Test Prep

 

It’s been a cold fall. Every morning the grass is covered with frost. Ice hangs off the bottom of cars. As we walk to school, our fingers freeze inside our gloves and our cheeks are bright red when we enter our classrooms. I can’t wait until spring! Which of the following cannot be proven by the paragraph?

• The weather was freezing.

• Winter would be warmer than it was last year.

• Even with gloves, the cold reached their hands.

• The students’ cheeks are red from the cold.

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

Students must have exceptional qualities in able to join the student council? Which of the reasons below is the least valued reason for being invited to join the students council?

• High grades

• Good citizenship

• Participation in school activities

• Being 10 years old

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

Read the paragraph. My parents have been married for 15 years. Last summer we threw them a big surprise party with a cake, presents, and about 20 years. We had games like volleyball and croquet. The best game of all was darts, though. I beat everyone – even my dad! We told them the party would be twice as big on their 20th anniversary. Which sentence is not a fact, but an opinion?

• My parents have been married for 15 years..

• Last summer we threw them a big surprise party.

• We had games like volleyball and croquet.

• The best game of all was darts.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Each [leaf] was shaped like an inverted umbrella spiked on a massive trunk…” from “the Pit of Wings” by Ramsey Campbell

• The leaves are cup-shaped with thick stems

• The leaves protect against the rain

• The leaves are large and round.

• The leaves are deciduous.

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

Junk food is the worst poison to hit society in the last hundred years. Everyday millions of young people suck down sugary sodas, gulp greasy French fries, and gorge on candy bars and potato chips. Cigarettes may cause lung cancer, but our country’s addiction to junk food will surely be our demise as our children grow into adulthood unhealthy and unhappy.

• Junk food should be eaten only on special occasions.

• Eating junk food is worse than smoking cigarettes.

• Healthy food can cure many diseases.

• Young people eat more junk food than adults.

he most important advance of this century has not been in medicine or technology. It’s been in society’s willingness to open practically all professions to women. Women can excel in careers now that were not even available to them 50 years ago.Which of the following people would be most likely to agree with this paragraph’s opinion?

• grandparents

• women astronauts

• children

• teenagers

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CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

As the teacher started to hand out the science tests, Jake felt a lump in his throat. His hand was shaking as he wrote his name on the top of his test. As he read the first question, beads of sweat began to form on his forehead, and he had no idea what the correct answers were on the entire test.What can you infer?

• Jake is tired from not getting enough sleep

• Jake Jake’s teacher is mean.

• Jake is confident about his test.

• Jake did not study for his test.

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

Then here comes Mr. Pearson with his clipboard and his cards and pencils and whistles andsafety pins and fifty million other things he’s always dropping all over the place with his clumsy self. He sticks out in a crowd because he’s on stilts. We used to call him Jack and the Beanstalk to get him mad. But I’m the only one that can outrun him and get away, and I’m too grown for that silliness now.Why does Mr. Pearson stand out in the crowd?

• He has a clipboard.

• He is always dropping things

• He is wearing a bright shirt.

• He is on stilts.

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CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

My father in his early manhood,” Grandpa began, “made a vision quest to find a spirit guide for his life. You cannot understand how it was in that time, when the great Teton Sioux were first made to stay on the reservation. There was a strong need for guidance from Wakantanka, the Great Spirit. But too many of the young men were filled with despair and hatred. They thought it was hopeless to search for a vision when the glorious life was gone and only the hated confines of a reservation lay ahead. But my father held to the old ways.What caused the young men to be “filled with despair and hatred?”

• ey were made to stay on the reservation

• they quit having visions

• their fathers did not hold to the old ways

• the Teton Sioux had guidance from the Great Spirit

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

 

Read the following advertisement, keeping in mind that in a food label, ingredients are listed in order from the greatest amount to the least. Ingredients: tomato puree (water, tomato paste), high fructose corn syrup, wheat flour, salt, spice extract, vitamin C (ascorbic acid), citric acid. According to the soup label, tomato soup mainly contains

• sweetener

• tomato paste and water

• citric acid

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CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3