WorksheetsStandard English Completion Quiz 1
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 25mins
The Mission 66 initiative, which was approved by Congress in 1956, represented a major investment in the infrastructure of overburdened national ______ it prioritized physical improvements to the parks, roads, utilities, employee housing, and visitor facilities while also establishing educational programming for the public.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
parks and
parks
parks;
parks,
On April 5, 1977, Kitty Cone and 150 other disability rights activists entered a San Francisco federal building. After pleading for years—to no effect—for the passage of key antidiscrimination legislation, ______ until their demands were addressed. Finally, on April 28, the legislation was signed.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
pressure on lawmakers increased when the activists staged a sit-in protest
a sit-in protest staged by the activists increased pressure on lawmakers
lawmakers came under increased pressure when the activists staged a sit-in protest
the activists increased pressure on lawmakers by staging a sit-in protest
French philosopher René Descartes doubted whether he could prove his own existence. Eventually, he found proof in his famous phrase “I think, therefore I am.” The ______ complexity: only those who exist would be able to ponder their existence.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
phrases’ simplicity masks its
phrases simplicity masks their
phrase’s simplicity masks their
phrase’s simplicity masks its
In a 2023 study, researchers documented a fascinating behavior in the aquatic plant Elodea densa. When exposed to low levels of light, the plant’s ______ the cellular organs that generate energy from light—reshuffled to form a tightly packed, glass-like surface ideal for collecting more light.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
chloroplasts
chloroplasts;
chloroplasts,
chloroplasts—
Bonnie Buratti of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ______ data about Saturn’s rings collected by the Cassini spacecraft when she made an interesting discovery: the tiny moons embedded between and within Saturn’s rings are shaped by the buildup of ring material on the moons’ surfaces.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
studies
has been studying
will study
was studying
Photosynthesis, the mechanism by which plants use sunlight to turn carbon dioxide and water into ______ is fuelled in part by an enzyme called Photosystem II that harvests energy-giving electrons from water molecules.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
nutrients
nutrients and
nutrients,
nutrients—
After a spate of illnesses as a child, Wilma Rudolph was told she might never walk again. Defying all odds, Rudolph didn’t just walk, she ______ the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, she won both the 100- and 200-meter dashes and clinched first place for her team in the 4x100-meter relay, becoming the first US woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympics.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
ran—fast—during
ran—fast during
ran—fast, during
ran—fast. During
Professional American football player Fred Cox invented one of the world’s most popular toys. In the 1970s, he came up with the idea for the Nerf football, which ______ of the harder and heavier regulation football.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
were a smaller, foam version
are smaller, foam versions
were smaller, foam versions
is a smaller, foam version
Beatrix Potter is perhaps best known for writing and illustrating children’s books such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902), but she also dedicated herself to mycology, the study of ______ more than 350 paintings of the fungal species she observed in nature and submitting her research on spore germination to the Linnean Society of London.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
fungi; producing
fungi. Producing
fungi producing
fungi, producing
While light is known as one of the fastest-moving substances, it slows down when passing through some types of matter. One such type of matter is a form of cooled, condensed gas called a Bose-Einstein condensate ______ Dutch physicist Lene Hau famously used a BEC to slow a beam of light to a complete halt.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
(BEC),
(BEC) and
(BEC);
(BEC)
Water in the North Atlantic Ocean is pushed eastward by powerful winds, but the rotation of Earth and interference from nearby landmasses together cause ______ to swirl into a massive, churning whirlpool—also called the North Atlantic Gyre —that spins clockwise. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
these
those
them
it
The soundtrack to Mira Nair’s 1991 flm Mississippi Masala expressively captures the clashing of cultures that happens when ______ (a young Indian woman from Uganda and a young African American man from Mississippi) meet. Featured throughout the film are songs from Uganda’s Afrigo Band, the Indian composer L. Subramaniam, and the Mississippi blues musician Sam Chatmon. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
it’s two protagonists
its two protagonist’s
it’s two protagonist’s
its two protagonists
It can take time for proposed amendments to the US Constitution to become law. For example, the Twenty-Second Amendment, which limits the number of ______ can serve, was frst proposed in 1947 but wasn’t approved by the required three-fourths majority of state legislatures until 1951.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
terms presidents
term’s presidents
term’s president’s
terms president’s
Between 322 and 184 BCE, the Maurya Empire established a complex economic system that, through trade and centralized ______ funded major infrastructure projects throughout the Indian subcontinent. This included the building of many roads, canals, and hospitals.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
taxation:
taxation,
taxation—
taxation
