SC Ready Review 2 7th Grade

Read the claim below.

People should not keep wild animals as pets.

Select the piece of evidence that best supports this claim.

• Certain states and cities have laws that allow for certain wild animals to be kept as pets.

• Wild animals often carry diseases that are incurable--and sometimes fatal--in humans.

Read the claim below.

Public transportation should be free.

Select the piece of evidence that best supports this claim.

• Several cities around the world have experimented with free public transportation but eventually had to bring back fares.

• Free public transportation would encourage more people to ride buses and trains, which cause less pollution than cars do.

Read the claim below.

Boxing should be banned as a professional sport.

Select the piece of evidence that best supports this claim.

• Boxing promotes discipline, increases self-esteem, and encourages physical fitness.

• Boxing glamorizes aggression and physical violence against other people.

Select the best evidence to support the statement that it's not always easy to tell when a flood will occur.

Floods are one of the most common hazards in the United States. Flood effects can be local, impacting a neighborhood or community, or very large, affecting entire river basins and multiple states.

However, all floods are not alike. Some floods develop slowly, sometimes over a period of days. But flash floods can develop quickly, sometimes in just a few minutes without any visible signs of rain. Flash floods often have a dangerous wall of roaring water that carries rocks, mud, and other debris can can sweep away most thngs in its path.

• Floods are one of the most common hazards in the United States.

• However, not all floods are alike.

• But flash floods can develop quickly, sometimes in just a few minutes without any visible signs of rain.

The following passage was written by Frederick Douglass, a former slave and a leader of the abolitionist movement. Select the best evidence to support the statement that enslaved family members were often separated from one another.

My mother and I were separated when I was but an infant--before I knew her as my mother. It is a common custom, in the part of Maryland from which I ran away, to part children from their mothers at a very early age...For what this separation is done, I do not know, unless it be to hinder the development of the child's affection towards its mother, and to blunt and destroy the natural affection of the mother for the child. This is the inevitable result.

• This is the inevitable result.

• It is a common custom, in the part of Maryland from which I ran away, to part children from their mothers at a very early age...

• For what this separation is done, I do not know....

Select the best evidence to support the statement that in nature, sweet foods are more likely to be safe and nutritious than bitter foods.

Primates, I learned, love sweets for reasons that are simple enough to explain: sweetness is the natural sign of ripeness, and the best assurance, especially when balanced with just enough acids, that the thing you're eating is good to eat. Yet the picture is more complex. The primate instinct for sugar is particular, adjustable, and sometimes seasonal. The lesser mouse lemur of Madagascar, a gourmand among monkeys, raises its threshhold during the rainy season so that, when sugars are less abundant, it requires less sweetness.

• sweetness is the natural sign of ripeness, and the best assurance, especially when balanced with just enough acids, that the thing you're eating is good to eat.

• The primate instinct for sugar is particular, adjustable, and sometimes seasonal.

• Yet the picture is more complex.