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Tell a science or technology feature from an editorial and name the argument the editorial makes.
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"At 4 a.m. in Bantayan, fisher Marisol Danga counts crab larvae by lamplight. She has kept this record for eleven years, and marine biologists now use it." (invented example.) Which form does this opening signal?
An article on a new provincial waste plant ends: "The council must publish the emissions data before the plant opens." (invented example.) Which signal shows this is an editorial and not a feature?
An editorial on a state university's drone survey says: "Flying at night over crowded barangays invites accidents that no permit has planned for." (invented example.) What does this editorial argue about?
An editorial on a provincial hospital's new scanner says: "One machine for eleven towns means the farthest patients will still travel a full day." (invented example.) What does it argue about?
An editorial on a state university health study says: "Researchers should not print barangay names beside the patients' individual test results." (invented example.) What does it argue about?
An editorial on e-bike batteries says: "No agency now inspects the imported cells sold in city markets, and no law requires one to." (invented example.) What does it argue about?
An editorial says: "The province spends more on one science fair than on the lab supplies its schools use all year. That order should be reversed." (invented example.) What does it argue about?
"The science department released its rainfall sensor map yesterday, listing 340 new stations, officials said." (invented example.) Which form does this sentence belong to?
A feature and an editorial both cover a town's new solar grain dryer. Which sentence belongs in the editorial?
Two articles cover the same fish-vaccine trial. One explains how the vaccine works; the other says the trial should be paused. How do their purposes differ?
"The pumping is reckless," said hydrologist Nena Arroyo of the state university. (invented example.) Whose judgment does this sentence carry?
"The reef lost 12 percent of its coral cover this year, according to the provincial marine office." (invented example.) What does the phrase "according to the provincial marine office" do?
Article A follows one nurse learning a new blood analyzer. Article B says the hospital bought the machine without training anyone. Which pair of forms is this?
An editorial ends: "Parents, ask your school board to publish its water test results this month." (invented example.) What is this closing sentence called?
"Before the new weather app, Aling Cora read the sky. Now her phone warns her two hours ahead, and her drying racks stay dry." (invented example.) Which framing does this use?
An editorial says: "Cheap sensors are useful. But until the province trains people to read them, the data will sit unused and the money is wasted." (invented example.) What is its main assertion?
An editorial says: "Free public Wi-Fi at the terminal is welcome, but the town has no plan for the children who will use it unsupervised." (invented example.) What does it argue about?
"A rice husk stove burns in two stages. The husk smolders below, and the gas it gives off burns above, so less smoke escapes." (invented example.) Which form does this passage come from?
A science article and an editorial both discuss the same vaccine trial. Which question best tells the two forms apart?
An editorial says: "The laboratory's results are sound, but volunteers signed no form saying their blood would be stored for later studies." (invented example.) What does it argue about?
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