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"The economies of many countries were damaged by the war.",
"Dropping atomic bombs was not necessary to end the war.",
"Italy and Germany were members of the Axis powers.",
"Many families suffered the loss of loved ones during the war."
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "mid",
"sub_subject": "social",
"subject": "social-science"
}
|
Which statement is an opinion about World War II?
|
The following are multiple choice questions (with answers) about social-science. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
AGRICULTURE | 1990 | 1995 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002
Farms (in thousands) | 2,146 | 2,196 | 2,172 | 2,156 | 2,158
Land in farms (million acres) | 987 | 963 | 943 | 941 | 941
Farm income ($ billion) | 44.6 | 36.9 | 47.8 | 50.6 | 35.3
Source: U.S. Census Bureau (adapted)
In which year was farm income the highest?
A. 2002
B. 2001
C. 1990
D. 1995
Answer: B
What is the approximate latitude and longitude of the Bouvet Hot Spot?
A. 54° N 3° W
B. 3° N 54° E
C. 3° S 54° W
D. 54° S 3° E
Answer: D
When it is solar noon at a location at 75° W longitude, what is the solar time at a location at 120° W longitude?
A. 9 a.m.
B. 12 noon
C. 12 midnight
D. 3 p.m.
Answer: A
Which statement is an opinion about World War II?
A. The economies of many countries were damaged by the war.
B. Dropping atomic bombs was not necessary to end the war.
C. Italy and Germany were members of the Axis powers.
D. Many families suffered the loss of loved ones during the war.
Answer:
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0
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0
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[
"13",
"32",
"0",
"27"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "high",
"sub_subject": "algebra2",
"subject": "math"
}
|
In a group of 40 people, 20 have brown hair, 22 have blue eyes, and 15 have both brown hair and blue eyes. How many people have neither brown hair nor blue eyes?
|
The following is a multiple choice question. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
Linear function K passes through points (-3,7) and (3,3). What is the rate of change of function K ?
A. $\frac{3}{2}$
B. $-\frac{3}{2}$
C. $-\frac{2}{3}$
D. $\frac{2}{3}$
Answer: C
If $f(x) = a^{x}$ where $a > 1$, then the inverse of the function is
A. $f^{-1}(x) = log_{a} x$
B. $f^{-1}(x) = log_{x} a$
C. $f^{-1}(x) = alog x$
D. $f^{-1}(x) = xlog a$
Answer: A
Which system of equations has no solution?
A. $\begin{cases} 7x - 2y = 9\\ 7x - 2y = 13 \end{cases}$
B. $\begin{cases} 2x - y = -11\\ -2x + y = 11 \end{cases}$
C. $\begin{cases} 3x + 6y = 1\\ x + y = 0 \end{cases}$
D. $\begin{cases} 3x + 4y = 5\\ 6x + 8y = 10 \end{cases}$
Answer: A
In a group of 40 people, 20 have brown hair, 22 have blue eyes, and 15 have both brown hair and blue eyes. How many people have neither brown hair nor blue eyes?
A. 13
B. 32
C. 0
D. 27
Answer:
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1
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0
|
[
"influence public opinion",
"overturn a presidential election",
"support an isolationist foreign policy",
"promote peace in Cuba"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "mid",
"sub_subject": "social",
"subject": "social-science"
}
|
Yellow journalism was used by newspapers in the 1890s to
|
The following is a multiple choice question about social-science. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
AGRICULTURE | 1990 | 1995 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002
Farms (in thousands) | 2,146 | 2,196 | 2,172 | 2,156 | 2,158
Land in farms (million acres) | 987 | 963 | 943 | 941 | 941
Farm income ($ billion) | 44.6 | 36.9 | 47.8 | 50.6 | 35.3
Source: U.S. Census Bureau (adapted)
In which year was farm income the highest?
A. 1990
B. 2002
C. 2001
D. 1995
Answer: C
What is the approximate latitude and longitude of the Bouvet Hot Spot?
A. 54° S 3° E
B. 3° N 54° E
C. 3° S 54° W
D. 54° N 3° W
Answer: A
When it is solar noon at a location at 75° W longitude, what is the solar time at a location at 120° W longitude?
A. 3 p.m.
B. 12 noon
C. 12 midnight
D. 9 a.m.
Answer: D
Yellow journalism was used by newspapers in the 1890s to
A. influence public opinion
B. overturn a presidential election
C. support an isolationist foreign policy
D. promote peace in Cuba
Answer:
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2
|
2
|
[
"on southwestern ranches",
"in Pacific Coast lumber yards",
"in northern cities",
"on Great Plains farms"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "mid",
"sub_subject": "social",
"subject": "social-science"
}
|
During the early 1900s, large numbers of African Americans from the South found better job opportunities
|
The following is a multiple choice question about social-science. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
AGRICULTURE | 1990 | 1995 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002
Farms (in thousands) | 2,146 | 2,196 | 2,172 | 2,156 | 2,158
Land in farms (million acres) | 987 | 963 | 943 | 941 | 941
Farm income ($ billion) | 44.6 | 36.9 | 47.8 | 50.6 | 35.3
Source: U.S. Census Bureau (adapted)
In which year was farm income the highest?
A. 2002
B. 1990
C. 2001
D. 1995
Answer: C
What is the approximate latitude and longitude of the Bouvet Hot Spot?
A. 54° N 3° W
B. 3° N 54° E
C. 54° S 3° E
D. 3° S 54° W
Answer: C
When it is solar noon at a location at 75° W longitude, what is the solar time at a location at 120° W longitude?
A. 3 p.m.
B. 9 a.m.
C. 12 midnight
D. 12 noon
Answer: B
During the early 1900s, large numbers of African Americans from the South found better job opportunities
A. on southwestern ranches
B. in Pacific Coast lumber yards
C. in northern cities
D. on Great Plains farms
Answer:
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3
|
0
|
[
"70. kPa",
"60. kPa",
"21 kPa",
"79 kPa"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "high",
"sub_subject": "chemistry",
"subject": "natural-science"
}
|
What is the vapor pressure of propanone at 45°C?
|
The following are multiple choice questions (with answers). Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
Parts per million is used to express the
A. atomic mass of an element
B. concentration of a solution
C. rate of heat transfer
D. volume of a substance
Answer: B
Base your answers to questions 21 and 22 on the data table below and on your knowledge of science. The data table shows the years when Halley’s Comet was closest to the Sun, making it visible to observers on Earth.
Years When Halley’s Comet Was Observed
1759
1835
1910
1986
The reason that Halley’s Comet can be seen during specific years is that
A. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is controlled by Earth’s gravity
B. Halley’s Comet orbits the Sun in a cyclic and predictable pattern
C. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is a perfect circle
D. Halley’s Comet orbits Earth in a cyclic and predictable pattern
Answer: B
A helium atom consists of two protons, two electrons, and two neutrons. In the helium atom, the strong force is a fundamental interaction between the
A. electrons and protons
B. neutrons and electrons
C. electrons, only
D. neutrons and protons
Answer: D
What is the vapor pressure of propanone at 45°C?
A. 70. kPa
B. 60. kPa
C. 21 kPa
D. 79 kPa
Answer:
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4
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3
|
[
"Emancipation Proclamation",
"assassination of President Lincoln",
"battle of Gettysburg",
"firing on Fort Sumter"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "mid",
"sub_subject": "social",
"subject": "social-science"
}
|
Which Civil War event occurred first?
|
The following is a multiple choice question about social-science. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
AGRICULTURE | 1990 | 1995 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002
Farms (in thousands) | 2,146 | 2,196 | 2,172 | 2,156 | 2,158
Land in farms (million acres) | 987 | 963 | 943 | 941 | 941
Farm income ($ billion) | 44.6 | 36.9 | 47.8 | 50.6 | 35.3
Source: U.S. Census Bureau (adapted)
In which year was farm income the highest?
A. 2002
B. 1995
C. 2001
D. 1990
Answer: C
What is the approximate latitude and longitude of the Bouvet Hot Spot?
A. 3° N 54° E
B. 3° S 54° W
C. 54° S 3° E
D. 54° N 3° W
Answer: C
When it is solar noon at a location at 75° W longitude, what is the solar time at a location at 120° W longitude?
A. 12 noon
B. 12 midnight
C. 3 p.m.
D. 9 a.m.
Answer: D
Which Civil War event occurred first?
A. Emancipation Proclamation
B. assassination of President Lincoln
C. battle of Gettysburg
D. firing on Fort Sumter
Answer:
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5
|
1
|
[
"detect variations",
"maintain homeostasis",
"obtain nutrients",
"attract mates"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "high",
"sub_subject": "environment",
"subject": "natural-science"
}
|
A small lizard spends the morning hours lying in the sunlight until its body temperature rises. Later on in the day, the lizard rests in a shady area until its body temperature cools. This type of behavior is important to
|
The following is a multiple choice question. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
Parts per million is used to express the
A. concentration of a solution
B. atomic mass of an element
C. rate of heat transfer
D. volume of a substance
Answer: A
Base your answers to questions 21 and 22 on the data table below and on your knowledge of science. The data table shows the years when Halley’s Comet was closest to the Sun, making it visible to observers on Earth.
Years When Halley’s Comet Was Observed
1759
1835
1910
1986
The reason that Halley’s Comet can be seen during specific years is that
A. Halley’s Comet orbits the Sun in a cyclic and predictable pattern
B. Halley’s Comet orbits Earth in a cyclic and predictable pattern
C. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is a perfect circle
D. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is controlled by Earth’s gravity
Answer: A
A helium atom consists of two protons, two electrons, and two neutrons. In the helium atom, the strong force is a fundamental interaction between the
A. neutrons and electrons
B. neutrons and protons
C. electrons, only
D. electrons and protons
Answer: B
A small lizard spends the morning hours lying in the sunlight until its body temperature rises. Later on in the day, the lizard rests in a shady area until its body temperature cools. This type of behavior is important to
A. detect variations
B. maintain homeostasis
C. obtain nutrients
D. attract mates
Answer:
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6
|
0
|
[
"bringing charges against the president by the House of Representatives",
"replacing the president with the vice president",
"holding a hearing before the full Senate",
"conducting a trial by the Supreme Court"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "mid",
"sub_subject": "social",
"subject": "social-science"
}
|
What is the first step in the impeachment process for removing a president from office?
|
Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
AGRICULTURE | 1990 | 1995 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002
Farms (in thousands) | 2,146 | 2,196 | 2,172 | 2,156 | 2,158
Land in farms (million acres) | 987 | 963 | 943 | 941 | 941
Farm income ($ billion) | 44.6 | 36.9 | 47.8 | 50.6 | 35.3
Source: U.S. Census Bureau (adapted)
In which year was farm income the highest?
A. 1995
B. 2001
C. 1990
D. 2002
Answer: B
What is the approximate latitude and longitude of the Bouvet Hot Spot?
A. 54° N 3° W
B. 3° S 54° W
C. 54° S 3° E
D. 3° N 54° E
Answer: C
When it is solar noon at a location at 75° W longitude, what is the solar time at a location at 120° W longitude?
A. 3 p.m.
B. 12 midnight
C. 9 a.m.
D. 12 noon
Answer: C
What is the first step in the impeachment process for removing a president from office?
A. bringing charges against the president by the House of Representatives
B. replacing the president with the vice president
C. holding a hearing before the full Senate
D. conducting a trial by the Supreme Court
Answer:
|
7
|
1
|
[
"1.05 * 10^{1} J",
"5.67 * 10^{5} J",
"9.45 * 10^{3} J",
"1.75 * 10^{-1} J"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "high",
"sub_subject": "physics",
"subject": "natural-science"
}
|
The total amount of electrical energy used by a 315-watt television during 30.0 minutes of operation is
|
The following is a multiple choice question about natural-science. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
Parts per million is used to express the
A. volume of a substance
B. rate of heat transfer
C. concentration of a solution
D. atomic mass of an element
Answer: C
Base your answers to questions 21 and 22 on the data table below and on your knowledge of science. The data table shows the years when Halley’s Comet was closest to the Sun, making it visible to observers on Earth.
Years When Halley’s Comet Was Observed
1759
1835
1910
1986
The reason that Halley’s Comet can be seen during specific years is that
A. Halley’s Comet orbits Earth in a cyclic and predictable pattern
B. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is controlled by Earth’s gravity
C. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is a perfect circle
D. Halley’s Comet orbits the Sun in a cyclic and predictable pattern
Answer: D
A helium atom consists of two protons, two electrons, and two neutrons. In the helium atom, the strong force is a fundamental interaction between the
A. neutrons and protons
B. neutrons and electrons
C. electrons and protons
D. electrons, only
Answer: A
The total amount of electrical energy used by a 315-watt television during 30.0 minutes of operation is
A. 1.05 * 10^{1} J
B. 5.67 * 10^{5} J
C. 9.45 * 10^{3} J
D. 1.75 * 10^{-1} J
Answer:
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8
|
1
|
[
"$1\\frac{3}{8}$ cups",
"$4\\frac{1}{8}$ cups",
"$2\\frac{1}{16}$ cups",
"$2\\frac{3}{4}$ cups"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "low",
"sub_subject": "math",
"subject": "math"
}
|
Ms. Reed makes salad dressing by combining oil and vinegar. She combines 8 fluid ounces of oil and 3 fluid ounces of vinegar to make one batch. Ms. Reed makes 3 batches of salad dressing. How many total cups of salad dressing does she make?
|
The following are multiple choice questions (with answers). Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
Linear function K passes through points (-3,7) and (3,3). What is the rate of change of function K ?
A. $-\frac{2}{3}$
B. $\frac{2}{3}$
C. $-\frac{3}{2}$
D. $\frac{3}{2}$
Answer: A
If $f(x) = a^{x}$ where $a > 1$, then the inverse of the function is
A. $f^{-1}(x) = log_{x} a$
B. $f^{-1}(x) = xlog a$
C. $f^{-1}(x) = alog x$
D. $f^{-1}(x) = log_{a} x$
Answer: D
Which system of equations has no solution?
A. $\begin{cases} 7x - 2y = 9\\ 7x - 2y = 13 \end{cases}$
B. $\begin{cases} 3x + 4y = 5\\ 6x + 8y = 10 \end{cases}$
C. $\begin{cases} 3x + 6y = 1\\ x + y = 0 \end{cases}$
D. $\begin{cases} 2x - y = -11\\ -2x + y = 11 \end{cases}$
Answer: A
Ms. Reed makes salad dressing by combining oil and vinegar. She combines 8 fluid ounces of oil and 3 fluid ounces of vinegar to make one batch. Ms. Reed makes 3 batches of salad dressing. How many total cups of salad dressing does she make?
A. $1\frac{3}{8}$ cups
B. $4\frac{1}{8}$ cups
C. $2\frac{1}{16}$ cups
D. $2\frac{3}{4}$ cups
Answer:
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9
|
2
|
[
"decrease in the volume of global trade",
"surplus of funding for scientific research",
"increase in greenhouse gas emissions",
"expansion of fresh water resources"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "high",
"sub_subject": "history",
"subject": "social-science"
}
|
Base your answers to questions 26 through 28 on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.
. . . Climate change is not equally felt across the globe, and neither are its longer term consequences. . . . Climate change is a threat multiplier: It contributes to economic and political instability and also worsens the effects. It propels sudden onset disasters like floods and storms and slow-onset disasters like drought and desertification; those disasters contribute to failed crops, famine and overcrowded urban centers; those crises inflame political unrest and worsen the impacts of war, which leads to even more displacement. There is no internationally recognized legal definition for “environmental migrants” or “climate refugees,” so there is no formal reckoning of how many have left their homes because climate change has made their lives or livelihoods untenable [unsustainable]. In a 2010 Gallup World Poll, though, about 12 percent of respondents — representing a total of 500 million adults — said severe environmental problems would require them to move within the next five years. . . .
Source: Jessica Benko, “How a Warming Planet Drives Human Migration,”
New York Times Magazine, April 19, 2017 (adapted)
What is a direct cause of the climate issues described in this passage?
|
The following are multiple choice questions (with answers). Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
AGRICULTURE | 1990 | 1995 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002
Farms (in thousands) | 2,146 | 2,196 | 2,172 | 2,156 | 2,158
Land in farms (million acres) | 987 | 963 | 943 | 941 | 941
Farm income ($ billion) | 44.6 | 36.9 | 47.8 | 50.6 | 35.3
Source: U.S. Census Bureau (adapted)
In which year was farm income the highest?
A. 1990
B. 2001
C. 2002
D. 1995
Answer: B
What is the approximate latitude and longitude of the Bouvet Hot Spot?
A. 3° N 54° E
B. 3° S 54° W
C. 54° N 3° W
D. 54° S 3° E
Answer: D
When it is solar noon at a location at 75° W longitude, what is the solar time at a location at 120° W longitude?
A. 12 noon
B. 3 p.m.
C. 9 a.m.
D. 12 midnight
Answer: C
Base your answers to questions 26 through 28 on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.
. . . Climate change is not equally felt across the globe, and neither are its longer term consequences. . . . Climate change is a threat multiplier: It contributes to economic and political instability and also worsens the effects. It propels sudden onset disasters like floods and storms and slow-onset disasters like drought and desertification; those disasters contribute to failed crops, famine and overcrowded urban centers; those crises inflame political unrest and worsen the impacts of war, which leads to even more displacement. There is no internationally recognized legal definition for “environmental migrants” or “climate refugees,” so there is no formal reckoning of how many have left their homes because climate change has made their lives or livelihoods untenable [unsustainable]. In a 2010 Gallup World Poll, though, about 12 percent of respondents — representing a total of 500 million adults — said severe environmental problems would require them to move within the next five years. . . .
Source: Jessica Benko, “How a Warming Planet Drives Human Migration,”
New York Times Magazine, April 19, 2017 (adapted)
What is a direct cause of the climate issues described in this passage?
A. decrease in the volume of global trade
B. surplus of funding for scientific research
C. increase in greenhouse gas emissions
D. expansion of fresh water resources
Answer:
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10
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3
|
[
"rate of squeezing",
"control",
"number of participants",
"exercise"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "high",
"sub_subject": "environment",
"subject": "natural-science"
}
|
An investigation is carried out to determine the effect of exercise on the rate at which a person can squeeze a clothespin.
In this investigation, the independent variable is the
|
The following is a multiple choice question. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
Parts per million is used to express the
A. volume of a substance
B. atomic mass of an element
C. rate of heat transfer
D. concentration of a solution
Answer: D
Base your answers to questions 21 and 22 on the data table below and on your knowledge of science. The data table shows the years when Halley’s Comet was closest to the Sun, making it visible to observers on Earth.
Years When Halley’s Comet Was Observed
1759
1835
1910
1986
The reason that Halley’s Comet can be seen during specific years is that
A. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is controlled by Earth’s gravity
B. Halley’s Comet orbits Earth in a cyclic and predictable pattern
C. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is a perfect circle
D. Halley’s Comet orbits the Sun in a cyclic and predictable pattern
Answer: D
A helium atom consists of two protons, two electrons, and two neutrons. In the helium atom, the strong force is a fundamental interaction between the
A. electrons and protons
B. neutrons and protons
C. neutrons and electrons
D. electrons, only
Answer: B
An investigation is carried out to determine the effect of exercise on the rate at which a person can squeeze a clothespin.
In this investigation, the independent variable is the
A. rate of squeezing
B. control
C. number of participants
D. exercise
Answer:
|
11
|
0
|
[
"protect individual freedoms from governmental power",
"make changes in the election process",
"remove portions of the original Constitution",
"increase the power of the legislative branch"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "mid",
"sub_subject": "social",
"subject": "social-science"
}
|
The first ten amendments were added to the Constitution to
|
The following is a multiple choice question about social-science. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
AGRICULTURE | 1990 | 1995 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002
Farms (in thousands) | 2,146 | 2,196 | 2,172 | 2,156 | 2,158
Land in farms (million acres) | 987 | 963 | 943 | 941 | 941
Farm income ($ billion) | 44.6 | 36.9 | 47.8 | 50.6 | 35.3
Source: U.S. Census Bureau (adapted)
In which year was farm income the highest?
A. 2001
B. 2002
C. 1990
D. 1995
Answer: A
What is the approximate latitude and longitude of the Bouvet Hot Spot?
A. 3° S 54° W
B. 3° N 54° E
C. 54° S 3° E
D. 54° N 3° W
Answer: C
When it is solar noon at a location at 75° W longitude, what is the solar time at a location at 120° W longitude?
A. 12 midnight
B. 12 noon
C. 3 p.m.
D. 9 a.m.
Answer: D
The first ten amendments were added to the Constitution to
A. protect individual freedoms from governmental power
B. make changes in the election process
C. remove portions of the original Constitution
D. increase the power of the legislative branch
Answer:
|
12
|
3
|
[
"there would be more energy available for insects and worms that live in the soil",
"the diversity of plants and animals present would increase",
"fewer animals would suffer from disease such as cancer",
"the food web would be disrupted because there would be little recycling of nutrients"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "high",
"sub_subject": "environment",
"subject": "natural-science"
}
|
Researchers have discovered a chemical that sterilizes soil by killing all of the bacteria that are normally present. If this chemical were released in a forest ecosystem, the most likely result would be that
|
Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
Parts per million is used to express the
A. concentration of a solution
B. atomic mass of an element
C. rate of heat transfer
D. volume of a substance
Answer: A
Base your answers to questions 21 and 22 on the data table below and on your knowledge of science. The data table shows the years when Halley’s Comet was closest to the Sun, making it visible to observers on Earth.
