RISE ELA Grade 9 Practice Questions - RISE English Language Arts - Grade 9 Exam

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Excerpt from 'The Salt Flats' Elena stood at the edge of the Bonneville Salt Flats, where the stark white earth met the horizon in a seamless blur of heat shimmer. For months, she had resisted her family's relocation from coastal Oregon to Utah, viewing the desert as a sterile void. But as the sun dipped behind the Silver Island Mountains, painting the salt crust in hues of violent amethyst and copper, she noticed tiny brine shrimp moving resiliently in a shallow saline pool. 'Nothing survives here,' her brother had insisted earlier. Elena pulled out her sketchbook, capturing the fragile organisms under the vibrant sky. 'It doesn't just survive,' she murmured. 'It endures on its own terms.' Which statement best expresses a central theme of the passage?

Unexpected beauty and resilience can be discovered in seemingly harsh or unpromising environments. Relocating to a new geographic region always results in immediate personal fulfillment. Artistic talent is only developed when individuals endure physical isolation. Family members inevitably share identical perceptions of natural landscapes.

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Unexpected beauty and resilience can be discovered in seemingly harsh or unpromising environments.

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