Identify and Describe Audience Practice Test
•15 QuestionsRead the following passage and answer the question.
Every summer, we watch the same footage: residents wading through floodwater, officials promising “resilience,” and then a return to business as usual. Yet the science is no longer speculative. The 100-year floodplain is expanding, and insurance maps lag behind reality by years. Municipalities can either keep subsidizing rebuilding in the most vulnerable zones or adopt managed retreat policies that buy out repeatedly flooded homes and convert the land into parks, wetlands, and stormwater buffers. This is politically painful, especially when property taxes fund schools. But refusing to plan is a decision too—one that shifts costs onto emergency responders and low-income renters who have no choice about where their landlords build. A serious climate strategy is not a slogan; it is zoning, budgets, and timelines.
The intended audience for the passage is best described as…
Read the following passage and answer the question.
Every summer, we watch the same footage: residents wading through floodwater, officials promising “resilience,” and then a return to business as usual. Yet the science is no longer speculative. The 100-year floodplain is expanding, and insurance maps lag behind reality by years. Municipalities can either keep subsidizing rebuilding in the most vulnerable zones or adopt managed retreat policies that buy out repeatedly flooded homes and convert the land into parks, wetlands, and stormwater buffers. This is politically painful, especially when property taxes fund schools. But refusing to plan is a decision too—one that shifts costs onto emergency responders and low-income renters who have no choice about where their landlords build. A serious climate strategy is not a slogan; it is zoning, budgets, and timelines.
The intended audience for the passage is best described as…