Workshop 6 Assessment

What is the meaning of the phrase "on cloud nine"? When Kate found an investor who would help launch her smartphone app, she was on cloud nine.

• feeling confused

• feeling happy

• being shy

• being greedy

A financial gain

• Budget

• Expense

• Profit

Something that costs money

• budget

• expense

• profit

A plan for how to spend money

• budget

• expense

• profit

What is the main purpose of the passage?

• to entertain

• to criticize

• to inform

• to persuade

Read the sentence from paragraph 2. Then answer the question. Running a successful company was not something many people would have expected of Jack Ma. Which of the following words is not in the same word family as successful?

• unsuccessful

• unsure

• success

• successfully

What is a central idea of the passage?

• Jack Ma had good ideas, but lacked confidence.

• Jack Ma found success early in his life.

• Jack Ma had many goals, but gave up on them.

• Jack Ma overcame failure to earn success.

Read the sentences from paragraph 8. Then answer the question. That failure turned out to be a blessing in disguise. After the business failed, Ma took a job for the Chinese government. What does the idiom "a blessing in disguise" mean?

• something good that is unexpected

• something bad that happens

• something that is impossible

• something that is easy to fix

What type of skills did Ma most likely learn from giving tours as a teenager?

• management skills

• financial skills

• computer skills

• social skills

Circle two underlined sentences that show challenges Jack Ma faced.

• So he decided to dig in and teach himself. AND When he was a teenager, he would give unofficial tours to foreign tourists.

• He became pen pals with one tourist who gave him the nickname “Jack.” AND When he applied for college, he failed the entrance exam twice.

• So he decided to dig in and teach himself. AND When he applied for college, he failed the entrance exam twice.