EOC Practice

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 payfor mandatory recycling programs.

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

Clara Josephine Schumann was an accomplished musician and composer of the Romantic era. She was born Clara Josephine Wieck on September 13, 1819 in Leipzig, Germany. Her father, Frederick Wieck, was a piano teacher, and her mother Marianne Wieck, was a concert pianist. Clara’s father wanted Clara to excel as a musician and made sure that she received instruction in piano, violin, voice, and composition from the time she was young. Clara gave her first solo concert in 1830 at the age of 11 and included works of others plus her own compositions. By her mid-teens, Clara was quite famous throughout Europe and regularly performed concerts to sold-out audiences. After marrying fellow composer, Robert Schumann, in 1840, Clara continued performing and composing. Clara traveled to England in 1856 and was invited to play in a London Philharmonic Society concert. She returned to England many times over the next few years. Her musical interpretations were known for their depth and sensitivity and are still performed today. In 1878, Clara accepted a teaching position at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, Germany and held this position until 1892.

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?

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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

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

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. Students can learn a musical instrument, improve writing skills, or take karate classes online.

Some students in grades kindergarten through 12 are even receiving their educations digitally through full-time, online public schools. Homework, however, is still a requirement for most courses. Online classes are available any time of the day or night. Many times, students are allowed to learn at a pace that is comfortable for them. There are some definite advantages to taking courses online.

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.

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The essay below needs revisions or edits. Read the essay and answer question 5.

How to Care for Goldfish

(1) I received a goldfish for my tenth birthday. (2) This delightful package also contained a small bag of white gravel and a day-glow green, spiky plant, I was eager to go to the store to select my fish. (3) I found a place with a container of bright fish moving busy. (4) Given the size of the bowl, the clerk recommended that I buy three small fish. (5) After plastic bags were filled with water from the aquarium tanks, my fish were scooped up and placed inside.

(6)After filling the bowl with water, I set the bags with the fish still in them in my large fish bowl. (7) With great deliberation, I chose two miniature goldfish and a bottom-feeder. (8) Adjusting to the temperature of the water in the bowl, I waited impatiently for the water in the bag. (9) Once the temperatures were the same, I carefully untwisted the ties on the bags to release the fish into the bowl. (10) And my carefully selected fish swam around in their new home. (11) Darting in and out of the day-glow spikes of the plant.

(12)First, the water became cloudy. (13) I made a number of mistakes when I first started caring for my fish. (14) Soon, I learned to cut back the amount of food flakes I gave them and alternated feeding days. (15) I made another mistake when I changed the water in the fish bowl allowing a fish to

flop out.

Question: Where is the most logical placement of sentence 13?

• immediately before sentence 12

• immediately before sentence 15

• immediately after sentence 15

• Correct as is

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Which sentence from the speech best supports the following:

Nations are connected through advancements in technology.

• They stimulate the energy, enterprise, and intellect of the people and quicken human genius

• Modern inventions have brought into close relation widely separated peoples, and made them better acquainted

• The same important news is read, though in different languages, the same day [throughout the world].

• A policy of good will and friendly trade relations will prevent reprisals.

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