ELAR MIDTERM 2025 — Why We Need Solo Sports

Which word from paragraph 5 best helps the reader understand the meaning of modification?

• example

• equipment

• payoff

• change

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How does the author support the argument made in the selection?

• By highlighting the proven benefits of various individual sports

• By explaining the widespread popularity of certain individual sports

• By revealing how schools have transformed individual sports

• By reflecting on how individual sports have been viewed in the past

The author wrote this selection most likely to appeal to –

• doctors who would like to advise their patients well

• teachers of physical education classes in schools

• people who like to live a long and healthy life

• researchers in the field of physical and mental health

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CCSS.RI.6.6

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What is the most likely reason schools are offering individual sports such as hip-hop, kickboxing, and Dance Dance Revolution?

• They provide more benefits than traditional forms of exercise.

• They appeal more to young people looking for fun activities.

• They are more widely available with school settings.

• They require less training and thus are easier to perform.

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What is the likely reason the author begins paragraph 2 with a rhetorical question?

• To suggest that the conclusions drawn are somewhat uncertain

• To increase curiosity about the information that follows

• To suggest doubt that there could actually be an answer

• To introduce a touch of humor into an otherwise subject

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CCSS.RI.7.6

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What is the main claim the author makes in the selection?

• Solo sports should take the place of team sports in childhood education.

• Solo sports make it possible for more people to stay fit throughout their lifetime.

• Solo sports teach people to make their own goals rather than depending on a team.

• Solo sports are the most enjoyable form of physical activity for most people.

Read the draft passage excerpt from a student paper titled Twin Space Study. Sentence 2 reads: "The space environment can be unfriendliest to the human body." What change needs to be made in sentence 2?

• Change environment to enviroment

• Change unfriendliest to unfriendly

• Change human to Human

• Change body to bodies

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CCSS.RI.6.3

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Read the draft passage excerpt from a student paper titled Twin Space Study. Sentence 3 reads: "Astronaut Scott Kelly wanting to help scientists learn more about this." What is the correct way to write sentence 3?

• Astronaut Scott Kelly wanted to help scientists. Learn about this.

• Astronaut Scott Kelly wanted to help scientists. Who wanted to learn more about this.

• Astronaut Scott Kelly wanted to help scientists learn more about this.

• Astronaut Scott Kelly, who wanted to help scientists learn more about this.

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Read the draft passage excerpt from a student paper titled Twin Space Study. Sentence 5 reads: "In 2015 he was preparing to spend almost a year in space." What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 5?

• Change In 2015 to From 2015

• Change preparing to preprarring

• Insert a comma after spend

• No change is needed.

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Read the draft passage excerpt from a student paper titled Twin Space Study. Sentence 6 reads: "Scientists planned to study the affects space had on his body during this trip." What change is needed in sentence 6?

• Change affects to effects

• Change had to has

• Insert a comma after body

• Change during to durring

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