British Literature: 2.08 UNIT TEST: Critical Skills Practice 3
Each of the sentences provided may contain a grammar or usage error. Read each 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. Plum pudding, a traditional holiday season dessert in England, looks more like a cake than a pudding.
no error
Each of the sentences provided may contain a grammar or usage error. Read each 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. Their cousins are coming to visit this summer from Germany.
no error
Each of the sentences provided may contain a grammar or usage error. Read each 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. Not every rich person were born with a silver spoon in his or her mouth.
were born
Each of the sentences provided may contain a grammar or usage error. Read each 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. I wish you will come to the party with Sally and me.
will come
Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence. Since I have never actually been on a plane, my fear of flying is purely __________; my fear of tight spaces, however, is __________ and based on past experiences.
theoretical...authentic
Refer to Passage 1 to answer this question. What is the author's main purpose in this passage?
to describe the place and time in which the story is set
Read the passage titled "McCauley Arboretum" on the Unit Test Reading Passages sheet. 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 1 (reprinted below)? In the winter of 1980, Dr. Keith Farrow and Emily Lane, a professor and a graduate student at Hickory College, they began to discuss turning a parcel of land on the west side of campus into an arboretum.
Lane, a professor and a graduate student at Hickory College, began
Read each sentence, and decide whether the underlined portion contains a mistake. If so, 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. Edinburgh is a beautiful and friendly city.
No improvement or correction is required.
Read each sentence, and decide whether the underlined portion contains a mistake. If so, 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 baseball, hitting, throwing, and catching the ball all require good hand-eye coordination.
No improvement or correction is required.
Read each sentence, and decide whether the underlined portion contains a mistake. If so, 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. Today I enjoy sculpting, but when I was young I hated it.
No improvement or correction is required.
Each of the sentences provided may contain a grammar or usage error. Read each 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. Plum pudding a traditional holiday season dessert in England, looks more like a cake than a pudding.
Plum pudding a
Refer to Passage 1 to answer this question. According to the author, the king of England during the time in which the story is set was __________.
Richard I
Refer to Passage 2 to answer this question. Which of the following sentences does not belong in the first paragraph of the passage?
Sentence 2
Read each sentence, and decide whether the underlined portion contains a mistake. If so, 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. Hamlet was written by Shakespeare sometime in the early 1600s.
Shakespeare wrote Hamlet
Refer to Passage 2 to answer this question. In context, which is the best version of sentence 7 (reprinted below)? In 1981 a fundraising drive was begun by the Hickory College Green Thumb Club to raise additional money for the project.
The Hickory College Green Thumb Club began a fundraising drive to raise additional money for the project in 1981.
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. There cousins are coming to visit this summer from Germany.
There
Refer to Passage 1 to answer this question. The author views the region of England in which the story takes place as __________.
beautiful and full of history
Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence. Sherlock Holmes is a far more __________ hero than a character such as Sir Lancelot, King Arthur's greatest knight, because Holmes solves problems with his mental abilities rather than with physical strength.
cerebral
Refer to Passage 1 to answer this question. Which word means nearly the same as gallant in line 7?
courageous
Refer to Passage 1 to answer this question. When the author writes that the nobles had "resumed their ancient license in its utmost extent," he means that the nobles had again sought to __________.
gather as much power for themselves as possible
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 last time I went to see Mr. Evans, he will be glad to know that his sister finally sold her house.
he will be glad
Read each sentence, and decide whether the underlined portion contains a mistake. If so, 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. The Revolutionary War gave America its independence, but it was the Civil War that gave all Americans their freedom.
independence, but the Civil War
Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence. The damage those rumors did to the actor's reputation is __________, so it is somewhat understandable that he became so __________ and bitter towards the members of the press who spread lies about him.
irrevocable...vindictive
Refer to Passage 2 to answer this question. In context, which is the best revision of the underlined portions of sentences 3 and 4 (reprinted below)? A grove of sycamore trees on the land was plagued with disease. It was also in a state of serious neglect.
plagued by disease and in a serious state of neglect.
Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence. Now that the old house has been __________ and restored to its original splendor, it is one of the finest examples of nineteenth-century architecture in the city.
refurbished