TEST STRATEGIES

Rhymes result from sound rather than spelling, and words neither have to be spelled the same way look alike in order to rhyme.

• not

• and

• nor

• either

The gardenia, about 200 species_____ to tropical and subtropical countries, was named in honor of eighteenth-century naturalist

• native of which are

• are native of which

• which are native of

• of which are native of

Bioethics is_____the moral and social implications of techniques resulting from advances in the biological sciences.

• study

• studied

• the study of

• the study that

When___from REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, a state in which brain activity resembles the waking state, they usually report that they have been dreaming.

• awakened people

• people awakening

• are people awakening

• people are awakened

The earliest known inhabitants of North America were a people of whose

culture was highly oriented toward music and dance

• earliest known

• whose

• highly oriented

• dance

Write poetry is a craft in which the poet works with words as a carpenter

works with wood.

• Write

• in which

• works

• wood

If the circumference of any circle is divided by the circle’s diameter, the

result of the calculation will always the same.

• If

• any

• result of

• always the

The mountains, especially the Rocky Mountains, formerly constituted a

seriously barrier to east-west trade in British Columbia.

• especially

• seriously

• to

• in

The railroad was not the first institution to impose regularity on society, or to

draw attention to the importance of precise timekeeping. For as long as merchants

have set out their wares at daybreak and communal festivities have been celebrated,

people have been in rough agreement with their neighbors as to the time of day. The

value of this tradition is today more apparent than ever. Were it not for public

acceptance of a single yardstick of time, social life would be unbearably chaotic:

the massive daily transfers of goods, services, and information would proceed in

fits and starts; the very fabric of modern society would begin to unravel.

What's the main IDEA?

• In modern society we must make more time for our neighbors.

• The traditions of society are timeless.

• An accepted way of measuring time is essential for the smooth

  functioning of society

• Society judges people by the times at which they conduct certain

  activities.

  The main idea of the passage

Perhaps even more important than the accuracy and reliability of a meteorological instrument____

• that positioning it is correct

• is positioned correctly

• that its correct position

• is that it be positioned

  correctly