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Passage:

Most fire-related death's result from household fires, yet many people do not have fire extinguishers in their homes. There is smoke detectors in many homes to warn residents of a fire, but fire extinguishers can actually help people fight fires. In most cases, everyone should evacuate a home when a fire has started or the smoke alarm sounds. Someone outside the home should call the fire department. However, if a fire extinguisher is handy, a quick-thinking person often can use them to put out a small fire.

Questionnaire:

1. What correction should be made to the sentence: "Most fire-related death's result from household fires, yet many people do not have fire extinguishers in their homes."

   a) replace death's with deaths

   b) change result to results

   c) remove the comma after fires

   d) change have to has

   e) replace their with there

2. Which of the following is the best way to write the underlined portion of the sentence: "There is smoke detectors in many homes to warn residents of a fire, but fire extinguishers can actually help people fight fires."

   a) There is

   b) Their is

   c) They're is

   d) There are

   e) Their are

3. What is the most effective combination of sentences 3 and 4?

   a) sounds, and someone

   b) sounds and call

   c) sounds, or someone

   d) sounds unless someone

   e) sounds and should call

4. Which of the following is the best way to write the underlined portion of the sentence: "However, if a fire extinguisher is handy, a quick-thinking person often can use them to put out a small fire."

   a) them

   b) him

   c) it

   d) theirs

   e) they

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5. Sentence 6: There are several types of fire extinguishers on the market, and each are suitable for particular types of fire. What correction should be made to this sentence?

(1) replace There are with There is  

(2) remove the comma after market  

(3) replace and with or  

(4) replace each are with each is  

(5) change the spelling of particular to particuler  

6. Sentence 7: Most extinguishers come with instructions, they are very easy to operate. Which of the following is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If you think the original is the best way, choose option (1).

(1) instructions, they are  

(2) instructions and are  

(3) instructions, are  

(4) instructions and they are  

(5) instructions; and are  

7. Sentence 8: Fire departments may be contacted for training in operating extinguishers. What correction should be made to this sentence?

(1) replace departments with Departments  

(2) replace may be with were  

(3) change the spelling of operating to opperating  

(4) replace departments with department's  

(5) no correction is necessary  

8. Sentence 9: A person should keep in mind some basic safety rules when you are deciding whether or not to use a fire extinguisher. Which of the following is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If you think the original is the best way, choose option (1).

(1) rules when you are deciding  

(2) rules when deciding  

(3) rules you decide  

(4) rules when you decided  

(5) rules. You are deciding  

9. Sentence 10: Buying a fire extinguisher knowing how to use it, and placing it in a location familiar to all family members can help protect families against fire. What correction should be made to this sentence?

(1) insert a comma after extinguisher  

(2) change placing to place  

(3) replace members with member's  

(4) insert a comma after help  

(5) change the spelling of families to familys  

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Pre-Test 1: Writing Skills 5

Questions 10-19 refer to the following passage.

(1) A european concept in overnight lodging known as "bed and breakfast" is becoming popular in the United States. (2) Private citizens act as hosts and rent out spare bedrooms in there homes. (3) The hosts provide a home-cooked break- fast and a bedroom appropriatly de- signed to offer their guests privacy in a cozy setting. (4) While most American travelers expect to find lodging in a hotel or motel, the recent popularity of bed and breakfasts offer a new alternative to travelers. (5) Staying in a private home offers travelers a more personal atmo- sphere; as a result, they feel pampered and enjoy visiting with the hosts. (6) Say- ing that they feel safer and like being treated as guests, the bed and breakfast hosts make them feel at home. (7) Travel- ers can learn much about the history and people of the local area; for example, vis- itors currently stayed on Wisconsin dairy farms and in restored log cabins in Ken- tucky. (8) If travelers cannot afford a long trip, they can still enjoy a peaceful get- away weekend as houseguests. (9) The hosts also benefit from running such a business because they can stay at home, make money, and meeting a variety of people. (10) Most State tourism depart- ments and some travel agencies have bed and breakfast listings.

10. Sentence 1: A european concept in overnight lodging known as "bed and breakfast" is becoming popular in the United States.

What correction should be made to this sentence?

(1) change european to European

(2) replace known with is known

(3) replace is with are

(4) replace States with states

(5) no correction is necessary

11. Sentence 2: Private citizens act as hosts and rent out spare bedrooms in there homes.

What correction should be made to this sentence?

(1) replace citizens with citizen's >

(2) change act to acted

(3) change rent to renting

(4) add a comma after hosts

(5) replace there with their

12. Sentence 3: The hosts provide a home-cooked breakfast and a bedroom appropriatly designed to offer their guests privacy in a cozy setting.

What correction should be made to this sentence?

