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Tablets are the ultimate shortcut tools: Unlike a mother reading a story to a child, for example, a smartphone-told story spoon-feeds images, words, and pictures all at once to a young reader. Rather than having to take the time to process a mothers voice into words, visualize complete pictures and exert a mental effort to follow a story line, kids who follow stories on their smartphones get lazy. The device does the thinking for them, and as a result, their own cognitive muscles remain weak.What Screen Time Can Really Do to Kids Brains,Liraz MargalitWhich quotation best describes how electronic devices deliver information to young users?Tablets are the ultimate shortcut toolsa smartphone-told story spoon-feeds images, words, and pictureskids who follow stories on their smartphones get lazytheir own cognitive muscles remain weak
Which sentence from the excerpt best reveals the contextof the excerpt?Read the excerpt from "A Quilt of a Country."Once these disparate parts were held together by acommon enemy, by the fault lines of world wars and theelectrified fence of communism. With the end of the coldwar there was the creeping concern that without a focus forhatred and distrust, a sense of national identity wouldevaporate, that the left side of the hyphen-African-American, Mexican-American, Irish-Americanwouldoverwhelm the right. And slow-growing domestic traumaslike economic unrest and increasing crime seemed morelikely to emphasize division than community. Today thecitizens of the United States have come together oncemore because of armed conflict and enemy attackO Once these disparate parts were held together by acommon enemy, by the fault lines of world wars and theelectrified fence of communism.With the end of the cold war there was the creepingconcern that without a focus for hatred and distrust, asense of national identity would evaporate, that the leftside of the hyphen-African-American, Mexican-American, Irish-Americanwould overwhelm the right.And slow-growing domestic traumas like economicunrest and increasing crime seemed more likely toemphasize division than community.O Today the citizens of the United States have cometogether once more because of armed conflict andenemy attack