Years When Halley’s Comet Was Observed
1759
1835
1910
1986
The reason that Halley’s Comet can be seen during specific years is that
A. Halley’s Comet orbits Earth in a cyclic and predictable pattern
B. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is a perfect circle
C. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is controlled by Earth’s gravity
D. Halley’s Comet orbits the Sun in a cyclic and predictable pattern
Answer: D
A helium atom consists of two protons, two electrons, and two neutrons. In the helium atom, the strong force is a fundamental interaction between the
A. neutrons and protons
B. electrons, only
C. electrons and protons
D. neutrons and electrons
Answer: A
Researchers have discovered a chemical that sterilizes soil by killing all of the bacteria that are normally present. If this chemical were released in a forest ecosystem, the most likely result would be that
A. there would be more energy available for insects and worms that live in the soil
B. the diversity of plants and animals present would increase
C. fewer animals would suffer from disease such as cancer
D. the food web would be disrupted because there would be little recycling of nutrients
Answer:
|
13
|
3
|
[
"Soil erosion is affected by the strength of the wind.",
"Flooded areas have greater soil erosion than areas that are not flooded.",
"Some types of soil are more easily eroded.",
"Some types of plants reduce soil erosion more than others."
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "mid",
"sub_subject": "science",
"subject": "natural-science"
}
|
An experiment is described below.
A large field at the base of a mountain becomes flooded when heavy rains in the mountains cause a stream to overflow. Each time the flooding occurs, more soil washes away.
The owners of the land want to perform an experiment to see if different types of plants could help reduce the soil erosion. They choose five areas of ground that are the same size, the same distance from the stream, have the same slope and the same kind of soil, and receive the same amount of sunlight. The type of plant planted in each area is different for each of the five areas. Measurements of soil erosion will be made each time flooding occurs. The results will be compared after six months.
Which hypothesis is being tested in this experiment?
|
The following are multiple choice questions (with answers). Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
Parts per million is used to express the
A. concentration of a solution
B. rate of heat transfer
C. volume of a substance
D. atomic mass of an element
Answer: A
Base your answers to questions 21 and 22 on the data table below and on your knowledge of science. The data table shows the years when Halley’s Comet was closest to the Sun, making it visible to observers on Earth.
Years When Halley’s Comet Was Observed
1759
1835
1910
1986
The reason that Halley’s Comet can be seen during specific years is that
A. Halley’s Comet orbits the Sun in a cyclic and predictable pattern
B. Halley’s Comet orbits Earth in a cyclic and predictable pattern
C. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is a perfect circle
D. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is controlled by Earth’s gravity
Answer: A
A helium atom consists of two protons, two electrons, and two neutrons. In the helium atom, the strong force is a fundamental interaction between the
A. electrons, only
B. electrons and protons
C. neutrons and protons
D. neutrons and electrons
Answer: C
An experiment is described below.
A large field at the base of a mountain becomes flooded when heavy rains in the mountains cause a stream to overflow. Each time the flooding occurs, more soil washes away.
The owners of the land want to perform an experiment to see if different types of plants could help reduce the soil erosion. They choose five areas of ground that are the same size, the same distance from the stream, have the same slope and the same kind of soil, and receive the same amount of sunlight. The type of plant planted in each area is different for each of the five areas. Measurements of soil erosion will be made each time flooding occurs. The results will be compared after six months.
Which hypothesis is being tested in this experiment?
A. Soil erosion is affected by the strength of the wind.
B. Flooded areas have greater soil erosion than areas that are not flooded.
C. Some types of soil are more easily eroded.
D. Some types of plants reduce soil erosion more than others.
Answer:
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14
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0
|
[
"New oceanic crust is forming.",
"New continental crust is forming.",
"Old continental crust is being destroyed.",
"Old oceanic crust is being destroyed."
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "high",
"sub_subject": "earth",
"subject": "social-science"
}
|
What is occurring at the Southeast Indian Ridge?
|
The following is a multiple choice question about social-science. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
AGRICULTURE | 1990 | 1995 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002
Farms (in thousands) | 2,146 | 2,196 | 2,172 | 2,156 | 2,158
Land in farms (million acres) | 987 | 963 | 943 | 941 | 941
Farm income ($ billion) | 44.6 | 36.9 | 47.8 | 50.6 | 35.3
Source: U.S. Census Bureau (adapted)
In which year was farm income the highest?
A. 2002
B. 1995
C. 2001
D. 1990
Answer: C
What is the approximate latitude and longitude of the Bouvet Hot Spot?
A. 3° N 54° E
B. 54° S 3° E
C. 54° N 3° W
D. 3° S 54° W
Answer: B
When it is solar noon at a location at 75° W longitude, what is the solar time at a location at 120° W longitude?
A. 3 p.m.
B. 12 midnight
C. 12 noon
D. 9 a.m.
Answer: D
What is occurring at the Southeast Indian Ridge?
A. New oceanic crust is forming.
B. New continental crust is forming.
C. Old continental crust is being destroyed.
D. Old oceanic crust is being destroyed.
Answer:
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15
|
3
|
[
"[3, ∞)",
"(3, ∞)",
"(-5, ∞)",
"[-5, ∞)"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "high",
"sub_subject": "algebra1",
"subject": "math"
}
|
The range of the function f(x) = |x + 3| - 5 is
|
The following is a multiple choice question about math. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
Linear function K passes through points (-3,7) and (3,3). What is the rate of change of function K ?
A. $\frac{3}{2}$
B. $-\frac{3}{2}$
C. $\frac{2}{3}$
D. $-\frac{2}{3}$
Answer: D
If $f(x) = a^{x}$ where $a > 1$, then the inverse of the function is
A. $f^{-1}(x) = log_{x} a$
B. $f^{-1}(x) = xlog a$
C. $f^{-1}(x) = alog x$
D. $f^{-1}(x) = log_{a} x$
Answer: D
Which system of equations has no solution?
A. $\begin{cases} 2x - y = -11\\ -2x + y = 11 \end{cases}$
B. $\begin{cases} 3x + 4y = 5\\ 6x + 8y = 10 \end{cases}$
C. $\begin{cases} 3x + 6y = 1\\ x + y = 0 \end{cases}$
D. $\begin{cases} 7x - 2y = 9\\ 7x - 2y = 13 \end{cases}$
Answer: D
The range of the function f(x) = |x + 3| - 5 is
A. [3, ∞)
B. (3, ∞)
C. (-5, ∞)
D. [-5, ∞)
Answer:
|
16
|
1
|
[
"When the narrator’s mother wanted to invest in a restaurant, Pia wanted to buy the old bank building.",
"The narrator admires celebrity chefs.",
"When the narrator’s mother makes her do homework, the narrator rolls her eyes.",
"The narrator lives in California."
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "mid",
"sub_subject": "english",
"subject": "language"
}
|
Excerpt from A la Carte
by Tanita S. Davis
(paragraph 1) “Homework?” My mother mouths the word exaggeratedly, eyebrows raised, and I roll my eyes. Frowning, she points with her chin to the side door that leads to the stairs. I roll my eyes again, mouthing, Okay, okay, not needing her to pantomime further what she wants me to do. I hate the thought of leaving the clattering nerve center of the restaurant to wrestle with my trigonometry homework in my mother’s quiet office downstairs.
(paragraph 2) “Order!”
(paragraph 3) The bright lights and swirl of noise and motion are muffled as the kitchen door swings closed behind me.
(paragraph 4) It’s hard to remember a time when the restaurant hasn’t been the center of our lives. Mom used to be a copy editor and wrote food features for our local paper, the Clarion, and she met Pia when she did a write-up on the culinary school Pia attended. Pia thinks it was fate that Mom wanted to invest in a restaurant at the same time Pia wanted to buy the old bank building.
(paragraph 5) La Salle Rouge doesn’t serve much in the way of “kid” food, since the menu doesn’t cater to people my age on a cheap date, but I’ve loved everything about it from the first. I started experimenting with being a vegetarian when I turned fourteen, but Pia still found things to feed me and taught me to be creative with vegetables and tofu. I like to think I’m the best-fed vegetarian in the state of California.
(paragraph 6) Pia’s been really good about teaching what she knows, and I decided early on that this is the work I want to do—get out of school and get into the kitchen for good. Mom and Pia have created a popular French-Asian-Californian fusion restaurant that has gotten great reviews from food critics. They took the best of each other’s tastes—Mom’s traditional Southern flavors and Pia’s French training combined with her vegetable- and spice-savvy Cambodian tastes—and pulled off what one food critic called “stylized food with unique flavor combinations in an intimate setting.”
(paragraph 7) Whatever that means.
(paragraph 8) Three years ago, when I started high school thirty pounds heavier than everyone in my class, Mom and I came up with a light menu for La Salle Rouge, and it’s been such a popular idea that Mom lets me come up with tasty, low-calorie desserts, which is one of my favorite things to do. It hardly seems fair that I have to walk away from all of that just to do trigonometry, but my mom says I have to finish school before I concentrate on cooking. She says it’s smarter to have a “backup plan,” and she’s made me apply to plenty of colleges and check out business majors just in case I ever want to do anything else with my life. I guess that makes sense if you’re anybody other than me. When I turn eighteen, I already know what I’m going to do.
(paragraph 9) First, I’m going to buy a plane ticket to D.C. and go to Julia Child’s kitchen at the Smithsonian and leave roses. They don’t let you walk through it, but somewhere—I don’t know where—I’m going to leave a bouquet and a little note for her. Julia Child is my patron saint. (patron saint - an inspiring person admired for his or her work) She’s the queen of all reasons people can do anything they want in life. Saint Julia didn’t start cooking until she was practically forty, and she went on to do TV shows and make cookbooks and be this huge part of culinary history. She never got too fancy, she never freaked out, and she was never afraid to try new things. I want to be just like her—except maybe get famous faster.
(paragraph 10) The second thing I’m going to do is buy myself a set of knives. Pia swears by this set of German steel knives she got when she graduated, but I’ve seen the TV chef Kylie Kwong use a phenomenal-looking ceramic knife on her show on the Discovery Channel. Either way, knives are what the best chefs have of their very own.
(paragraph 11) The third thing I’m going to do, after I get back from Washington and get my knives, is . . . get discovered. Somehow. I know I’m going to have to pay my dues, but I’m so ready for my real life to start. It’s not something I admit to a lot, but my real dream is to be a celebrity chef. Do you know how many African American female chefs there aren’t? And how many vegetarian chefs have their own shows? The field is wide open for stardom. Every time I watch old episodes of Saint Julia, I imagine that I have my own cooking show. The way celebrity chefs do it now, I could also have a line of cooking gear, cookbooks, aprons, the works. People would know my name, ask for my autograph, and try my recipes. All I have to do is finish my trig homework and get back into the kitchen.
Which sentence would be most important to include in a summary of the story?
|
The following are multiple choice questions (with answers). Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
The poem:
"We first set eyes on Anamika in the hospital Philomena
There was no doubt in our minds that she would be a phenomena
For us as a family she was a bundle of joy
We wonder if Anupama, then thought of her as a toy"
is an example of what?
A. Metaphor.
B. Simile.
C. Onomatopoeia.
D. Idiom.
Answer: A
Reading Comprehension Passage B
Big Jigsaw
I’ve hunched so long above this puzzle
laid out on my gouged and ink-stained workbench,
I think, at last, it’s unsolvable,
that the only meaning it holds is told
(line 5) in the moments I feel on the verge
of understanding, and it turns me back.
The pieces: so small, so many. How they
belong together is beyond me,
though early on my mind inclined
(line 10) toward an idyllic scene: a yellow field,
all jonquils (jonquils - a type of yellow daffodil), a sea, the wide horizon…
The dog’s dish is empty. My wife and children
sleep. The house is hushed, except
for the stout hall clock that ticks its minutes.
(line 15) Here in my patch of lamplight, time
dawdles, waiting for me to catch up,
though a few small hairs on my wrist
have gone white, and evening’s blank encircles me.
Who made this puzzle? If I sought him out
(line 20) would he hear my plea and reveal its logic?
But the hour is late, my vision strained.
How could I look for him now, though he were
waiting for me, and knew me by name?
—Chris Forhan
"Big Jigsaw"
from The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology, 2000
University Press of New England
As used in the poem, the word "idyllic" (line 10) most nearly means
A. full of surprises
B. unexpectedly simple
C. shrouded in mystery
D. charmingly beautiful
Answer: D
Read the Read the paragraph.
(1) Louisa May Alcott, a 19th-century author, used her life experiences as material in her work . (2) In her novel Little Women, Alcott relates childhood experiences that she and her sisters shared growing up in Massachusetts . (3) The story follows the lives of Jo March and her sisters, characters based on Alcott’s own family . (4) Set in New England, the novel shows the difficulties the sisters faced during the American Civil War a time of great change.
Which revision corrects an error in punctuation?
A. Remove the comma after sisters in sentence 3.
B. Add a comma after War in sentence 4.
C. Add a comma after experiences in sentence 2.
D. Remove the commas after Alcott and author in sentence 1.
Answer: B
Excerpt from A la Carte
by Tanita S. Davis
(paragraph 1) “Homework?” My mother mouths the word exaggeratedly, eyebrows raised, and I roll my eyes. Frowning, she points with her chin to the side door that leads to the stairs. I roll my eyes again, mouthing, Okay, okay, not needing her to pantomime further what she wants me to do. I hate the thought of leaving the clattering nerve center of the restaurant to wrestle with my trigonometry homework in my mother’s quiet office downstairs.
(paragraph 2) “Order!”
(paragraph 3) The bright lights and swirl of noise and motion are muffled as the kitchen door swings closed behind me.
(paragraph 4) It’s hard to remember a time when the restaurant hasn’t been the center of our lives. Mom used to be a copy editor and wrote food features for our local paper, the Clarion, and she met Pia when she did a write-up on the culinary school Pia attended. Pia thinks it was fate that Mom wanted to invest in a restaurant at the same time Pia wanted to buy the old bank building.
(paragraph 5) La Salle Rouge doesn’t serve much in the way of “kid” food, since the menu doesn’t cater to people my age on a cheap date, but I’ve loved everything about it from the first. I started experimenting with being a vegetarian when I turned fourteen, but Pia still found things to feed me and taught me to be creative with vegetables and tofu. I like to think I’m the best-fed vegetarian in the state of California.
(paragraph 6) Pia’s been really good about teaching what she knows, and I decided early on that this is the work I want to do—get out of school and get into the kitchen for good. Mom and Pia have created a popular French-Asian-Californian fusion restaurant that has gotten great reviews from food critics. They took the best of each other’s tastes—Mom’s traditional Southern flavors and Pia’s French training combined with her vegetable- and spice-savvy Cambodian tastes—and pulled off what one food critic called “stylized food with unique flavor combinations in an intimate setting.”
(paragraph 7) Whatever that means.
(paragraph 8) Three years ago, when I started high school thirty pounds heavier than everyone in my class, Mom and I came up with a light menu for La Salle Rouge, and it’s been such a popular idea that Mom lets me come up with tasty, low-calorie desserts, which is one of my favorite things to do. It hardly seems fair that I have to walk away from all of that just to do trigonometry, but my mom says I have to finish school before I concentrate on cooking. She says it’s smarter to have a “backup plan,” and she’s made me apply to plenty of colleges and check out business majors just in case I ever want to do anything else with my life. I guess that makes sense if you’re anybody other than me. When I turn eighteen, I already know what I’m going to do.
(paragraph 9) First, I’m going to buy a plane ticket to D.C. and go to Julia Child’s kitchen at the Smithsonian and leave roses. They don’t let you walk through it, but somewhere—I don’t know where—I’m going to leave a bouquet and a little note for her. Julia Child is my patron saint. (patron saint - an inspiring person admired for his or her work) She’s the queen of all reasons people can do anything they want in life. Saint Julia didn’t start cooking until she was practically forty, and she went on to do TV shows and make cookbooks and be this huge part of culinary history. She never got too fancy, she never freaked out, and she was never afraid to try new things. I want to be just like her—except maybe get famous faster.
(paragraph 10) The second thing I’m going to do is buy myself a set of knives. Pia swears by this set of German steel knives she got when she graduated, but I’ve seen the TV chef Kylie Kwong use a phenomenal-looking ceramic knife on her show on the Discovery Channel. Either way, knives are what the best chefs have of their very own.
(paragraph 11) The third thing I’m going to do, after I get back from Washington and get my knives, is . . . get discovered. Somehow. I know I’m going to have to pay my dues, but I’m so ready for my real life to start. It’s not something I admit to a lot, but my real dream is to be a celebrity chef. Do you know how many African American female chefs there aren’t? And how many vegetarian chefs have their own shows? The field is wide open for stardom. Every time I watch old episodes of Saint Julia, I imagine that I have my own cooking show. The way celebrity chefs do it now, I could also have a line of cooking gear, cookbooks, aprons, the works. People would know my name, ask for my autograph, and try my recipes. All I have to do is finish my trig homework and get back into the kitchen.
Which sentence would be most important to include in a summary of the story?
A. When the narrator’s mother wanted to invest in a restaurant, Pia wanted to buy the old bank building.
B. The narrator admires celebrity chefs.
C. When the narrator’s mother makes her do homework, the narrator rolls her eyes.
D. The narrator lives in California.
Answer:
|
17
|
0
|
[
"regretful",
"proud",
"restless",
"stubborn"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "low",
"sub_subject": "english",
"subject": "language"
}
|
Directions
Read this story. Then answer questions 22 through 28.
Mrs. Majeska and the Lost Gloves
by Ethel Pochocki
(paragraph 1) One crisp fall morning, Mrs. Majeska woke up with a craving for sauerkraut. It was so strong, she could smell it, she could taste it, and she knew she must have it for supper. So she put on her walking shoes, picked up her tub with a lid and a handle, and went into town to buy some.
sauerkraut = chopped, pickled cabbage
(paragraph 2) She walked briskly, enjoying the wind messing up her hair and the parade of dried leaves dancing ahead of her. It was a glorious day, and the thought of sauerkraut for supper, with a bit of apple and onion and sausage, made her want to dance along with the leaves.
(paragraph 3) But suddenly she stopped. In the road there was a glove, a small black glove, the fingers still plump, as if it had just left its owner’s hand. It was out of place in the middle of the road.
(paragraph 4) Poor thing, thought Mrs. Majeska. I cannot leave it there. She picked it up quickly— a logging truck was coming—and laid it on the grass. She felt sorry for its owner, who now had only one glove. What good was one glove?
(paragraph 5) On the way home from the store, she walked on the other side of the road, the sauerkraut sloshing inside the tub. A cluster of children came toward her, laughing and shouting to one another as they took turns kicking something in the dust. Finally they tired of it and ran off past Mrs. Majeska.
(paragraph 6) She looked down at the sorry thing they had been kicking. It was another black glove, of the same size and shape as the one she had rescued. She examined it—yes, it was the mate to the other!
(paragraph 7) Mrs. Majeska hesitated, then continued walking. It was only a glove, after all, not a child or a kitten or a wallet. Suddenly she stopped, turned around, and walked back to the crumpled bit of cloth. She picked it up, shook it out, and brushed off the dirt. It looked almost as good as new.
(paragraph 8) With the glove in one hand and the tub of sauerkraut in the other, she strode down the road to where the other glove still lay in the grass. She placed its mate beside it, satisfied that they were now together. For what good was one glove without the other?
(paragraph 9) A boy whizzed by on a bike and looked at her. Two old ladies, arm in arm, marched toward her on their way to the post office. Mrs. Maj eska bent down and pretended to tie her Shoelaces, for she felt foolish to be caught in the act of reuniting a pair of gloves.
(paragraph 10) That night, after a supper as delicious as she had imagined it, Mrs. Majeska sat in her rocker and thought about the gloves. She wished she had brought them home to use for herself. Their owner had probably already given them up for lost. The next morning,
after she had her coffee and read the newspaper, she decided to go back and get the gloves. But they were gone.
(paragraph 11) Mrs. Majeska was mystified. Who—beside herself—would want a pair of gloves lying by the side of the road? Perhaps the owner had retraced her steps and rejoiced in finding them? Or maybe a housewife on a cleaning binge had used them to polish the stove? Or maybe a puppy needed something to chew on? Or a squirrel, to line its nest for winter?
(paragraph 12) Mrs. Majeska would never know, but as long as she did not know, she would believe in a happy ending. No matter what their fate, the gloves were together, and that was all that mattered.