(1) change provide to provides

(2) insert a comma after breakfast

(3) change the spelling of appropriatly to appropriately

(4) replace designed with design (5) no correction is necessary

13. Sentence 4: While most American

travelers expect to find lodging in a hotel or motel, the recent popularity of bed and breakfasts offer a new alternative to travelers.

What correction should be made to this sentence?

(1) change expect to expects

(2) remove the comma after motel?

(3) change offer to offers

(4) replace new with knew (5) replace to with too

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14. Sentence 5: Staying in a private home offers travelers a more personal atmosphere; as a result, they feel pampered and enjoy visiting with the hosts.

If you rewrote sentence 5 beginning with Because staying in a private home offers travelers a more personal atmosphere,

the next word should be

(1) as

(2) feeling

(3) hosts

(4) they

(5) the

15. Sentence 6: Saying that they feel safer and like being treated as guests, the bed and breakfast hosts make them feel at home.

Which of the following is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If you think the original is the best way, choose option (1).

(1) the bed and breakfast hosts make them feel at home.

(2) feeling at home with the bed and breakfast hosts.

(3) the bed and breakfast hosts feel at home with travelers.

(4) are the bed and breakfast hosts feeling at home.

(5) the travelers feel at home with the bed and breakfast hosts.

16. Sentence 7: Travelers can learn much about the history and people of the local area; for example, visitors currently stayed on Wisconsin dairy farms and in restored log cabins in Kentucky.

What correction should be made to this sentence?

(1) replace can with did

(2) remove the comma after example

(3) replace stayed with can stay

(4) add a comma after farms

(5) no correction is necessary

17. Sentence 8: If travelers cannot afford a long trip, they can still enjoy a peaceful getaway weekend as houseguests.

If you rewrote sentence 8 beginning with Travelers who cannot afford a long trip

the next word should be

(1) they

(2) can

(3) if

(4) a

(5) enjoying

18. Sentence 9: The hosts also benefit from running such a business because they can stay at home, make money, and meeting a variety of people.

Which of the following is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If you think the original is the best way, choose option (1).

(1) and meeting

(2) and meet

(3) to meet

(4) and be meeting

(5) get to meet

19. Sentence 10: Most State tourism departments and some travel agencies have bed and breakfast listings.

What correction should be made to this sentence?

(1) change State to state

(2) change tourism to Tourism

(3) insert a comma after departments

(4) insert a comma after agencies (5) change have to has

Pre-Test 1: Writing Skills 7

Questions 20-30 refer to the following passage.

(1) Recently, educators exammined the effectiveness of computer instruction in American schools. (2) The educators were dismayed to find the issue of sex- ism and immediately analyzed the re- sults. (3) The studies revealing that, for various reasons, girls spent less time working with computers than boys. (4) By the 1980s many American schools had began to offer computer classes or clubs. (5) Only half as many girls as boys were enrolled in computer-programming classes. (6) Schools with computer clubs and camps reported that membership consisted of many more boys than girls. (7) Some educators were frustrated be- cause they have not become as inter- ested in using computers.

(8) One factor to explain this dis- crepancy was that many of the early computer games were similar to the Space Invader video games that girls viewed as boys games. (9) Researchers also speculate that some teachers might have given boys more computer time be- cause parents and teachers expected boys to need computers for future ca- reers. (10) Some schools, especially at the elementary level, had only a few com- puters, so teachers had to choose the students which got to use them. (11) Not surprisingly, boys will be more likely to be chosen to use computers than girls. (12) Because of these findings, educators have recommended that teachers and parents encourage girls to use comput- ers by providing opportunities and expo- sure to the machines.

20. Sentence 1: Recently, educators exammined the effectiveness of computer instruction in American schools.

What correction should be made to this sentence?

(1) replace educators with educator's

(2) change the spelling of exammined to examined

(3) replace computer with computer's

(4) change schools to Schools

(5) no correction is necessary

21. Sentence 2: The educators were dismayed to find the issue of sexism and immediately analyzed the results.

If you rewrote sentence 2 beginning with Dismayed to find the issue of sexism,

the next words should be

(1) the American schools

(2) their analysis

(3) the educators

(4) computers

(5) the results

22. Sentence 3: The studies revealing that, for various reasons, girls spent less time working with computers than boys.

Which of the following is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If you think the original is the best way, choose option (1).

(1) studies revealing

(2) studies' revelations

(3) studies revealed

(4) studies will reveal

(5) revealing studies

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23. Sentence 4: By the 1980s many American schools had began to offer computer classes or clubs.

What correction should be made to this sentence?

