Jeremy was in his seat in the studio waiting for the interview to start when Shinichi, the sports news anchor, got that slightly distant look anchors get during an incoming message. Then suddenly Shinichi smiled, his professional good humor momentarily replaced by the real thing. He slapped Jeremy on the shoulder.

2
“Last minute opening. They want you to run. Amazing!”

3
His eyes lit on Jeremy’s kitbag.

4
“You do have everything you need, don’t you?”

5
Jeremy nodded. The bag was really just a prop, but he kept it packed as if he were going to run every day. When he failed at the quota lottery, he had thought that his one time in the Olympic stadium, marching in the opening ceremony, had been his last. Nevertheless, he kept training, packing in sweat-soaked hours between the endless interviews, blogs, picoblogs, interactives, and all the other appearances and promotions he did to boost the team’s profile. If Jeremy couldn’t run, he could still serve the team. The team media people loved his dedication to workouts; they said he was so authentic.

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But he wasn’t doing it for them.

7
He hurried to the pre-competition area, security guards looking at him in amazement as they scanned his pass.

8
The charging room smelled of machine oil with a tang of hot metal. But there was something else.

9
Jeremy sniffed the air carefully: liniment1. Here there was another human athlete preparing to compete against a field of machines. Jeremy followed his nose through the room full of tables, each bearing a robot athlete lying down, surrounded by a busy group of technicians. Some tables had a cluster of tubes and wires emerging from the floor with a red rectangle painted around it and the word “Danger” stenciled on the smooth concrete. As Jeremy detoured around one, he came upon a robothlete that smelled of burnt insulation. The technicians sat near the table chatting. This must be the reason he had been summoned from the studio.

10
Jeremy pushed through a curtain that created a makeshift changing area in one corner of a huge work area. The corner was free of tools, computer terminals, and machinery. In fact, the whole corner was empty except for a woman with blond hair in tight braids, dressed in running gear.

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“Hi, I’m Amy,” the woman said with a smile. She looked at the sports bag slung over Jeremy’s shoulder. “Are you running with me today?”

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Jeremy nodded. There were no men’s or women’s events anymore. The performance difference between robots and humans was so great that male/female differences no longer mattered.

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Amy gestured beyond the curtain toward the charging room. “I’ll go check out the opposition while you change.”

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There was a requirement that each Olympic event have a minimum of one human starter—they called it “the quota.” In truth the quota was also the maximum. People came to the Olympics to see the best, and robothletes were the best. This would be the first event of the 2052 Games with two humans competing. It would probably be the last.

15
Jeremy was out on the starting blocks, looking down the field at the hurdles when it finally began to sink in. He was really about to compete in the Olympics. He was going to get his chance. And the crowd was cheering—chanting “JEREMY, AMY…JEREMY, AMY.” Jeremy could feel the rhythm of the chant in the air pulsing against his skin. The crowd wanted to watch the best, but they also loved to cheer for the underdog, and there was no doubt about which athletes were the underdogs.

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The robothlete’s “muscles”—brushless motors, actuators run by rare Earth magnets, pistons driven by high-pressure nitrogen—didn’t accumulate fatigue acids as they ran. Robothletes didn’t take years to learn the rhythms of racing or how to judge the pacing between hurdles; they just downloaded the programs from their most successful predecessors and measured distances with laser and ultrasonic rangefinders. Decades had passed since a human had beaten a robothlete.

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“On your marks, ready…”

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The starting pistol cracked. Jeremy sprang off the blocks faster than he ever had before. He catapulted ahead of Amy. Even so, the robothletes raced ahead of him.

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Jeremy came up on the first hurdle so fast that he was afraid he had overshot his mark, but he flowed over it as if it weren’t there. He could hear the whir of motors and the blasts of exhaust gas from the robothlete to one side of him. They reached the second hurdle and jumped together, but the robothlete took it just a millimeter too low, grazing the top of the hurdle. Perhaps its handlers had tweaked the software to shave milliseconds off its time, but the risk didn’t pay off. The robothlete landed badly and went down. It didn’t get up. Running robots were not programmed to get up; a fall guaranteed a loss, so there was no point in trying. Jeremy twisted in midair to avoid the fallen machine, landed still running, gauged his distance, and drove himself even harder for the next hurdle.

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Read this excerpt from “The Medicine Bag.”

“I sent your mother and sister away. What you will hear today is only for a man’s ears. What you will receive is only for a man’s hands.” He fell silent and I felt shivers down my back.

Which conclusion can be drawn from Grandpa’s dialogue in this excerpt?

A) Grandpa does not trust Martin’s mom and sister.
B) Martin’s anticipation of owning the medicine bag pleases Grandpa.
C) Grandpa’s culture has strict rules about gender roles.
D) Martin is not old enough to carry on his ancestors’ traditions.

