Read the paragraph below and answer the three questions that follow

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Read the paragraph below and answer the three questions that follow.

(1)  The wide availability of canned, frozen and precooked foods has definitely improved people's lives by freeing up time that used to be spent preparing meals. (2) However, these convenience foods have also had some negative consequences. (3) One effect has been a rise in obesity. (4) Because plentiful convenience foods need little to no preparation time, many people have developed a tendency to eat too much and put on too much weight. (5) These foods also tend to contain unhealthy ingredients like preservatives and high amounts of salt. (6) Therefore, people who rely too heavily on them can find themselves with health problems such as heart disease. (7) Another negative result of convenience food has been the death of family dinner time. (8) Now that people can grab prepackaged foods on the run, they just don't try as hard to sit down to a meal as a family. (9) Convenience foods have also contributed to Americans' rushed lifestyle overall. (10) Unfortunately, when it became easy to just microwave a burrito and keep going, sitting down and eating a relaxed meal seemed like a waste of precious time.

1.     Give the number of the topic sentence in the paragraph above __________________

2.     How many effects does the write include to develop the topic sentence? __________

3.     List the transitional expressions in the paragraph that signal cause or effect?

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Read the paragraph below and answer the three questions that follow

(1)  Most of the ingredients in cigarettes cause serious damage to health, but three of the worst are tar, carbon monoxide, and nicotine. (2) Tar, the brown, sticky substance produced by a burning cigarette, is a messy mixture of hundred of toxic chemicals. (3) At least forty-three of those chemicals cause cancer. (4) The other two destructive substances, carbon monoxide and nicotine, contribute to heart disease. (5) Carbon monoxide prevents red blood cells from carrying a full load of oxygen. (6) Therefore, it reduces the body's oxygen supply.  (7) At the same time, nicotine is not only constricting blood vessels and impairing blood flow, but also stimulating the nicotine work together to damage the cardiovascular system. 

1.   Give the number of the topic sentence in the paragraph above _____________

                                                                                                                                               

2.   How many causes does the write include to develop the topic sentence? ______

3.     List the transitional expressions in the paragraph that signal cause or effect.

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