ELA 9 Unit Test 5 (88%)
Read the excerpt from Silent Spring. The roadsides, once so attractive, were now lined with browned and withered vegetation as though swept by fire. In this excerpt, the phrase "so attractive" "now lined with" "withered vegetation" "as though swept" best shows the author's tone of despair.
withered vegetation
Which statement best summarizes "Save the Coral Reefs"?
Coral reefs are a very important component of the ocean's ecosystem because they support sea life, such as crabs and sea turtles. In fact, over four thousand species depend on the survival of the reefs, which are being destroyed by bleaching. More must be done immediately to save the reefs.
Which is the best comparison of the authors' purpose in these two essays about genetically modified food?
The purpose of both essays is to persuade the reader of a specific point of view.
How does the author use logos to support the argument made in "Save the Coral Reefs"?
by providing scientific evidence that humans are destroying coral reefs
Read the poem excerpt. A backyard reality is rearranged.Hopscotch lines cower and hide,The toys in the yard . . . lost until spring. Which statement best describes the meter?
The meter is free, making the poem unpredictable.
Read the excerpt from Silent Spring. In the gutters under the eaves and between the shingles of the roofs, a white granular powder still showed a few patches; some weeks before it had fallen like snow upon the roofs and the lawns, the fields and streams. Which best explains how the phrase "white granular powder" supports the author's purpose of calling attention to the environment?
The powder is an unnatural substance
During the revision process, which transitions can be added to sentences to show differences between ideas? Check all that apply.
although conversely however in contrast
Read the excerpt from "Sea Fever" by John Masefield. And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over. Which sound device is most notable in this excerpt?
assonance
Which phrases from the excerpt support the author's argument that genetically modified food is safe? Select three options.
could help save unsubstantiated risks more nutritious
Read the excerpt from The Hot Zone and the summary that follows it. Half of this biocontainment operation was going to be news containment. C. J. Peters's comments to The Washington Post were designed to create an impression that the situation was under control, safe, and not all that interesting. C. J. was understating the gravity of the situation. But he could be very smooth when he wanted, and he used his friendliest voice with the reporters, assuring them over the telephone that there really was no problem, just kind of a routine technical situation. Somehow the reporters concluded that the sick monkeys had been "destroyed as a precaution" when in fact the nightmare, and the reason for troops, was that the animals hadn't been destroyed. Summary of central idea: It was very important to keep the truth about this operation from the news. What best describes this summary of the central idea?
It is a strong summary because it is objective and accurately expresses the paragraph's central idea.
Which line from "Safari Day in Kenya" contains an example of assonance?
Not a word speak the tourists, as we fill the teeming jeep
is a type of appeal that tries to make readers feel something.
Pathos
Read the excerpt from The Hot Zone. There she met Lieutenant Colonel Trotter, a stocky, dark-haired man whom Nancy had worked with for many years. They put on their inner gloves and taped their cuffs. Nancy put a pair of hearing protectors over her ears. She had started wearing them a while back, when people had begun to suspect that the roar of air in your suit might be loud enough to damage your hearing. They hauled on their space suits and sealed the Ziploc zippers. They edged around each other as they fiddled with their suits. People wearing biohazard space suits tend to step around one another like two wrestlers at the beginning of a match, watching the other person's every move, especially watching the hands to make sure they don't hold a sharp object. This cringing becomes instinctive. Which details from this excerpt best show that the author's purpose in including this paragraph is to illustrate how hazardous the scientists' work is?
People wearing biohazard space suits tend to step around one another like two wrestlers at the beginning of a match, watching the other person's every move, especially watching the hands to make sure they don't hold a sharp object. This cringing becomes instinctive.
Read the excerpt from "Safari Day in Kenya." Hyenas slink before us, mottled bodies, eyes black iceZebras bright as painted ponies, the babes brown-striped, not black! Which statement best describes how the author uses sound devices to create mood?
The author uses alliteration to create a playful mood.
Which best describes the structure of the poem "Safari Day in Kenya"?
free verse with varied line lengths
Which lines from "The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe contain onomatopoeia? Select three options.
how they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle from the jingling and the tinkling of the bells to the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
Read the excerpt from "Safari Day in Kenya." Kimani stops at a watering hole, where hippos grunt in mud-baths,Baboons play in a nearby tree, like children out at camp. The underlined portion of the stanza is an example of which sound device?
onomatopoeia
Read the sentence. During the scenic tour of the national park, the cascading waterfall was photographed repeatedly. This sentence is in the
passive voice
What is the author's purpose in "Save the Coral Reefs"? Select two options.
to convince readers that practices that destroy coral reefs must be stopped to inform readers about how the coral reefs are being destroyed
In Silent Spring Rachel Carson makes up a fictional story about what life in the United States will be like if we don't save the environment, whereas in "Save the Redwoods" John Muir
presents facts and evidence to convince readers to rescue the Sequoia
Read the sentence. The forgery ________ so exquisite that it hung in the museum for the past two decades without discovery. Which verb or verb phrase is in the correct tense to complete the sentence?
was
Read the excerpt from Silent Spring. There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines. Which phrases in the excerpt best support the author's purpose of creating a positive image of a town? Select five options.
heart of America Live in harmony hillsides of orchards blaze of color backdrop of pines
Read this excerpt from Silent Spring. Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change. Some evil spell had settled on the community: mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens; the cattle and sheep sickened and died. Everywhere was a shadow of death. The farmers spoke of much illness among their families. Read this excerpt from "Save the Redwoods". This righteous and lively indignation on the part of Californians after the long period of deathlike apathy, in which they have witnessed the destruction of other groves unmoved, seems strange until the rapid growth that right public opinion has made during the last few years is considered and the peculiar interest that attaches to the Calaveras giants.
passionate
Read the excerpt from The Hot Zone. She took up a scalpel and slit the monkey's abdomen, making a slow and gentle cut, keeping the blade well away from her gloved fingers. The spleen was puffed up and tough, leathery, like a globe of smoked salami. She did not see any bloody lesions inside this monkey. She had expected that the monkey's interior would be a lake of blood, but no, this monkey looked all right, it had not bled into itself. Which strategy would be most helpful in determining the meaning of the word "scalpel"?
replacing "scalpel" with the nearby synonym "blade"
Read the excerpt from "Save the Coral Reefs." A study completed in 2004 found that seventy percent of our coral reefs are already destroyed or currently under threat of destruction. It also concluded that much of the wreckage to reefs has been caused by humans. The resiliency of the reefs is on our side, though. More can be done now to help the coral reefs bounce back—even flourish. What is meaning of the word "resiliency" in this context?
the ability of an ecosystem to recover from damage