(1) replace American with american

(2) change had began to had begun

(3) replace classes with class's

(4) change clubs to Clubs

(5) no correction is necessary

24. Sentences 5 and 6: Only half as many girls as boys were enrolled in computer-programming classes. Schools with computer clubs and camps reported that membership consisted of many more boys than girls.

The most effective combination of sentences 5 and 6 would include which of the following groups of words?

(1) classes, schools

(2) classes in schools

(3) classes; furthermore, schools

(4) classes, or schools

(5) classes; however, schools

25. Sentence 7: Some educators were frustrated because they have not become as interested in using computers.

Which of the following is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If you think the original is the best way, choose option (1).

(1) they

(2) educators

(3) computers

(4) girls

(5) boys

26. Sentence 8: One factor to explain this discrepancy was that many of the early computer games were similar to the Space Invader video games that girls viewed as boys games.

What correction should be made to this sentence?

(1) add a comma after was

(2) change were to was

(3) replace girls with girls'

(4) change the spelling of viewed

to veiwed

(5) replace boys with boys'

27. Sentence 9: Researchers also speculate that some teachers might have given boys more computer time because parents and teachers expected boys to need computers for future careers.

Which of the following is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If you think the original is the best way, choose option (1).

(1) expected

(2) will have expected

(3) expecting

(4) will expect

(5) will be expecting

28. Sentence 10: Some schools, especially at the elementary level, had only a few computers, so teachers had to choose the students which got to use them.

What correction should be made to this sentence?

(1) change the spelling of especially to especialy (

(2) remove the comma after level

(3) remove the comma after computers

(4) replace which with who

(5) no correction is necessary

Pre-Test 2: Social Studies 13

Choose the best answer to each ques- tion that follows.

Questions 1-3 are based on the fol- lowing news report.

KAMPALA, Uganda [Reuters]-A young boy with all the behavioral traits of a monkey has been found living wild in the jungle of the notorious Luwero Triangle, site of massacres and killings during Uganda's civil war.

The boy, believed to be 5 to 7 years old, shuns human company and moves by jumping from place to place like a monkey with his fists clenched. If he is approached, he scratches. When he is still, he squats on his rump. He eats grass or anything else he can find.

Last September, Ugandan govern- ment troops retreating from a rebel army found him living with monkeys. He is now at the Naguru orphanage in Kampala, where nurses have given him the name Robert.

Staffers at the orphanage believe Robert lost his parents when he was about a year old during the fighting in the Luwero area and was mothered by a [pri- mate] chimpanzee or a gorilla.

He is about 2½ feet tall and weighs 22 pounds. He grunts and squeals but does not speak.

Theresa Nansikombi, who runs the orphanage, said that when Robert was brought to Naguru he fled from humans, cried all the time and tried to hide his face.

"He ate anything and still does- grass, clothes, blankets and sheets- even stones," she said.

"He looks miserable all the time."

1. The findings in this case support the belief that

(1) humans can survive in only one environment or culture

(2) people know what skills and tools are necessary to survive

(3) humans are descended directly from the monkeys

(4) human behavior is not instinctive; it is learned

(5) primates are the only species to teach their young

2. Robert was raised by the monkeys because he

(1) ran away from home

(2) lost his parents during a war (3) was intentionally abandoned

(4) was kidnapped and later

abandoned

(5) chose to be raised by them

3. This passage illustrates how Robert has learned certain behaviors from the primates. Which one of the following is an example of a learned, not an instinctive, behavior.

(1) Babies tend to respond to bright colors.

(2) Babies babble and squeal before they can talk. (3) Infants can be taught to swim

because they have not yet learned to fear water.

(4) Children like security blankets because the blankets give them comfort.

(5) Infants tend to put objects they can grasp into their mouths.

4. American consumers are not spending their money as freely as they have in the past. As a result, sales of personal computers have been affected. According to the dynamics of supply and demand, what will happen to the price of computers? The price will

(1) increase to make up for the loss in profits

(2) remain the same because the cost to manufacture computers stays the same 

(3) decrease to encourage

consumers to buy them 

(4) increase in order for manufacturers to improve the quality of computers

(5) remain the same because fewer computers will be available for sale

Pre-Test 1: Writing Skills 9

29. Sentence 11: Not surprisingly, boys will be more likely to be chosen to use computers than girls.

Which of the following is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If you think the original is the best way, choose option (1).

(1) boys will be

(2) boys' will be

(3) boys are

(4) boys' were

(5) boys were

30. Sentence 12: Because of these findings, educators have recommended that teachers and parents encourage girls to use computers by providing opportunities and exposure to the machines.

Which of the following is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If you think the original is the best way, choose option (1).

(1) findings, educators

(2) findings educators

(3) findings; educators

(4) findings. Educators

(5) findings, and educators

Answers begin on page 10.