5.07 UNIT TEST: Critical Skills Practice 4

Each of the sentences provided may contain a grammar or usage error. Read the sentence, and then identify the section that contains the error, if there is one, by selecting the appropriate answer choice. If there is no error in the sentence, choose no error. Everyone _in the class_ _need to consider_ _how to treat_ others with _more compassion_.

need to consider

Read the passage titled "The Beefsteak" on the Unit Test Reading Passages page. Then answer the questions that follow to improve elements of the passage such as sentence structure, word choice, overall organization, tone, and voice. Refer to Passage 2 to answer this question. In context, which is the best version of the underlined portion of sentence 15 (reprinted below)? _After all, beef, it was expensive in those days_ and these events were all-you-can-eat.

After all, beef was expensive in those days

Read each sentence, and decide whether the underlined portion contains a mistake. If it does, identify the best way to correct or improve the sentence by choosing the appropriate suggestion from the answer choices provided. If the underlined portion requires no correction or improvement, choose No improvement or correction is required. In autumn _crisp, sunny weather_ is ideal.

No improvement or correction is required.

Read each sentence, and decide whether the underlined portion contains a mistake. If it does, identify the best way to correct or improve the sentence by choosing the appropriate suggestion from the answer choices provided. If the underlined portion requires no correction or improvement, choose No improvement or correction is required. _When Dean Arnold was a child, he disliked politics_, but as a grown man, he loves them.

No improvement or correction is required.

Read the sentence, and decide whether the underlined portion contains a mistake. If it does, identify the best way to correct or improve the sentence by choosing the appropriate suggestion from the answer choices provided. If the underlined portion requires no correction or improvement, choose No improvement or correction is required. To bake a delicate soufflé, _you must have patience, gentleness, and courage_.

No improvement or correction is required.

Read the passage titled "The Beefsteak" on the Unit Test Reading Passages page. Then answer the questions that follow to improve elements of the passage such as sentence structure, word choice, overall organization, tone, and voice. Refer to Passage 2 to answer this question. Which of the following sentences does not belong in the first paragraph of the passage?

Sentence 6

Read the sentence, and decide whether the underlined portion contains a mistake. If it does, identify the best way to correct or improve the sentence by choosing the appropriate suggestion from the answer choices provided. If the underlined portion requires no correction or improvement, choose No improvement or correction is required. _Basketball was invented by the Canadian James Naismith_ in 1891.

The Canadian James Naismith invented basketball

Read the passage titled "The Beefsteak" on the Unit Test Reading Passages page. Then answer the questions that follow to improve elements of the passage such as sentence structure, word choice, overall organization, tone, and voice. Refer to Passage 2 to answer this question. The word they is best replaced by which of the following in sentence 2 (reprinted below)? _They_ used the event to try to curry favor among the people and win their votes.

The politicians

Refer to Passage 1 to answer this question. The author writes that fresh and tender fruit are "in contradistinction to such productions as nuts which may be kept without injury for a season." This means that nuts _________.

are unlike fresh fruit because they can be stored for a long time

Refer to Passage 1 to answer this question. In line 2 commerce most nearly means __________.

buying and selling

Each of the sentences provided may contain a grammar or usage error. Read the sentence, and then identify the section that contains the error, if there is one, by selecting the appropriate answer choice. If there is no error in the sentence, choose no error. Everyone in the _class need to_ _consider how_ _to treat others_ _with more compassion_.

class need to

Each of the sentences provided may contain a grammar or usage error. Read the sentence, and then identify the section that contains the error, if there is one, by selecting the appropriate answer choice. If there is no error in the sentence, choose no error. The department heads _does not realize_ that _they're part_ of the problem with _the organization of_ the new _physics program_.

does not realize

Each of the sentences provided may contain a grammar or usage error. Read the sentence, and then identify the section that contains the error, if there is one, by selecting the appropriate answer choice. If there is no error in the sentence, choose no error. _Spinning wool_, which was once common in almost _every rural household is_ becoming _popular again_ as a way _to reconnect with the past_.

every rural household is

Each of the sentences provided may contain a grammar or usage error. Read the sentence, and then identify the section that contains the error, if there is one, by selecting the appropriate answer choice. If there is no error in the sentence, choose no error. _If the utility_ company had come _on time_, I would have been _able to make_ the apple cobbler _for we to enjoy_ this evening.

for we to enjoy

Refer to Passage 1 to answer this question. According to the author, a gooseberry is a __________ fruit.

green

Refer to Passage 1 to answer this question. In what class of fruit is a strawberry, according to the author of this passage?

green

Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence. When my parents made me spend the entire weekend inside the house, I felt like I had been __________ just for having a bad cold.

incarcerated

Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence. One of the most memorable _________ I learned during childhood is "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," a(n) __________ that I still try to live by today.

maxims...dictum

Each of the sentences provided may contain a grammar or usage error. Read the sentence, and then identify the section that contains the error, if there is one, by selecting the appropriate answer choice. If there is no error in the sentence, choose no error. _The department heads_ do not _realize that they're_ part of the _problem with the organization_ of the _new physics program_.

no error

Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence. I understand your __________ about going out to dinner if you have to bring all the baby's __________ with you, but couldn't we just carry a blanket and a bottle?

reticence...paraphernalia

Refer to Passage 1 to answer this question. According to the passage, __________ deal in plums and apples.

sellers to wealthier people

Refer to the excerpt from London Labour and the London Poor (1851) by Henry Mayhew on the Unit Test Reading Passages page. Refer to Passage 1 to answer this question. What is the author's main purpose in this passage?

to describe the different kinds of fruit sold on the street

Each of the sentences provided may contain a grammar or usage error. Read the sentence, and then identify the section that contains the error, if there is one, by selecting the appropriate answer choice. If there is no error in the sentence, choose no error. When _I meet Sophia_ in person _for the first_ time _next week_, I _was sure_ I will enjoy her company.

was sure

Each of the sentences provided may contain a grammar or usage error. Read the sentence, and then identify the section that contains the error, if there is one, by selecting the appropriate answer choice. If there is no error in the sentence, choose no error. Spinning _wool which was_ once common _in almost every rural_ household, is _becoming popular again_ as a way to _reconnect with the past_.

wool which was