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Kaya Horton

9 December, 08:54

Identify each passage as having either a directly stated main idea or an implied main idea.

Passage 1: A recent report revealed that about

70 percent of American silent films

are lost. With the arrival of talking

films in the 1920s, silent films

became unprofitable. So film studios

threw away most of them. Some films

were saved, but many of them were

later lost in fires caused by the nitrate

in film reels. Several other films were

destroyed when they were recycled for

their metal content.

Passage 2: The planet Jupiter is almost entirely

made of gas and liquid. Although it is

more than 1,000 times larger than

Earth, there is barely any solid surface

to stand on. Jupiter's atmosphere is

made up of hydrogen and helium. It

does not have much water. Plus, huge,

violent storms move a