English Language Arts and Reading

As used in sentence 1, “light” most likely means:

A) Amusing

B) Pale

C) Gentle

D) Cheap

C) Gentle

In the passage, Margaret indicates that she’s concerned when she first sees Helga because she worries that Helga (Trong đoạn văn, Margaret bày tỏ sự lo lắng khi lần đầu nhìn thấy Helga vì cô ấy lo rằng Helga):

A) Will be late to meet her student

B) Has allowed her room to become messy

C) Is upset with another teacher

D) Has decided to join the English Department

A) Will be late to meet her student

According to the passage, Margaret and others at Naxos generally regard as:

A) Highly Reliable

B) Unusually friendly

C) Relatively practical

D) Somewhat intimidating ( Hơi đáng sợ)

D) Somewhat Intimidating

The Description of the sunrise in the Sixth paragraph mainly serves to:

A) Emphasizes Helga’s love of the outdoors

B) Illustrate Helga’s inattentiveness to her visitor

C) Underscore Margaret’s concern for Helga’s well-being

D) Suggest Margaret’s astonishment at Helga’s behavior

B) illustrate Helga’s inattentiveness to her visitor

The author of passage 2 would most likely argue that the “arbitrary age restriction” mentioned in passage 1 are:

A) Questionable in their revelance to everyday life

B) Effectively only in determining one’s logical reasoning abilities

C) Logical from developmental perspective

D) Invalid as a guide to measuring a person’s majority level

C) Logical from a developmental perspective.

The author of the passage 2 most likely would say that the argument expressed in Passage 1:

A) Unclear and irresponsible

B) Informed and precise

C) Incomplete but promising

D) Widespread but inaccurate

D) Widespread but inaccurate

The author of passenger 2 would likely criticize the author of passenger 1 for:

A) Failing to indicate that the flat tax is both straightforward and reasonable

B) Overlooking the benefits flat tax rates would offer for middle-income earners

C) Manipulating and misrepresenting the findings for studies related to flat tax rate

D) Not taking into account the actual impact flat tax rates would have on individuals

D) Not taking into account the actual impact flat tax rates would have on individuals

The passage is mainly discussing the Mississippi River:

A) Depth

B) Length

C) Width

D) Location

C) Width

A) The rocks that form the Hawaiian Island were once underwater

B) The North American continent can be considered a large island

C) The Hawaiian island used to be connected to the North American continent

D) There are no longer any volcanoes on the Hawaiian islands

A) The rocks thatform the Hawaiian Islands were once underwater.

A) It can interfere with players’ shots, causing them to miss the hoop

B) It was a part of the very first basketball game

C) Its original purpose was to keep spectators from touching the ball

D) It is not commonly used by today’s players

C) Its original purpose was to keep spectators from touching the ball.

What best expresses the main idea of the passage?
A) Success is ultimately measured by accomplishments, not popularity

B) The more talented a person is the more likely that person is to be criticized

C) Paul Roberson’s performances were liked by some people and dislike by other

D) Paul Roberson was a talented man whose reputation was hurt by his political beliefs

D) Paul Roberson was a talented man whose reputation was hurt by his political beliefs.

What is the main idea of the passage?

A) The pilgrims who wrote the Mayflower Compact had difficulty reaching an agreement

B) The United States government today is very different the government that was established by the Mayflower Compact

C) The Mayflower Compact laid the foundation for self-government in the United States

C) The Mayflower Compact laid the foundation for self-government in the United States

A) Enthusiastic

B) Skeptical

C) Angry

D) Undecided

B) Skeptical

The passage is primaily concerned with:

A) A poet’s last major project

B) A composer’s Broadway musical

C) A forgotten novel

D) A writer’s death

A) A poet’s last major project

The passages suggest that both authors would agree that some parents are:

A) Completely unware of their children’s activities

B) Overly concerned with their children’s independence

C) Too wrapped up in their children’s success

D) Very uninterested in their children’s schoolwork

C) Too wrapped up in their children’s success

The authors of both passages probably would agree that:

A) Certain group of people should start paying higher taxes

B) Tax increases have a direct effect on the economy

C) New technologies help only those who invent them

D) Spending money does not help the economy very much

B) Tax increases have a direct effect on the economy

Which of the following is the best version of the underlined portion of sentence 2 (reproduced below)?

“Elk have been observed, cavorting over patches of snow, jumping and twisting their bodies, even when abundant bare ground is available nearby”

A) ( as it now)

B) observed cavorting over patches of snow, jumping and twisting their bodies,

C) observed, cavorting over patches of snow, jumping, and twisting their bodies

D) observed cavorting, over patches of snow, jumping and twisting their bodies

B) observed cavorting over patches of snow, jumping and twisting their bodies,

Which of the following is the best version of the underlined portion of sentence 1 (reproduce below)?

“When a members of an elephant family meet again after a separation period, they will rush together while flapping their ears and making loud trumping noise”

A) (as it now)

B) after there has been distance between them,

C) again after they have not been close together for a time

D) up after they haven’t meet up in a while

A) (as it now)

Which of the following best combines sentence 9 and 10?

“other scientists are skeptical. They say that it is not possible to prove that animals feel emotion using any standard, controlled scientific methods”

A) although they say that it is not possible to prove that animals feel emotion using any standard, controlled scientific methods, other scientific are skeptical

B) other scientists are skeptical; moreover, they say that it is not possible to prove that animals feel emotion using any standard, controlled scientific methods

C) other scientists are skeptical, saying that it is not possible to prove that animals feel emotion using any standard, controlled scientific methods

C) other scientists are skeptical, saying that it is not possible to prove that animals feel emotion using any standard, controlled scientific methods

Choose the best revision of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose it:

“They had just come out the dishwasher the plate were almost too hot to touch”

A) They had just come out the dishwasher

B) Just come out the dishwasher and

C) Having just come out the dishwasher

D) Had just come out the dishwasher

C) Having just come out the dishwasher

“The likelihood that millions of additional vehicles will soon be clogging their nation’s roods ___ the Chinese to adopt a variety of innovative transportation policies”.

