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D. The sentence which best states the controlling idea of this passage is "The wire taps were never a secret, but they helped the United States gain military intelligence.
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The following excerpts from the passage reaffirm this controlling idea :
1. "On balance, however, some valuable information was gathered from the tapped conversations. The U.S. learned, for example, a great deal about the Soviet and Eastern European order of battle, or its military organization. Others feel that the intelligence was valuable to check against similar information obtained from other sources."
2."The evidence suggests that the CIA gained two invaluable and untainted kinds of knowledge from the taps. The agency learned a basic blueprint of the Soviet and East German security systems, and it never picked up a glimmer of warning that Moscow intended to go to war.”
Answer: The author will write, scribble, fidget, and meet an obstacle.
Explanation: Parallel structure occurs when similar elements, especially verbs, in a sentence are similar to one another. In the correct sentence, "The author will write, scribble, fidget, and meet an obstacle", the verbs, write, scribble, fidget, and meet are similar and are simple present tenses.
Foreshadowing means to give hints of the future. Like in "A Tale of two cities" by Charles Dickens, a man writes "Blood" on the wall, that word represents that there's probably a war coming.
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Key Points
1. Freewriting is writing without editing in order to get your ideas flowing.
2. Freewriting can be a useful prewriting technique to help think of different directions your paper can take.
3. To freewrite, get a pen and paper (or open up a blank computer document) and set yourself a time
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