Which word best describes Mrs. Majeska in paragraph 10?
|
The following is a multiple choice question. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
The poem:
"We first set eyes on Anamika in the hospital Philomena
There was no doubt in our minds that she would be a phenomena
For us as a family she was a bundle of joy
We wonder if Anupama, then thought of her as a toy"
is an example of what?
A. Metaphor.
B. Idiom.
C. Onomatopoeia.
D. Simile.
Answer: A
Reading Comprehension Passage B
Big Jigsaw
I’ve hunched so long above this puzzle
laid out on my gouged and ink-stained workbench,
I think, at last, it’s unsolvable,
that the only meaning it holds is told
(line 5) in the moments I feel on the verge
of understanding, and it turns me back.
The pieces: so small, so many. How they
belong together is beyond me,
though early on my mind inclined
(line 10) toward an idyllic scene: a yellow field,
all jonquils (jonquils - a type of yellow daffodil), a sea, the wide horizon…
The dog’s dish is empty. My wife and children
sleep. The house is hushed, except
for the stout hall clock that ticks its minutes.
(line 15) Here in my patch of lamplight, time
dawdles, waiting for me to catch up,
though a few small hairs on my wrist
have gone white, and evening’s blank encircles me.
Who made this puzzle? If I sought him out
(line 20) would he hear my plea and reveal its logic?
But the hour is late, my vision strained.
How could I look for him now, though he were
waiting for me, and knew me by name?
—Chris Forhan
"Big Jigsaw"
from The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology, 2000
University Press of New England
As used in the poem, the word "idyllic" (line 10) most nearly means
A. charmingly beautiful
B. unexpectedly simple
C. shrouded in mystery
D. full of surprises
Answer: A
Read the Read the paragraph.
(1) Louisa May Alcott, a 19th-century author, used her life experiences as material in her work . (2) In her novel Little Women, Alcott relates childhood experiences that she and her sisters shared growing up in Massachusetts . (3) The story follows the lives of Jo March and her sisters, characters based on Alcott’s own family . (4) Set in New England, the novel shows the difficulties the sisters faced during the American Civil War a time of great change.
Which revision corrects an error in punctuation?
A. Remove the comma after sisters in sentence 3.
B. Add a comma after experiences in sentence 2.
C. Remove the commas after Alcott and author in sentence 1.
D. Add a comma after War in sentence 4.
Answer: D
Directions
Read this story. Then answer questions 22 through 28.
Mrs. Majeska and the Lost Gloves
by Ethel Pochocki
(paragraph 1) One crisp fall morning, Mrs. Majeska woke up with a craving for sauerkraut. It was so strong, she could smell it, she could taste it, and she knew she must have it for supper. So she put on her walking shoes, picked up her tub with a lid and a handle, and went into town to buy some.
sauerkraut = chopped, pickled cabbage
(paragraph 2) She walked briskly, enjoying the wind messing up her hair and the parade of dried leaves dancing ahead of her. It was a glorious day, and the thought of sauerkraut for supper, with a bit of apple and onion and sausage, made her want to dance along with the leaves.
(paragraph 3) But suddenly she stopped. In the road there was a glove, a small black glove, the fingers still plump, as if it had just left its owner’s hand. It was out of place in the middle of the road.
(paragraph 4) Poor thing, thought Mrs. Majeska. I cannot leave it there. She picked it up quickly— a logging truck was coming—and laid it on the grass. She felt sorry for its owner, who now had only one glove. What good was one glove?
(paragraph 5) On the way home from the store, she walked on the other side of the road, the sauerkraut sloshing inside the tub. A cluster of children came toward her, laughing and shouting to one another as they took turns kicking something in the dust. Finally they tired of it and ran off past Mrs. Majeska.
(paragraph 6) She looked down at the sorry thing they had been kicking. It was another black glove, of the same size and shape as the one she had rescued. She examined it—yes, it was the mate to the other!
(paragraph 7) Mrs. Majeska hesitated, then continued walking. It was only a glove, after all, not a child or a kitten or a wallet. Suddenly she stopped, turned around, and walked back to the crumpled bit of cloth. She picked it up, shook it out, and brushed off the dirt. It looked almost as good as new.
(paragraph 8) With the glove in one hand and the tub of sauerkraut in the other, she strode down the road to where the other glove still lay in the grass. She placed its mate beside it, satisfied that they were now together. For what good was one glove without the other?
(paragraph 9) A boy whizzed by on a bike and looked at her. Two old ladies, arm in arm, marched toward her on their way to the post office. Mrs. Maj eska bent down and pretended to tie her Shoelaces, for she felt foolish to be caught in the act of reuniting a pair of gloves.
(paragraph 10) That night, after a supper as delicious as she had imagined it, Mrs. Majeska sat in her rocker and thought about the gloves. She wished she had brought them home to use for herself. Their owner had probably already given them up for lost. The next morning,
after she had her coffee and read the newspaper, she decided to go back and get the gloves. But they were gone.
(paragraph 11) Mrs. Majeska was mystified. Who—beside herself—would want a pair of gloves lying by the side of the road? Perhaps the owner had retraced her steps and rejoiced in finding them? Or maybe a housewife on a cleaning binge had used them to polish the stove? Or maybe a puppy needed something to chew on? Or a squirrel, to line its nest for winter?
(paragraph 12) Mrs. Majeska would never know, but as long as she did not know, she would believe in a happy ending. No matter what their fate, the gloves were together, and that was all that mattered.
Which word best describes Mrs. Majeska in paragraph 10?
A. regretful
B. proud
C. restless
D. stubborn
Answer:
|
18
|
2
|
[
"Fresh",
"Tropic",
"Pacific",
"Bahama"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "low",
"sub_subject": "math",
"subject": "math"
}
|
The table below lists the capacity, in quarts, of four different fish tanks at a pet store.
FISH TANK CAPACITY
Fish Tank | Capacity (quarts)
Pacific | 240
Fresh | 15
Tropic | 120
Bahama | 60
Which fish tank has a capacity of 60 gallons?
|
The following is a multiple choice question. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
Linear function K passes through points (-3,7) and (3,3). What is the rate of change of function K ?
A. $\frac{3}{2}$
B. $-\frac{3}{2}$
C. $\frac{2}{3}$
D. $-\frac{2}{3}$
Answer: D
If $f(x) = a^{x}$ where $a > 1$, then the inverse of the function is
A. $f^{-1}(x) = xlog a$
B. $f^{-1}(x) = alog x$
C. $f^{-1}(x) = log_{x} a$
D. $f^{-1}(x) = log_{a} x$
Answer: D
Which system of equations has no solution?
A. $\begin{cases} 2x - y = -11\\ -2x + y = 11 \end{cases}$
B. $\begin{cases} 7x - 2y = 9\\ 7x - 2y = 13 \end{cases}$
C. $\begin{cases} 3x + 4y = 5\\ 6x + 8y = 10 \end{cases}$
D. $\begin{cases} 3x + 6y = 1\\ x + y = 0 \end{cases}$
Answer: B
The table below lists the capacity, in quarts, of four different fish tanks at a pet store.
FISH TANK CAPACITY
Fish Tank | Capacity (quarts)
Pacific | 240
Fresh | 15
Tropic | 120
Bahama | 60
Which fish tank has a capacity of 60 gallons?
A. Fresh
B. Tropic
C. Pacific
D. Bahama
Answer:
|
19
|
3
|
[
"obey the teacher’s classroom rules",
"help the teacher pass out papers",
"raise their hands before they speak",
"vote for a class president"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "low",
"sub_subject": "social",
"subject": "social-science"
}
|
Students in a fifth-grade class put democracy into action when they
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The following are multiple choice questions (with answers) about social-science. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
AGRICULTURE | 1990 | 1995 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002
Farms (in thousands) | 2,146 | 2,196 | 2,172 | 2,156 | 2,158
Land in farms (million acres) | 987 | 963 | 943 | 941 | 941
Farm income ($ billion) | 44.6 | 36.9 | 47.8 | 50.6 | 35.3
Source: U.S. Census Bureau (adapted)
In which year was farm income the highest?
A. 1990
B. 1995
C. 2002
D. 2001
Answer: D
What is the approximate latitude and longitude of the Bouvet Hot Spot?
A. 3° S 54° W
B. 3° N 54° E
C. 54° N 3° W
D. 54° S 3° E
Answer: D
When it is solar noon at a location at 75° W longitude, what is the solar time at a location at 120° W longitude?
A. 9 a.m.
B. 12 noon
C. 12 midnight
D. 3 p.m.
Answer: A
Students in a fifth-grade class put democracy into action when they
A. obey the teacher’s classroom rules
B. help the teacher pass out papers
C. raise their hands before they speak
D. vote for a class president
Answer:
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"molecular",
"covalent",
"metallic",
"ionic"
] |
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"subject": "natural-science"
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A substance conducts electricity in the liquid phase but not in the solid phase. This substance can be classified as
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Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
Parts per million is used to express the
A. concentration of a solution
B. volume of a substance
C. atomic mass of an element
D. rate of heat transfer
Answer: A
Base your answers to questions 21 and 22 on the data table below and on your knowledge of science. The data table shows the years when Halley’s Comet was closest to the Sun, making it visible to observers on Earth.
Years When Halley’s Comet Was Observed
1759
1835
1910
1986
The reason that Halley’s Comet can be seen during specific years is that
A. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is controlled by Earth’s gravity
B. Halley’s Comet orbits the Sun in a cyclic and predictable pattern
C. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is a perfect circle
D. Halley’s Comet orbits Earth in a cyclic and predictable pattern
Answer: B
A helium atom consists of two protons, two electrons, and two neutrons. In the helium atom, the strong force is a fundamental interaction between the
A. electrons and protons
B. neutrons and electrons
C. electrons, only
D. neutrons and protons
Answer: D
A substance conducts electricity in the liquid phase but not in the solid phase. This substance can be classified as
A. molecular
B. covalent
C. metallic
D. ionic
Answer:
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"develop a character",
"offer a remedy",
"raise a question",
"present a contrast"
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Directions (1–24): Closely read each of the three passages below. After each passage, there are several multiplechoice
questions. Select the best suggested answer to each question and record your answer on the separate answer sheet provided for you. You may use the margins to take notes as you read.
Reading Comprehension Passage A
Caramelo
One would think now that she was living in Chicago, in the same city as her [favorite son]
Inocencio, the Grandmother would find happiness. But no, that wasn’t the case. The
Grandmother was meaner than ever. She was unhappy. And didn’t know she was unhappy,
the worst kind of unhappiness of all. As a result, everyone was in a hurry to find her a house
(line 5) of some sort. A bungalow, a duplex, a brownstone, an apartment. Something, anything,
because the Grandmother’s gloominess was the contagious kind, infecting every member of
the household as fiercely as the bubonic plague.
Because Baby [Inocencio’s brother] and Ninfa’s apartment had room to accommodate
a guest, it was understood the Grandmother would stay with them until she could find a
(line 10) house of her own. This had seemed all well and fine when the plans were made long-
distance with Uncle Baby shouting into the receiver that he insisted, that he and Ninfa
wouldn’t think of her staying anywhere else, that the girls were thrilled she was coming. But
now that she was actually sleeping in [granddaughter] Amor’s narrow bed with radios and
televisions chattering throughout the apartment, and doors and cupboards banging, and the
(line 15) stink of cigarettes soaking into everything, even her skin, and trucks rumbling past and
shaking the building like an earthquake, and sirens and car horns at all hours, well, it just
about drove her crazy; even the rowdy Chicago wind, a rough, moody brute who took one
look at you and laughed. …
All day and all night the expressway traffic whooshed past, keeping the Grandmother
(line 20) awake. She napped when she could, even when the apartment and its inhabitants jabbered
the loudest. She was tired all the time, and yet she had trouble sleeping, often waking once
or twice in the early morning, and in her sleeplessness, padding in her house slippers to the
living room, where the front windows looked out onto the lanes of traffic, the expressway
billboards, and the frighteningly grimy factories beyond. The trucks and cars, furious to get
(line 25) from here to there, never paused for a moment, the sound of the expressway almost not a
sound at all, but a roar like the voice of the sea trapped inside a shell.
She pressed her forehead against the cold glass and sighed. If the Grandmother had
consulted her feelings, she would’ve understood why it was taking her so long to buy a new
house and settle in Chicago, but she was not a woman given to reflection. She missed her
(line 30) old house too much and was too proud to admit she’d made a mistake. She couldn’t go
backward, could she? She was stuck, in the middle of nowhere it seemed, halfway between
here and where?
The Grandmother missed the routine of her mornings, her three-minute eggs and
bolillo (bolillo - crunchy roll) breakfasts. She missed rubbing her big toe along the octagon tiles of her bathroom
(line 35) floor. But most of all, she missed her own bed with its mattress sagging in the center, the
familiar scent and weight of her blankets, the way morning entered gradually from the left
as the sun climbed over the east courtyard wall, the one topped with a cockscomb (cockscomb -rooster’s crown with jagged edges) of glass
shards to keep out the thieves. Why do we get so used to waking up in a certain room? And
when we aren’t in our own bed and wake up in another, a terrible fear for a moment, like
(line 40) death.
There is nothing worse than being a houseguest for too long, especially when your host
is a relative. The Grandmother felt like a prisoner. She hated climbing up the three flights
of stairs, and always arrived clutching her heart, convinced she was having an attack, like
the one that killed Narciso [her husband]. Really, once she was upstairs, she couldn’t even
(line 45) bear the thought of coming back down. What a barbarity! …
To visit Chicago is one thing, to live there another. This was not the Chicago of her
vacations, where one is always escorted to the lake shore, to the gold coast, driven along the
winding lanes of traffic of Lake Shore Drive in the shadow of beautiful apartment buildings,
along State Street and Michigan Avenue to window-shop at least. And perhaps taken on an
(line 50) excursion on the lake. How is it she hadn’t noticed the expression of the citizens, not the
ones fluttering in and out of taxis, but the ones at bus stops, hopping like sparrows, shivering
and peering anxiously for the next bus, and those descending wearily into the filthy bowels
of the subway like the souls condemned to purgatory.(purgatory - place of suffering)
At first the Grandmother was thrilled by the restaurants and the big discount chains—
(line 55) but then the routine got to be too familiar. Saturdays in search of houses that were not to
her liking. Dark brick houses with small, squinty windows, gloomy apartments, or damp
little bungalows, everything somber and sad and not letting in enough light, and no
courtyards, a dank, (dank - damp) mean gangway, a small patch of thin grass called a garden, and maybe a
bald tree in front. This wasn’t what she had in mind.
(line 60) And as the weeks and months passed, and she was still without a house, the rainy, cold
autumn weather began and only made her feel worse. There was the Chicago winter
coming that everyone had warned her about, and she was already so cold and miserable she
didn’t feel much like leaving her room, let alone the building. She blamed Ninfa, who kept
lowering the heat in order to save money. The Grandmother confined herself to bed,
(line 65) satisfied only when she was under several layers of blankets. …
But nothing, nothing in the Grandmother’s imagination prepared her for the horrors of
a Chicago winter. It was not the picturesque (picturesque - charming) season of Christmas, but the endless tundra
of January, February, and March. Daylight dimmed to a dull pewter. (pewter - gray) The sun a thick piece
of ice behind a dirty woolen sky. It was a cold like you can’t imagine, a barbarous thing, a
(line 70) knife in the bone, a cold so cold it burned the lungs if one could even believe such a cold.
And the mountains of filthy snow shoveled in huge heaps, the chunks of ice on the sidewalk
that could kill an aged citizen. —Oh, this is nothing, you should’ve been here for the Big
Snow, the grandchildren bragged, speaking of the recent storm of ’68.
Big snow or little snow, it was all the same after the novelty of snow had worn off. A
(line 75) nuisance, a deadly thing, an exaggerated, long, drawn-out ordeal that made one feel like
dying, that killed one slowly, a torture. Let me die in February, let me die rather than have
to step out the door again, please, the Grandmother thought to herself, dreading having to
dress like a monster to go outside. —Ay, ya no puedo. I can’t anymore, I can’t. And just
when she could no longer, when she could no longer find the strength, the drive, the will to
(line 80) keep on living, when she was ready to fold into herself and let her spirit die, just then, and
only then, did April arrive with sky the color of hope and branches filled with possibilities.
—Sandra Cisneros
excerpted and adapted from Caramelo, 2002
Alfred A. Knopf
Lines 46 through 49 best serve to
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The following are multiple choice questions (with answers) about language. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
The poem:
"We first set eyes on Anamika in the hospital Philomena
There was no doubt in our minds that she would be a phenomena
For us as a family she was a bundle of joy
We wonder if Anupama, then thought of her as a toy"
is an example of what?
A. Onomatopoeia.
B. Idiom.
C. Simile.
D. Metaphor.
Answer: D
Reading Comprehension Passage B
Big Jigsaw
I’ve hunched so long above this puzzle
laid out on my gouged and ink-stained workbench,
I think, at last, it’s unsolvable,
that the only meaning it holds is told
(line 5) in the moments I feel on the verge
of understanding, and it turns me back.
The pieces: so small, so many. How they
belong together is beyond me,
though early on my mind inclined
(line 10) toward an idyllic scene: a yellow field,
all jonquils (jonquils - a type of yellow daffodil), a sea, the wide horizon…
The dog’s dish is empty. My wife and children
sleep. The house is hushed, except
for the stout hall clock that ticks its minutes.
(line 15) Here in my patch of lamplight, time
dawdles, waiting for me to catch up,
though a few small hairs on my wrist
have gone white, and evening’s blank encircles me.
Who made this puzzle? If I sought him out
(line 20) would he hear my plea and reveal its logic?
But the hour is late, my vision strained.
How could I look for him now, though he were
waiting for me, and knew me by name?
—Chris Forhan
"Big Jigsaw"
from The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology, 2000
University Press of New England
As used in the poem, the word "idyllic" (line 10) most nearly means
A. charmingly beautiful
B. unexpectedly simple
C. shrouded in mystery
D. full of surprises
Answer: A
Read the Read the paragraph.
(1) Louisa May Alcott, a 19th-century author, used her life experiences as material in her work . (2) In her novel Little Women, Alcott relates childhood experiences that she and her sisters shared growing up in Massachusetts . (3) The story follows the lives of Jo March and her sisters, characters based on Alcott’s own family . (4) Set in New England, the novel shows the difficulties the sisters faced during the American Civil War a time of great change.
Which revision corrects an error in punctuation?
A. Remove the commas after Alcott and author in sentence 1.
B. Add a comma after War in sentence 4.
C. Remove the comma after sisters in sentence 3.
D. Add a comma after experiences in sentence 2.
Answer: B
Directions (1–24): Closely read each of the three passages below. After each passage, there are several multiplechoice
questions. Select the best suggested answer to each question and record your answer on the separate answer sheet provided for you. You may use the margins to take notes as you read.
Reading Comprehension Passage A
Caramelo
One would think now that she was living in Chicago, in the same city as her [favorite son]
Inocencio, the Grandmother would find happiness. But no, that wasn’t the case. The
Grandmother was meaner than ever. She was unhappy. And didn’t know she was unhappy,
the worst kind of unhappiness of all. As a result, everyone was in a hurry to find her a house
(line 5) of some sort. A bungalow, a duplex, a brownstone, an apartment. Something, anything,
because the Grandmother’s gloominess was the contagious kind, infecting every member of
the household as fiercely as the bubonic plague.
Because Baby [Inocencio’s brother] and Ninfa’s apartment had room to accommodate
a guest, it was understood the Grandmother would stay with them until she could find a
(line 10) house of her own. This had seemed all well and fine when the plans were made long-
distance with Uncle Baby shouting into the receiver that he insisted, that he and Ninfa
wouldn’t think of her staying anywhere else, that the girls were thrilled she was coming. But
now that she was actually sleeping in [granddaughter] Amor’s narrow bed with radios and
televisions chattering throughout the apartment, and doors and cupboards banging, and the
(line 15) stink of cigarettes soaking into everything, even her skin, and trucks rumbling past and
shaking the building like an earthquake, and sirens and car horns at all hours, well, it just
about drove her crazy; even the rowdy Chicago wind, a rough, moody brute who took one
look at you and laughed. …
All day and all night the expressway traffic whooshed past, keeping the Grandmother
(line 20) awake. She napped when she could, even when the apartment and its inhabitants jabbered
the loudest. She was tired all the time, and yet she had trouble sleeping, often waking once
or twice in the early morning, and in her sleeplessness, padding in her house slippers to the
living room, where the front windows looked out onto the lanes of traffic, the expressway
billboards, and the frighteningly grimy factories beyond. The trucks and cars, furious to get
(line 25) from here to there, never paused for a moment, the sound of the expressway almost not a
sound at all, but a roar like the voice of the sea trapped inside a shell.
She pressed her forehead against the cold glass and sighed. If the Grandmother had
consulted her feelings, she would’ve understood why it was taking her so long to buy a new
house and settle in Chicago, but she was not a woman given to reflection. She missed her
(line 30) old house too much and was too proud to admit she’d made a mistake. She couldn’t go
backward, could she? She was stuck, in the middle of nowhere it seemed, halfway between
here and where?
