English Standardized Testing

English Standardized Testing

By PAZ ABARCA

Multiple Choice

A standardized test is

• an assessment aligned to standards.

• an assessment sold by the government.

• an assessment designed to be administered, scored, and interpreted in a consistent way across many classrooms, schools, etc.

• an assessment designed to be administered, scored, and interpreted in a consistent way across states in the country.

Open Ended

What does TOEIC mean?

Multiple Choice

How much time do we have for developing the TOEIC test?

• 45 minutes

• 75 minutes

• 120 minutes

• 100 minutes

Multiple Choice

How many parts are there in the TOEIC listening and reading test?

• 4

• 7

• 8

• 6

Open Ended

What are the different parts of the TOEIC listening and reading test?

Vocabulary

Select the correct vocabulary word

Multiple Choice

Break into parts and describe the parts and their relationships

• Analyze

• Explain

• Contrast

• Describe

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Examine two or more subjects and tell how they are similar, in some cases, also mention differences

• Discuss

• Evaluate

• Compare

• Contrast

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Examine two or more subjects and stress how they differ

• Compare

• Contrast

• Prove

• Evaluate

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Give enough facts about or characteristics of a subject to make it clear to someone who is unfamiliar with it

• Explain

• Summarize

• Justify

• Describe

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Provide an overview and careful analysis of an event or concept; use details for support

• Summarize

• Discuss

• Explain

• Describe

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Make an objective judgment about a topic, relying more on informed sources than your own opinion

• Summarize

• Analyze

• Explain

• Evaluate

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Clarify and interpret an event or concept, providing supporting details and examples

• Describe

• Explain

• Analyze

• Prove

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Tell the meaning and significance of an event or concept

• Discuss

• Justify

• Compare

• Interpret

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Explain or give reasons for decisions or conclusions; be persuasive

• Justify

• Compare

• Describe

• Contrast

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Provide impartial reasoning for a given statement

• Analyze

• Summarize

• Prove

• Evaluate

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Retell very briefly an event, concept, or debate, stating only the main points, in a objective manner

• Analyze

• Describe

• Discuss

• Summarize

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Express a thought or an idea based on the review of information

• Formulate

• Infer

• Predict

• Summarize

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Extend information beyond what is directly stated

• Trace

• Support

• Infer

• Predict

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Show evidence to back a conclusion or argument (e.g., citing people with similar points of view)

• Compare

• Support

• Trace

• Predict

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Describe a path or sequence (e.g., to explain the chronology of events).

• Trace

• Predict

• Support

• Formulate

Grammar

Complete the questions with the correct response

Multiple Choice

Parts of speech added to the beginning of a word are called...?

• Suffixes

• Prefixes

• Roots

• Base words

Multiple Choice

The prefix pre means ....?

• before

• after

• during

• later

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The prefix mis means...?

• right

• left

• clearly

• wrong

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What do we call an ending we add to a word?

• prefix

• suffix

• baseword

• root

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The suffix or ending less, as in the word cashless, means...?

• full of

• before

• without

• in a certain way

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In the word lonely, the ly means ...?

• in a certain way

• full of

• against

• to do again

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What does the word beautiful mean?

• wrongly beautiful

• beautiful before

• beautiful again

• full of beauty

Multiple Choice

Hey! You broke my new pencil!

• Interjection
• Conjunction
• Preposition
• Noun

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Hey! You broke my new pencil!

• Noun
• Pronoun
• Adjective
• Preposition

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Hey! You broke my new pencil!

• Adjective
• Article
• Adverb
• Verb

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Hey! You broke my new pencil!

• Article
• Adverb
• Adjective
• Preposition

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Hey! You broke my new pencil!

• Adjective
• Noun
• Pronoun
• Verb

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Daniel and I quickly ran to the corner bakery.

• Interjection
• Conjunction
• Preposition
• Article

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Daniel and I quickly ran to the corner bakery.

• Verb
• Adverb
• Adjective
• Preposition

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Daniel and I quickly ran to the corner bakery.

• Preposition
• Conjunction
• Verb
• Pronoun

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Daniel and I quickly ran to the corner bakery.

• Noun
• Article
• Conjunction
• Preposition

Multiple Choice

Complete the following sentence with the appropriate verb:

How I miss ________ late on the weekends!

• To sleep

• Sleeping

• To sleeping

• Sleep

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct sentence

• I don’t mind wait for you if it’s necessary.

• I don’t mind to wait for you if it’s necessary.

• I doesn’t mind waiting for you if it’s necessary.

• I don’t mind waiting for you if it’s necessary.

Multiple Choice

Select the option that best fits the following sentence:

Why do you hate _______________ by plane?

• Travels/ Travelling

• To travel / Travelling

• To travelling / Travel

• Traveled / Travelling

Multiple Choice

Select the verb that best fits the blank in this sentence:

They continued _____________ although they were more than 65 years old.

• Working

• To work

• Work

• Worked

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A(n) ___ is a word, phrase, or clause that modifies (or describes) another word and adds detail to a sentence.

• verb
• modifier
• adjective
• adverb

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A(n) ____ modifies (or describes) nouns or pronouns.

• verb
• pronoun
• adjective 
• adverb

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A(n) ____ modifies (or describes) verbs.

• verb
• plural noun
• adjective
• adverb

Multiple Choice

To correct a misplaced modifier, rearrange,  revise, and ____ the sentence by moving the words. 

• rewrite
• review
• recycle
• reward

Multiple Choice

Which sentence is written MOST clearly and correctly? 

• Filled with creamy caramel, Dane enjoyed the surprisingly filling candy bar.
• Filled with creamy caramel, the candy bar Dane enjoyed was surprisingly filling.

Multiple Choice

Choose the sentence with the modifier in the correct place.

• The clerk sold the scarf to the woman with the red print.
• The clerk sold the scarf with the red print to the woman.

Multiple Choice

Choose the sentence with the modifier in the correct place.

• On her way to school, Marissa found a woman's green purse.
•  On her way to school, Marissa found a green woman's purse.

Multiple Choice

BECAUSE PEETA MELLARK LOVES CHOCOLATE, I made him some fudge.

• sentence

• fragment

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By the time I arrived, DRACULA HAD EATEN THE ENTIRE PIZZA.

• sentence

• fragment

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Albus Dumbledore worked on his project, STAYING UP ALL NIGHT TO FINISH.

• sentence

• fragment

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Wherever Simba goes, HE ALWAYS BRINGS A COMPASS.

• sentence

• fragment