3.06 Unit Test: Critical Skills Practice 1

Read the sentence and identify its error, if there is one. The {last time we} visited {this park}, you said {that there} were {alot of fish} in the pond.

alot of fish

Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence. Thanks to the twins' skillful __________, Aunt Phyllis never suspected the surprise party they threw for her.

collusion

Read the sentence from "Paper Pills" by Sherwood Anderson. "That is to confound you, you blathering old sentimentalist," he cried, shaking with laughter. In this sentence "confound" most nearly means __________.

confuse

Read the sentence, and then identify its error, if there is one, by choosing the appropriate underlined word or phrase. {If you'd} {answered} {my question} about geometry {correct}, I might have believed that {you were} a mathematician.

correct

In context, which is the best version of the underlined portion of this sentence? George Washington Carver, a highly accomplished scientist and a widely respected {educator, he was born into slavery in 1864 in Missouri.}

educator, was born into slavery in 1864 in Missouri.

Identify the best way to correct or improve the sentence. Whenever I feel anxious, I take a long walk in the {garden and return having felt much more relaxed.}

garden and return feeling much more relaxed.

Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence. Both __________ and __________, the abandoned garden survived the bleak winter and produced an abundance of flowers the following spring.

hardy...profuse

Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence. The author writes that "in Doctor Reefy there were the seeds of something very fine" to suggest that the doctor __________.

has inner qualities that make him admirable

Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence. Unlike the lighthearted __________ of her youth, Rosalind's adulthood proved to be full of frustration and constant __________.

placidness...anxiety

In context, which is the best version of the underlined portion of this sentence? There, he became the school's first African-American {student, and studied agricultural science and received a bachelor's degree in 1894.}

student, studied agricultural science, and received a bachelor's degree in 1894.