The Grandmother missed the routine of her mornings, her three-minute eggs and
bolillo (bolillo - crunchy roll) breakfasts. She missed rubbing her big toe along the octagon tiles of her bathroom
(line 35) floor. But most of all, she missed her own bed with its mattress sagging in the center, the
familiar scent and weight of her blankets, the way morning entered gradually from the left
as the sun climbed over the east courtyard wall, the one topped with a cockscomb (cockscomb -rooster’s crown with jagged edges) of glass
shards to keep out the thieves. Why do we get so used to waking up in a certain room? And
when we aren’t in our own bed and wake up in another, a terrible fear for a moment, like
(line 40) death.
There is nothing worse than being a houseguest for too long, especially when your host
is a relative. The Grandmother felt like a prisoner. She hated climbing up the three flights
of stairs, and always arrived clutching her heart, convinced she was having an attack, like
the one that killed Narciso [her husband]. Really, once she was upstairs, she couldn’t even
(line 45) bear the thought of coming back down. What a barbarity! …
To visit Chicago is one thing, to live there another. This was not the Chicago of her
vacations, where one is always escorted to the lake shore, to the gold coast, driven along the
winding lanes of traffic of Lake Shore Drive in the shadow of beautiful apartment buildings,
along State Street and Michigan Avenue to window-shop at least. And perhaps taken on an
(line 50) excursion on the lake. How is it she hadn’t noticed the expression of the citizens, not the
ones fluttering in and out of taxis, but the ones at bus stops, hopping like sparrows, shivering
and peering anxiously for the next bus, and those descending wearily into the filthy bowels
of the subway like the souls condemned to purgatory.(purgatory - place of suffering)
At first the Grandmother was thrilled by the restaurants and the big discount chains—
(line 55) but then the routine got to be too familiar. Saturdays in search of houses that were not to
her liking. Dark brick houses with small, squinty windows, gloomy apartments, or damp
little bungalows, everything somber and sad and not letting in enough light, and no
courtyards, a dank, (dank - damp) mean gangway, a small patch of thin grass called a garden, and maybe a
bald tree in front. This wasn’t what she had in mind.
(line 60) And as the weeks and months passed, and she was still without a house, the rainy, cold
autumn weather began and only made her feel worse. There was the Chicago winter
coming that everyone had warned her about, and she was already so cold and miserable she
didn’t feel much like leaving her room, let alone the building. She blamed Ninfa, who kept
lowering the heat in order to save money. The Grandmother confined herself to bed,
(line 65) satisfied only when she was under several layers of blankets. …
But nothing, nothing in the Grandmother’s imagination prepared her for the horrors of
a Chicago winter. It was not the picturesque (picturesque - charming) season of Christmas, but the endless tundra
of January, February, and March. Daylight dimmed to a dull pewter. (pewter - gray) The sun a thick piece
of ice behind a dirty woolen sky. It was a cold like you can’t imagine, a barbarous thing, a
(line 70) knife in the bone, a cold so cold it burned the lungs if one could even believe such a cold.
And the mountains of filthy snow shoveled in huge heaps, the chunks of ice on the sidewalk
that could kill an aged citizen. —Oh, this is nothing, you should’ve been here for the Big
Snow, the grandchildren bragged, speaking of the recent storm of ’68.
Big snow or little snow, it was all the same after the novelty of snow had worn off. A
(line 75) nuisance, a deadly thing, an exaggerated, long, drawn-out ordeal that made one feel like
dying, that killed one slowly, a torture. Let me die in February, let me die rather than have
to step out the door again, please, the Grandmother thought to herself, dreading having to
dress like a monster to go outside. —Ay, ya no puedo. I can’t anymore, I can’t. And just
when she could no longer, when she could no longer find the strength, the drive, the will to
(line 80) keep on living, when she was ready to fold into herself and let her spirit die, just then, and
only then, did April arrive with sky the color of hope and branches filled with possibilities.
—Sandra Cisneros
excerpted and adapted from Caramelo, 2002
Alfred A. Knopf
Lines 46 through 49 best serve to
A. develop a character
B. offer a remedy
C. raise a question
D. present a contrast
Answer:
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"It describes how Wangari solved a problem.",
"It explains how Wangari felt about trees.",
"It describes advice Wangari followed.",
"It explains which values Wangari’s village held."
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This is the true story of a Kenyan woman named Wangari Maathai.
Excerpt from Seeds of Change:
Planting a Path to Peace
by Jen Cullerton Johnson
(paragraph 1) “Come,” Wangari’s mother called. She beckoned her young daughter over to a tall tree with a wide, smooth trunk and a crown of green, oval leaves.
(paragraph 2) “Feel,” her mother whispered.
(paragraph 3) Wangari spread her small hands over the tree’s trunk. She smoothed her fingers over the rough bark.
(paragraph 4) “This is the mugumo,” her mother said. “It is home to many. It feeds many too.”
(paragraph 5) She snapped off a wild fig from a low branch, and gave it to her daughter. Wangari ate the delicious fruit, just as geckos and elephants did. High in the tree, birds chirped in their nests. The branches bounced with jumping monkeys.
(paragraph 6) “Our people, the Kikuyu of Kenya, believe that our ancestors rest in the tree’s shade,” her mother explained.
(paragraph 7) Wangari wrapped her arms around the trunk as if hugging her great-grandmother’s spirit. She promised never to cut down the tree. . . .
((paragraph 8) When Wangari finished elementary school, she was eleven years old. Her mind was like a seed rooted in rich soil, ready to grow. Wangari wanted to continue her education, but to do so she would have to leave her village and move to the capital city of Nairobi. Wangari had never been farther than her valley’s ridge. She was scared.
(paragraph 9) “Go,” her mother said. She picked up a handful of earth and placed it gently into her daughter’s hand. “Where you go, we go.” . . .
(paragraph 10) As graduation neared, Wangari told her friends she wanted to become a biologist.
(paragraph 11) “Not many native women become biologists,” they told her.
(paragraph 12) “I will,” she said.
(paragraph 13) Wangari watched sadly as her government sold more and more land to big companies that cut down forests for timber and to clear land for coffee plantations. Native trees such as cedar and acacia vanished. Without trees, birds had no place to nest. Monkeys lost their swings. Tired mothers walked miles for firewood. . . .
(paragraph 14) When Wangari visited her village she saw that the Kikuyu custom of not chopping down the mugumo trees had been lost. No longer held in place by tree roots, the soil streamed into the rivers. The water that had been used to grow maize, bananas, and sweet potatoes turned to mud and dried up. Many families went hungry.
(paragraph 15) Wangari could not bear to think of the land being destroyed. Now married and the mother of three children, she worried about what would happen to the mothers and children who depended on the land.
(paragraph 16) “We must do something,” Wangari said.
(paragraph 17) Wangari had an idea as small as a seed but as tall as a tree that reaches for the sky. “Harabee! Let’s work together!” she said to her countrywomen—mothers like her. Wangari dug deep into the soil, a seedling by her side. “We must plant trees.” . . .
(paragraph 18) Wangari traveled to villages, towns, and cities with saplings and seeds, shovels and hoes. At each place she went, women planted rows of trees that looked like green belts across the land. Because of this they started calling themselves the Green Belt Movement.
(paragraph 19) “We might not change the big world but we can change the landscape of the forest,” she said.
(paragraph 20) One tree turned to ten, ten to one hundred, one hundred to one million, all the way up to thirty million planted trees. Kenya grew green again. Birds nested in new trees. Monkeys swung on branches. Rivers filled with clean water. Wild figs grew heavy in mugumo branches.
(paragraph 21) Mothers fed their children maize, bananas, and sweet potatoes until they could eat no more.
How does the title of the article support a main idea?
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Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
The poem:
"We first set eyes on Anamika in the hospital Philomena
There was no doubt in our minds that she would be a phenomena
For us as a family she was a bundle of joy
We wonder if Anupama, then thought of her as a toy"
is an example of what?
A. Onomatopoeia.
B. Idiom.
C. Metaphor.
D. Simile.
Answer: C
Reading Comprehension Passage B
Big Jigsaw
I’ve hunched so long above this puzzle
laid out on my gouged and ink-stained workbench,
I think, at last, it’s unsolvable,
that the only meaning it holds is told
(line 5) in the moments I feel on the verge
of understanding, and it turns me back.
The pieces: so small, so many. How they
belong together is beyond me,
though early on my mind inclined
(line 10) toward an idyllic scene: a yellow field,
all jonquils (jonquils - a type of yellow daffodil), a sea, the wide horizon…
The dog’s dish is empty. My wife and children
sleep. The house is hushed, except
for the stout hall clock that ticks its minutes.
(line 15) Here in my patch of lamplight, time
dawdles, waiting for me to catch up,
though a few small hairs on my wrist
have gone white, and evening’s blank encircles me.
Who made this puzzle? If I sought him out
(line 20) would he hear my plea and reveal its logic?
But the hour is late, my vision strained.
How could I look for him now, though he were
waiting for me, and knew me by name?
—Chris Forhan
"Big Jigsaw"
from The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology, 2000
University Press of New England
As used in the poem, the word "idyllic" (line 10) most nearly means
A. unexpectedly simple
B. charmingly beautiful
C. shrouded in mystery
D. full of surprises
Answer: B
Read the Read the paragraph.
(1) Louisa May Alcott, a 19th-century author, used her life experiences as material in her work . (2) In her novel Little Women, Alcott relates childhood experiences that she and her sisters shared growing up in Massachusetts . (3) The story follows the lives of Jo March and her sisters, characters based on Alcott’s own family . (4) Set in New England, the novel shows the difficulties the sisters faced during the American Civil War a time of great change.
Which revision corrects an error in punctuation?
A. Remove the comma after sisters in sentence 3.
B. Remove the commas after Alcott and author in sentence 1.
C. Add a comma after experiences in sentence 2.
D. Add a comma after War in sentence 4.
Answer: D
This is the true story of a Kenyan woman named Wangari Maathai.
Excerpt from Seeds of Change:
Planting a Path to Peace
by Jen Cullerton Johnson
(paragraph 1) “Come,” Wangari’s mother called. She beckoned her young daughter over to a tall tree with a wide, smooth trunk and a crown of green, oval leaves.
(paragraph 2) “Feel,” her mother whispered.
(paragraph 3) Wangari spread her small hands over the tree’s trunk. She smoothed her fingers over the rough bark.
(paragraph 4) “This is the mugumo,” her mother said. “It is home to many. It feeds many too.”
(paragraph 5) She snapped off a wild fig from a low branch, and gave it to her daughter. Wangari ate the delicious fruit, just as geckos and elephants did. High in the tree, birds chirped in their nests. The branches bounced with jumping monkeys.
(paragraph 6) “Our people, the Kikuyu of Kenya, believe that our ancestors rest in the tree’s shade,” her mother explained.
(paragraph 7) Wangari wrapped her arms around the trunk as if hugging her great-grandmother’s spirit. She promised never to cut down the tree. . . .
((paragraph 8) When Wangari finished elementary school, she was eleven years old. Her mind was like a seed rooted in rich soil, ready to grow. Wangari wanted to continue her education, but to do so she would have to leave her village and move to the capital city of Nairobi. Wangari had never been farther than her valley’s ridge. She was scared.
(paragraph 9) “Go,” her mother said. She picked up a handful of earth and placed it gently into her daughter’s hand. “Where you go, we go.” . . .
(paragraph 10) As graduation neared, Wangari told her friends she wanted to become a biologist.
(paragraph 11) “Not many native women become biologists,” they told her.
(paragraph 12) “I will,” she said.
(paragraph 13) Wangari watched sadly as her government sold more and more land to big companies that cut down forests for timber and to clear land for coffee plantations. Native trees such as cedar and acacia vanished. Without trees, birds had no place to nest. Monkeys lost their swings. Tired mothers walked miles for firewood. . . .
(paragraph 14) When Wangari visited her village she saw that the Kikuyu custom of not chopping down the mugumo trees had been lost. No longer held in place by tree roots, the soil streamed into the rivers. The water that had been used to grow maize, bananas, and sweet potatoes turned to mud and dried up. Many families went hungry.
(paragraph 15) Wangari could not bear to think of the land being destroyed. Now married and the mother of three children, she worried about what would happen to the mothers and children who depended on the land.
(paragraph 16) “We must do something,” Wangari said.
(paragraph 17) Wangari had an idea as small as a seed but as tall as a tree that reaches for the sky. “Harabee! Let’s work together!” she said to her countrywomen—mothers like her. Wangari dug deep into the soil, a seedling by her side. “We must plant trees.” . . .
(paragraph 18) Wangari traveled to villages, towns, and cities with saplings and seeds, shovels and hoes. At each place she went, women planted rows of trees that looked like green belts across the land. Because of this they started calling themselves the Green Belt Movement.
(paragraph 19) “We might not change the big world but we can change the landscape of the forest,” she said.
(paragraph 20) One tree turned to ten, ten to one hundred, one hundred to one million, all the way up to thirty million planted trees. Kenya grew green again. Birds nested in new trees. Monkeys swung on branches. Rivers filled with clean water. Wild figs grew heavy in mugumo branches.
(paragraph 21) Mothers fed their children maize, bananas, and sweet potatoes until they could eat no more.
How does the title of the article support a main idea?
A. It describes how Wangari solved a problem.
B. It explains how Wangari felt about trees.
C. It describes advice Wangari followed.
D. It explains which values Wangari’s village held.
Answer:
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23
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3
|
[
"Earth",
"Mars",
"Mercury",
"Venus"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "mid",
"sub_subject": "science",
"subject": "natural-science"
}
|
The data table below shows data for four planets in our solar system.
Data Table
Planet | Distance from Sun (millions of km) | Period of Revolution (in Earth time) | Period of Rotation (in Earth time)
Mercury | 57.9 | 88 days | 59 days
Venus | 108.2 | 225 days | 243 days
Earth | 149.6 | 365 days | 24 hours
Mars | 227.9 | 687 days | 25 hours
For which planet is the length of the planet’s day longer than the planet’s year?
|
The following is a multiple choice question about natural-science. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
Parts per million is used to express the
A. rate of heat transfer
B. volume of a substance
C. atomic mass of an element
D. concentration of a solution
Answer: D
Base your answers to questions 21 and 22 on the data table below and on your knowledge of science. The data table shows the years when Halley’s Comet was closest to the Sun, making it visible to observers on Earth.
Years When Halley’s Comet Was Observed
1759
1835
1910
1986
The reason that Halley’s Comet can be seen during specific years is that
A. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is controlled by Earth’s gravity
B. Halley’s Comet orbits Earth in a cyclic and predictable pattern
C. Halley’s Comet orbits the Sun in a cyclic and predictable pattern
D. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is a perfect circle
Answer: C
A helium atom consists of two protons, two electrons, and two neutrons. In the helium atom, the strong force is a fundamental interaction between the
A. neutrons and electrons
B. electrons and protons
C. electrons, only
D. neutrons and protons
Answer: D
The data table below shows data for four planets in our solar system.
Data Table
Planet | Distance from Sun (millions of km) | Period of Revolution (in Earth time) | Period of Rotation (in Earth time)
Mercury | 57.9 | 88 days | 59 days
Venus | 108.2 | 225 days | 243 days
Earth | 149.6 | 365 days | 24 hours
Mars | 227.9 | 687 days | 25 hours
For which planet is the length of the planet’s day longer than the planet’s year?
A. Earth
B. Mars
C. Mercury
D. Venus
Answer:
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0
|
[
"cellular respiration",
"natural selection",
"asexual reproduction",
"mechanical digestion"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "mid",
"sub_subject": "science",
"subject": "natural-science"
}
|
Water and carbon dioxide are waste products released as a direct result of
|
The following is a multiple choice question about natural-science. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
Parts per million is used to express the
A. concentration of a solution
B. rate of heat transfer
C. volume of a substance
D. atomic mass of an element
Answer: A
Base your answers to questions 21 and 22 on the data table below and on your knowledge of science. The data table shows the years when Halley’s Comet was closest to the Sun, making it visible to observers on Earth.
Years When Halley’s Comet Was Observed
1759
1835
1910
1986
The reason that Halley’s Comet can be seen during specific years is that
A. Halley’s Comet orbits Earth in a cyclic and predictable pattern
B. Halley’s Comet orbits the Sun in a cyclic and predictable pattern
C. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is a perfect circle
D. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is controlled by Earth’s gravity
Answer: B
A helium atom consists of two protons, two electrons, and two neutrons. In the helium atom, the strong force is a fundamental interaction between the
A. neutrons and electrons
B. electrons, only
C. electrons and protons
D. neutrons and protons
Answer: D
Water and carbon dioxide are waste products released as a direct result of
A. cellular respiration
B. natural selection
C. asexual reproduction
D. mechanical digestion
Answer:
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25
|
0
|
[
"Equation 1 represents fission and equation 2 represents fusion.",
"Equation 1 represents fusion and equation 2 represents fission.",
"Both equations represent fission.",
"Both equations represent fusion."
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "high",
"sub_subject": "chemistry",
"subject": "natural-science"
}
|
Given two equations representing reactions:
Equation 1: ^{235}_{92}U + ^{1}_{0}n -> ^{141}_{56}Ba + ^{92}_{36}Kr + 3^{1}_{0}n
Equation 2: ^{1}_{1}H + ^{2}_{1}H -> ^{3}_{2}He
Which type of reaction is represented by each of these equations?
|
The following is a multiple choice question. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
Parts per million is used to express the
A. volume of a substance
B. atomic mass of an element
C. concentration of a solution
D. rate of heat transfer
Answer: C
Base your answers to questions 21 and 22 on the data table below and on your knowledge of science. The data table shows the years when Halley’s Comet was closest to the Sun, making it visible to observers on Earth.
Years When Halley’s Comet Was Observed
1759
1835
1910
1986
The reason that Halley’s Comet can be seen during specific years is that
A. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is controlled by Earth’s gravity
B. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is a perfect circle
C. Halley’s Comet orbits the Sun in a cyclic and predictable pattern
D. Halley’s Comet orbits Earth in a cyclic and predictable pattern
Answer: C
A helium atom consists of two protons, two electrons, and two neutrons. In the helium atom, the strong force is a fundamental interaction between the
A. neutrons and protons
B. electrons, only
C. neutrons and electrons
D. electrons and protons
Answer: A
Given two equations representing reactions:
Equation 1: ^{235}_{92}U + ^{1}_{0}n -> ^{141}_{56}Ba + ^{92}_{36}Kr + 3^{1}_{0}n
Equation 2: ^{1}_{1}H + ^{2}_{1}H -> ^{3}_{2}He
Which type of reaction is represented by each of these equations?
A. Equation 1 represents fission and equation 2 represents fusion.
B. Equation 1 represents fusion and equation 2 represents fission.
C. Both equations represent fission.
D. Both equations represent fusion.
Answer:
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26
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0
|
[
"Japanese Americans",
"German Americans",
"Mexican Americans",
"Italian Americans"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "mid",
"sub_subject": "social",
"subject": "social-science"
}
|
Which group later received an apology and money from the federal government as a result of their internment during World War II?
|
The following is a multiple choice question about social-science. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
AGRICULTURE | 1990 | 1995 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002
Farms (in thousands) | 2,146 | 2,196 | 2,172 | 2,156 | 2,158
Land in farms (million acres) | 987 | 963 | 943 | 941 | 941
Farm income ($ billion) | 44.6 | 36.9 | 47.8 | 50.6 | 35.3
Source: U.S. Census Bureau (adapted)
In which year was farm income the highest?
A. 2002
B. 1995
C. 1990
D. 2001
Answer: D
What is the approximate latitude and longitude of the Bouvet Hot Spot?
A. 3° N 54° E
B. 54° N 3° W
C. 54° S 3° E
D. 3° S 54° W
Answer: C
When it is solar noon at a location at 75° W longitude, what is the solar time at a location at 120° W longitude?
A. 12 noon
B. 3 p.m.
C. 12 midnight
D. 9 a.m.
Answer: D
Which group later received an apology and money from the federal government as a result of their internment during World War II?
A. Japanese Americans
B. German Americans
C. Mexican Americans
D. Italian Americans
Answer:
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1
|
[
"80.0 N",
"200. N",
"0.025 N",
"5.0 N"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "high",
"sub_subject": "physics",
"subject": "natural-science"
}
|
A tennis player’s racket applies an average force of 200. newtons to a tennis ball for 0.025 second. The average force exerted on the racket by the tennis ball is
|
The following are multiple choice questions (with answers). Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
Parts per million is used to express the
A. rate of heat transfer
B. atomic mass of an element
C. concentration of a solution
D. volume of a substance
Answer: C
Base your answers to questions 21 and 22 on the data table below and on your knowledge of science. The data table shows the years when Halley’s Comet was closest to the Sun, making it visible to observers on Earth.
