Long Quiz 1 (Reading and Writing Skills)

Directions: Read and understand what properties of a well-written text are referred to the underlined words.

My dog, Romeo, is the best pet anyone could have. He is beautiful and easy to care for. Playing with him is lots of fun. He always takes care of me. There isn't a better pet anywhere.

• Focus

• Mechanics

• Technical Words

• Development and Unity

Directions: Read and understand what properties of a well-written text are referred to the underlined words.

Romeo is a beautiful tricolor Sheltie. He is mostly black with white and a bit brown. Caring for him is easy because I simply have to make sure he has fresh water and food every day. I exercise him by throwing his toys. Romeo is a good pet because he is nice-looking and doesn't require much care.

• Focus

• Mechanics

• Technical Words

• Development and Unity

Directions: Read and understand what properties of a well-written text are referred to the underlined words.

As you can see, Romeo is a great pet. I am proud of him and he doesn't require much care. Playing with him is always enjoyable. He watches over me and keeps me safe. Romeo is absolutely the best pet anyone could even have!

• Focus

• Figurative Language

• Jargon

• Development and Unity

Directions: Read and understand what properties of a well-written text are referred to the underlined words.

Some people might claim that there is no real alternative to a new generation of nuclear reactors. However, combined heat and power units, which generate electricity, are already economical for large houses or blocks of flats and smaller units will be on the market next year. Local generation of electricity eliminates the enormous losses of wasted heat in electricity generation by fossil fuels or nuclear reactors. Wind turbines and solar cells on the roof can also provide home solutions and will become more economical as costs come down with mass production.

• Technical Words

• Figurative Language

• Jargon

• Development and Unity

Directions: Read and understand what properties of a well-written text are referred to the underlined words.

Local mechanics said that there was nothing wrong with the car engine but the foolish old man had never learned to drive. He did not even know that he had to insert the key and switch on the ignition. He did not know that when the engine was switched on, the car could be more powerful than the two horses.

• Technical Words

• Figurative Language

• Jargon

• Mechanics

Directions: Read and understand what properties of a well-written text are referred to the underlined words.

There are no blood and no pain. Is it a miracle? One thing is for certain. There is nothing else in the whole wide world quite like Thaipusam. Held in January or February each year, the Thaipusam festival is observed by the Hindu Tamil community. Those who carry the vast ornate steel canopy covered with peacock feathers called the ‘kavadi’ do so in worship of a Hindu god, Lord Subramaniam.

• Technical Words

• Figurative Language

• Jargon

• Mechanics

Directions: Identify what type of discourse is used in the text.

This morning at 9am, a school bus collided with a car at the intersection of Jones and Heard streets. There were no injuries on the school bus, but medical personnel performed checks on each student and the driver before those students were transported to their schools.

• Argumentation

• Description

• Exposition

• Persuasion

Directions: Identify what type of discourse is used in the text.

Some readers  may  challenge  the  view  that  animal  testing  can  be  done  away  with.  After  all,  many  believe  that  it  is impossible  to  eliminate  the  need  for  animals  in  research.  Nonetheless,  my  discussion  of  alternatives  to  animal  testing  is  in  fact  addressing  the  larger  issue  of  choice. 

• Argumentation

• Description

• Exposition

• Persuasion

Directions: Identify what type of discourse is used in the text.

While replacing libraries with tablets may seem like a simple solution, it would encourage people to spend even more time looking at digital screens, despite the myriad issues surrounding them. It would also end access to many of the benefits of libraries that people have come to rely on. In many areas, libraries are such an important part of the community network that they could never be replaced by a simple object.

• Argumentation

• Description

• Exposition

• Persuasion

Directions: Identify what type of discourse is used in the text.

Sunset is the time of day when our sky meets the outer space solar winds. There are blue, pink, and purple swirls, spinning and twisting, like clouds of balloons caught in a whirlwind. The sun moves slowly to hide behind the line of horizon, while the moon races to take its place in prominence atop the night sky. People slow to a crawl, entranced, fully forgetting the deeds that must still be done. There is a coolness, a calmness, when the sun does set.

• Argumentation

• Description

• Exposition

• Persuasion