TCAP Mania ELA.4.6.23

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Multiple Choice

Excerpt from...To Remember a Lecture Better, Take Notes

by Handby Robinson Meyer

13. The warning seemed to have no effect. The quiz showed that long hand-notetakers still remembered lecture content better than laptop-notetakers. And analyzing the notes that laptop-using students took, the two authors admit: “The instruction to not take verbatim notes was completely ineffective at reducing verbatim content.”

14. The final group of students took the quiz a full week after watching are corded lecture. Some of these students were allowed to study their notes for 10minutes before taking the quiz. In this last group, longhand-notetakers who had time to study outperformed everyone else. Longhand-notetakers of any sort, in fact, did better on the quiz than laptop-notetakers.

15. What’s more, if someone took verbatim notes on their laptop, then studying seemed more likely to hinder their performance on the quiz.

16. In other words, taking notes on a laptop seems to lead to verbatim notes,which make it tough to study well. And you can’t successfully warn someone to keep them from taking verbatim notes if they’re using a laptop.

How does paragraph 16 develop the ideas described in paragraphs 13–15?

• Paragraph 16 provides background information that may explain the results described in paragraphs 13–15.

• Paragraph 16 presents the results of the experimental setup described in paragraphs 13–15.

• Paragraph 16 presents an alternate perspective on the experiment described in paragraphs 13–15.

• Paragraph 16 summarizes the conclusions that can be drawn from the results described in paragraphs 13–15.

Multiple Choice

There are three underlined parts in the passage. They may be errors to be corrected, or they may need to be changed for better wording. If a change is needed, select the correct replacement. If no change is needed, select “No change.”

The poet Samuel Coleridge, in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” poetically describes an ironic situation faced by a sailor “Water, water, everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink.” The quote also serves as a reminder of the more practical truth that humans need water to live. In fact, most people would not be able to survive to make it much longer than two or three days without having water. This makes sense when you consider that the human body is made up of about 60% water. Water plays several key roles in physical health: protecting joints, preventing injury and fatigue during exercise, and it helps keep kidneys healthy.

Which change, if any, is needed to the underlined text?

sailor “Water,

• sailor: “Water,

• sailor; “Water,

• sailor . . . “Water

• No change

Multiple Choice

There are three underlined parts in the passage. They may be errors to be corrected, or they may need to be changed for better wording. If a change is needed, select the correct replacement. If no change is needed, select “No change.”

The poet Samuel Coleridge, in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” poetically describes an ironic situation faced by a sailor “Water, water, everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink.” The quote also serves as a reminder of the more practical truth that humans need water to live. In fact, most people would not be able to survive to make it much longer than two or three days without having water. This makes sense when you consider that the human body is made up of about 60% water. Water plays several key roles in physical health: protecting joints, preventing injury and fatigue during exercise, and it helps keep kidneys healthy.

Which change, if any, shows the best way to revise the underlined text?

In fact, most people would not be able to survive to make it much longer than two or three days without having water.

• In fact, most would not survive to make it two or three days without having it.

• In fact, most would not be able to survive any longer than two or three days without any water.

• In fact, most people would not survive longer than two or three days without it.

• No change

Multiple Choice

There are three underlined parts in the passage. They may be errors to be corrected, or they may need to be changed for better wording. If a change is needed, select the correct replacement. If no change is needed, select “No change.”

The poet Samuel Coleridge, in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” poetically describes an ironic situation faced by a sailor “Water, water, everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink.” The quote also serves as a reminder of the more practical truth that humans need water to live. In fact, most people would not be able to survive to make it much longer than two or three days without having water. This makes sense when you consider that the human body is made up of about 60% water. Water plays several key roles in physical health: protecting joints, preventing injury and fatigue during exercise, and it helps keep kidneys healthy.

Which change, if any, shows the best way to revise the underlined text?

and it helps keep kidneys healthy.