Years When Halley’s Comet Was Observed
1759
1835
1910
1986
The reason that Halley’s Comet can be seen during specific years is that
A. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is a perfect circle
B. Halley’s Comet orbits the Sun in a cyclic and predictable pattern
C. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is controlled by Earth’s gravity
D. Halley’s Comet orbits Earth in a cyclic and predictable pattern
Answer: B
A helium atom consists of two protons, two electrons, and two neutrons. In the helium atom, the strong force is a fundamental interaction between the
A. electrons, only
B. neutrons and electrons
C. neutrons and protons
D. electrons and protons
Answer: C
A tennis player’s racket applies an average force of 200. newtons to a tennis ball for 0.025 second. The average force exerted on the racket by the tennis ball is
A. 80.0 N
B. 200. N
C. 0.025 N
D. 5.0 N
Answer:
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3
|
[
"Cr3O",
"CrO3",
"Cr3O2",
"Cr2O3"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "high",
"sub_subject": "chemistry",
"subject": "natural-science"
}
|
Which formula represents chromium(III) oxide?
|
The following is a multiple choice question. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
Parts per million is used to express the
A. volume of a substance
B. concentration of a solution
C. atomic mass of an element
D. rate of heat transfer
Answer: B
Base your answers to questions 21 and 22 on the data table below and on your knowledge of science. The data table shows the years when Halley’s Comet was closest to the Sun, making it visible to observers on Earth.
Years When Halley’s Comet Was Observed
1759
1835
1910
1986
The reason that Halley’s Comet can be seen during specific years is that
A. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is a perfect circle
B. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is controlled by Earth’s gravity
C. Halley’s Comet orbits Earth in a cyclic and predictable pattern
D. Halley’s Comet orbits the Sun in a cyclic and predictable pattern
Answer: D
A helium atom consists of two protons, two electrons, and two neutrons. In the helium atom, the strong force is a fundamental interaction between the
A. neutrons and electrons
B. electrons and protons
C. neutrons and protons
D. electrons, only
Answer: C
Which formula represents chromium(III) oxide?
A. Cr3O
B. CrO3
C. Cr3O2
D. Cr2O3
Answer:
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|
1
|
[
"cell wall",
"chromosome",
"vitamin",
"hormone"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "mid",
"sub_subject": "science",
"subject": "natural-science"
}
|
Genes are a part of a
|
The following is a multiple choice question about natural-science. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
Parts per million is used to express the
A. volume of a substance
B. concentration of a solution
C. rate of heat transfer
D. atomic mass of an element
Answer: B
Base your answers to questions 21 and 22 on the data table below and on your knowledge of science. The data table shows the years when Halley’s Comet was closest to the Sun, making it visible to observers on Earth.
Years When Halley’s Comet Was Observed
1759
1835
1910
1986
The reason that Halley’s Comet can be seen during specific years is that
A. Halley’s Comet orbits the Sun in a cyclic and predictable pattern
B. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is a perfect circle
C. Halley’s Comet orbits Earth in a cyclic and predictable pattern
D. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is controlled by Earth’s gravity
Answer: A
A helium atom consists of two protons, two electrons, and two neutrons. In the helium atom, the strong force is a fundamental interaction between the
A. neutrons and protons
B. neutrons and electrons
C. electrons, only
D. electrons and protons
Answer: A
Genes are a part of a
A. cell wall
B. chromosome
C. vitamin
D. hormone
Answer:
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30
|
2
|
[
"envisions the cat being sick from licking ice or snow",
"believes the cat will make him late to school",
"imagines the cat will become panicked",
"remembers the cat is deaf and unlikely to respond"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "mid",
"sub_subject": "english",
"subject": "language"
}
|
Excerpt from One-Eyed Cat
by Paula Fox
Ned loved snow, the whisper when he walked through it, a sound like candles being
blown out, the coming indoors out of it into the warmth, and standing on the register in
the big hall through which the dusty, metal-smelling heat blew up, and the going back out
again, shivering, cold, stooping and scooping up a handful to make a snowball, packing it
(line 5) hard with wet mittens, hefting it, tossing it as far as he could, and the runners of his sled
whispering across it as he sleighed down the slopes which were smooth and glittering and
hard, like great jewels.
On the first of December, there was a heavy snowfall. When Ned looked out of his
window the next morning, the river glowed like a snake made out of light as it wound
(line 10) among the snow-covered mountains.
He ate breakfast hastily, too preoccupied to read the story on the cereal box.
Mrs. Scallop (Mrs. Scallop: Ned’s family’s housekeeper) was broody this morning and left him a lone, her glance passing over him as
it passed over the kitchen chairs.
On the porch, he paused to take deep breaths of air which tasted, he imagined, like
(line 15) water from the center of the ocean, then he waded into the snow, passing the Packard (Packard: a brand of car that is no longer manufactured), its
windows white and hidden, the crabapple tree with its weighted branches, down the long
hill trying to guess if he was anywhere near the buried driveway. By the time he reached
Mr. Scully’s house, his galoshes were topped with snow and his feet were wet. Mr. Scully’s
shades were drawn; the house had a pinched look as though it felt the cold.
(line 20) Ned went around to the back until he could see the shed. There were boot tracks in
the snow leading to it and returning to the back door. He guessed the old man had taken
in the cat’s bowl; it was nowhere to be seen. You couldn’t leave anything out in this
weather, it would freeze. Mr. Scully had told him that finding water in the winter was a
big problem for animals. Licking the snow or ice could make them sick.
(line 25) Ned stared hard at the shed. Perhaps the cat was inside, squeezed in behind logs in a
tight space where its own breath would keep it warm. He was going to be late to school if
he didn’t get a move on, but he kept looking hard all over the yard as though he could
make the cat appear out of snow and gray sky. Twice, his glance passed over the icebox.
The third time, he saw that the motionless mound on top of it was not only the quilt but
(line 30) the cat, joined into one shape by a dusting of snow.
Ned held his breath for a moment, then put his own feet in Mr. Scully’s tracks and
went toward the shed. The tracks had frozen and they crunched under Ned’s weight, but
the cat didn’t raise its head. Ned halted a few feet away from it—but of course, he realized,
it wouldn’t hear him because of its deaf ear. He could have gone closer to it than he’d ever
(line 35) been but he had a sudden vision of the cat exploding into fear when it finally did
hear him.
When he got back to the front of the house, he saw fresh footsteps on the road. He
could tell it was the road because of the deep ditches which fell away to either side. He
guessed they were Billy’s tracks. It was odd to think that Billy, huffing and puffing, had
(line 40) gone past Mr. Scully’s place, thinking his own thoughts, while he, Ned, only a few yards
away, had been searching for the cat. He found Evelyn’s tracks, too, and later on, Janet’s,
the smallest of all. He felt ghostly as if he’d been left alone on a white, silent globe.
Somewhere in the evergreen woods, snow must have slid off a bough, for he heard the
loud plop, then the fainter sound of the bough springing up, relieved of the weight. He
(line 45) thought about the cat, visualizing how it had looked on the quilt. How still it had been!
Why hadn’t he gone right up to it, looked at it close, touched its fur? Why had it been so
motionless—still as death, still as a dead vole he’d seen last summer in the grass near the
well? He came to the snow-covered blacktop road upon which a few cars had left their
ridged tire tracks. He had a strong impulse to turn back, to play hooky for the first time in
(line 50) his life. Mr. Scully, with his poor eyesight, might not spot the cat on top of the icebox,
might not, then, set food out for it. Fretting and shivering, his feet numb, Ned went on
to school.
He tried very hard to concentrate on his lessons, to watch Miss Jefferson’s plump, even
handwriting on the blackboard as she wrote out the lines from a poem by Thomas Gray
(line 55) that the class was to memorize that week, but try as he might, the image of the unmoving
animal on the ragged old quilt persisted. Last week, on a rainy afternoon, the cat had
looked at Ned, had cocked its head as though to see him better. Its one eye, narrowed, had
reminded him of a grain of wheat.
“The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
(line 60) The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea . . .”
Ned read the lines several times before copying them down in his copybook. The
words made no sense to him. It was this that had made his hours in school so hard ever
since he and Mr. Scully had seen the cat last autumn, this drawing away of his attention
from everything that was going on around him. He was either relieved because the cat was
(line 65) where he could see it or fearful because he didn’t know where it was.
In lines 31 through 36, Ned keeps his distance from the cat because he
|
The following are multiple choice questions (with answers). Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
The poem:
"We first set eyes on Anamika in the hospital Philomena
There was no doubt in our minds that she would be a phenomena
For us as a family she was a bundle of joy
We wonder if Anupama, then thought of her as a toy"
is an example of what?
A. Simile.
B. Metaphor.
C. Idiom.
D. Onomatopoeia.
Answer: B
Reading Comprehension Passage B
Big Jigsaw
I’ve hunched so long above this puzzle
laid out on my gouged and ink-stained workbench,
I think, at last, it’s unsolvable,
that the only meaning it holds is told
(line 5) in the moments I feel on the verge
of understanding, and it turns me back.
The pieces: so small, so many. How they
belong together is beyond me,
though early on my mind inclined
(line 10) toward an idyllic scene: a yellow field,
all jonquils (jonquils - a type of yellow daffodil), a sea, the wide horizon…
The dog’s dish is empty. My wife and children
sleep. The house is hushed, except
for the stout hall clock that ticks its minutes.
(line 15) Here in my patch of lamplight, time
dawdles, waiting for me to catch up,
though a few small hairs on my wrist
have gone white, and evening’s blank encircles me.
Who made this puzzle? If I sought him out
(line 20) would he hear my plea and reveal its logic?
But the hour is late, my vision strained.
How could I look for him now, though he were
waiting for me, and knew me by name?
—Chris Forhan
"Big Jigsaw"
from The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology, 2000
University Press of New England
As used in the poem, the word "idyllic" (line 10) most nearly means
A. full of surprises
B. charmingly beautiful
C. unexpectedly simple
D. shrouded in mystery
Answer: B
Read the Read the paragraph.
(1) Louisa May Alcott, a 19th-century author, used her life experiences as material in her work . (2) In her novel Little Women, Alcott relates childhood experiences that she and her sisters shared growing up in Massachusetts . (3) The story follows the lives of Jo March and her sisters, characters based on Alcott’s own family . (4) Set in New England, the novel shows the difficulties the sisters faced during the American Civil War a time of great change.
Which revision corrects an error in punctuation?
A. Add a comma after experiences in sentence 2.
B. Remove the comma after sisters in sentence 3.
C. Add a comma after War in sentence 4.
D. Remove the commas after Alcott and author in sentence 1.
Answer: C
Excerpt from One-Eyed Cat
by Paula Fox
Ned loved snow, the whisper when he walked through it, a sound like candles being
blown out, the coming indoors out of it into the warmth, and standing on the register in
the big hall through which the dusty, metal-smelling heat blew up, and the going back out
again, shivering, cold, stooping and scooping up a handful to make a snowball, packing it
(line 5) hard with wet mittens, hefting it, tossing it as far as he could, and the runners of his sled
whispering across it as he sleighed down the slopes which were smooth and glittering and
hard, like great jewels.
On the first of December, there was a heavy snowfall. When Ned looked out of his
window the next morning, the river glowed like a snake made out of light as it wound
(line 10) among the snow-covered mountains.
He ate breakfast hastily, too preoccupied to read the story on the cereal box.
Mrs. Scallop (Mrs. Scallop: Ned’s family’s housekeeper) was broody this morning and left him a lone, her glance passing over him as
it passed over the kitchen chairs.
On the porch, he paused to take deep breaths of air which tasted, he imagined, like
(line 15) water from the center of the ocean, then he waded into the snow, passing the Packard (Packard: a brand of car that is no longer manufactured), its
windows white and hidden, the crabapple tree with its weighted branches, down the long
hill trying to guess if he was anywhere near the buried driveway. By the time he reached
Mr. Scully’s house, his galoshes were topped with snow and his feet were wet. Mr. Scully’s
shades were drawn; the house had a pinched look as though it felt the cold.
(line 20) Ned went around to the back until he could see the shed. There were boot tracks in
the snow leading to it and returning to the back door. He guessed the old man had taken
in the cat’s bowl; it was nowhere to be seen. You couldn’t leave anything out in this
weather, it would freeze. Mr. Scully had told him that finding water in the winter was a
big problem for animals. Licking the snow or ice could make them sick.
(line 25) Ned stared hard at the shed. Perhaps the cat was inside, squeezed in behind logs in a
tight space where its own breath would keep it warm. He was going to be late to school if
he didn’t get a move on, but he kept looking hard all over the yard as though he could
make the cat appear out of snow and gray sky. Twice, his glance passed over the icebox.
The third time, he saw that the motionless mound on top of it was not only the quilt but
(line 30) the cat, joined into one shape by a dusting of snow.
Ned held his breath for a moment, then put his own feet in Mr. Scully’s tracks and
went toward the shed. The tracks had frozen and they crunched under Ned’s weight, but
the cat didn’t raise its head. Ned halted a few feet away from it—but of course, he realized,
it wouldn’t hear him because of its deaf ear. He could have gone closer to it than he’d ever
(line 35) been but he had a sudden vision of the cat exploding into fear when it finally did
hear him.
When he got back to the front of the house, he saw fresh footsteps on the road. He
could tell it was the road because of the deep ditches which fell away to either side. He
guessed they were Billy’s tracks. It was odd to think that Billy, huffing and puffing, had
(line 40) gone past Mr. Scully’s place, thinking his own thoughts, while he, Ned, only a few yards
away, had been searching for the cat. He found Evelyn’s tracks, too, and later on, Janet’s,
the smallest of all. He felt ghostly as if he’d been left alone on a white, silent globe.
Somewhere in the evergreen woods, snow must have slid off a bough, for he heard the
loud plop, then the fainter sound of the bough springing up, relieved of the weight. He
(line 45) thought about the cat, visualizing how it had looked on the quilt. How still it had been!
Why hadn’t he gone right up to it, looked at it close, touched its fur? Why had it been so
motionless—still as death, still as a dead vole he’d seen last summer in the grass near the
well? He came to the snow-covered blacktop road upon which a few cars had left their
ridged tire tracks. He had a strong impulse to turn back, to play hooky for the first time in
(line 50) his life. Mr. Scully, with his poor eyesight, might not spot the cat on top of the icebox,
might not, then, set food out for it. Fretting and shivering, his feet numb, Ned went on
to school.
He tried very hard to concentrate on his lessons, to watch Miss Jefferson’s plump, even
handwriting on the blackboard as she wrote out the lines from a poem by Thomas Gray
(line 55) that the class was to memorize that week, but try as he might, the image of the unmoving
animal on the ragged old quilt persisted. Last week, on a rainy afternoon, the cat had
looked at Ned, had cocked its head as though to see him better. Its one eye, narrowed, had
reminded him of a grain of wheat.
“The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
(line 60) The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea . . .”
Ned read the lines several times before copying them down in his copybook. The
words made no sense to him. It was this that had made his hours in school so hard ever
since he and Mr. Scully had seen the cat last autumn, this drawing away of his attention
from everything that was going on around him. He was either relieved because the cat was
(line 65) where he could see it or fearful because he didn’t know where it was.
In lines 31 through 36, Ned keeps his distance from the cat because he
A. envisions the cat being sick from licking ice or snow
B. believes the cat will make him late to school
C. imagines the cat will become panicked
D. remembers the cat is deaf and unlikely to respond
Answer:
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31
|
1
|
[
"hopelessness of the future",
"harshness of the situation",
"rejection of the Grandmother",
"cruelty of the family"
] |
{
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"level": "high",
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Directions (1–24): Closely read each of the three passages below. After each passage, there are several multiplechoice
questions. Select the best suggested answer to each question and record your answer on the separate answer sheet provided for you. You may use the margins to take notes as you read.
Reading Comprehension Passage A
Caramelo
One would think now that she was living in Chicago, in the same city as her [favorite son]
Inocencio, the Grandmother would find happiness. But no, that wasn’t the case. The
Grandmother was meaner than ever. She was unhappy. And didn’t know she was unhappy,
the worst kind of unhappiness of all. As a result, everyone was in a hurry to find her a house
(line 5) of some sort. A bungalow, a duplex, a brownstone, an apartment. Something, anything,
because the Grandmother’s gloominess was the contagious kind, infecting every member of
the household as fiercely as the bubonic plague.
Because Baby [Inocencio’s brother] and Ninfa’s apartment had room to accommodate
a guest, it was understood the Grandmother would stay with them until she could find a
(line 10) house of her own. This had seemed all well and fine when the plans were made long-
distance with Uncle Baby shouting into the receiver that he insisted, that he and Ninfa
wouldn’t think of her staying anywhere else, that the girls were thrilled she was coming. But
now that she was actually sleeping in [granddaughter] Amor’s narrow bed with radios and
televisions chattering throughout the apartment, and doors and cupboards banging, and the
(line 15) stink of cigarettes soaking into everything, even her skin, and trucks rumbling past and
shaking the building like an earthquake, and sirens and car horns at all hours, well, it just
about drove her crazy; even the rowdy Chicago wind, a rough, moody brute who took one
look at you and laughed. …
All day and all night the expressway traffic whooshed past, keeping the Grandmother
(line 20) awake. She napped when she could, even when the apartment and its inhabitants jabbered
the loudest. She was tired all the time, and yet she had trouble sleeping, often waking once
or twice in the early morning, and in her sleeplessness, padding in her house slippers to the
living room, where the front windows looked out onto the lanes of traffic, the expressway
billboards, and the frighteningly grimy factories beyond. The trucks and cars, furious to get
(line 25) from here to there, never paused for a moment, the sound of the expressway almost not a
sound at all, but a roar like the voice of the sea trapped inside a shell.
She pressed her forehead against the cold glass and sighed. If the Grandmother had
consulted her feelings, she would’ve understood why it was taking her so long to buy a new
house and settle in Chicago, but she was not a woman given to reflection. She missed her
(line 30) old house too much and was too proud to admit she’d made a mistake. She couldn’t go
backward, could she? She was stuck, in the middle of nowhere it seemed, halfway between
here and where?
The Grandmother missed the routine of her mornings, her three-minute eggs and
bolillo (bolillo - crunchy roll) breakfasts. She missed rubbing her big toe along the octagon tiles of her bathroom
(line 35) floor. But most of all, she missed her own bed with its mattress sagging in the center, the
familiar scent and weight of her blankets, the way morning entered gradually from the left
as the sun climbed over the east courtyard wall, the one topped with a cockscomb (cockscomb -rooster’s crown with jagged edges) of glass
shards to keep out the thieves. Why do we get so used to waking up in a certain room? And
when we aren’t in our own bed and wake up in another, a terrible fear for a moment, like
(line 40) death.
There is nothing worse than being a houseguest for too long, especially when your host
is a relative. The Grandmother felt like a prisoner. She hated climbing up the three flights
of stairs, and always arrived clutching her heart, convinced she was having an attack, like
the one that killed Narciso [her husband]. Really, once she was upstairs, she couldn’t even
(line 45) bear the thought of coming back down. What a barbarity! …
To visit Chicago is one thing, to live there another. This was not the Chicago of her
vacations, where one is always escorted to the lake shore, to the gold coast, driven along the
winding lanes of traffic of Lake Shore Drive in the shadow of beautiful apartment buildings,
along State Street and Michigan Avenue to window-shop at least. And perhaps taken on an
(line 50) excursion on the lake. How is it she hadn’t noticed the expression of the citizens, not the
ones fluttering in and out of taxis, but the ones at bus stops, hopping like sparrows, shivering
and peering anxiously for the next bus, and those descending wearily into the filthy bowels
of the subway like the souls condemned to purgatory.(purgatory - place of suffering)
At first the Grandmother was thrilled by the restaurants and the big discount chains—
(line 55) but then the routine got to be too familiar. Saturdays in search of houses that were not to
her liking. Dark brick houses with small, squinty windows, gloomy apartments, or damp
little bungalows, everything somber and sad and not letting in enough light, and no
courtyards, a dank, (dank - damp) mean gangway, a small patch of thin grass called a garden, and maybe a
bald tree in front. This wasn’t what she had in mind.
(line 60) And as the weeks and months passed, and she was still without a house, the rainy, cold
autumn weather began and only made her feel worse. There was the Chicago winter
coming that everyone had warned her about, and she was already so cold and miserable she
didn’t feel much like leaving her room, let alone the building. She blamed Ninfa, who kept
lowering the heat in order to save money. The Grandmother confined herself to bed,
(line 65) satisfied only when she was under several layers of blankets. …
But nothing, nothing in the Grandmother’s imagination prepared her for the horrors of
a Chicago winter. It was not the picturesque (picturesque - charming) season of Christmas, but the endless tundra
of January, February, and March. Daylight dimmed to a dull pewter. (pewter - gray) The sun a thick piece
of ice behind a dirty woolen sky. It was a cold like you can’t imagine, a barbarous thing, a
(line 70) knife in the bone, a cold so cold it burned the lungs if one could even believe such a cold.
And the mountains of filthy snow shoveled in huge heaps, the chunks of ice on the sidewalk
that could kill an aged citizen. —Oh, this is nothing, you should’ve been here for the Big
Snow, the grandchildren bragged, speaking of the recent storm of ’68.
