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Have you ever wondered why authors write Sometimes they are inspired to create stories. Other times they write to provide information about an interesting topic. Some authors write to convince us about something. Whatever the circumstances, authors have reasons for writing; this is called, the "author’s purpose." The three most common types of author’s purpose are: to entertain, to inform, and to persuade.
Think about the last time a story made you laugh, cry, or tremble with fright. These types of stories are written with a particular purpose in mind: to entertain the reader. Authors write many kinds of stories to entertain, including humorous fiction, realistic fiction, fantasy, fairy tales, and fables. While fiction entertains, non-fiction has a different purpose.
Many non-fiction writings or texts are written with the purpose of giving information about an interesting topic. Authors who write to inform must research their subject to ensur
A. Why Dogs are Smarter than Cats
B. An Interview with J.K. Rowling
C. The Adventures of Waldo Wizard
D. An Argument for Shorter Classes

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Have you ever wondered why authors write Sometimes they are inspired to create stories. Other times they write to provide information about an interesting topic. Some authors write to convince us about something. Whatever the circumstances, authors have reasons for writing; this is called, the "author’s purpose." The three most common types of author’s purpose are: to entertain, to inform, and to persuade.
Think about the last time a story made you laugh, cry, or tremble with fright. These types of stories are written with a particular purpose in mind: to entertain the reader. Authors write many kinds of stories to entertain, including humorous fiction, realistic fiction, fantasy, fairy tales, and fables. While fiction entertains, non-fiction has a different purpose.
Many non-fiction writings or texts are written with the purpose of giving information about an interesting topic. Authors who write to inform must research their subject to ensur
A. provide information about a certain topic
B. make the reader laugh, cry, or scream
C. convince the reader to do something
D. invite the reader to critique their work

[填空题]In the humanities, authors write to inform you in many ways. These methods can be (36) into three types of informational writing: factual, descriptive, and process.
Factual writing provides background information on an author, composer, or artist or on a type of music, literature, or art. Examples of factual writing include notes on a book jacket or (37) cover and longer pieces, such as an article describing a style of music which you might read in a music (38) course. This kind of writing provides a (39) for your study of the humanities.
As its name (40) , descriptive writing (41) describes, or provides an image of, a piece of music, art, or literature. For example, descriptive writing might list the colors an artist used in a painting or the musical (42) a composer included in a musical composition, so as to make pictures or sounds in the reader’s mind by calling up (43) details of t

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Have you ever asked yourself why children go to school You will probably say that they go to learn their own language and other languages, arithmetic, history, science and (76) subjects. That is quite true; but why do they learn these things And are these things (77) that they learn at school
We send our children to school to (78) for the time when they will be big and will have to work (79) themselves. Nearly all they study at school has some practical use in their life, but is that the only reason (80) they go to school
There is (81) in education than just learning facts. We go to school (82) all to learn how to learn, so that when we have left school we can continue to learn. A man who really knows how to learn will always be successful, because (83) he has to do something new which he has never had to do before, he will rapidly teach himself how to do it in the best way. The uneducated per
A. much
B. most
C. a lot
D. more