According to Thoreau, what happens to those individuals who “serve the state with their consciences”?why?

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What is the adjective in the following sentence: "The very pretty girl lost a
shoe.

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Select the correct answer.
Based on the information in this passage, which activity is most similar to geocaching?
A. going for a swim at the neighborhood pool
B. taking a walk around the neighborhood
OC. using mapping applications on a smartphone
D. reading a book on the use of satellites

How does this image help the reader to understand seismographs?

The character that is is the force in opposition is called ?
1.protagonist
2.dynamic
3.antagonist
4.flat

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How do we use evidence to support a point that is explicit or inferred?

What role does neighborhood segregation play
in perpetuating inequality in education, healthcare, and wealth?

George Bernard Shaw
"You see things, and you say, Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not? This inspiring statement was made by the dramatic
genius George Bernard Shaw.
If English drama today is both worth seeing on the stage and reading as literature, it is mainly due to the work of George Bernard Shaw in drama
and dramatic criticism. Shaw was a drama critic for The Saturday Review from 1859-98. He gained considerable prominence by writing witty critical
reviews while working there. He believed the plays that English audiences appreciated at the time were pretentious farces and highly melodramatic
He once said, "Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." This clearly reveals his
attitude toward the English audiences who he believed were stuck in primitive English customs. His freethinking spirit and views on equality for men
and women were greatly appreciated in society.
A number of Shaw's early plays described the problems of capitalism. A brilliant example of this genre is his Widower's Houses. The Apple Cart is
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Which two statements would the author of the passage most likely agree with?
O Shaw tempered his early extreme criticism of English society later in his life.
O Shaw played a major role in the political revolutions of his time.
Shaw had a major formative influence on generations of playwrights.
Shaw was underappreciated in his lifetime because his ideas were highly controversial.

In Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad, why is Tubman turned away from the first farmhouse?

The owner does not believe in helping enslaved people escape.
The owner is scared that he and the group will be caught breaking the law.
The owner is surprised that Tubman is asking for a place to stay.
The owner does not understand Tubman’s code words when she knocks.

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the central idea of the text is that the Red Cross is an important and influential organization that is committed to helping people around the world. Explain how the details in “The Red Cross Today” contributes to the central idea. Use specific details from the text to support your answer.

Anne received many gifts on her birthday. How many did she receive? What does this tell
us about her?​

How had conditions in new mexico changed by the time the spanish returned in 1692?

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write a short paragraph in which you imagine what it would be like to live in a an entirely new culture.

Choose the sentence with correct spelling and grammar:

What teh Internet hucksters won't tell you is that the Internet is one big ocean of unedit data, without any pretense of completeness.

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What the Internet hucksters won't tell you is that the Internet is one big oceasn of unedited data, without any pretends of completeness.

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I will mark brainliest! Please write a summary of this paragraph!


Could playing video games . . . be good for something? Studies have linked nonstop video gaming to such ills as carpal tunnel syndrome1 and tennis elbow, not to mention the current obesity epidemic plaguing this nation’s youth. On the positive side, some research has shown that playing video games can improve eye-hand coordination and visual attention—the ability to search for a target in a jungle of objects, to monitor several items at once, and to keep track of a steady stream of objects zipping swiftly by. And now comes more good news for video game aficionados.

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Can someone give me an introduction paragraph that explains the overall meaning of the poem?!

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Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still,
Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will!
Where shall we dine?—O me! What fray was here?
Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.
165Here’s much to do with hate but more with love.
Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate,
O anything of nothing first created!
O heavy lightness, serious vanity,
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
Dost thou not laugh?

What message is the author trying to communicate? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

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Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.


Eight years later Francis Langley erects the Swan on a site nearby; and in 1596 Richard Burbage builds the Blackfriars Theatre, an indoor venue, although it does not open its doors until 1599. Most important of all, Shakespeare, Richard and Cuthbert Burbage, and their partners dismantle The Theatre and remove its beams to a new site at Southwark, where it is rebuilt in 1599 as the Globe. When Edward Alleyn builds the Fortune on the northern edge of the city in 1600, the array of Elizabethan theaters is complete.


How does the author effectively show the establishment of Elizabethan theaters?


by using a humorous and lighthearted tone.

by randomly listing when certain theaters were built in the past.

by using a grave and critical tone.

by listing in chronological order when several important theaters were built.

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Paragraph 19 describes Werner
listening to the radio. This description
is made to make readers understand
which of the following ideas?
O A. how special a working radio is in
this setting and time period
OB. how rare it is for Werner to be
knowledgeable about how radios
work
c. how Frau Elena disapproves of the
use of this new technology in the
home
D. how fearful Werner and the other
children are of the unexplained
sounds coming from the earphone