Big snow or little snow, it was all the same after the novelty of snow had worn off. A
(line 75) nuisance, a deadly thing, an exaggerated, long, drawn-out ordeal that made one feel like
dying, that killed one slowly, a torture. Let me die in February, let me die rather than have
to step out the door again, please, the Grandmother thought to herself, dreading having to
dress like a monster to go outside. —Ay, ya no puedo. I can’t anymore, I can’t. And just
when she could no longer, when she could no longer find the strength, the drive, the will to
(line 80) keep on living, when she was ready to fold into herself and let her spirit die, just then, and
only then, did April arrive with sky the color of hope and branches filled with possibilities.
—Sandra Cisneros
excerpted and adapted from Caramelo, 2002
Alfred A. Knopf
The author’s use of the words “barbarity” (line 45) and “barbarous” (line 69) emphasizes the
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The following is a multiple choice question. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
The poem:
"We first set eyes on Anamika in the hospital Philomena
There was no doubt in our minds that she would be a phenomena
For us as a family she was a bundle of joy
We wonder if Anupama, then thought of her as a toy"
is an example of what?
A. Idiom.
B. Metaphor.
C. Simile.
D. Onomatopoeia.
Answer: B
Reading Comprehension Passage B
Big Jigsaw
I’ve hunched so long above this puzzle
laid out on my gouged and ink-stained workbench,
I think, at last, it’s unsolvable,
that the only meaning it holds is told
(line 5) in the moments I feel on the verge
of understanding, and it turns me back.
The pieces: so small, so many. How they
belong together is beyond me,
though early on my mind inclined
(line 10) toward an idyllic scene: a yellow field,
all jonquils (jonquils - a type of yellow daffodil), a sea, the wide horizon…
The dog’s dish is empty. My wife and children
sleep. The house is hushed, except
for the stout hall clock that ticks its minutes.
(line 15) Here in my patch of lamplight, time
dawdles, waiting for me to catch up,
though a few small hairs on my wrist
have gone white, and evening’s blank encircles me.
Who made this puzzle? If I sought him out
(line 20) would he hear my plea and reveal its logic?
But the hour is late, my vision strained.
How could I look for him now, though he were
waiting for me, and knew me by name?
—Chris Forhan
"Big Jigsaw"
from The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology, 2000
University Press of New England
As used in the poem, the word "idyllic" (line 10) most nearly means
A. full of surprises
B. shrouded in mystery
C. unexpectedly simple
D. charmingly beautiful
Answer: D
Read the Read the paragraph.
(1) Louisa May Alcott, a 19th-century author, used her life experiences as material in her work . (2) In her novel Little Women, Alcott relates childhood experiences that she and her sisters shared growing up in Massachusetts . (3) The story follows the lives of Jo March and her sisters, characters based on Alcott’s own family . (4) Set in New England, the novel shows the difficulties the sisters faced during the American Civil War a time of great change.
Which revision corrects an error in punctuation?
A. Remove the comma after sisters in sentence 3.
B. Remove the commas after Alcott and author in sentence 1.
C. Add a comma after War in sentence 4.
D. Add a comma after experiences in sentence 2.
Answer: C
Directions (1–24): Closely read each of the three passages below. After each passage, there are several multiplechoice
questions. Select the best suggested answer to each question and record your answer on the separate answer sheet provided for you. You may use the margins to take notes as you read.
Reading Comprehension Passage A
Caramelo
One would think now that she was living in Chicago, in the same city as her [favorite son]
Inocencio, the Grandmother would find happiness. But no, that wasn’t the case. The
Grandmother was meaner than ever. She was unhappy. And didn’t know she was unhappy,
the worst kind of unhappiness of all. As a result, everyone was in a hurry to find her a house
(line 5) of some sort. A bungalow, a duplex, a brownstone, an apartment. Something, anything,
because the Grandmother’s gloominess was the contagious kind, infecting every member of
the household as fiercely as the bubonic plague.
Because Baby [Inocencio’s brother] and Ninfa’s apartment had room to accommodate
a guest, it was understood the Grandmother would stay with them until she could find a
(line 10) house of her own. This had seemed all well and fine when the plans were made long-
distance with Uncle Baby shouting into the receiver that he insisted, that he and Ninfa
wouldn’t think of her staying anywhere else, that the girls were thrilled she was coming. But
now that she was actually sleeping in [granddaughter] Amor’s narrow bed with radios and
televisions chattering throughout the apartment, and doors and cupboards banging, and the
(line 15) stink of cigarettes soaking into everything, even her skin, and trucks rumbling past and
shaking the building like an earthquake, and sirens and car horns at all hours, well, it just
about drove her crazy; even the rowdy Chicago wind, a rough, moody brute who took one
look at you and laughed. …
All day and all night the expressway traffic whooshed past, keeping the Grandmother
(line 20) awake. She napped when she could, even when the apartment and its inhabitants jabbered
the loudest. She was tired all the time, and yet she had trouble sleeping, often waking once
or twice in the early morning, and in her sleeplessness, padding in her house slippers to the
living room, where the front windows looked out onto the lanes of traffic, the expressway
billboards, and the frighteningly grimy factories beyond. The trucks and cars, furious to get
(line 25) from here to there, never paused for a moment, the sound of the expressway almost not a
sound at all, but a roar like the voice of the sea trapped inside a shell.
She pressed her forehead against the cold glass and sighed. If the Grandmother had
consulted her feelings, she would’ve understood why it was taking her so long to buy a new
house and settle in Chicago, but she was not a woman given to reflection. She missed her
(line 30) old house too much and was too proud to admit she’d made a mistake. She couldn’t go
backward, could she? She was stuck, in the middle of nowhere it seemed, halfway between
here and where?
The Grandmother missed the routine of her mornings, her three-minute eggs and
bolillo (bolillo - crunchy roll) breakfasts. She missed rubbing her big toe along the octagon tiles of her bathroom
(line 35) floor. But most of all, she missed her own bed with its mattress sagging in the center, the
familiar scent and weight of her blankets, the way morning entered gradually from the left
as the sun climbed over the east courtyard wall, the one topped with a cockscomb (cockscomb -rooster’s crown with jagged edges) of glass
shards to keep out the thieves. Why do we get so used to waking up in a certain room? And
when we aren’t in our own bed and wake up in another, a terrible fear for a moment, like
(line 40) death.
There is nothing worse than being a houseguest for too long, especially when your host
is a relative. The Grandmother felt like a prisoner. She hated climbing up the three flights
of stairs, and always arrived clutching her heart, convinced she was having an attack, like
the one that killed Narciso [her husband]. Really, once she was upstairs, she couldn’t even
(line 45) bear the thought of coming back down. What a barbarity! …
To visit Chicago is one thing, to live there another. This was not the Chicago of her
vacations, where one is always escorted to the lake shore, to the gold coast, driven along the
winding lanes of traffic of Lake Shore Drive in the shadow of beautiful apartment buildings,
along State Street and Michigan Avenue to window-shop at least. And perhaps taken on an
(line 50) excursion on the lake. How is it she hadn’t noticed the expression of the citizens, not the
ones fluttering in and out of taxis, but the ones at bus stops, hopping like sparrows, shivering
and peering anxiously for the next bus, and those descending wearily into the filthy bowels
of the subway like the souls condemned to purgatory.(purgatory - place of suffering)
At first the Grandmother was thrilled by the restaurants and the big discount chains—
(line 55) but then the routine got to be too familiar. Saturdays in search of houses that were not to
her liking. Dark brick houses with small, squinty windows, gloomy apartments, or damp
little bungalows, everything somber and sad and not letting in enough light, and no
courtyards, a dank, (dank - damp) mean gangway, a small patch of thin grass called a garden, and maybe a
bald tree in front. This wasn’t what she had in mind.
(line 60) And as the weeks and months passed, and she was still without a house, the rainy, cold
autumn weather began and only made her feel worse. There was the Chicago winter
coming that everyone had warned her about, and she was already so cold and miserable she
didn’t feel much like leaving her room, let alone the building. She blamed Ninfa, who kept
lowering the heat in order to save money. The Grandmother confined herself to bed,
(line 65) satisfied only when she was under several layers of blankets. …
But nothing, nothing in the Grandmother’s imagination prepared her for the horrors of
a Chicago winter. It was not the picturesque (picturesque - charming) season of Christmas, but the endless tundra
of January, February, and March. Daylight dimmed to a dull pewter. (pewter - gray) The sun a thick piece
of ice behind a dirty woolen sky. It was a cold like you can’t imagine, a barbarous thing, a
(line 70) knife in the bone, a cold so cold it burned the lungs if one could even believe such a cold.
And the mountains of filthy snow shoveled in huge heaps, the chunks of ice on the sidewalk
that could kill an aged citizen. —Oh, this is nothing, you should’ve been here for the Big
Snow, the grandchildren bragged, speaking of the recent storm of ’68.
Big snow or little snow, it was all the same after the novelty of snow had worn off. A
(line 75) nuisance, a deadly thing, an exaggerated, long, drawn-out ordeal that made one feel like
dying, that killed one slowly, a torture. Let me die in February, let me die rather than have
to step out the door again, please, the Grandmother thought to herself, dreading having to
dress like a monster to go outside. —Ay, ya no puedo. I can’t anymore, I can’t. And just
when she could no longer, when she could no longer find the strength, the drive, the will to
(line 80) keep on living, when she was ready to fold into herself and let her spirit die, just then, and
only then, did April arrive with sky the color of hope and branches filled with possibilities.
—Sandra Cisneros
excerpted and adapted from Caramelo, 2002
Alfred A. Knopf
The author’s use of the words “barbarity” (line 45) and “barbarous” (line 69) emphasizes the
A. hopelessness of the future
B. harshness of the situation
C. rejection of the Grandmother
D. cruelty of the family
Answer:
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"$5.81",
"$205.08",
"$66.24",
"$21.40"
] |
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A jewelry company makes copper heart pendants. Each heart uses 0.75 in^3 of copper and there is 0.323 pound of copper per cubic inch. If copper costs $3.68 per pound, what is the total cost for 24 copper hearts?
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The following are multiple choice questions (with answers). Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
Linear function K passes through points (-3,7) and (3,3). What is the rate of change of function K ?
A. $\frac{2}{3}$
B. $-\frac{3}{2}$
C. $\frac{3}{2}$
D. $-\frac{2}{3}$
Answer: D
If $f(x) = a^{x}$ where $a > 1$, then the inverse of the function is
A. $f^{-1}(x) = xlog a$
B. $f^{-1}(x) = log_{x} a$
C. $f^{-1}(x) = alog x$
D. $f^{-1}(x) = log_{a} x$
Answer: D
Which system of equations has no solution?
A. $\begin{cases} 2x - y = -11\\ -2x + y = 11 \end{cases}$
B. $\begin{cases} 3x + 6y = 1\\ x + y = 0 \end{cases}$
C. $\begin{cases} 7x - 2y = 9\\ 7x - 2y = 13 \end{cases}$
D. $\begin{cases} 3x + 4y = 5\\ 6x + 8y = 10 \end{cases}$
Answer: C
A jewelry company makes copper heart pendants. Each heart uses 0.75 in^3 of copper and there is 0.323 pound of copper per cubic inch. If copper costs $3.68 per pound, what is the total cost for 24 copper hearts?
A. $5.81
B. $205.08
C. $66.24
D. $21.40
Answer:
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[
"unsaturated and without vegetation",
"saturated with water and covered by vegetation",
"saturated with water and without vegetation",
"unsaturated and covered by vegetation"
] |
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A mudslide is most likely to occur on a hillslope having soil that is
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The following is a multiple choice question about social-science. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
AGRICULTURE | 1990 | 1995 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002
Farms (in thousands) | 2,146 | 2,196 | 2,172 | 2,156 | 2,158
Land in farms (million acres) | 987 | 963 | 943 | 941 | 941
Farm income ($ billion) | 44.6 | 36.9 | 47.8 | 50.6 | 35.3
Source: U.S. Census Bureau (adapted)
In which year was farm income the highest?
A. 2002
B. 1990
C. 2001
D. 1995
Answer: C
What is the approximate latitude and longitude of the Bouvet Hot Spot?
A. 54° S 3° E
B. 3° S 54° W
C. 3° N 54° E
D. 54° N 3° W
Answer: A
When it is solar noon at a location at 75° W longitude, what is the solar time at a location at 120° W longitude?
A. 9 a.m.
B. 3 p.m.
C. 12 noon
D. 12 midnight
Answer: A
A mudslide is most likely to occur on a hillslope having soil that is
A. unsaturated and without vegetation
B. saturated with water and covered by vegetation
C. saturated with water and without vegetation
D. unsaturated and covered by vegetation
Answer:
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[
"“He could see details on the surface more clearly now, because he was flying so low.” (paragraph 8)",
"“As Alan glided toward the base, he flapped more often, watching the height-above-surface and distance-to-target displays.” (paragraph 8)",
"“Alan forced himself to stay calm. Panic would mean disaster.\" (paragraph 9)",
"“His descent rate began to slow, but the muscles in his arms burned with pain.” (paragraph 9)"
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Alan is on a volcano on Titan, a moon of Saturn. As the story opens, Alan is stranded on its summit in his space crawler. Luckily, he has brought along his mechanical wings.
Excerpt from Fly for Your Life
by John Frizell
(paragraph 1) Alan knew there was no way back to the base and no way the crew there could help him remotely—the other crawler was down for maintenance. He could go down this side of the stream for 23 kilometers, to a flat area where the flowing liquid would spread out and be shallow enough to cross; then go back 23 kilometers to the far side of the bridge. One problem: he would definitely run out of air before he got there.
(paragraph 2) Then Alan thought of the folded flight wings he had attached to his suit. Could he fly across the river and then walk to the base? Some quick calculations showed it wouldn’t work. He had enough air, but the battery that powered the heater of the suit he wore to stay alive on Titan was only good for an hour, not the four-hour walk it would take to reach the base. Spacewalks were usually done trailing a power cable plugged in to the suit. The cable carried power from the crawler to supplement the suit’s battery. Without the supplemental power, he would freeze solid in 10 minutes once the battery was exhausted.
(paragraph 3) Alan knew flying the whole way was impossible. Even with Titan’s thick atmosphere and low gravity the suit made flying hard work, worse than running uphill carrying a sack of cement. No one could stay aloft for more than 10 minutes. It would be at least a half-hour flight to the base.
(paragraph 4) He needed more than wings alone to get back alive. Then it came to him. Bolted to the side of the crawler was a squat, black cylinder containing compressed nitrogen at 200 bar, compressed Titanian atmosphere in fact, used for cleaning gunk off the crawler’s treads. Alan struggled with the bolts, working carefully in the searing cold with tools as brittle as glass. When he had the cylinder off, propped up, and pointing at the sky, he put his wings on, and then took them off, repeating the task until he could do it without thinking about it. . . .
(paragraph 5) He pulled the power cable out of his suit’s hip socket and, before he could change his mind, gave a sharp tug on a line that he had attached to the valve of the pressure cylinder. The cylinder hissed like a giant snake, as high-pressure nitrogen blasted out, and then shot into the sky. A length of climbing rope he had attached to it went taut and snatched him into the air, where he was buffeted and tossed by the jet of nitrogen pouring down on him. It was like being caught under a breaking wave, pounded again and again by the surf. He was directly under the cylinder, using his weight and drag to keep the nozzle pointed down as the cylinder lofted him into Titan’s sky. The ground beneath, blurred by the motion, made it impossible to gauge height or direction.
(paragraph 6) Time slowed; his shuddering world narrowed to the readout of the Titan Positioning System (TPS)—the icy moon’s equivalent of GPS. Gradually, the pounding lessened as the rate of climb shown on the readout passed its peak and began falling. Alan waited. Just before it hit zero, he cut the rope. The cylinder, relieved of his drag, flew off, dwindling to a black dot and then disappearing into the empty sky above. Now he was coasting upward, propelled by the momentum imparted to him by the nitrogen rocket. He was high in the air, but already he was slowing under the drag of the thick atmosphere. He had to get the wings on before the downward fall began. Once he started to move with some speed, he would begin to spin and never get them on. The first wing stuck and he had to take his arm out of the loops and try again. . . .
(paragraph 7) He was gathering speed on his way down before he got the second one on. He spread his wings and rolled into a comfortable position, soaring over the moon’s dimly lit surface. The TPS showed that he was heading away from the base. He banked in an easy curve and settled on a course for home. All he had to do was hold the wings rigid and enjoy the ride. He took an occasional flap, just for fun. . . .
(paragraph 8) As Alan glided toward the base, he flapped more often, watching the height-abovesurface and distance-to-target displays. As they unwound, an unpleasant feeling, like a trace of the frigid atmosphere outside, crept into his stomach. His elevation was dropping dangerously, with over three kilometers left to go on distance-to-target. He could see details on the surface more clearly now, because he was flying so low. . . .
(paragraph 9) Alan forced himself to stay calm. Panic would mean disaster. He started flapping his wings faster, faster, faster. . . . He could feel himself lifting with every beat of the massive appendages. Faster, faster, faster. . . . His descent rate began to slow, but the muscles in his arms burned with pain. . . .
(paragraph 10) Time stretched out endlessly.
(paragraph 11) The TPS buzzed loudly in his helmet. Target. the station’s beacon was directly below him. He could barely feel his arms, but something made them stop flapping. He gratefully fell out of the sky, wrapped in a ball of pain, with barely the strength to flare his wings one last time for a soft landing. . . .
(paragraph 12) Then he saw someone running toward him with a power cable in hand. Voices boomed into his helmet. It sounded like the whole station was in the control room waiting to see if he had made it.
(paragraph 13) “Alan! ALAN! Say something! Can you move? Are you receiving this?” He recognized the voice of the base leader. . . .
(paragraph 14) As the crew lifted him carefully onto a stretcher, he looked up at Titan’s hazy sky. I flew for my life today, he thought. I survived. That’s the only record that matters.
What quotation best reveals Alan’s character?
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The following are multiple choice questions (with answers). Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
The poem:
"We first set eyes on Anamika in the hospital Philomena
There was no doubt in our minds that she would be a phenomena
For us as a family she was a bundle of joy
We wonder if Anupama, then thought of her as a toy"
is an example of what?
A. Metaphor.
B. Simile.
C. Idiom.
D. Onomatopoeia.
Answer: A
Reading Comprehension Passage B
Big Jigsaw
I’ve hunched so long above this puzzle
laid out on my gouged and ink-stained workbench,
I think, at last, it’s unsolvable,
that the only meaning it holds is told
(line 5) in the moments I feel on the verge
of understanding, and it turns me back.
The pieces: so small, so many. How they
belong together is beyond me,
though early on my mind inclined
(line 10) toward an idyllic scene: a yellow field,
all jonquils (jonquils - a type of yellow daffodil), a sea, the wide horizon…
The dog’s dish is empty. My wife and children
sleep. The house is hushed, except
for the stout hall clock that ticks its minutes.
(line 15) Here in my patch of lamplight, time
dawdles, waiting for me to catch up,
though a few small hairs on my wrist
have gone white, and evening’s blank encircles me.
Who made this puzzle? If I sought him out
(line 20) would he hear my plea and reveal its logic?
But the hour is late, my vision strained.
How could I look for him now, though he were
waiting for me, and knew me by name?
—Chris Forhan
"Big Jigsaw"
from The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology, 2000
University Press of New England
As used in the poem, the word "idyllic" (line 10) most nearly means
A. full of surprises
B. charmingly beautiful
C. unexpectedly simple
D. shrouded in mystery
Answer: B
Read the Read the paragraph.
(1) Louisa May Alcott, a 19th-century author, used her life experiences as material in her work . (2) In her novel Little Women, Alcott relates childhood experiences that she and her sisters shared growing up in Massachusetts . (3) The story follows the lives of Jo March and her sisters, characters based on Alcott’s own family . (4) Set in New England, the novel shows the difficulties the sisters faced during the American Civil War a time of great change.
Which revision corrects an error in punctuation?
A. Add a comma after experiences in sentence 2.
B. Remove the comma after sisters in sentence 3.
C. Add a comma after War in sentence 4.
D. Remove the commas after Alcott and author in sentence 1.
Answer: C
Alan is on a volcano on Titan, a moon of Saturn. As the story opens, Alan is stranded on its summit in his space crawler. Luckily, he has brought along his mechanical wings.
Excerpt from Fly for Your Life
by John Frizell
(paragraph 1) Alan knew there was no way back to the base and no way the crew there could help him remotely—the other crawler was down for maintenance. He could go down this side of the stream for 23 kilometers, to a flat area where the flowing liquid would spread out and be shallow enough to cross; then go back 23 kilometers to the far side of the bridge. One problem: he would definitely run out of air before he got there.
(paragraph 2) Then Alan thought of the folded flight wings he had attached to his suit. Could he fly across the river and then walk to the base? Some quick calculations showed it wouldn’t work. He had enough air, but the battery that powered the heater of the suit he wore to stay alive on Titan was only good for an hour, not the four-hour walk it would take to reach the base. Spacewalks were usually done trailing a power cable plugged in to the suit. The cable carried power from the crawler to supplement the suit’s battery. Without the supplemental power, he would freeze solid in 10 minutes once the battery was exhausted.
