ELA Exam-Semester BI

How could you correct the sentence fragment below? Bart and Marvin and their friends.

• Add “from school” after “friends.” Bart and Marvin and their friends from school

• Add “huddled behind a tree” after “friends.” Bart and Marvin and their friends squeezed behind a tree.

• Add “Terrified” before the word “Bart.” Terrified Bart and Marvin and their friends.

• Add a comma before the word “and.” Bart, Marvin and their friends.

Read the sentence below, which states a main idea.The National Park Service preserves places where key events in American history happened. Which detail supports this main idea?

• Camping in a national park often feels very rugged because the park buildings are basic.

• Most Americans think that the National Park Service is about mountains and canyons—not museums.

• National parks are also used to preserve wilderness areas for Americans to visit.

• Ellis Island is now a national park with a museum dedicated to the history of immigration.

What is the main idea of these two sentences? Many flowers are what we call annuals, their entire life cycle — from seed to death — takes just one year. They might leave behind sleeping seeds that could sprout again in the future, but the flowers, roots, stems and leaves all fade away as soon as the season is done.

• Scientists think annuals are the first type of plant that existed.

• The life cycle of a plant is seed to death

• Annuals only live for one year and will not return.

• Plants have flowers, root systems, stems, and leaves.

What does the word “long” means in the sentence below?My grandmother loved to take long walks in the woods with me.

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• adverb

Which of these sentences includes a metaphor?

• The opossum’s tail was sticking straight up.

• The opossum’s tail was the color of its nose.

• The opossum’s tail was an ugly pink snake.

• The opossum’s tail was like a rat’s tale.

 

Where do the homophones there, their, and they're belong in the following sentence? _____ is more room in _____ garage, but _____ not going to buy another car. Choose the correct order for filling the blanks in the sentence and write it.

If you know that the light from stars takes many years to reach the earth, and you read that the light we see is caused by the star exploding, you can make the inference that—

• none of the stars we can see now will be visible next year.

• telescopes only show us a small percentage of stars.

• many of the stars we see have already died out.

• stars burn much hotter than our sun does.

 

Which main idea does this detail support? Bees form highly organized societies in which every bee has a specific job.

• Male ants are called “drones” and live only to reproduce.

• Ant stings can be dangerous to humans.

• Some insects are social species that live in large groups.

• There are thousands of ant species in the world.

What kind of text is a magazine article?

• natural text

• informal text

• informational text

• fictional text

 

Which sentence uses alliteration?

• The hounds scattered across the field.

• The fox was a fearless foe.

• The hunter’s children pray it escapes.

• Again it retreated to its den.