8th Grade Reading - Q3 Common Summative Assessment #1

"Video games help to improve players' reaction time. Reaction time is the time it takes for a person's body to respond to something. It is important in many sports and day-to-day activities." If the writer wished to replace "important" with a word that shows more urgency, which would be most appropriate?

• crucial

• figured

• unliked

• nice

Which is the MOST convincing evidence for the claim that "... not all video games are bad. In fact, some actually have great benefits"?

• News reports today often talk about the bad effects of video games.

• On average, children spend one hour per day playing in video game worlds.

• So, if video games use so much imagination, why do people look down on them?

• In addition, surgeons who played video games made fewer mistakes in operations than those surgeons who did not play video games.

What is the MOST LIKELY purpose of the first paragraph of the Felton passage?

• to inform the reader of common arguments against video games

• to describe some of the most popular video games

• to explain the link between violence and video games

• to introduce the main benefits of playing video games

What is the MOST LIKELY reason Tolkien and his friends called their group The Inklings?

• They were interested in birds.

• They were good at drawing.

• They were all teachers.

• They were all writers.

Which piece of evidence adequately supports this assertion?

• A. Tolkien was an excellent father who told stories to his children.

• B. Tolkien has an impressive fan base in America for his two major fantasy novels.

• C. Tolkien often shared his story ideas with a group of writers called the Inklings.

• D. Tolkien and his brother were raised by a priest named Father Francis Xavier Morgan.

Which statement BEST represents two central ideas of the passage?

• J.R.R. Tolkien was both a great novelist and great scholar.

• J.R.R. Tolkien was a great novelist, but his personal life was troubled.

• J.R.R. Tolkien wrote fantastic stories about a fantasy world called Middle Earth.

• J.R.R. Tolkien was an average novelist, but he was better finding talent in other people.

Which TWO choices BEST support the central ideas of the text? (CHOOSE TWO)

• Tolkien’s mythical stories of friendship and adventure still stir readers’ imaginations. He is truly one of the greatest fantasy writers of all time.

• He was in charge of the entries beginning with the letter “W.” When he began to write stories, he shared them with his friends in a group called the Inklings.

• Tolkien also wrote stories for children, including his own. He was a fun father who often surprised his children with magical letters from polar bears and elves.

• J.R.R. Tolkien was always interested in the English language. Before becoming a writer, he studied English in college. Tolkien worked as a professor and also had a job helping to write a dictionary.

Read the sentence from the passage

“Later, he replicated the elegant architecture of his childhood in the grand castle of his stories.”

 

According to the passage the word replicated means

• reject.

• copy.

• put together.

• stand beside.

Which is a synonym for the THIRD definition of the word sweet?

• angelic

• displeasing

• hateful

• unmelodious

How many definitions does the term sweet have?

• 4

• 5

• 6

• 7