WorksheetsThe American Language Mastery Test
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
Sara was always tasked with selecting birthday presents for her friends and family because everyone admired her _______ taste.
nascent
impeccable
semantic
empirical
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They moved to the United States many years ago, but their __________attitudes made it difficult for them to socialize.
nascent
semantic
insular
empirical
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The professor explained the __________ relationship between the two nouns used in the sentence.
nascent
semantic
insular
impeccable
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The delicious and complex flavors of the casserole _______ the ease of putting it together.
belie
impeccable
nascent
semantic
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The _______ corn crops looked very promising in their beginning stages.
belie
insular
nascent
semantic
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The __________ tests conducted in the controlled environment supported the research results.
empirical
insular
nascent
semantic
Which sentence uses the word partition correctly?
Ja'Lin pulled her partition on over her shirt and examined himself in the mirror to make sure the colors matched.
Brinden stood behind the partition that separated the audience from the people backstage and waited for his cue to enter.
Stefan knew that the partition of egg and milk would separate quickly, so he hurried to add it to the mixing bowl.
Tytler wondered why they were partitioning the entire town for signatures when the amendment would easily pass
Which sentences in this excerpt from Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue" indicate where Tan’s beliefs came from?
You should know that my mother's expressive command of English belies how much she actually understands.
She reads the Forbes report, listens to Wall Street Week, converses daily with her stockbroker, reads all of Shirley MacLaine’s books with ease—all kinds of things I can't begin to understand.
Yet some of my friends tell me they understand fifty percent of what my mother says
Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, full of observation and imagery. That was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world
Select the excerpt from "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan that best describes language bias.
I've heard other terms used, "limited English," for example. But they seem just as bad, as if everything is limited, including people's perceptions of the limited-English speaker.
I heard myself saying this: "Not waste money that way." My husband was with us as well, and he didn't notice any switch in my English.
I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language--the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.
And it was perhaps the first time she had heard me give a lengthy speech, using the kind of English I have never used with her.
In "Mother Tongue," Amy Tan describes her mother's language as being "impeccable broken English." In the context of this essay, which of the following best describes the meaning of this statement?
Though Tan's mother speaks with an accent, her English is actually grammatically perfect.
People with language bias cannot understand Tan's mother, but people without bias can understand her.
Tan's mother fluently speaks a language variety known as "broken English."
Tan's mother does not speak standard English, but she is able to convey the ideas behind her words.
In "Mother Tongue," how does Amy Tan demonstrate language bias toward her mother?
She refused to go out with her mother in public because she was ashamed of her accent.
She believed her mother's thoughts were unimportant because she expressed them imperfectly.
She only spoke perfect standard English with her mother in an attempt to make her mother speak more clearly.
She would not impersonate her mother on the phone when making important calls for her.
In "Mother Tongue," author Amy Tan describes a situation in which her mother, a non-English speaker, faces rude treatment from a doctor. This doctor is then polite to Tan, who speaks English without an accent. What phenomenon does the doctor demonstrate?
language variety
standard English
language bias
code-switching
Which of the following best defines the concept of code-switching?
changing accents
changing regionalisms
changing sentence structure
changing language varieties
