EOC Prep: Electric Cars & Island Oasis

EC #1 - Tracy’s paper needs a stronger position statement. Which of the following could best replace sentence 5 and more effectively state the position Tracy is taking in this paper?

• In other words, the electric car is not what you should buy today, and that is my definitive opinion.

• Truthfully, electric cars have advantages that must be pondered before making a purchase.

• Therefore, the electric car is the wrong choice if you are currently in the market for a new car.

• However, buying an electric car is always an option when you are thinking about a new

  car.

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CCSS.RI.9-10.6

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EC #2 - Tracy has used an ineffective transition in sentence 10. Which word or phrase could best replace In the end in this sentence?

• Obviously

• In fact

• However

• Instead

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CCSS.W.9-10.1C

CCSS.W.9-10.2C

EC #3 - What is the most effective way to combine sentences 15 and 16?

• Furthermore, the batteries in an electric car weaken over time, eventually allowing a person to travel even fewer miles between charges.

• Furthermore, the batteries in an electric car weaken over time, eventually they allow a person to travel even fewer miles between charges.

• Furthermore, the batteries in an electric car weaken over time, which means the batteries eventually allow a person to travel even fewer miles between charges.

• Furthermore, the batteries in an electric car weaken over time because they eventually allow a person to travel even fewer miles between charges.

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CCSS.RI.8.2

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CCSS.RL.7.1

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EC #4 - Tracy would like to add the following detail to the fourth paragraph (sentences 13–17).

This makes traveling longer distances in an electric car quite inconvenient.

Where should this sentence be inserted?

• After sentence 13

• After Sentence 14

• After sentence 15

• Tracy should not add this detail to the fourth paragraph

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

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EC #5 - Tracy has included a redundant sentence in the last paragraph (sentences 18–23). Which sentence should be deleted from this paragraph?

• Sentence 18

• Sentence 19

• Sentence 20

• Sentence 21

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CCSS.RI.8.3

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

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IO #10 - What change, if any, should be made in sentence 2?

• Change hardly to really

• Delete so

• Insert a comma after plants

• No change should be made in this sentence.

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CCSS.RI.8.3

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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IO #11 - How should sentence 5 be changed?

• Change came to comes

• Change existense to existence

• Change the question mark to an exclamation point

• Sentence 5 should not be changed.

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CCSS.RI.8.3

CCSS.RI.8.5

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IO #12 - What is the correct way to write sentences 23 and 24?

• Many of the species that once made their home on Madagascar are now extinct, scientists, however, are still making discoveries.

• Although many of the species that once made their home on Madagascar are now extinct and scientists are still making discoveries.

• Many of the species that once made their home on Madagascar are now extinct, but there are scientists. Who are still making discoveries.

• Although many of the species that once made their home on Madagascar are now extinct, scientists are still making discoveries.

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CCSS.RI.8.2

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IO # 13 - What change, if any, should be made in sentence 30?

• Change deserves to deserved

• Delete the comma

• Change Oasis to oasis

• No change should be made in sentence 30.

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CCSS.RI.8.3

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

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