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All Common Core: 8th Grade English Language Arts Resources
Passage 1
It’s a great time to be green! Environmentally friendly practices have become very popular with shoppers. Business owners can capitalize on this trend by accurately advertising how their products are good for the environment, such as by using recycled materials.
Many shoppers associate the color green with sustainability. So, consider using eye-catching green details on your products when describing how they help the environment. You may want to incorporate symbols of nature into your advertising as well. Popular symbols associated with sustainability include leaves, trees, and flowers. These details may not seem important, but they are. The visual way in which a sustainability claim is made can make the difference between a shopper trying your product or leaving it on the shelf.
有些人想要调节可持续发展要求. This is a bad idea. Increased regulation would be an unnecessary burden on businesses. It would slow the time it takes them to adapt to trends. If every advertising decision had to be approved by a regulating body, a lot of time would be wasted. Just think how ridiculous it would be if you wanted to use a blue logo instead of a red one and had to fill out paperwork approving that decision! The threat of increased regulation is all the more reason to emphasize the greenness of your products today.
Passage 2
Environmentalism has become very popular lately. As a result, many products are emphasizing “green” status—that is, how they help protect the environment. This trend has been accompanied by an ugly shadow: “greenwashing.” “Greenwashing” is the practice of making false claims about a product’s sustainability. Companies can say that a product is “greener” than it really is. These false claims are made so that the product can appeal to shoppers.
As a result, shoppers have become less confident about all sustainability claims. There’s no way to tell from packaging and advertisements if a product is actually helping the environment or just claiming to do so. And it’s not easy to research products in the aisles of a supermarket or department store! It’s certainly extra work that many shoppers won’t do. Instead, they ignore “green” claims completely.
Competition and “greenwashing” have also encouraged companies to prioritizeappearinggreen overactually beinggreen. As a result, money is spent on making products appear to be something they are not instead of on actually improving the products and making them more sustainable.
所以,我们能做些什么呢?我们需要开始通过调节sustainability claims. This way, consumers can be confident that claims they see are true, since false claims would not be allowed on packaging. This will be a step in the right direction.
Which of the following accurately describes how the passages differ?
Passage 1 sees environmental sustainability as a recent trend in advertising, but Passage 2 sees it as an aspect that has always been part of advertising.
Passage 1 thinks that “greenwashing” has positive effects, but Passage 2 thinks that “greenwashing” is a problem.
Passage 1 sees “green” claims as having primarily negative effects, whereas Passage 2 sees them as primarily positive ones.
Passage 1 is addressed to business owners, but Passage 2 is addressed to a general audience.
Passage 1 thinks that “greenwashing” is a problem, but Passage 2 thinks that it has positive effects.
Which of the following accurately describes how the passages differ?
Passage 1 sees environmental sustainability as a recent trend in advertising, but Passage 2 sees it as an aspect that has always been part of advertising.
Passage 1 thinks that “greenwashing” has positive effects, but Passage 2 thinks that “greenwashing” is a problem.
Passage 1 sees “green” claims as having primarily negative effects, whereas Passage 2 sees them as primarily positive ones.
Passage 1 thinks that “greenwashing” is a problem, but Passage 2 thinks that it has positive effects.
Passage 1 is addressed to business owners, but Passage 2 is addressed to a general audience.
It's easy to get the passages confused with one another when answering a question like this, so let's make a list of traits of each one so that we can distinguish between them accurately.
Passage 1:
- addressed to advertisers and business owners
- discusses positive effects of claims about sustainability
- urges businesses to make sustainability claims
- opposes regulating sustainability claims
- does not mention "greenwashing."
Passage 2:
- addressed to a general audience
- discusses negative effects of claims about sustainability
- supports regulating sustainability claims
- discusses "greenwashing" as a problem
Now we can sort through these answer choices a bit more easily. Passage 1 certainly doesn't see "green" claims as having primarily negative effects, and it doesn't suggest that "greenwashing" is a positive thingora problem, since it doesn't mention "greenwashing" at all. Passage 2 doesn't claim that sustainability has always been a part of advertising. Noting these details allows us to narrow down our answer choices to the correct one: "Passage 1 is addressed to business owners, but Passage 2 is addressed to a general audience." We can tell that Passage 1 addresses business owners because of the way it gives advice about designing advertisement claims and ends with a call to action aimed at business owners: "The threat of increased regulation is all the more reason to emphasize the greenness of your products today." Notice how it uses the word "your" in "your products" to speak directly to business owners. On the other hand, Passage 2 is addressed to a general audience. It explains what greenwashing is, the problems it has caused, and then suggests that regulation could help solve it. Its call to action is aimed at the general public: "So, what can we do? We need to start by regulating sustainability claims." This all confirms that the correct answer is the one discussing the passages' different audiences.
