read the passage. there are several questions about this passage. from neither snow nor rain in the summer of 1963, when people went to their local post office to purchase stamps, many encountered a wide - eyed, orange - faced figurine clad in a letter carriers blue uniform. his name was mr. zip. when they pressed a button on his side, they heard the brassy - voiced broadway star ethel merman deliver a special version of \zip - a - deedoo - dah\. \welcome the zip code,\ merman half sang and half shouted in her inimitable style. \learn it today. send your mail out the five - digit way!\ mr. zip symbolized the five - digit zip code, the most radical address change since a century before, when abraham lincolns postmaster general montgomery blair required people to put street addresses on their envelopes.... but between 1940 and 1960, the amount of mail delivered by the post office more than doubled, from 28 billion to 64 billion pieces a year. clerks could no longer sort it all fast enough under the old system. the zip code was supposed to be the solution. the first number represented one of the 10 delivery zones around the country, starting with zero in the northeast and ending with the number nine on the west coast. the second number often indicated a state, and the third usually represented a big - city post office where mail was sorted. the fourth and fifth typically indicated the closest post office to a letter recipients home. in other words, a clerk could look at a zip code and pinpoint almost exactly where a given piece of mail was going without squinting to read a senders scrawled handwriting. the post office wanted mr. zip to become as familiar as smokey the bear. small - town postmasters arranged for him to ride on floats in parades and appear at country fairs. the post office held beauty contests around the country, crowning the winners miss zip code. dick tracy, the popular square - jawed comic strip detective, appeared in an advertisement telling this question has two parts. answer part a, and then answer part b. part a what does the word radical mean in the first sentence of paragraph 2? 1. admirable 2. complex 3. extreme 4. misunderstood part b select three details from paragraph 2 that together best explain why a radical change was needed. 1. \mr. zip symbolized the five - digit zip code\ 2.
equired people to put street addresses on their envelopes\ 3. he amount of mail delivered by the post office more than doubled\ 4. \64 billion pieces a year\

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read the passage. there are several questions about this passage. from neither snow nor rain in the summer of 1963, when people went to their local post office to purchase stamps, many encountered a wide - eyed, orange - faced figurine clad in a letter carriers blue uniform. his name was mr. zip. when they pressed a button on his side, they heard the brassy - voiced broadway star ethel merman deliver a special version of \zip - a - deedoo - dah\. \welcome the zip code,\ merman half sang and half shouted in her inimitable style. \learn it today. send your mail out the five - digit way!\ mr. zip symbolized the five - digit zip code, the most radical address change since a century before, when abraham lincolns postmaster general montgomery blair required people to put street addresses on their envelopes.... but between 1940 and 1960, the amount of mail delivered by the post office more than doubled, from 28 billion to 64 billion pieces a year. clerks could no longer sort it all fast enough under the old system. the zip code was supposed to be the solution. the first number represented one of the 10 delivery zones around the country, starting with zero in the northeast and ending with the number nine on the west coast. the second number often indicated a state, and the third usually represented a big - city post office where mail was sorted. the fourth and fifth typically indicated the closest post office to a letter recipients home. in other words, a clerk could look at a zip code and pinpoint almost exactly where a given piece of mail was going without squinting to read a senders scrawled handwriting. the post office wanted mr. zip to become as familiar as smokey the bear. small - town postmasters arranged for him to ride on floats in parades and appear at country fairs. the post office held beauty contests around the country, crowning the winners miss zip code. dick tracy, the popular square - jawed comic strip detective, appeared in an advertisement telling this question has two parts. answer part a, and then answer part b. part a what does the word radical mean in the first sentence of paragraph 2? 1. admirable 2. complex 3. extreme 4. misunderstood part b select three details from paragraph 2 that together best explain why a radical change was needed. 1. \mr. zip symbolized the five - digit zip code\ 2.
equired people to put street addresses on their envelopes\ 3. 	he amount of mail delivered by the post office more than doubled\ 4. \64 billion pieces a year\

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(a) 3. extreme
(b) 3. "the amount of mail delivered by the Post Office more than doubled"
4. "64 billion pieces a year"
2. "required people to put street addresses on their envelopes"

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