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 * Directions: On a separate sheet of paper, number 1 - 6. Next to each number, write the author's purpose - to entertain, to persuade, or to inform.**

1.) 1995 TOYOTA TERCEL FOR SALE: This is a 4-door car in great condition. It gets good mileage per gallon, and it runs well. The car has 125,000 miles on it, and only costs $2295. This is a great deal! Contact 215-999-1212 if you're interested.

2.) Cuttlefish are masters of disguise. When they swim in different environments, they change their shape and color so that they blend in. They can look like sand, pebbles, or coral. Scientists have even gotten cuttlefish to form black and white checkerboards! No one is totally sure how cuttlefish pull of their magic, though.

3.) Chinese Poem, by J.D. McClatchy Whatever change you were considering, Do not plant another tree in the garden. One tree means four seasons of sadness: What is going, What is coming, What will not come, What cannot go.

Here in bed, through the south window I can see the moon watching us both, Someone’s hand around its clump of light. Yours? I know you are sitting out there, Looking at silver bloom against black.

That drop from your cup on the night sky’s Lacquer you wipe away with your sleeve As if its pleated thickets were the wide space Between us, though you know as well as I do This autumn is no different from the last.

4.) The Phillies played a great trick on Kyle Kendrick this week. They told him he had been traded to the Yomiuri Giants, a Japanese team, for Kobayashi Iwamura. Iwamura, it so happens, is the world's hot dog eating champion, not a baseball player at all. The prank, orchestrated by Brett Myers, included a letter on club stationery, a detailed itinerary, and questions from members of the media, all of whom were in on the joke. "Do they have good food in Japan?" a stunned Kendrick asked reporters, who circled his locker inside the clubhouse at Bright House Networks Field. "I don't know what to think right now." "They got me," Kendrick said when he found out. "I thought it was a done deal. I thought it really happened. Gosh, good thing it didn't."

5.) The Waterworks is a new Philadelphia restaurant with excellent food and a beautiful setting. Located in the old Fairmount Waterworks, flanked by the Philadelphia Museum of Art on one side and the Schuylkill River on the other, the Waterworks offers breathtaking views, particularly at sunset. The service is prompt and polite, but never overbearing, and the food is delicious. The menu features a variety of flavors without one clear specialty; t's a great place for vegetarians, seafood lovers, and carnivores. Anyone looking for a wonderful place to take that special someone should consider the Waterworks.

6.) Yesterday, I won a small battle in the war over our basement. My husband's an idea man; he wants glass front refrigerators, a new lighting design, a granite bar. I'm the pragmatist, content to be rid of our wood paneling and linoleum floors. So, after spending several hours by myself with just some sandpaper and a face mask, I decided it was time for him to face the music. "Hey hon," I called, "Why don't you come down here and help me? I'll make dinner when we're done." He descended the stairs warily, wondering what I was up to. "Get changed, and you can start on the trim," I suggested. Suitably attired in jeans and work shoes, he took a piece of sandpaper from me, watched me for a few seconds, and opined, "This doesn't look that hard. We should be done in about an hour." Just fifteen minutes in, however, he was singing a different tune. And two hours later, when we still had several walls to go, he admitted that maybe, just maybe, we needed to focus on the big things first.