Passage 1
It’s a great time to be green! Environmentally friendly practices have become very popular with shoppers. Business owners can capitalize on this trend by accurately advertising how their products are good for the environment, such as by using recycled materials.
Many shoppers associate the color green with sustainability. So, consider using eye-catching green details on your products when describing how they help the environment. You may want to incorporate symbols of nature into your advertising as well. Popular symbols associated with sustainability include leaves, trees, and flowers. These details may not seem important, but they are. The visual way in which a sustainability claim is made can make the difference between a shopper trying your product or leaving it on the shelf.
有些人想要调节可持续发展要求. This is a bad idea. Increased regulation would be an unnecessary burden on businesses. It would slow the time it takes them to adapt to trends. If every advertising decision had to be approved by a regulating body, a lot of time would be wasted. Just think how ridiculous it would be if you wanted to use a blue logo instead of a red one and had to fill out paperwork approving that decision! The threat of increased regulation is all the more reason to emphasize the greenness of your products today.
Passage 2
Environmentalism has become very popular lately. As a result, many products are emphasizing “green” status—that is, how they help protect the environment. This trend has been accompanied by an ugly shadow: “greenwashing.” “Greenwashing” is the practice of making false claims about a product’s sustainability. Companies can say that a product is “greener” than it really is. These false claims are made so that the product can appeal to shoppers.
As a result, shoppers have become less confident about all sustainability claims. There’s no way to tell from packaging and advertisements if a product is actually helping the environment or just claiming to do so. And it’s not easy to research products in the aisles of a supermarket or department store! It’s certainly extra work that many shoppers won’t do. Instead, they ignore “green” claims completely.
Competition and “greenwashing” have also encouraged companies to prioritizeappearinggreen overactually beinggreen. As a result, money is spent on making products appear to be something they are not instead of on actually improving the products and making them more sustainable.
所以,我们能做些什么呢?我们需要开始通过调节sustainability claims. This way, consumers can be confident that claims they see are true, since false claims would not be allowed on packaging. This will be a step in the right direction.
The passages make conflicting statements about which of the following topics?
Which symbols to use on packages when making claims about sustainability
How best to encourage shoppers to research the products they plan to buy
Just how many distinct problems “greenwashing” specifically causes
How claims of sustainability should be tested to confirm that they are true
Whether sustainability claims should be regulated
The passages make conflicting statements about which of the following topics?
Which symbols to use on packages when making claims about sustainability
How best to encourage shoppers to research the products they plan to buy
Just how many distinct problems “greenwashing” specifically causes
How claims of sustainability should be tested to confirm that they are true
Whether sustainability claims should be regulated
While both Passage 1 and Passage 2 discuss sustainability as it relates to advertising on products, they don't make very many statements that explicitly and directly disagree with one another. One reason for this is that Passage 2 discusses "greenwashing" directly, Passage 1 never mentions it. This can make it a bit challenging to identify the specific point about which they disagree.
让我们总结一下在每个不主张sages to find the statements that oppose one another, using the provided answer choices as guidelines.
Passage 1
- Environmentalism is popular with shoppers.
- By advertising how their products are sustainable, businesses can make use of the trend.
-调节sustainability claims is a bad idea because it will slow down businesses' abilities to react to trends.
Passage 2
- Environmentalism is popular, leading to the popularity of "green" products.
- "Greenwashing" is a bad thing.
- Because of greenwashing, shoppers are less confident about sustainability claims, ignoring them completely.
- Another result of greenwashing is that companies think it's more important to appear sustainable than to actually be sustainable.
-We should regulate sustainability claims to deal with this problem.
Look at that—the underlined claims oppose one another directly! The best answer is the one that reflects these particular statements: that the passages disagree about "whether sustainability claims should be regulated."
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