Quiz In Class

Title: Short passage

Grade: 8-a Lesson: S2-L1

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Quiz: in Class

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1

John, with Tillu, and I [hurry] to my bed,The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head To work my mind when my body’s work’s expired: For then, my thoughts-from far where I abide-[Begin] a zealous pilgrimage to thee,And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,

What is the main idea of the text?

A) The speaker is too fatigued to continue a discussion with the friend.

B) The speaker is planning an upcoming trip to the friend’s house.

C) The speaker is asleep and dreaming about traveling to see a friend.

D) The speaker is thinking about the friend instead of immediately falling asleep.

2

One woman, who was more excited than the rest,flung his hat high into the air and shouted (as well as I could make out) “Who roar for the Sub-Warden?” Everybody roared, but whether it was for the Sub-Warden, or not, did not clearly appear: some were shouting “Bread!” and some “Taxes!” but no one seemed to know what it was they really wanted.All this I saw from the open window of the Warden’s breakfast saloon, looking across the shoulder of the Lord Chancellor.“What can it all mean?” he kept repeating toherself. “I never heard such shouting before-and at this time of the morning, too! And with such unanimity!”

Based on the text, how does the Lord Chancellorrespond to the crowd?

A) She describes the crowd as being united, even though the crowd clearly appears otherwise.

B) She asks about the meaning of the crowd’s shouting, even though she claims to know what the crowd wants.

C) e indicates a desire to speak to the crowd, even though the crowd has asked to speak to the Sub-Warden

D) She expresses sympathy for the crowd’s demands, even though the crowd’s shouting annoys him.

3

Approximate Rates of Speech andInformation Conveyed for Five Languages Language Rate of speech(syllables per second) Rate of information conveyed (bits per second) Serbian 7.2 39.1 Spanish 7.7 42.0 Vietnamese 5.3 42.5 Thai 4.7 33.8 Hungarian 5.9 34.6 A group of researchers working in Europe, Asia, and Oceania conducted a study to determine how quickly different Eurasian languages are typically spoken (in syllables per second) and how much information they can effectively convey (in bits per second). They found that, although languages vary widely in the speed at which they are spoken, the amount of information languages can effectively convey tends to vary much less. Thus, they claim that two languages with very different spoken rates can nonetheless convey the same amount of information in a given amount of time.

Which choice best describes data from the table that support the researchers’ claim?

A) Serbian and Spanish are spoken at approximatelythe same rate, but Serbian conveys informationfaster than Spanish does.

B) Vietnamese conveys information at approximately the same rate as Spanish despite being spoken at a slower rate.

C) Among the five languages in the table, the language that is spoken the fastest is also the language that conveys information the fastest.

D) Among the five languages in the table, Thai and Hungarians have the lowest rates of speech and the lowest rates of information conveyed.

4

Many archaeologists will tell you that categorizing excavated fragments of pottery by style, period, and what objects they belong to relies not only on standard criteria, but also on instinct-developed over years of practice. In a recent study, however, researchers trained a deep-learning computer model on thousands of images of pottery fragments and found that it could categorize them as accurately as a team of expert archaeologists. Some archaeologists have expressed concern that they might be replaced by such computer models, but the researchers claim that outcome is highly unlikely.

Which finding, if true, would most directly support the researchers’ claim?

A) A survey of archaeologists showed that few of them received dedicated training on how to properly categorize pottery fragments.

B) A survey of archaeologists showed that categorizing pottery fragments limits the amount of time they can dedicate to other important tasks that only human experts can do.

C) In the researchers’ study, neither the model nor the archaeologists were able to accurately categorize all the pottery fragments that were presented.

D) In the researchers’ study, the model was able to categorize the pottery fragments much morequickly than the archaeologists could.

5

Although military veterans make up a small proportion of the total population of the United States, they occupy a significantly higher proportion of the jobs in the computer government. One possible explanation for this disproportionate representation is that military service familiarizes people with certain organizational structures that are also reflected in the computer government bureaucracy, and this familiarity thus____.

Which choice most logically completes the text?

A) increases the number of computer government jobs that require some amount of military experience to perform.increases the number of computer government jobs that require some amount of military experience to perform.

B) alters the typical relationship between militaryservice and subsequent career preferences.

C) encourages nonveterans to apply for computer government jobs to consider military service instead.

D) increases the number of computer government jobs that require some amount of military experience to perform.


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