Worksheets7th grade ELA TCAP Review
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
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Class
Date
1.
The following question has two parts. Answer Part A and then answer Part B.
Part A: In paragraph 4, which phrase best helps the reader understand what the word surplus means?
Part A: In paragraph 4, which phrase best helps the reader understand what the word surplus means?
a)
World War II
World War II
World War II
b)
what the government should do
c)
leftover bomb material
d)
the timber industry
2.
Part B: According to the excerpt, what was the main result of the surplus described in paragraph 4?
a)
A. It helped farmers recognize the importance of using fertilizer.
b)
B. It made farm soil less healthy for animals that lived off the land.
c)
C. It led to the creation of a large amount of a useful product for farmers.
d)
D. It caused conflict between different government agencies.
3.
The following question has two parts. Answer Part A and then answer Part B. Part A: What is the author’s main argument in the excerpt?
a)
Agri-businesses, along with the government, have been effective at creating a system in which large amounts of corn are grown and turned into processed food and other products
b)
Chemical fertilizer has come into widespread use because of an Iowa farmer named Naylor, who demonstrated the benefits of using ammonium nitrate fertilizer.
c)
. Nitrogen is an element required by all living things, a fact that has sparked much debate about how farmers can best ensure that their crops get enough nitrogen.
d)
The use of chemical fertilizer has changed farming for the worse by creating an inefficient system that relies too heavily on fossil fuels.
4.
Part B: What is one thing the author could do to strengthen this argument?
a)
A. Describe how Naylor influenced his neighbors to use fossil fuels
b)
B. Explain how a shortage of fossil fuel would affect big farms
c)
C. List some of the products made from corn
d)
D. Give details about how nitrogen affects the cells of living things
5.
The following item has two parts. Answer Part A and then answer Part B. Part A: In which paragraph does the author provide information that helps explain why farmers embraced the use of chemical fertilizer?
a)
Paragraph 6
b)
Paragraph 7
c)
Paragraph 8
d)
Paragraph 9
6.
Part B: Highlight three sentences in the paragraph you chose in Part A that help explain why farmers embraced the use of chemical fertilizer
a)
Step 1: choose the correct paragraph from previous answer.
b)
Step 2: Find the reasons why farmers embraced the use of chemical fertilizer.
c)
Step 3: Highlight 3 sentences that explain why farmers embraced the fertilizer.
d)
Answers will be checked on your passage!
7.
The following question has two parts. Answer Part A and then answer Part B. Part A: Which word best describes the tone of the excerpt?
a)
Concerned
b)
Outraged
c)
Uncertain
d)
lighthearted
8.
Part B: Which sentence from the excerpt provides the best support for the answer to Part A?
a)
A. “It may seem that I’ve given corn too much credit.”
b)
B. “How could a plant take over our food chain and push out almost every other species?”
c)
C. “At the heart of the industrial food chain are huge businesses, agri-businesses.”
d)
D. “But the scientists in the Department of Agriculture had a better idea: Spread the ammonium nitrate on farmland as fertilizer.”
9.
The following item has two parts. Answer Part A and then answer Part B. Part A: Which statement best describes the structure of paragraphs 6 – 8?
a)
A. The author uses chronological order to show that farming methods are constantly being invented to increase crop yields.
b)
B. The author identifies a problem farmers faced and then explains how the government came up with a solution to that problem.
c)
C. The author uses cause and effect to explain how chemical fertilizers led to corn becoming the most popular crop.
d)
D. He uses comparison and contrast to explain the differences between a family farm and the new kind of farms.
10.
Part B: What is the purpose of that structure in paragraphs 6 – 8?
a)
A. to illustrate that corn is much easier to grow than other crops
b)
B. to establish the idea that modern advances have resulted in too much food being produced
c)
C. to help develop the idea that there are problems with the practices used by factory farms
d)
D. to demonstrate that government scientists worked closely with agribusinesses to solve food shortages
11.
Two independent clauses in a compound sentence are connected by
a)
transition
b)
verb
c)
conjunction
d)
common denominator
12.
In the following sentence, which word is the antecedent for the pronoun she?
Kim looked as though she had seen a ghost.
Kim looked as though she had seen a ghost.
a)
she
b)
Kim
c)
ghost
d)
seen
13.
Which of these sentences is NOT a sentence fragment?
a)
If you see very black soil.
b)
Each layer of soil has color.
c)
When you are in Georgia.
d)
During the rainy summer.
14.
Choose the appositive phrase in the following sentence:
My sister, a tall athletic girl, needs lots of new clothes before school starts.
My sister, a tall athletic girl, needs lots of new clothes before school starts.
a)
my sister
b)
a tall athletic girl
c)
before school starts
15.
Choose the appositive phrase in the following sentence:
Remember when we met Owen, our camp counselor?
Remember when we met Owen, our camp counselor?
a)
remember when
b)
we met Owen
c)
our camp counselor
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