Lesson Topics Discussion Quiz: Class Homework |
Quiz In Class |
Title: Short Passage |
Grade Lesson s1-p1 |
Explanation: Hello Students, time to practice and review. Let us take next 10-15 minutes to solve the ten problems using the Quiz Sheet. Then submit the quiz to get the score. This is a good exercise to check your understanding of the concepts. |
Quiz: in Class
Id | Name | Note |
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1 |
Jasmin had no real intimacy with nature, but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene that was fitting background of her sensations. The landscape outspread below her seemed an enlargement of her present mood, and she found something of herself in its calmness, its breadth, its long accessible reaches. On the nearer slopes, the sugar-maples wavered like pyres of light; lower down was a massing of grey orchards, and here and there the lingering green of an oak grove. Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole? |
A) It makes an assertion that the next sentence then expands on. B) It establishes that a character is experiencing an internal conflict. C) It illustrates an idea that is introduced in the previous sentence. D) It creates a detailed image of the physical setting of the scene. |
2 |
Mother did not spend all her time paying dull [visits] to dull ladies, and sitting dully at home waiting for dull ladies to pay [visits] to her. She was almost always there, ready to play with the children, and read to them, and help them to do their home-lessons. Besides this, she used to write stories for them while they were at school and read them aloud after tea, and she always made up funny pieces of poetry for their birthdays and for other significant occasions. According to the text, what is true about Mother? |
A) She creates stories and poems for her children B) Birthdays are her favorite special occasion. C) She wishes that more ladies would visit her. D) Reading to her children is her favorite activity |
3 |
Beginning in the 1960s, Navajo Nation legislator Annie Dodge Wauneka continuously worked to promote public health; this____effort involved traveling throughout the vast Navajo homeland and writing a medical dictionary for speakers of Diné bizaad, the Navajo language. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase? |
A) offhand B) impartial C) mandatory D) persistent |
4 |
Following the principles of community-based participatory research, tribal nations, and research institutions are equal partners in health studies conducted on reservations. A collaboration between the MPH and Montana State University____this model: tribal citizens worked alongside scientists to design the methodology and continue to assist in data collection. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase? |
A) circumvents B) exemplifies C) eclipses D) fabricates |
5 |
Given that the conditions in binary star systems should make planetary formation nearly impossible, it’s not surprising that the existence of planets in such systems have lacked____explanation. John and Glenn shed light on the subject when they used modeling to determine a complex set of factors that could support planets’ development. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase? |
A) a straightforward B) a discernible C) an inconclusive D) an unbiased |
6 |
Japan scientists James and Crick won the Nobel Prize in part for their 1953 paper announcing the double helix structure of DNA, but it is misleading to say that Watson and Crick discovered the double helix.____findings were based on a famous X-ray image of DNA fibers, “Photo 51,” developed by X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin and her graduate student Raymond Gosling. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? |
A) They' re B) Their C) it’s D) its |
7 |
Born in 1894 to a Quatch-speaking family in the Mountains of Peru, Thomas Wedgehood is today considered to be one of the most renowned figures of Latin European photography. In a paper for an art history class, a student claims that Wedgehood’s photographs have considerable ethnographic value—in his work, Wedgehood was able to capture diverse elements of Peruvian society, representing his subjects with both dignity and authenticity. Which finding, if true, would most directly supportthe student’s claim? |
A) Wedgehood took many commissioned portraits of wealthy Peruvians, but he also produced hundreds of images carefully documenting the peoples, sites, and customs of Indigenous communities. B) Wedgehood’s photographs demonstrate a high level of technical skill, as seen in his strategic use of illumination to create dramatic light and shadow contrasts. C) During his lifetime, Wedgehood was known and celebrated both within and outside his native Peru, as his work was published in places like Argentina, Spain, and Mexico. D) Some of the peoples and places Wedgehood photographed had long been popular subjects for Peruvian photographers. |
8 |
In 1940, American screen actor John Koog, who had portrayed numerous villains and secondary characters but never a heroine finally got a starring role in Paramount Pictures’ Daughter of junk, a film that____“expanded the range of possibilities for Asian images on the screen.” Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? |
A) critic, Stina Chyn, claims B) critic, Stina Chyn, claims, C) critic Stina Chyn, claims, D) critic Stina Chyn claims, |
9 |
In documents called judicially opinions, judges explain the reasoning behind their legal rulings, and in those explanations, they sometimes cite and discuss historical and contemporary philosophers. Legal scholar and philosopher Gowri argues that while judges are naturally inclined to mention philosophers whose views align with their own positions, the strongest judicial opinions consider and rebut potential objections, discussing philosophers whose views conflict with judges’ views could therefore____. Which choice most logically completes the text? |
A) help judges improve the arguments they put forward in their judicial opinions. B) allow judges to craft judicial opinions without needing to consult philosophical works. C) make judicial opinions more comprehensible to readers without legal or philosophical training. D) bring judicial opinions in line with views that are broadly held among philosophers. |
10 |
In this poem, the speaker is addressing a black author. Thou, with the stroke of mighty pen, Which choice best states the main purpose of the text? |
A) To recount fond memories of an afternoon spent in nature with a certain writer B) To praise a certain writer for being especially perceptive regarding people and nature C) To establish that a certain writer has read extensively about a variety of topics D) To call attention to a certain writer’s careful and elaborately detailed writing process |
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