ELA Final Study Guide

What is implied about the benefits of a nutritional diet in the passage?

• Nutritional eating habits can improve a person's skin and eyes.

• Nutritional eating habits can improve a person's sleep patterns.

• Nutritional eating habits can improve a person's grades at school.

• Nutritional eating habits can improve the body's ability to fight sickness.

Which media form would work BEST in presenting the information from "What Fuels Your Cells" to an audience?

• a play

• a panel discussion

• a documentary film

• an animated cartoon

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Which sentence from the text BEST reveals the author's position?

• Like any other machine, the human body needs fuel to keep it running at its maximum performance level.

• Malnutrition, or the lack of adequate nutrition, can occur when an individual does not eat a balanced diet.

• After a thorough examination and studies of individuals in orphanages, prisons, and mill towns, it was determined that without niacin, the body cannot convert essential nutrients into usable sources of fuel.

• In the last decade, people have become more aware of the value of a balanced diet.

What tone would the announcer MOST LIKELY use to deliver the information?

• accusatory

• condescending

• encouraging

• humorous

What machine is being referred to in the metaphor? Make your machine lean and mean!

• the human body

• the food network

• the digestive system

• the medical profession

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In the South during the early 1900s, people began to exhibit symptoms of pellagra, or a condition caused by a lack of the vital B vitamin niacin. What inference can be drawn about people who lived in the South during the 1900s?

• People in the South could not obtain vitamin B.

• Many doctors believed Southerners were infected by disease.

• People in the South did not know how to follow a balanced diet.

• Southerners often struggled to afford a variety of foods, resulting in malnutrition.

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What main idea in the first paragraph is developed throughout the passage?

• Some people are too lazy to eat healthy meals.

• Some people like to eat from vending machines.

• Some people tend to not plan for healthy eating.

• Some people tend to eat poorly when they are in a rush.

Which of the following definitions applies to the use of the word fuel in the title of this passage?

• an energy source

• combustible material

• a natural source of fire

• something that encourages

What evidence from "What Fuels Your Cells?" supports the passage's claim that "we are what we eat"?

• A. Human bodies are powered by nutrients found in food.

• B. Dr. Joseph Goldberger discovered niacin in the early 1900s.

• C. Without the proper nutrients, humans can suffer from malnutrition.

• D. Humans who eat a variety of foods are healthier than those who do not.

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Which of the following could BEST have been added to the article to clarify the information in the last paragraph and its information about a well-balanced diet?

• a definition of the term lean

• an explanation of the effects of skipping a meal

• an explanation of the ingredients found in processed foods

• a definition of the word calorie as it applies to food consumption