Pretest
Read the following sentence from "An Unlikely Convert."
I viewed an e-reader as just another soulless machine, as impersonal as ą
toaster.
2. What purpose does the author's comparison of an e-reader to a toaster serve?
A. To show her wholehearted support for e-readers
B. To illustrate her initial reluctance to switch to e-readers
C. To assert that e-readers are as essential as kitchen appliances
D. To suggest that machines will one day show humanlike emotion
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