• and keeping kidneys healthy.

• and it keeps your kidneys healthy.

• and also your kidneys will be healthier.

• No change

Multiple Choice

Excerpt from “The Lord of the Forest: The American Chestnut”

3. Chestnut made things. You could rock a baby in a chestnut cradle and bury a loved one in a chestnut coffin. You could wear leather gloves cured with the tannins from chestnut bark. You could eat chestnut bread and chestnut-stuffed wild turkey and bear fattened on the mast. You could fall asleep to a chestnut-log fire. You could roast wild, pure-strain American chestnuts on it.

4. No longer. For now, we must conjure it all in our minds. We can read about the magnificent chestnut forests and gaze at the old photographs of monstroustrees rising like furrowed cliff sides toward a sky blotted out with their serrated leaves and wonder what it was like. But we can witness it no longer. “All words about the American chestnut are now but an elegy for it . . . gone down like a slaughtered army,” wrote the naturalist Donald Culross Peattie.

5. For now.

6. But there may come a day.

7. The demise of the American chestnut is woven into the nation’s lore like the tragic wartime death of a beloved family member. The killing fungus —Cryphonectria parasitica — was first discovered in 1904 on a chestnut growing in the New York Zoological Park. Originating in Asia, the blight had little effect on Asiatic chestnuts that evolved with it, but American chestnuts were defenseless to it. The fungus entered the tree through cracks in the bark, creating sunken,orange-black cankers on the trunk. Vast networks of unseen, threadlike filaments encircled the tree, choking off water and nutrients, killing each one down to the ground.

The following item has two parts. Answer Part A and then answer Part B.

Part A. Based on the passage, what is the author’s point of view regarding the loss of the American chestnut?

• The disappearance of the American chestnut is a great tragedy.

• The loss of the chestnut is just one result of a natural process.

• The American chestnut had its time in history, but it is now best forgotten.

• Botanists and horticulturists did not do enough to save the American chestnut.

Multiple Choice

Excerpt from “The Lord of the Forest: The American Chestnut”

3. Chestnut made things. You could rock a baby in a chestnut cradle and bury a loved one in a chestnut coffin. You could wear leather gloves cured with the tannins from chestnut bark. You could eat chestnut bread and chestnut-stuffed wild turkey and bear fattened on the mast. You could fall asleep to a chestnut-log fire. You could roast wild, pure-strain American chestnuts on it.

4. No longer. For now, we must conjure it all in our minds. We can read about the magnificent chestnut forests and gaze at the old photographs of monstroustrees rising like furrowed cliff sides toward a sky blotted out with their serrated leaves and wonder what it was like. But we can witness it no longer. “All words about the American chestnut are now but an elegy for it . . . gone down like a slaughtered army,” wrote the naturalist Donald Culross Peattie.

5. For now.

6. But there may come a day.

7. The demise of the American chestnut is woven into the nation’s lore like the tragic wartime death of a beloved family member. The killing fungus —Cryphonectria parasitica — was first discovered in 1904 on a chestnut growing in the New York Zoological Park. Originating in Asia, the blight had little effect on Asiatic chestnuts that evolved with it, but American chestnuts were defenseless to it. The fungus entered the tree through cracks in the bark, creating sunken,orange-black cankers on the trunk. Vast networks of unseen, threadlike filaments encircled the tree, choking off water and nutrients, killing each one down to the ground.

Part B Which sentence from the passage best supports the correct answer to Part A?

• "Chestnut made things." (paragraph 3)

• “All words about the American chestnut are now but an elegy for it . . . gone down like a slaughtered army,” wrote the naturalist Donald Culross Peattie." (paragraph 4)

• “The demise of the American Chestnut is woven into the nation’s lore like the tragic wartime death of a beloved family member.” (paragraph 7)

• "Vast networks of unseen, threadlike filaments encircled the tree, choking off water and nutrients, killing each one down to the ground."(paragraph 7)