B5 W3 SLO Language Quiz

What is the correct correction of this sentence? Having finished studying, the cookies began baking.

After we finished studying, the cookies began baking.

Carlos not only missed his one-year anniversary with Adrianna __________.

but he also forgot his mother's birthday.

Pick the correct verb. People throughout history ______ been fascinated by the moon.

have

When Diane takes her beagle for a walk, Santana enjoys sniffing for edible garbage, __________, and lunging at squirrels.

howling at bicyclists

Pick the correct verb. Mumps _______ a contagious disease

is

We searched the car trunk, __________, and the top of the refrigerator, but we could not find the box of cornflakes that we remember buying.

the pantry shelves

In the passage that follows, certain words and phrases are underlined and numbered. For each question, choose the alternative you consider best and fill in the corresponding oval on your answer document. Read the passage through once before you begin to answer the questions that accompany it. For many of the questions, you must read several sentences beyond the question to determine the answer. Be sure that you have read far enough ahead each time you choose an alternative. A Microscope in the Kitchen I grew up with buckets, shovels, and nets waiting by the back door; hip-waders hanging in the closet; tide table charts covering the refrigerator door; and a microscope (6) was sitting on the kitchen table. (7) Having studied, my mother is a marine biologist. Our household might have been described as uncooperative. Our meals weren't always served in the expected order of breakfast, lunch, and supper. Everything was subservient to the disposal of the tides. When the tide was low, Mom could be found down on the mudflats. When the tide was high, she would be standing on the inlet bridge with her plankton net. I have great respect for my mother. I learned early that the moon affected the tides. Mom was always waiting for a full or new moon, when low tide would be lower than average and high tide higher than average. (8) The moon being aligned with Earth and the sun when full or new, so its gravity combines with the sun's gravity to create an even stronger gravitational pull. (9) I know that it took about eight hours for the tides to change from high to low. (10) Sixteen hours for a complete cycle of tides. I didn't have to wait to learn these things in school. In our house they were everyday knowledge. Often, my brother and I, joined our mother on her adventures into tidal lands. At the very low tides of the full moon, when almost all the water was sucked away, (11) we find the hideaways where crabs, snails, starfish, and sea urchins hid in order not to be seen. Sometimes we would dig with shovels in the mud, where yellow and white worms lived in their leathery tunnels. For plankton tows, we would stand on the bridge while Mom lowered a cone-shaped net that is often used by marine biologists.Then we would patiently wait. After a while, she would pull up the net, and we would go home. Later, we would see her sitting at the kitchen table, (12) peering at a drop of water through the lenses of her microscope from the bottle—watching the thousands of tiny swimming organisms. 6. Choose the correct change. 7. Choose the correct option: 8. Choose the correct option: 9. Choose the correct option: 10. Choose the correct option: 11. Choose the correct option: 12. Choose the correct option:

6. sitting 7. My mother is 8. Since the moon is 9. I knew that 10. , sixteen hours for a complete cycle of tides. 11. we found 12. after the word bottle (but before the dash).

Choose all of the correct sentences from these choices.

I was late for class and I had a good excuse. I was late for class, but I had a good excuse. I was late for class, I had a good excuse. I was late for class. I had a good excuse.

Which of the following sentences does not contain a misplaced modifier?

Jumping up, the kitten caught the treat.

Choose the sentence that is correct.

My favorite Mediterranean spread is hummus; it is very garlicky.

Choose the correct sentence.

On the quiet, secluded beach, we could see dolphins playing in the waves.

Choose the sentence that contains a misplaced modifier.

Running across campus in the snow and wind, my earlobes got frostbitten.

Pick the sentence below that correctly uses a modifier.

The farmer showed us a perfectly preserved Model A Ford, stored under a tarp in the old barn.

Pick the correct verb. Few __________ his strange sense of fashion

appreciate

Choose the correct option: Not only did Hank despise the way June chewed with her mouth open, _________ finding her wet towels all over the bathroom floor.

but he also disliked

Pick the correct verb. 1. The pep club ______ at every football game.

cheers

Pick the correct verb. Most of Mark Twain's books_______ humor.

contain

Pick the correct verb: Neither the coach nor the players ______ forward to Friday's game.

looks

To protect her delicate hands, Fran will not rake the yard, do the dishes, or __________.

scrub the bathroom