A) have lead

B) Has lead

C) leading

D) this is leading

B) Has lead

The author uses the quotation from the homeowner to suggest that:
A) The ancient tools were cleverly designed for people to use

B) The homeowner would like to keep the tools in this or her backyard

C) The tools are probably not as old as researchers are claiming

D) Today’s tools are much more difficult to work with than the ancient tools

A) The ancient tools were cleverly designed for people to use

“Butterflies, ants, and bees serve an important function in plant fertilization and reproduction by ___ flowering plants and distributing seeds”

A) Pollinating

B) Pollination

C) Pollinate

D) Pollen

A) Pollinating

“The tiger has adapted to a great variety of environments, from the Siberian taiga, where nights can be as cold as -40°F, and the mangrove swamps of the Sundarbans, while there the temperatures reach more than 104°F”

A) and the mangrove swamps of the Sundarbans, while there

B) and to the Sundarbans’ mangrove swamps, for there

C) to the Sundarbans’ mangrove swamps, where by

D) to the mangrove swamps of the Sundarbans, where

D) to the mangrove swamps of the Sundarbans, where

“In preparation for hosting the Olympic Games, the country invested huge sums of money in urban renewal, the expansion of infrastructure, and _______ Olympic facilities”.

A) they constructed

B) the construction of

C) to construct

D) then constructing

B) the construction of

“Experts say that endurance training may sometimes do more harm rather then good”

A) then

B) then it does

C) than

D) than doing

C) than

“Olga hoped that if she altared the dress, it would be perfect for the graduation ceremony”

A) altared

B) altered

C) alerted

D) alternated

B) altered

“The master of ceremonies declared that all the __ from the silent auction would go toward charities”

A) Precedes

B) Precedents

C) Proceeds

D) processes

C) Proceeds

What is the main effect of sentence 8’s details about space and moon"?

A) They indicate the narrator’s childhood fascination with human spacefight

B) They reinforce the passage’s scientific explanation of how radio communication work

C) They emphasize the great distances a message sent by ham radio can travel

D) They highlight the improvement to ham radio technology that occurred as the narrator grew older

C) They emphasize the great distances a message sent by ham radio can travel

The third paragraph (sentence 5-8) indicates that in the past, the narrator’s father had:

A) Survived a shipwreck

B) Served as a soldier

C) Failed to become a professional radio operator

D) Learned Morse Code from his own father

B) Served as a soldier

As used in sentence 17, “manipulating” most nearly means:

A) Cheating

B) Using

C) Plotting with

D) Carrying out

B) Using

Which choice best summarizes the passage?

A) The narrator receives a ham radio from her father, then begins using it to exchange messages with another child

B) The narrator’s father is interrupted as he’s putting together a ham radio, but later returns to the project and eventually completes it

C) The narrator’s father brings home the parts needed to build a ham radio, but he and the narrator struggle to assemble them

D) The narrator and her father put together a ham radio and get radio licenses, then uses the radio to receive messages

D) The narrator and her father put together a ham radio and get radio licenses, then uses the radio to receive messages

In the passage, one function of the second paragraph (3-6) is to:

A) introduce a long-standing conflict between two characters

B) describe the scene in which Wallace told his story

C) provide evidence in support of a character’s fantastical claims

D) explain how the narrator and Wallace had come to know each other

B) describe the scene in which Wallace told his story

According to the passage, one reason the narrator was surprised by Wallace’s story that the narrator:

A) was reminded of a similar experience that he had never told anyone about

B) thought he knew everything about Wallace because they were such close friends

C) usually found people’s childhood stories to be dull and tedious

D) hadn’t expected Wallace to be such an effective storyteller

D) hadn’t expected Wallace to be such an effective storyteller

Read this paragraph from the excerpt:

“He told it me with such a direct simplicity of conviction that I could not do otherwise than believe in him. But in the morning, in my own flat, I woke to a different atmosphere, and as I lay in bed and recalled the things he had told me, stripped of the glamour of his earnest slow voice, denuded of the focussed shaded table light, the shadowy atmosphere that wrapped about him and the pleasant bright things, the dessert and glasses and napery of the dinner we had shared, making them for the time a bright little world quite cut off from every-day realities, I saw it all as frankly incredible. "He was mystifying!" I said, and then: "How well he did it!...It isn't quite the thing I should have expected him, of all people, to do well."

Which common theme issue best describes this excerpt?

A) Death

B) Fear

C) Mystery

D) Revenge

C) Mystery

Read the last paragraph of the excerpt:

He paused, checked by that English shyness that so often overcomes us when we would speak of moving or grave or beautiful things. "You were at Saint Athelstan's all through," he said, and for a moment that seemed to me quite irrelevant. "Well"—and he paused. Then very haltingly at first, but afterwards more easily, he began to tell of the thing that was hidden in his life, the haunting memory of a beauty and a happiness that filled his heart with insatiable longings that made all the interests and spectacle of worldly life seem dull and tedious and vain to him.

Which is the best objective summary of this paragraph?

A) A friend confides in the story’s narrator about a haunting memory of a former love that keeps the friend from enjoying his life

B) A friend depends on the story's narrator for advice about how to handle the visions the friend is experiencing.

C) A friend fears that he is going mad and shares his fears with the narrator of the story.

D) A friend wishes to share details of a secret relationship with the story's narrator so that the narrator will understand why the door is so important.

A) A friend confides in the story’s narrator about a haunting memory of a former love that keeps the friend from enjoying his life