Writing and Language Test Practice-Future Senior Camp-2022

1.

• NO CHANGE

• and with

• and also

• and competing with

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CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E

2. The writer wants to include a quotation by Hersey that supports the topic of the passage. Which choice best accomplishes this goal?

• A) NO CHANGE

• B) interesting, since “learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.”

• C) interesting because “journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.”

• D) interesting with “drawings like those of the wonderfully imaginative geniuses among children’s illustrators.”

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

3.

• A) NO CHANGE

• B) Spaulding the director

• C) Spaulding, the director,

• D) Spaulding—the director

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CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

4. Which choice most effectively combines the sentences at the underlined portion?

• A) readers, and he

• B) readers—namely, he

• C) readers; and Spaulding

• D) readers, and meanwhile he

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CCSS.L.9-10.2A

5. Which choice best supports the information that follows in the sentence?

• A) NO CHANGE

• B) acquired a reputation for perfectionism and for setting high standards for his work,

• C) been interested in politics before breaking into the genre of children’s literature,

• D) published nine children’s books and having received three nominations for the prestigious Caldecott Medal,

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CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

6.

• A) NO CHANGE

• B) For example,

• C) Furthermore,

• D) At any rate,

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CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E

7.

• A) NO CHANGE

• B) an image that Geisel finally hit upon became the basis of his story:

• C) Geisel finally hit upon the image that became the basis for his story:

• D) the story was finally based on an image that Geisel hit upon:

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CCSS.RI.11-12.3

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

8.

• A) NO CHANGE

• B) After thirty-six weeks—or nine months—had passed,

• C) After a length of nine months had elapsed,

• D) Nine months later,

9.

• A) NO CHANGE

• B) was

• C) has been

• D) DELETE the underlined portion.

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CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1B

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

10.

• A) NO CHANGE

• B) followed; many

• C) followed, many

• D) followed—many

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CCSS.L.9-10.2A