PSAT-Writing and Language 8/9

12. Read the passage and choose the correct answer.

• pollination: this is

• pollination,

• pollination;

• no change

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CCSS.L.8.2A

13. Read the passage and choose the correct answer.

• no change

• highlights the potentially disastrous effects

• highlight the potentially disastrous effects

• highlights the potentially disastrous affects

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CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.RI.8.4

14. Read the passage and choose your answer.

• no change

• Known as a colony

• It is known as a colony

• Colony

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CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.W.8.2D

15. Which choice offers the most accurate interpretation of the data in the chart.

(exceeded 25 percent of the population each winter)

• no change

• been above acceptable range

• not changed noticeably from year to year

• greatly increased every year

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CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.8

16. Which choice offers accurate interpretation of the data in the chart?

(portion of the bee population lost fell nearly 10 percent in the United States, with a loss 31 percent)

• no change

• portion of bees lost was double what it had been the previous year, and rising

• number of losses, which had fallen within the acceptable range the previous year rose to,

• portion of total colonies lost rose almost 10 percentage points with a loss of

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CCSS.SL.8.2

17. Which choice most smoothly and effectively introduces the writer's discussion of studies of CCD in this paragraph?

• no change

• Bees are vanishing, and according to studies there are several possible reasons for this trend.

• Several possible reasons, offered by studies, may explain why bees are vanishing

• Delete the underlined sentence

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.W.8.2A

18. At this point, the writer is considering adding the following sentence:

Prolonged exposure to neonicotinoids has been shown to increase bees' vulnerability to disease and parasitic mites.

Should the writer make this addition here?

• Yes, because it provides support for the claim made in the previous sentence.

• Yes, because it introduces a new idea that will become important later in the passage.

• No, because it would be better placed elsewhere.

• No, because it contradicts the main idea of the passage.

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.W.8.1B

19. Look at the passage and choose the correct answer.

• no change

• is a pretty big deal.

• can't be put on the back burner.

• cannot be ignored.

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CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.RI.8.4

20. Read the passage and choose the correct answer.

• No Change

• crops, this is an expensive proposition when there is a shortage of bees

• crops, an expensive proposition when there is a shortage of bees

• crops; an expensive proposition when there is a shortage of bees

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.W.8.2D

21. Read the passage and choose the correct answer.

• no change

• there

• their

• its

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CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D