Interpreting Nonfiction & Informational Text GED Practice

Interpreting Nonfiction & Informational Text GED Practice

Multiple Choice

Select the best topic sentence for the paragraph.

Johnny has to spend twice as long on his math homework. Sometimes he gets the numbers mixed up, and he can't remember the formulas. He has to study and practice a lot to get good grades in math.

• Math is the worst subject ever.

• Math is Johnny's most difficult class.

• Johnny has a difficult time in school.

• Reading is Johnny's favorite subject.

Multiple Choice

Which supporting detail best supports this topic sentence?

Dora the explorer is an educational show for kids.

• She has a really cute monkey named Boots.

• Dora's purple backpack holds all of her tools.

• Dora helps teach kids Spanish words.

• She usually stops Swiper from swiping.

Multiple Choice

What is the main idea of the following paragraph?

Robots are being used in sumo wrestling contests. Sumo wrestling is a sport that started in Japan. It takes place in a ring. Two players try to score points by holding each other down or pushing each other out of the ring. Robot sumo uses robots instead of humans. The robot that scores the most points wins.

• Robots are being used in sumo wrestling contests.

• Sumo wrestling is a sport.

• Robots hold each other down in sumo wrestling.

• Robots that score more points will win.

Excerpt from The Liar's Club, an autobiography by Mary Karr

"That fall my school career didn't go much better. I got suspended from my second-grade class twice, first for biting a kid named Phyllis who wasn't, to my mind, getting her scissors out fast enough to comply with the teacher, then again for breaking my plastic ruler over the head of a boy named Sammy Joe Tyler, who I adored. A pale blue knot rose through the blond stubble of his crew cut. Both times I got sent to the principal, a handsome ex-football coach name Frank Doleman who let Lecia and me call him Uncle Frank.

(Lecia and I had impressed Uncle Frank by both learning to read prety much without instruction before we were three. Mother took us each down to his office in turn, and we each dutifully read the front page of the day's paper out loud to him, so he could be sure it wasn't just some story we'd memorized.

He let me stay in his office playing chess all afternoon with whoever wandered in. He loved pitting me against particularly lunkheaded fifth- and sixth-grade boys who'd been sent down for paddlings they never got. He'd try to use my whipping them at chess to make them nervous about how dumb they were. "Now this little bitty old second-grader here took you clean in six plays. Don't you reckon you need to be listening to Miss Vilimez instead of cutting up?" When Mrs. Hess led me solemnly down the hall to Frank Doleman's office, I would pretend to cry, but thought instead about Brer Rabbit as he was being thrown into the briar patch where he'd been born and raised, and screaming, Please don't throw me in that briar patch!"

Multiple Choice

If the writer had attended an elementary school dance, which of the following might she have done?

• made fun of everyone as they danced

• sat and played chess with the boys

• been too shy to dance with anyone

• hit a boy in the arm to get his attention

Multiple Choice

What type of principal was Frank Doleman?

• strict

• ineffective

• unusual

• mean