The document is a midterm examination for a high school reading and writing skills class that includes multiple choice questions testing vocabulary definitions, sentence structure exercises using parts of speech, a short essay prompt about K-12 curriculum, and short answer identification questions. It evaluates students on their reading comprehension, writing abilities, and knowledge of linguistic concepts like morphemes and context clues.
The document is a midterm examination for a high school reading and writing skills class that includes multiple choice questions testing vocabulary definitions, sentence structure exercises using parts of speech, a short essay prompt about K-12 curriculum, and short answer identification questions. It evaluates students on their reading comprehension, writing abilities, and knowledge of linguistic concepts like morphemes and context clues.
The document is a midterm examination for a high school reading and writing skills class that includes multiple choice questions testing vocabulary definitions, sentence structure exercises using parts of speech, a short essay prompt about K-12 curriculum, and short answer identification questions. It evaluates students on their reading comprehension, writing abilities, and knowledge of linguistic concepts like morphemes and context clues.
The document is a midterm examination for a high school reading and writing skills class that includes multiple choice questions testing vocabulary definitions, sentence structure exercises using parts of speech, a short essay prompt about K-12 curriculum, and short answer identification questions. It evaluates students on their reading comprehension, writing abilities, and knowledge of linguistic concepts like morphemes and context clues.
Test I a. excess Circle the letter of the best meaning for the b. variety underlined word as it is used in context. c. superiority 1. My brother said, “I just freed myself from d. lack a very loquacious history professor. All 4. There is a large demand all over the he seemed to want was an audience.” United States for plants indigenous to the a. pretentious desert. Many people in Arizona have made b. grouchy a good business of growing and selling c. talkative cacti and other local plants. d. worried a. native 2. There is no doubt that the idea of living in b. necessary such a benign climate was appealing. The c. foreign islanders seemed to keep their vitality and d. alien live longer than Europeans. 5. After the Romans left, a millennium and a a. tropical half passed before people again lived in b. not malignant such comfort. Churchill wrote, “From the c. kind year 400 until the year 1900 no one had d. favorable central heating and very few had hot 3. It is difficult to imagine a surfeit of talent baths.” in one individual, yet Leonard Bernstein a. a decade simply does not have the time to make b. many years complete use of his talent as conductor, c. 1000 years performer, writer, and lecturer. d. a century Test II How well do you know the eight parts of speech? This activity will test your mettle! Write ten sentences using the parts of speech in the order specified. If the abbreviations are capitalized, the word in the sentence should be capitalized as well. Here is the abbreviation code: n- noun; pro- pronoun; adj - adjective; v - verb; advb- adverb; c- conjunction; prep -preposition; hv -helping verb; mv -main verb; pro-adj -pronoun adjective (such as these); art- article ( a, an, or the ) . 1. Pro / hv / mv / art / n / prep / pro.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Pro / prep / pro-adj / n / v / adj.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. MV / pro-adj / n / advb.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. N / conj / N / hv / mv / prep / N.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Pro-adj / n / hv / conj / hv / mv / prep / pro-adj / n.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. HV / pro / mv / art / adj / n / prep / art / adj / n?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Pro / hv / mv /, conj / pro / v / n.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. N / v / pro / advb / advb.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. Art / n / advb / v / pro-adj / n / advb / prep / art / n.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10. Prep / pro-adj / noun, art / n / v / prep / art / n.
Test III-A Tell me about K-12 Curriculum in 300 words. Count your words per line. Write your counting at the end of the sentence. Write your answer in a separate sheet of paper.
Test III-B Identify the following words in the sentence. 1. Loving my parents is a way of giving them a precious gift.
Test IV Enumeration 1-4 Properties of a well- written text 5-6 Types of Morpheme 7-8 Varieties of Suffixes 9-10 Common Types of context clues YOU MADE IT !
