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that many shoppers swear their eyesight improves just by

looking at it. There’s no better way to end a trip

through Harry’s produce department than by drinking it
in.

Grocery shopping can be a chore, but at Harry’s, it is

more often a delight. A trip through the produce

department is a tempting tour through a garden where
every vegetable is in season and no fruit is forbidden.

Questions

1. What is the dominant impression of the essay?

2. The introduction of the essay is

a. an anecdote

b. broad to narrow

c. narrow to broad
d. quotation

3. Write the thesis statement on the line below. Are

the points listed?

4. Write the topic sentence of each body paragraph

on the lines that follow.