(paragraph 3) Alan knew flying the whole way was impossible. Even with Titan’s thick atmosphere and low gravity the suit made flying hard work, worse than running uphill carrying a sack of cement. No one could stay aloft for more than 10 minutes. It would be at least a half-hour flight to the base.
(paragraph 4) He needed more than wings alone to get back alive. Then it came to him. Bolted to the side of the crawler was a squat, black cylinder containing compressed nitrogen at 200 bar, compressed Titanian atmosphere in fact, used for cleaning gunk off the crawler’s treads. Alan struggled with the bolts, working carefully in the searing cold with tools as brittle as glass. When he had the cylinder off, propped up, and pointing at the sky, he put his wings on, and then took them off, repeating the task until he could do it without thinking about it. . . .
(paragraph 5) He pulled the power cable out of his suit’s hip socket and, before he could change his mind, gave a sharp tug on a line that he had attached to the valve of the pressure cylinder. The cylinder hissed like a giant snake, as high-pressure nitrogen blasted out, and then shot into the sky. A length of climbing rope he had attached to it went taut and snatched him into the air, where he was buffeted and tossed by the jet of nitrogen pouring down on him. It was like being caught under a breaking wave, pounded again and again by the surf. He was directly under the cylinder, using his weight and drag to keep the nozzle pointed down as the cylinder lofted him into Titan’s sky. The ground beneath, blurred by the motion, made it impossible to gauge height or direction.
(paragraph 6) Time slowed; his shuddering world narrowed to the readout of the Titan Positioning System (TPS)—the icy moon’s equivalent of GPS. Gradually, the pounding lessened as the rate of climb shown on the readout passed its peak and began falling. Alan waited. Just before it hit zero, he cut the rope. The cylinder, relieved of his drag, flew off, dwindling to a black dot and then disappearing into the empty sky above. Now he was coasting upward, propelled by the momentum imparted to him by the nitrogen rocket. He was high in the air, but already he was slowing under the drag of the thick atmosphere. He had to get the wings on before the downward fall began. Once he started to move with some speed, he would begin to spin and never get them on. The first wing stuck and he had to take his arm out of the loops and try again. . . .
(paragraph 7) He was gathering speed on his way down before he got the second one on. He spread his wings and rolled into a comfortable position, soaring over the moon’s dimly lit surface. The TPS showed that he was heading away from the base. He banked in an easy curve and settled on a course for home. All he had to do was hold the wings rigid and enjoy the ride. He took an occasional flap, just for fun. . . .
(paragraph 8) As Alan glided toward the base, he flapped more often, watching the height-abovesurface and distance-to-target displays. As they unwound, an unpleasant feeling, like a trace of the frigid atmosphere outside, crept into his stomach. His elevation was dropping dangerously, with over three kilometers left to go on distance-to-target. He could see details on the surface more clearly now, because he was flying so low. . . .
(paragraph 9) Alan forced himself to stay calm. Panic would mean disaster. He started flapping his wings faster, faster, faster. . . . He could feel himself lifting with every beat of the massive appendages. Faster, faster, faster. . . . His descent rate began to slow, but the muscles in his arms burned with pain. . . .
(paragraph 10) Time stretched out endlessly.
(paragraph 11) The TPS buzzed loudly in his helmet. Target. the station’s beacon was directly below him. He could barely feel his arms, but something made them stop flapping. He gratefully fell out of the sky, wrapped in a ball of pain, with barely the strength to flare his wings one last time for a soft landing. . . .
(paragraph 12) Then he saw someone running toward him with a power cable in hand. Voices boomed into his helmet. It sounded like the whole station was in the control room waiting to see if he had made it.
(paragraph 13) “Alan! ALAN! Say something! Can you move? Are you receiving this?” He recognized the voice of the base leader. . . .
(paragraph 14) As the crew lifted him carefully onto a stretcher, he looked up at Titan’s hazy sky. I flew for my life today, he thought. I survived. That’s the only record that matters.
What quotation best reveals Alan’s character?
A. “He could see details on the surface more clearly now, because he was flying so low.” (paragraph 8)
B. “As Alan glided toward the base, he flapped more often, watching the height-above-surface and distance-to-target displays.” (paragraph 8)
C. “Alan forced himself to stay calm. Panic would mean disaster." (paragraph 9)
D. “His descent rate began to slow, but the muscles in his arms burned with pain.” (paragraph 9)
Answer:
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[
"covalent and empirical",
"ionic and empirical",
"covalent and molecular",
"ionic and molecular"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "high",
"sub_subject": "chemistry",
"subject": "natural-science"
}
|
Which terms identify two different categories of compounds?
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The following is a multiple choice question about natural-science. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
Parts per million is used to express the
A. atomic mass of an element
B. concentration of a solution
C. rate of heat transfer
D. volume of a substance
Answer: B
Base your answers to questions 21 and 22 on the data table below and on your knowledge of science. The data table shows the years when Halley’s Comet was closest to the Sun, making it visible to observers on Earth.
Years When Halley’s Comet Was Observed
1759
1835
1910
1986
The reason that Halley’s Comet can be seen during specific years is that
A. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is a perfect circle
B. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is controlled by Earth’s gravity
C. Halley’s Comet orbits the Sun in a cyclic and predictable pattern
D. Halley’s Comet orbits Earth in a cyclic and predictable pattern
Answer: C
A helium atom consists of two protons, two electrons, and two neutrons. In the helium atom, the strong force is a fundamental interaction between the
A. electrons and protons
B. electrons, only
C. neutrons and protons
D. neutrons and electrons
Answer: C
Which terms identify two different categories of compounds?
A. covalent and empirical
B. ionic and empirical
C. covalent and molecular
D. ionic and molecular
Answer:
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[
"Old Forge",
"Massena",
"Kingston",
"Utica"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "high",
"sub_subject": "earth",
"subject": "social-science"
}
|
In New York State, the highest altitude of Polaris will be observed at
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The following are multiple choice questions (with answers) about social-science. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
AGRICULTURE | 1990 | 1995 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002
Farms (in thousands) | 2,146 | 2,196 | 2,172 | 2,156 | 2,158
Land in farms (million acres) | 987 | 963 | 943 | 941 | 941
Farm income ($ billion) | 44.6 | 36.9 | 47.8 | 50.6 | 35.3
Source: U.S. Census Bureau (adapted)
In which year was farm income the highest?
A. 1990
B. 2002
C. 1995
D. 2001
Answer: D
What is the approximate latitude and longitude of the Bouvet Hot Spot?
A. 3° S 54° W
B. 54° N 3° W
C. 54° S 3° E
D. 3° N 54° E
Answer: C
When it is solar noon at a location at 75° W longitude, what is the solar time at a location at 120° W longitude?
A. 12 midnight
B. 3 p.m.
C. 12 noon
D. 9 a.m.
Answer: D
In New York State, the highest altitude of Polaris will be observed at
A. Old Forge
B. Massena
C. Kingston
D. Utica
Answer:
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[
"football game",
"high school band concert",
"supermarket",
"school fund-raiser"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "high",
"sub_subject": "algebra2",
"subject": "math"
}
|
A random sample of 100 people that would best estimate the proportion of all registered voters in a district who support improvements to the high school football field should be drawn from registered voters in the district at a
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The following is a multiple choice question. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
Linear function K passes through points (-3,7) and (3,3). What is the rate of change of function K ?
A. $\frac{3}{2}$
B. $-\frac{2}{3}$
C. $-\frac{3}{2}$
D. $\frac{2}{3}$
Answer: B
If $f(x) = a^{x}$ where $a > 1$, then the inverse of the function is
A. $f^{-1}(x) = log_{a} x$
B. $f^{-1}(x) = alog x$
C. $f^{-1}(x) = log_{x} a$
D. $f^{-1}(x) = xlog a$
Answer: A
Which system of equations has no solution?
A. $\begin{cases} 7x - 2y = 9\\ 7x - 2y = 13 \end{cases}$
B. $\begin{cases} 3x + 6y = 1\\ x + y = 0 \end{cases}$
C. $\begin{cases} 3x + 4y = 5\\ 6x + 8y = 10 \end{cases}$
D. $\begin{cases} 2x - y = -11\\ -2x + y = 11 \end{cases}$
Answer: A
A random sample of 100 people that would best estimate the proportion of all registered voters in a district who support improvements to the high school football field should be drawn from registered voters in the district at a
A. football game
B. high school band concert
C. supermarket
D. school fund-raiser
Answer:
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[
"“In 1973, she won the North Atlantic Road Racing Championship.” (paragraph 14)",
"“Excited by her success, Guthrie attended a driving school in Connecticut.” (paragraph 11)",
"“Broken ankle and all, Guthrie stepped into an unfamiliar car.” (paragraph 20)",
"“She had always loved adventure and daring new experiences.” (paragraph 1)"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "low",
"sub_subject": "english",
"subject": "language"
}
|
“Janet Guthrie: Lady in the Fast
Lane” from Profifiles in Sports Courage
by Ken Rappoport
(paragraph 1) It was no surprise that Janet Guthrie excelled at one of the most dangerous sports on Earth. She had always loved adventure and daring new experiences.
(paragraph 2) Janet was born on March 7, 1938, in Iowa City, Iowa, and lived on a farm for the first few years of her life. Her father, an airline pilot, later moved the family to South Florida, where Janet took up flying.
(paragraph 3) At 13, she had already flown an airplane. At age 16, Janet decided she wanted to try a free-fall parachute jump. In free-fall, the parachutist jumps out of a plane without opening the chute. After falling several hundred feet at more than 100 miles an hour, the cord is pulled to open the chute. Then, if all goes well, the parachutist floats safely to the ground.
(paragraph 4) Her father wouldn’t hear of it. “Absolutely not,” he said. “No free-fall!”
(paragraph 5) But Janet persisted. Finally, her father gave in. “Just one time,” he said, “but you have to be careful and do it the right way.”
(paragraph 6) He would allow her to jump only on two conditions: He would fly the plane and she would receive parachuting lessons before the jump.
(paragraph 7) Since there were no parachuting schools in South Florida at the time, Janet’s father hired a pro to give her private lessons. In her autobiography, Janet Guthrie—A Life at Full Throttle, Janet said the pro taught her how to pull the rip cord that opened the chute, how to absorb the shock after landing, and how to fasten the helmet so it wouldn’t fly off.
♦ ♦ ♦
(paragraph 8) By the time she was 21, she had earned a commercial pilot’s license. She flew whenever she could break away from her classes at the University of Michigan.
(paragraph 9) After graduating, Guthrie got a job as a physicist in the aerospace industry. She saved her money for an entire year and bought a car. Guthrie wasn’t satisfied with just any car. She chose a Jaguar XK 120—the sleek and popular sports car that she had dreamed about since she was a teenager.
aerospace = a business involved with space flight
(paragraph 10) At first, Guthrie enjoyed just driving the car around Long Island, outside New York City. Then she heard about a local sports car club where members could compete. She loved her car and wanted to see how it would do on a track. Soon she was entering races—and winning them.
(paragraph 11) Excited by her success, Guthrie attended a driving school in Connecticut. She was a natural. Her instructor, veteran driver Gordon McKenzie, liked the way she handled her car. He suggested she try auto racing.
(paragraph 12) A thrill shot through Guthrie. What a great idea. Off she went to enroll in a racing car drivers’ school sponsored by the Sports Car Club of America. Guthrie swapped her Jaguar for a higher-priced model built especially for racing—the XK 140. Before long she taught herself how to take apart and rebuild its engine like a pro.
♦ ♦ ♦
(paragraph 13) Guthrie’s career started to pick up speed.
(paragraph 14) She entered races all over the United States, finishing in some of the country’s most celebrated long-distance competitions. In 1973, she won the North Atlantic Road Racing Championship. A champion, yes, but a tired champion. By then she had been racing for 13 years. She was exhausted, broke, and thinking of leaving the sport.
(paragraph 15) That’s when she got the phone call. Someone named Vollstedt was asking her to drive his car in the 1976 Indy 500. No woman had ever driven in that race. This has to be a prank, thought Guthrie. But Vollstedt, an auto designer and builder from Oregon, wasn’t kidding. Could she drive a “championship” car? That was the big question.
(paragraph 16) With their open cockpits, wide wheelbases, and rear engines, championship cars were much different than the closed sports cars Guthrie had been accustomed to driving for many years.
(paragraph 17) “Before she would agree to drive for me,” Vollstedt said, “she wanted to see if she could handle the car.”
(paragraph 18) Vollstedt was wondering the same thing, too. He arranged for a secret test at the Ontario Motor Speedway near Los Angeles.
(paragraph 19) To get into top physical shape for Vollstedt’s test, Guthrie did exercises in front of her TV. One day she lost her balance, landed hard on her left foot, and fell to the floor. The doctors told her she had broken a bone and they put her foot in a heavy cast. How am I going to drive a racing car? she worried. Will I miss my big chance?
♦ ♦ ♦
(paragraph 20) Broken ankle and all, Guthrie stepped into an unfamiliar car. She hit the accelerator. When her car got up to speed, Guthrie couldn’t believe the feeling. “What a thrill,” she said. “It was like going to the moon.”
(paragraph 21) Vollstedt was impressed with her time—an average speed of 178.52 miles per hour and a top speed of 196 mph.
(paragraph 22) Test passed.
(paragraph 23) She had showed Vollstedt she could drive the car. Now she had to show the rest of the world.
Which detail from the article best represents Janet Guthrie?
|
The following are multiple choice questions (with answers) about language. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
The poem:
"We first set eyes on Anamika in the hospital Philomena
There was no doubt in our minds that she would be a phenomena
For us as a family she was a bundle of joy
We wonder if Anupama, then thought of her as a toy"
is an example of what?
A. Metaphor.
B. Onomatopoeia.
C. Simile.
D. Idiom.
Answer: A
Reading Comprehension Passage B
Big Jigsaw
I’ve hunched so long above this puzzle
laid out on my gouged and ink-stained workbench,
I think, at last, it’s unsolvable,
that the only meaning it holds is told
(line 5) in the moments I feel on the verge
of understanding, and it turns me back.
The pieces: so small, so many. How they
belong together is beyond me,
though early on my mind inclined
(line 10) toward an idyllic scene: a yellow field,
all jonquils (jonquils - a type of yellow daffodil), a sea, the wide horizon…
The dog’s dish is empty. My wife and children
sleep. The house is hushed, except
for the stout hall clock that ticks its minutes.
(line 15) Here in my patch of lamplight, time
dawdles, waiting for me to catch up,
though a few small hairs on my wrist
have gone white, and evening’s blank encircles me.
Who made this puzzle? If I sought him out
(line 20) would he hear my plea and reveal its logic?
But the hour is late, my vision strained.
How could I look for him now, though he were
waiting for me, and knew me by name?
—Chris Forhan
"Big Jigsaw"
from The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology, 2000
University Press of New England
As used in the poem, the word "idyllic" (line 10) most nearly means
A. shrouded in mystery
B. full of surprises
C. unexpectedly simple
D. charmingly beautiful
Answer: D
Read the Read the paragraph.
(1) Louisa May Alcott, a 19th-century author, used her life experiences as material in her work . (2) In her novel Little Women, Alcott relates childhood experiences that she and her sisters shared growing up in Massachusetts . (3) The story follows the lives of Jo March and her sisters, characters based on Alcott’s own family . (4) Set in New England, the novel shows the difficulties the sisters faced during the American Civil War a time of great change.
Which revision corrects an error in punctuation?
A. Remove the comma after sisters in sentence 3.
B. Add a comma after War in sentence 4.
C. Remove the commas after Alcott and author in sentence 1.
D. Add a comma after experiences in sentence 2.
Answer: B
“Janet Guthrie: Lady in the Fast
Lane” from Profifiles in Sports Courage
by Ken Rappoport
(paragraph 1) It was no surprise that Janet Guthrie excelled at one of the most dangerous sports on Earth. She had always loved adventure and daring new experiences.
(paragraph 2) Janet was born on March 7, 1938, in Iowa City, Iowa, and lived on a farm for the first few years of her life. Her father, an airline pilot, later moved the family to South Florida, where Janet took up flying.
(paragraph 3) At 13, she had already flown an airplane. At age 16, Janet decided she wanted to try a free-fall parachute jump. In free-fall, the parachutist jumps out of a plane without opening the chute. After falling several hundred feet at more than 100 miles an hour, the cord is pulled to open the chute. Then, if all goes well, the parachutist floats safely to the ground.
(paragraph 4) Her father wouldn’t hear of it. “Absolutely not,” he said. “No free-fall!”
(paragraph 5) But Janet persisted. Finally, her father gave in. “Just one time,” he said, “but you have to be careful and do it the right way.”
(paragraph 6) He would allow her to jump only on two conditions: He would fly the plane and she would receive parachuting lessons before the jump.
(paragraph 7) Since there were no parachuting schools in South Florida at the time, Janet’s father hired a pro to give her private lessons. In her autobiography, Janet Guthrie—A Life at Full Throttle, Janet said the pro taught her how to pull the rip cord that opened the chute, how to absorb the shock after landing, and how to fasten the helmet so it wouldn’t fly off.
♦ ♦ ♦
(paragraph 8) By the time she was 21, she had earned a commercial pilot’s license. She flew whenever she could break away from her classes at the University of Michigan.
(paragraph 9) After graduating, Guthrie got a job as a physicist in the aerospace industry. She saved her money for an entire year and bought a car. Guthrie wasn’t satisfied with just any car. She chose a Jaguar XK 120—the sleek and popular sports car that she had dreamed about since she was a teenager.
aerospace = a business involved with space flight
(paragraph 10) At first, Guthrie enjoyed just driving the car around Long Island, outside New York City. Then she heard about a local sports car club where members could compete. She loved her car and wanted to see how it would do on a track. Soon she was entering races—and winning them.
(paragraph 11) Excited by her success, Guthrie attended a driving school in Connecticut. She was a natural. Her instructor, veteran driver Gordon McKenzie, liked the way she handled her car. He suggested she try auto racing.
(paragraph 12) A thrill shot through Guthrie. What a great idea. Off she went to enroll in a racing car drivers’ school sponsored by the Sports Car Club of America. Guthrie swapped her Jaguar for a higher-priced model built especially for racing—the XK 140. Before long she taught herself how to take apart and rebuild its engine like a pro.
♦ ♦ ♦
(paragraph 13) Guthrie’s career started to pick up speed.
(paragraph 14) She entered races all over the United States, finishing in some of the country’s most celebrated long-distance competitions. In 1973, she won the North Atlantic Road Racing Championship. A champion, yes, but a tired champion. By then she had been racing for 13 years. She was exhausted, broke, and thinking of leaving the sport.
(paragraph 15) That’s when she got the phone call. Someone named Vollstedt was asking her to drive his car in the 1976 Indy 500. No woman had ever driven in that race. This has to be a prank, thought Guthrie. But Vollstedt, an auto designer and builder from Oregon, wasn’t kidding. Could she drive a “championship” car? That was the big question.
(paragraph 16) With their open cockpits, wide wheelbases, and rear engines, championship cars were much different than the closed sports cars Guthrie had been accustomed to driving for many years.
(paragraph 17) “Before she would agree to drive for me,” Vollstedt said, “she wanted to see if she could handle the car.”
(paragraph 18) Vollstedt was wondering the same thing, too. He arranged for a secret test at the Ontario Motor Speedway near Los Angeles.
(paragraph 19) To get into top physical shape for Vollstedt’s test, Guthrie did exercises in front of her TV. One day she lost her balance, landed hard on her left foot, and fell to the floor. The doctors told her she had broken a bone and they put her foot in a heavy cast. How am I going to drive a racing car? she worried. Will I miss my big chance?
♦ ♦ ♦
(paragraph 20) Broken ankle and all, Guthrie stepped into an unfamiliar car. She hit the accelerator. When her car got up to speed, Guthrie couldn’t believe the feeling. “What a thrill,” she said. “It was like going to the moon.”
(paragraph 21) Vollstedt was impressed with her time—an average speed of 178.52 miles per hour and a top speed of 196 mph.
(paragraph 22) Test passed.
(paragraph 23) She had showed Vollstedt she could drive the car. Now she had to show the rest of the world.
Which detail from the article best represents Janet Guthrie?
A. “In 1973, she won the North Atlantic Road Racing Championship.” (paragraph 14)
B. “Excited by her success, Guthrie attended a driving school in Connecticut.” (paragraph 11)
C. “Broken ankle and all, Guthrie stepped into an unfamiliar car.” (paragraph 20)
D. “She had always loved adventure and daring new experiences.” (paragraph 1)
Answer:
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[
"-9x - 3y = -21\n2x + 3y = 12",
"18x - 6y = 42\n4x + 6y = 24",
"3x - y = 7\nx + y = 2",
"6x - 2y = 14\n-6x + 9y = 36"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "high",
"sub_subject": "algebra1",
"subject": "math"
}
|
Which system of equations has the same solutions as the system below?
