U4 Part 1 Practice

Based on the title and before reading, what can readers predict about a selection called "Save Our Oceans: How You Can Help"?

• The passage will try to educate us about global warming.

• The many secrets of the deep ocean animals will be revealed.

• Scientists will tell readers about how much water is being wasted and how it affects the ocean.

• Readers will be encouraged to take steps to reduce pollution and waste in the oceans.

Which of these is NOT an external response that Don Quixote had after reading the old knight stories?

• bought an old nag

• has a girlfriend in a town over that he has never met

• believes the stories are true

• fights a windmill

How does Don Quixote's internal response advance the plot?

• Don Quixote believes the stories are true so he convinces his son to become king.

• Don Quixote believes the stories are true so he decides to become a knight and sets off on an adventure.

• Don Quixote does not believe in the stories so he helps his friend buy an old horse so they can make some money.

• Don Quixote believes the stories are true and he meets a girl in another town. They get married and live happily ever after.

Choose an example of internal response

• Billy thought to himself, if I had a bike like that...

• Sarah threw a rock at the window.

• Tate ran up to the store to buy a soda.

• Jane sat on the bench and just cried and cried.

The ally cats were all hanging around the trash behind The Ritz Cafe. Felix asked Olive, "How do you get your fur so shiny, living on the streets?" to which Olive replied, "It ain't easy being purr-fect".

Which is the best analysis of how the author’s use of language in this sentence

contributes to the mood of the selection?

• The selection contains a pun "Purr-fect" in the place of perfect is a play on words-- which reinforces humor.

• Felix is sympathetic to Olive's plight of living on the streets.

• Olive's sarcasm shows that she doesn't like Felix.

• The idea of cats talking is funny, which creates a humorous mood.

The word fragility contains the root word, fragile, which means "easily broken and something that should be handled carefully". Using your

       knowledge of -ity, choose the most likely meaning of fragility.

• able to be broken easily

• the state or quality of being fragile

• a thing that is fragile

• unable to be handled because of how easy it is to break.

Two words with the same basic meaning may have different nuances. Which of the following best explains what that statement means?

• The words refer to something that can be strongly positive or strongly negative.

• The words have the same connotation, but they have different shades of meaning that imply different things.

• The words are synonyms, so a writer should not use them together.

• The words have the same denotation, but they have different shades of meaning that imply different things.

In Act I of The Phantom Tollbooth, Milo meets the five advisors to the King of Dictionopolis. They address him in five ways.

 

Greetings! Salutations! Welcome! Good Afternoon! Hello!

 

 

Which of the following best describes a nuance in these terms?

• The words have the same meaning, but "Greetings!" implies that the speaker already knows Milo.

• The words have the same meaning, but "Salutations!" implies that the speaker is annoyed.

• Some words are more formal than others, but "Welcome!" suggests the most friendliness.

•  Some words are less formal than others, but "Good Afternoon!" suggests the least formality.

Read the sentence.

We were very _____ in the way we asked for a raise in our allowance.

Think about the nuance in each of the following words. Which word most clearly implies that the request involved trickery?

• clever

• sensible

• cunning

• smart

It was a long drive home. I fell asleep in the backseat like I always do, my head on Via's lap like she was my pillow, a towel wrapped around the seat belt so I wouldn't drool all over her. Via fell asleep, too, and Mom and Dad talked quietly about grown-up things I didn't care about.

I don't know how long I was sleeping, but when I woke up, there was a full moon outside the car window. It was a purple night, and we were driving on a highway full of cars. And then I heard Mom and Dad talking about me.

"We can't keep protecting him," Mom whispered to Dad, who was driving.

"We can't just pretend he's going to wake up tomorrow and this isn't going to be his reality, because it is, Nate, and we have to help him learn to deal with it. We can't just keep avoiding situations that . . ."

"So sending him off to middle school like a lamb to the slaughter . . . ," Dad answered angrily, but he didn't even finish his sentence because he saw me in the mirror looking up.

"What's a lamb to the slaughter?" I asked sleepily.

------>>> What contrast is created by the shift in one narrator to another?

• the contrast between the parents thoughts on sending their child to school

• the contrast between the the child's sleepiness and the parents anger

• the contrast between the parents sleepiness and the child's anger

• the contrast between the darkness of the night and the liveliness in the car