Module I: Reading and Writing

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The following text is from Darcie Little Badger’s 2021 novel A Snake Falls to Earth. Nina is looking at old family photographs.
Nina couldn’t stop looking at the sepia-toned photograph in an oak frame. Propped on the window ledge, it featured a portrait of Great-Great-Grandmother Rosita as a young woman.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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Mark for Review
Ignored
Approved
Questioned
Displayed

The following text is from Mark Twain’s 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Tom, a child, has been told by his aunt to paint their house’s fence.
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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Mark for Review
Promoted
Organized
Adapted
Examined
Politicians routinely claim that journalists are ___, but while it’s true that some journalists allow their own views to creep into their reporting more than others do, most journalists make a good-faith effort to be neutral in their reporting.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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Mark for Review
sensitive
irrelevant
biased
misinformed
The Danube River delta system is located in Romania, where the river drains into the Black Sea, and is shaped by ___ factors: for example, the geography of the coastline influences sedimentary deposition, which over time alters coastal geography.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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Mark for Review
comprehensive
unyielding
interdependent
tenuous
The following text is adapted from Jason Reynolds’s 2016 novel Ghost. The narrator, who is in middle school, is at a bus stop.
I just go there to the bus stop to look at the people working out. See, the gym across the street has this big window—like the whole wall is a window—and they have those machines that make you feel like you walking up steps and so everybody just that the narrator is facing the bus stop, looking all crazy like they’re about to pass out. And trust me, there ain’t nothing funnier than that. So I check that out for a little while like it’s some kind of movie: The About to Pass Out Show, starring stair-stepper person one through ten.
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
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Mark for Review
To discuss a movie that the narrator saw in a theater
To explain a problem that the narrator has overcome
To describe an activity that the narrator finds amusing
To give a reason why the narrator is excited to start middle school
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