3x -y =7
2x + 3y = 12
|
Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
Linear function K passes through points (-3,7) and (3,3). What is the rate of change of function K ?
A. $\frac{3}{2}$
B. $-\frac{2}{3}$
C. $-\frac{3}{2}$
D. $\frac{2}{3}$
Answer: B
If $f(x) = a^{x}$ where $a > 1$, then the inverse of the function is
A. $f^{-1}(x) = log_{a} x$
B. $f^{-1}(x) = log_{x} a$
C. $f^{-1}(x) = alog x$
D. $f^{-1}(x) = xlog a$
Answer: A
Which system of equations has no solution?
A. $\begin{cases} 2x - y = -11\\ -2x + y = 11 \end{cases}$
B. $\begin{cases} 7x - 2y = 9\\ 7x - 2y = 13 \end{cases}$
C. $\begin{cases} 3x + 4y = 5\\ 6x + 8y = 10 \end{cases}$
D. $\begin{cases} 3x + 6y = 1\\ x + y = 0 \end{cases}$
Answer: B
Which system of equations has the same solutions as the system below?
3x -y =7
2x + 3y = 12
A. -9x - 3y = -21
2x + 3y = 12
B. 18x - 6y = 42
4x + 6y = 24
C. 3x - y = 7
x + y = 2
D. 6x - 2y = 14
-6x + 9y = 36
Answer:
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[
"to search for gold and silver",
"to convert Native American Indians to Christianity",
"to bring spices to the New World",
"to secure freedom from religious persecution"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "mid",
"sub_subject": "social",
"subject": "social-science"
}
|
What was the major reason the original settlers of Plymouth Colony, Maryland, and Pennsylvania came to America?
|
The following is a multiple choice question. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
AGRICULTURE | 1990 | 1995 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002
Farms (in thousands) | 2,146 | 2,196 | 2,172 | 2,156 | 2,158
Land in farms (million acres) | 987 | 963 | 943 | 941 | 941
Farm income ($ billion) | 44.6 | 36.9 | 47.8 | 50.6 | 35.3
Source: U.S. Census Bureau (adapted)
In which year was farm income the highest?
A. 1995
B. 2002
C. 2001
D. 1990
Answer: C
What is the approximate latitude and longitude of the Bouvet Hot Spot?
A. 54° N 3° W
B. 3° N 54° E
C. 54° S 3° E
D. 3° S 54° W
Answer: C
When it is solar noon at a location at 75° W longitude, what is the solar time at a location at 120° W longitude?
A. 12 noon
B. 3 p.m.
C. 9 a.m.
D. 12 midnight
Answer: C
What was the major reason the original settlers of Plymouth Colony, Maryland, and Pennsylvania came to America?
A. to search for gold and silver
B. to convert Native American Indians to Christianity
C. to bring spices to the New World
D. to secure freedom from religious persecution
Answer:
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1
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[
"thunderstorms and hurricanes",
"prevailing winds and upper air currents",
"thunderstorms and upper air currents",
"prevailing winds and hurricanes"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "mid",
"sub_subject": "science",
"subject": "natural-science"
}
|
Which two factors are most responsible for the movement of air masses over the United States?
|
The following are multiple choice questions (with answers). Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
Parts per million is used to express the
A. rate of heat transfer
B. volume of a substance
C. concentration of a solution
D. atomic mass of an element
Answer: C
Base your answers to questions 21 and 22 on the data table below and on your knowledge of science. The data table shows the years when Halley’s Comet was closest to the Sun, making it visible to observers on Earth.
Years When Halley’s Comet Was Observed
1759
1835
1910
1986
The reason that Halley’s Comet can be seen during specific years is that
A. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is controlled by Earth’s gravity
B. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is a perfect circle
C. Halley’s Comet orbits the Sun in a cyclic and predictable pattern
D. Halley’s Comet orbits Earth in a cyclic and predictable pattern
Answer: C
A helium atom consists of two protons, two electrons, and two neutrons. In the helium atom, the strong force is a fundamental interaction between the
A. neutrons and electrons
B. neutrons and protons
C. electrons and protons
D. electrons, only
Answer: B
Which two factors are most responsible for the movement of air masses over the United States?
A. thunderstorms and hurricanes
B. prevailing winds and upper air currents
C. thunderstorms and upper air currents
D. prevailing winds and hurricanes
Answer:
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[
"$(-3, 6)$",
"$(-3, 0)$",
"$(0, -3)$",
"$(6, -3)$"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "mid",
"sub_subject": "math",
"subject": "math"
}
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A system of equations is shown below.
$5x + 2y = -15$
$2x - 2y = -6$
What is the solution to the system of equations?
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Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
Linear function K passes through points (-3,7) and (3,3). What is the rate of change of function K ?
A. $\frac{3}{2}$
B. $-\frac{3}{2}$
C. $\frac{2}{3}$
D. $-\frac{2}{3}$
Answer: D
If $f(x) = a^{x}$ where $a > 1$, then the inverse of the function is
A. $f^{-1}(x) = alog x$
B. $f^{-1}(x) = xlog a$
C. $f^{-1}(x) = log_{a} x$
D. $f^{-1}(x) = log_{x} a$
Answer: C
Which system of equations has no solution?
A. $\begin{cases} 3x + 4y = 5\\ 6x + 8y = 10 \end{cases}$
B. $\begin{cases} 7x - 2y = 9\\ 7x - 2y = 13 \end{cases}$
C. $\begin{cases} 3x + 6y = 1\\ x + y = 0 \end{cases}$
D. $\begin{cases} 2x - y = -11\\ -2x + y = 11 \end{cases}$
Answer: B
A system of equations is shown below.
$5x + 2y = -15$
$2x - 2y = -6$
What is the solution to the system of equations?
A. $(-3, 6)$
B. $(-3, 0)$
C. $(0, -3)$
D. $(6, -3)$
Answer:
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[
"more protein",
"less glucose",
"less ATP",
"more DNA"
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "high",
"sub_subject": "environment",
"subject": "natural-science"
}
|
In the human body, carbon monoxide reduces the amount of oxygen that can be transported to cells. Breathing in too much carbon monoxide will most likely result in the production of
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The following is a multiple choice question. Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
Parts per million is used to express the
A. concentration of a solution
B. volume of a substance
C. atomic mass of an element
D. rate of heat transfer
Answer: A
Base your answers to questions 21 and 22 on the data table below and on your knowledge of science. The data table shows the years when Halley’s Comet was closest to the Sun, making it visible to observers on Earth.
Years When Halley’s Comet Was Observed
1759
1835
1910
1986
The reason that Halley’s Comet can be seen during specific years is that
A. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is controlled by Earth’s gravity
B. Halley’s Comet orbits the Sun in a cyclic and predictable pattern
C. Halley’s Comet orbits Earth in a cyclic and predictable pattern
D. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is a perfect circle
Answer: B
A helium atom consists of two protons, two electrons, and two neutrons. In the helium atom, the strong force is a fundamental interaction between the
A. electrons and protons
B. neutrons and protons
C. electrons, only
D. neutrons and electrons
Answer: B
In the human body, carbon monoxide reduces the amount of oxygen that can be transported to cells. Breathing in too much carbon monoxide will most likely result in the production of
A. more protein
B. less glucose
C. less ATP
D. more DNA
Answer:
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[
"The consumers in the ecosystem will begin to consume carbon dioxide.",
"The ecosystem will not change from its original state.",
"The ecosystem will eventually become balanced again.",
"The consumers in the ecosystem will begin to produce more oxygen."
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "mid",
"sub_subject": "science",
"subject": "natural-science"
}
|
If an ecosystem’s balance is disturbed by a volcanic eruption, what will most likely occur?
|
Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
Parts per million is used to express the
A. rate of heat transfer
B. concentration of a solution
C. atomic mass of an element
D. volume of a substance
Answer: B
Base your answers to questions 21 and 22 on the data table below and on your knowledge of science. The data table shows the years when Halley’s Comet was closest to the Sun, making it visible to observers on Earth.
Years When Halley’s Comet Was Observed
1759
1835
1910
1986
The reason that Halley’s Comet can be seen during specific years is that
A. Halley’s Comet orbits Earth in a cyclic and predictable pattern
B. Halley’s Comet orbits the Sun in a cyclic and predictable pattern
C. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is controlled by Earth’s gravity
D. the orbit of Halley’s Comet is a perfect circle
Answer: B
A helium atom consists of two protons, two electrons, and two neutrons. In the helium atom, the strong force is a fundamental interaction between the
A. neutrons and electrons
B. electrons and protons
C. electrons, only
D. neutrons and protons
Answer: D
If an ecosystem’s balance is disturbed by a volcanic eruption, what will most likely occur?
A. The consumers in the ecosystem will begin to consume carbon dioxide.
B. The ecosystem will not change from its original state.
C. The ecosystem will eventually become balanced again.
D. The consumers in the ecosystem will begin to produce more oxygen.
Answer:
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[
"They are clever and proud.",
"They are silly and foolish.",
"They are tense and distracted.",
"They are fair and generous."
] |
{
"language": "english",
"level": "low",
"sub_subject": "english",
"subject": "language"
}
|
In West Africa, the Harmattan is a dry, dust-filled wind.
Excerpt from A Scrap and a Robe
by Myrina D. McCullough
(paragraph 1) The West African Harmattan whipped up a billow of dust. Suddenly Sali spied a scrap of glorious orange damask cloth turning in the hot wind like a flame. She followed as it danced down a street she didn’t know very well. She skipped over holes and skirted people on chairs.
damask = woven cloth
skirted = went around
(paragraph 2) All at once the wind died down, and the scrap settled gently on the scratchy, sandy road.
(paragraph 3) Sali picked up the cloth and gazed at it with admiring eyes. She turned it this way and that in the sun and imagined herself in a flowing dlokibani made of such cloth. This was a treasure, and she would take it home for her little wooden doll. It would surely make a lovely headpiece for that lucky one.
dlokibani or dloki = a long dress
(paragraph 4) Sali wandered back the way she had come, slowly now. At the corner of the street, she passed the table vendor, who was selling his dusty packets of tea and two-pill packs of aspirin. She passed Ami’s mother, roasting peanuts and selling them by the handful. She turned onto the larger street and passed a plastic-goods store that displayed rows and rows of brightly colored plastic plates, bowls, and teapots. She glanced into the next shop and then stopped short. It was a fabric shop! There on the high counter was an entire bolt of the same wondrous cloth she held in her hand!
(paragraph 5) The next day Sali went back to the cloth shop. She stood near the door and watched the storekeeper. He measured and cut, as one person after another bought pieces of cloth. Her prized orange damask was back on a high shelf to the rear of the store.
(paragraph 6) After a while the shopkeeper looked at Sali. “Why do you stand so long at the door?” he asked.
(paragraph 7) Sali took a deep breath and said, “I would like to help you in the store till I could earn enough of that orange cloth to make a dlokibani for myself.”
(paragraph 8) The orange fabric glowed in a shaft of light from the uncovered bulb at the back of the store.
(paragraph 9) “That is very special and expensive cloth, little one,” the shopkeeper told her.
(paragraph 10) So she swept the courtyard and threw away scraps. She pushed big rolls of cloth back and forth. She ran to buy cough drops and peanuts and kola nuts for the shopkeeper. For days and days she worked.
(paragraph 11) Finally, one day the store owner lifted down the lustrous roll of orange damask and measured out several yards. “You’ve worked well for this cloth, Sali,” he said. “I thank you.”
(paragraph 12) Sali rushed straight home with her treasure. Carefully she placed the cloth in her trunk.
(paragraph 13) But how was she to get the dloki made? Sali did not know how to sew. Her mother always had their clothes made by a tailor who sat in a tiny shop several blocks from their house.
(paragraph 14) Sali went and stood under a tree near the tailor’s shop. She watched the people come and go. The tailor would whip out his measuring tape and see how tall the people were, how fat they were, how long their arms, how short their necks. He measured every part of them.
(paragraph 15) After almost a whole day the tailor noticed Sali.
(paragraph 16) “What are you doing there, little girl?” he asked.
(paragraph 17) “I have some beautiful cloth,” she said, “and I want it sewn into a dlokibani. Could I work for you to pay for sewing it into a robe for me?”
(paragraph 18) The tailor agreed. Once again Sali worked for days and days. She swept and fanned the tea coals and held scissors and brought thread. At last, the tailor said, “Bring me the cloth, Sali.”
(paragraph 19) Sali rushed home and brought back the satiny, shining cloth. She also brought her doll, its small head still neatly wrapped in the swatch of orange. The tailor took his tape and measured Sali, shoulder to ankle, shoulder to elbow, left shoulder to right shoulder. Then he started cutting the billows of orange fabric.
(paragraph 20) The next day was an important holiday called Tabaski. Drums were beating in many neighborhoods. Relatives and friends came to visit Sali’s family. Sali slipped quietly away. Soon her mother missed her. “Now where has Sali gone?” she exclaimed.
(paragraph 21) Just then, Sali walked in, proudly wearing a beautiful orange dloki with a matching headdress. In her arms she carried her doll, dressed exactly as she was!
What can the reader infer about the shopkeeper and the tailor?
|
The following are multiple choice questions (with answers). Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
The poem:
"We first set eyes on Anamika in the hospital Philomena
There was no doubt in our minds that she would be a phenomena
For us as a family she was a bundle of joy
We wonder if Anupama, then thought of her as a toy"
is an example of what?
A. Metaphor.
B. Simile.
C. Idiom.
D. Onomatopoeia.
Answer: A
Reading Comprehension Passage B
Big Jigsaw
I’ve hunched so long above this puzzle
laid out on my gouged and ink-stained workbench,
I think, at last, it’s unsolvable,
that the only meaning it holds is told
(line 5) in the moments I feel on the verge
of understanding, and it turns me back.
The pieces: so small, so many. How they
belong together is beyond me,
though early on my mind inclined
(line 10) toward an idyllic scene: a yellow field,
all jonquils (jonquils - a type of yellow daffodil), a sea, the wide horizon…
The dog’s dish is empty. My wife and children
sleep. The house is hushed, except
for the stout hall clock that ticks its minutes.
(line 15) Here in my patch of lamplight, time
dawdles, waiting for me to catch up,
though a few small hairs on my wrist
have gone white, and evening’s blank encircles me.
Who made this puzzle? If I sought him out
(line 20) would he hear my plea and reveal its logic?
But the hour is late, my vision strained.
How could I look for him now, though he were
waiting for me, and knew me by name?
—Chris Forhan
"Big Jigsaw"
from The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology, 2000
University Press of New England
As used in the poem, the word "idyllic" (line 10) most nearly means
A. full of surprises
B. shrouded in mystery
C. unexpectedly simple
D. charmingly beautiful
Answer: D
Read the Read the paragraph.
(1) Louisa May Alcott, a 19th-century author, used her life experiences as material in her work . (2) In her novel Little Women, Alcott relates childhood experiences that she and her sisters shared growing up in Massachusetts . (3) The story follows the lives of Jo March and her sisters, characters based on Alcott’s own family . (4) Set in New England, the novel shows the difficulties the sisters faced during the American Civil War a time of great change.
Which revision corrects an error in punctuation?
A. Add a comma after experiences in sentence 2.
B. Remove the comma after sisters in sentence 3.
C. Add a comma after War in sentence 4.
D. Remove the commas after Alcott and author in sentence 1.
Answer: C
In West Africa, the Harmattan is a dry, dust-filled wind.
Excerpt from A Scrap and a Robe
by Myrina D. McCullough
(paragraph 1) The West African Harmattan whipped up a billow of dust. Suddenly Sali spied a scrap of glorious orange damask cloth turning in the hot wind like a flame. She followed as it danced down a street she didn’t know very well. She skipped over holes and skirted people on chairs.
damask = woven cloth
skirted = went around
(paragraph 2) All at once the wind died down, and the scrap settled gently on the scratchy, sandy road.
(paragraph 3) Sali picked up the cloth and gazed at it with admiring eyes. She turned it this way and that in the sun and imagined herself in a flowing dlokibani made of such cloth. This was a treasure, and she would take it home for her little wooden doll. It would surely make a lovely headpiece for that lucky one.
dlokibani or dloki = a long dress
(paragraph 4) Sali wandered back the way she had come, slowly now. At the corner of the street, she passed the table vendor, who was selling his dusty packets of tea and two-pill packs of aspirin. She passed Ami’s mother, roasting peanuts and selling them by the handful. She turned onto the larger street and passed a plastic-goods store that displayed rows and rows of brightly colored plastic plates, bowls, and teapots. She glanced into the next shop and then stopped short. It was a fabric shop! There on the high counter was an entire bolt of the same wondrous cloth she held in her hand!
(paragraph 5) The next day Sali went back to the cloth shop. She stood near the door and watched the storekeeper. He measured and cut, as one person after another bought pieces of cloth. Her prized orange damask was back on a high shelf to the rear of the store.
(paragraph 6) After a while the shopkeeper looked at Sali. “Why do you stand so long at the door?” he asked.
(paragraph 7) Sali took a deep breath and said, “I would like to help you in the store till I could earn enough of that orange cloth to make a dlokibani for myself.”
(paragraph 8) The orange fabric glowed in a shaft of light from the uncovered bulb at the back of the store.
(paragraph 9) “That is very special and expensive cloth, little one,” the shopkeeper told her.
(paragraph 10) So she swept the courtyard and threw away scraps. She pushed big rolls of cloth back and forth. She ran to buy cough drops and peanuts and kola nuts for the shopkeeper. For days and days she worked.
(paragraph 11) Finally, one day the store owner lifted down the lustrous roll of orange damask and measured out several yards. “You’ve worked well for this cloth, Sali,” he said. “I thank you.”
(paragraph 12) Sali rushed straight home with her treasure. Carefully she placed the cloth in her trunk.
(paragraph 13) But how was she to get the dloki made? Sali did not know how to sew. Her mother always had their clothes made by a tailor who sat in a tiny shop several blocks from their house.
(paragraph 14) Sali went and stood under a tree near the tailor’s shop. She watched the people come and go. The tailor would whip out his measuring tape and see how tall the people were, how fat they were, how long their arms, how short their necks. He measured every part of them.
(paragraph 15) After almost a whole day the tailor noticed Sali.
(paragraph 16) “What are you doing there, little girl?” he asked.
(paragraph 17) “I have some beautiful cloth,” she said, “and I want it sewn into a dlokibani. Could I work for you to pay for sewing it into a robe for me?”
(paragraph 18) The tailor agreed. Once again Sali worked for days and days. She swept and fanned the tea coals and held scissors and brought thread. At last, the tailor said, “Bring me the cloth, Sali.”
(paragraph 19) Sali rushed home and brought back the satiny, shining cloth. She also brought her doll, its small head still neatly wrapped in the swatch of orange. The tailor took his tape and measured Sali, shoulder to ankle, shoulder to elbow, left shoulder to right shoulder. Then he started cutting the billows of orange fabric.
(paragraph 20) The next day was an important holiday called Tabaski. Drums were beating in many neighborhoods. Relatives and friends came to visit Sali’s family. Sali slipped quietly away. Soon her mother missed her. “Now where has Sali gone?” she exclaimed.
(paragraph 21) Just then, Sali walked in, proudly wearing a beautiful orange dloki with a matching headdress. In her arms she carried her doll, dressed exactly as she was!
What can the reader infer about the shopkeeper and the tailor?
A. They are clever and proud.
B. They are silly and foolish.
C. They are tense and distracted.
D. They are fair and generous.
Answer:
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[
"coal-forming forests",
"oceanic cyanobacteria",
"the earliest grasses",
"the earliest flowering plants"
] |
{
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"level": "high",
"sub_subject": "earth",
"subject": "social-science"
}
|
Scientists infer that oxygen first began to enter Earth’s atmosphere after the appearance of
|
The following are multiple choice questions (with answers). Please only give the correct option, without any other details or explanations.
AGRICULTURE | 1990 | 1995 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002
Farms (in thousands) | 2,146 | 2,196 | 2,172 | 2,156 | 2,158
Land in farms (million acres) | 987 | 963 | 943 | 941 | 941
Farm income ($ billion) | 44.6 | 36.9 | 47.8 | 50.6 | 35.3
Source: U.S. Census Bureau (adapted)
In which year was farm income the highest?
A. 1995
B. 1990
C. 2002
D. 2001
Answer: D
What is the approximate latitude and longitude of the Bouvet Hot Spot?
A. 3° N 54° E
B. 3° S 54° W
C. 54° N 3° W
D. 54° S 3° E
Answer: D
When it is solar noon at a location at 75° W longitude, what is the solar time at a location at 120° W longitude?
A. 12 noon
B. 12 midnight
C. 9 a.m.
D. 3 p.m.
Answer: C
Scientists infer that oxygen first began to enter Earth’s atmosphere after the appearance of
A. coal-forming forests
B. oceanic cyanobacteria
C. the earliest grasses
D. the earliest flowering plants
Answer:
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