English EOC

1. A student is writing an argumentative essay in which she claims that recycling for all cities should be required since it is good to the environment. Which sentence best represents a counterclaim?

• Above all, mandatory recycling programs have low compliance rates due to difficulty in separating items.

• While comparing voluntary and mandatory recycling programs, the benefit of educating communities must not be overlooked.

• Although the environmental benefits of mandatory recycling are real, the costs for implementation of such recycling programs are significant.

• In the end, increasing property taxes and utility bills are one way that local governments pay for mandatory recycling programs.

2. A student is writing a report on Clara Josephine Schumann. The student found a source. Read the paragraph from the source.

Which question would best broaden the focus of the student’s report?

• How many musical compositions did Clara Josephine Schumann write?

• Why is the music Clara Josephine Schumann wrote still popular?

• Which musical instrument did Clara Josephine Schumann enjoy playing the most?

• How often did Clara Josephine Schumann perform with her husband Robert Schumann?

3. A student is writing an essay about the health benefits of organic produce. Which source would most likely offer the most relevant and credible information?

• www.go-organic.org: a website that gives information on local grocery stores where consumers can purchase organic produce

• www.pacificuniversity.edu/organic: a website that provides recent research studies conducted on the impact of organic produce on the human body

• www.grow-organic.com/blog: a website that gives tips from one person on how to create an organic produce garden in a backyard space

• www.organic-cooking.net: a website that provides a wide variety of recipes for all meals using organic produce from markets or personal gardens

4. A student is writing an essay about the benefits of online learning. Read part of the student’s essay in the image.

Which sentence from the essay contains the most relevant information to support the claim that there are advantages to taking online courses?

• Online learning is a growing educational opportunity for many students.

• Millions of students across the United States take part in some type of digital learning.

• Homework, however, is still a requirement for most courses.

• Online classes are available any time of the day or night.

5. Where is the most logical placement of sentence 13?

• immediately before sentence 12

• immediately before sentence 15

• immediately after sentence 15

• Correct as is

6. Read the sentences from the speech.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century there was not a mile of steam railroad on the globe. Now there are enough miles to make its circuit many times. Then there was not a line of electric telegraph; now we have vast mileage traversing all lands and all seas.

What does the word traversing mean?

• falling over

• steering around

• going across

• circling through

7. What does McKinley hope to accomplish by repeating the ideas in paragraphs 8 and 9 of the speech?

• He hopes the audience will understand that steamships will eventually be replaced with other means of transportation for manufacturers to compete in a world economy.

• He hopes the audience will understand the need to build a canal, which would allow more ships to carry goods to strengthen commerce.

• He hopes the audience will understand that ships are the fastest way to carry various goods to different markets.

• He hopes the audience will understand that shipping lines should be changed so that ships from other countries will be able to carry goods to buyers.

8. Read the sentence from the speech.

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.

What is meant by the phrase “the timekeepers of progress”?

• Expositions allow inventors and artists to show their work to the world.

• Cities that host expositions are more advanced than other cities.

• National leaders who attend expositions are better prepared for future challenges.

• Expositions showcase the most-recent innovations in science and industry.

9. What is a central idea of the speech?

• Nations that adopt technology usually avoid conflict.

• Nations become successful by importing more goods than they export.

• Nations are connected through advancements in technology.

• Nations that share updates on commerce have greater political divisions.

10. Which sentence from the speech best supports the inference that McKinley felt the exposition at which he was speaking would inspire progress for many years to come?

• They open mighty storehouses of information to the student.

• The wisdom and energy of all the nations are none too great for the world’s work.

• In the furtherance of these objects of national interest and concern, you are performing an important part.

• These buildings will disappear, this creation of art and beauty and industry will perish from sight, but their influence will remain.