best completes the sentence.
Sara had always been curious about Mr. Ramirez’s house, ________ since she had never been
inside it.
such as
otherwise
therefore
especially
Why does Sara go inside Mr. Ramirez’s house?
What does Sara see on Mr. Ramirez’s walls?
Explain how being in Mr. Ramirez’s house changes Sara’s view of him.
Support your answer with evidence from the text.
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THE SOLUTION TO READING COMPREHENSION

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