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WorksheetsELA Exam-Semester BI
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 5hrs 47mins
How could you correct the sentence fragment below? Bart and Marvin and their friends.
Add “from school” after “friends.” Bart and Marvin and their friends from school
Add “huddled behind a tree” after “friends.” Bart and Marvin and their friends squeezed behind a tree.
Add “Terrified” before the word “Bart.” Terrified Bart and Marvin and their friends.
Add a comma before the word “and.” Bart, Marvin and their friends.
Read the sentence below, which states a main idea.The National Park Service preserves places where key events in American history happened. Which detail supports this main idea?
Camping in a national park often feels very rugged because the park buildings are basic.
Most Americans think that the National Park Service is about mountains and canyons—not museums.
National parks are also used to preserve wilderness areas for Americans to visit.
Ellis Island is now a national park with a museum dedicated to the history of immigration.
What is the main idea of these two sentences? Many flowers are what we call annuals, their entire life cycle — from seed to death — takes just one year. They might leave behind sleeping seeds that could sprout again in the future, but the flowers, roots, stems and leaves all fade away as soon as the season is done.
Scientists think annuals are the first type of plant that existed.
The life cycle of a plant is seed to death
Annuals only live for one year and will not return.
Plants have flowers, root systems, stems, and leaves.
What does the word “long” means in the sentence below?My grandmother loved to take long walks in the woods with me.
noun
verb
adjective
adverb
Which of these sentences includes a metaphor?
The opossum’s tail was sticking straight up.
The opossum’s tail was the color of its nose.
The opossum’s tail was an ugly pink snake.
The opossum’s tail was like a rat’s tale.
Where do the homophones there, their, and they're belong in the following sentence? _____ is more room in _____ garage, but _____ not going to buy another car. Choose the correct order for filling the blanks in the sentence and write it.
If you know that the light from stars takes many years to reach the earth, and you read that the light we see is caused by the star exploding, you can make the inference that—
none of the stars we can see now will be visible next year.
telescopes only show us a small percentage of stars.
many of the stars we see have already died out.
stars burn much hotter than our sun does.
Which main idea does this detail support? Bees form highly organized societies in which every bee has a specific job.
Male ants are called “drones” and live only to reproduce.
Ant stings can be dangerous to humans.
Some insects are social species that live in large groups.
There are thousands of ant species in the world.
What kind of text is a magazine article?
natural text
informal text
informational text
fictional text
Which sentence uses alliteration?
The hounds scattered across the field.
The fox was a fearless foe.
The hunter’s children pray it escapes.
Again it retreated to its den.
What is an antonym for the word “clean”?
empty
dirty
spotless
squeaky
When a poet chooses carefully between words with only slightly different meanings, what is he or she trying to do?
to make readers think harder
to create a simile
to create just the right nuance
to make readers confused
Write 1 example of a simile
Write 1 example of a metaphor
Which kind of figurative language appears in the sentence below? The moon hid its face behind a small cloud
personification
metaphor
symbol
simile
Which words often appear before an adjective in a sentence?
am, is, was
walk, run, sprint
one, two, three
sit, stand, lie
Where do the homophones to, too, and two belong in the following sentence?The _____ boys were _____ afraid _____ cross the junkyard.Choose the correct order for filling the blanks in the sentence and write the sentence.
Which sentence includes a simile?
My cat Loco has rings around his tail.
My cat Loco goes crazy in the house at night.
My cat Loco has long brown fur and a tiny pink tongue.
My cat Loco has a tail like a bottle brush.
Read the following sentence. What is its explicit message?Some Americans have decided to travel to the middle of the country to see the next solar eclipse.
Some Americans are traveling to another place to watch the eclipse.
Some Americans are willing to miss work to see the solar eclipse.
It is a good year travel around the country looking at the sky.
It is a good year to see a full solar eclipse from your home town.
Read the following sentence. What is its implicit message?Some Americans have decided to travel to the middle of the country to see the next solar eclipse.
The solar eclipse is something that everyone should see in his or her lifetime.
The solar eclipse can be most clearly seen from the middle of the country.
The solar eclipse is the most popular night-time event in most parts of the country.
The solar eclipse happens over just a few minutes, so it’s easy to miss.
