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When some people think about Texas, they think of cowboys on the open range-herding cattle up a dusty trail. However, Texas has much more than open prairie with large herds of cows. There are the mountains of West Texas, the piney hills of east Texas, and the emerald waters off the coast of Padre Island. Texas also has large coastal harbors with numerous sailboats, powerboats, inland lakes, rivers. The swamps of southeast Texas have alligators and other exotic wildlife.
The Summary of this passage is:
There are a lot of cows in Texas.
There are many different, varied parts of Texas.
Texas is one of the biggest states in the United States.
There are alligators in the swampland of southeast Texas.
A good paraphrase has the _____________ ___________, different words, and different word order.
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"The Europeans did not consider the indigenous.... people to be civilized...."
Portugal did not consider native people as "humans".
People from Europe thought that native people were not as advanced as they were.
The Europeans did not think the indigenous people to be civilized.
"Whenever you are trying to describe how quickly or slowly something occurs, you are describing a rate."
To describe how fast something is and how slow something is to describe how a rate is.
Whenever you try to describe things, you're always describing a rate.
Rates are fast or slow descriptions.
"Like the conquistadors of the sixteenth century, the Europeans took the land through force."
The real power of the conquistadors lay elsewhere, with the production of steel.
Europeans used force to take over the land in the same way conquistadors in the 1500s did.
Like the conquistadors of the 1500s, the Europeans took the land using force.
"To the east of the Pyrenees lie the Alps."
The Pyrenees are to the west of the Alps.
To the east of the Pyrenees are the Alps.
The Alps are taller than the Pyrenees.
"A warm cup of water has really fast molecules."
The molecules in the warm cup of water have a lot of kinetic energy
Fast molecules are in hot water.
A cold cup of water has low energy
"They like to swim on their back and sides and can see just as well underwater as they can above."
Sea otters are good at floating on the water's surface, as air trapped in their fur makes them more buoyant.
Otters love swimming, They can also see very well underwater --like how they see well on land.
They like to swimming and they can be seen underwater by divers and other animals.
"Keeping their fur in good condition is important, so otters spend a lot of time grooming."
Otters spend a lot of time keeping their fur clean because it is important for them.
Otters spend a lot of time brushing their fur.
Keeping their fur in good shape is important, so otters spend a lot of time grooming.
"They are intelligent and curious, and they are usually busy hunting, investigating, or playing with something."
Sea Otter are smart and learn new things. They usually like to hunt small animals in rivers.
They like to hunting and playing and something.
Otters are smart and wonder a lot. They are hunters so they are busy most of the time.
"For the sea otter, half of each day is spent diving for food and eating it."
Sea otters spend half of every day diving for food to eat and eating it.
Sea otter consumes many types of prey including sea urchins, snails, clams, abalone, mussels, crabs, scallops, fish, barnacles, octopus, worms, and squid.
Each day they like to dive for food and eat food.
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