Professional Documents
Culture Documents
GRADE 10
Language Arts
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Name Date
1 A newspapers, and
Traditional Artists
B newspapers; and
1
The growth of radio, television, newspapers C newspapers also
2 D Best as is
and other media have drawn many artists and
honored by the program include a Hispanic 6 A In formal recognition of America’s folk art,
carver of saints, a Cajun fiddler, a quilter from B With the process of formally recognizing
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Missouri, an Appalachian ballad singer, a group C Recognizing the formal types of art that
should be recognized in our country,
of African American gospel singers, an Ojibwa
D Best as is
storyteller, and a Pueblo potter.
7 A choose
B had chose
C will be choosing
D Best as is
from the NEA was pioneering dancer Frankie 10 A that can be best understood
Manning. The dazzling Lindy Hop was just one B that was known
C with people who are knowing
of dozens of dances included in a style that
D Best as is
would be labeled swing dancing. At age 3,
11 Which of the following sequences of sen-
Manning moved from his native Florida to tences will make paragraph 3 most logical?
10
Harlem, a New York City neighborhood that A 1,3,4,2
B 3,1,2,4
knows as a vibrant center for African American
C 2,4,3,1
artists. As the choreographer for a dance team
D Best as is
at Harlem’s famed Savoy Ballroom in the 1930s,
12 A motion of the dancers comes to a halt
Manning helped popularize the dance craze suddenly and they become still,
B stoppage of the movement is done
called the Lindy Hop.
suddenly,
Goodman, and Ella Fitzgerald. Manning won a B Yes, because it lets the reader know other
details that enhance the essay.
Tony Award for choreographing the show C No, because few Americans in the 1930s
were interested in Lindbergh.
“Black and Blue.”
D No, because the information distracts the
reader from the main points of the
paragraph.
Less than one month after the first atomic 33 A Hiroshima Japan and dropped it.
32 B Hiroshima Japan, and dropped it.
bomb was tested, he ordered the U.S. military
C Hiroshima, Japan, and dropped it.
to use an atomic bomb in the war against D Best as is
Japan. A plane called the Enola Gay flew the 34 A within a four-mile radius
33
bomb over Hiroshima Japan and, dropped it. As B in a gigantic circle of four whole miles
C as far as the eye could see for four miles
the plane sped away, the bomb went off in the
34 D Best as is
air over the city. It destroyed everything for four
35 A Facing with tremendous destruction,
miles all around and killed 80,000 people. More
B Facing the more tremendous destruction
people died later as a result of radiation around them,
C Faced with tremendous destruction,
poisoning. Three days later, the United States
D Best as is
dropped a second bomb, this time on the city
35 36 Which sentence, if added at this point,
of Nagasaki. Faced with tremendous would make a good opening sentence for
Paragraph 2 and provide a good transition
destructing, the Japanese government from the previous paragraph?
surrendered. A Today, Nagasaki remains one of Japan’s
biggest ports, and its main industry is
36 In the past 50 years, powerful countries shipbuilding.
B Even though the United States and Japan
have spent millions of dollars on nuclear research
are no longer literally at war, they are in a
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automobile market.
31 A made a decision that changed C Although the bombs brought World War
II to an end, the cost to the world has
B had made a decision that had changed been great.
C made a decision that was changed for D This surrender, which happened on
D Best as is August 14, 1945, brought relief to
people all over the world.
destroy millions at the touch of a button. Those 39 The writer is thinking of replacing the
phrase “productive things” with the
precious financial resources could have been phrase “education, medical research, and
39
agricultural studies.” If this were done, the
used for productive things. Instead, they were
sentence would become:
spent on dangerous weaponry. A irrelevant, because this is an essay on
40 atomic power.
Today, nuclear power has many uses, and
B awkward, because it is not clear exactly
however many of them are positive, generating how the money could have been spent
differently.
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nuclear power is a very risky type of procedure C more persuasive, because specific
information is more compelling than
when it is put into actual practice. Accidents at
general descriptions.
nuclear power plants have caused considerable D more light-hearted in tone, adding some
relief from the overall foreboding feeling
damage to people and property. In 1986, there
that the writer creates.
37 A Obviously you can see that 40 A although many of them are positive,
B It is one of the most obvious things in the B whenever many of them are positive,
world that C and, on a positive note,
C It will become obvious that D Best as is
D Best as is
41 A a very risky practice.
B procedurally, a practice with many risks.
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A Yes, because the changing of countries’ 45 The writer wishes to add this sentence to the
borders is an integral element to this essay:
essay. Now that the fighting had ended in Europe, the
B Yes, because it provides more precise United States turned its attention to the Pacific.
information about where a key event The most logical and appropriate place for
occurred. this sentence is after
C No, because many readers will not be
A the first sentence in Paragraph 1.
familiar with the nation of Ukraine.
B the last sentence in Paragraph 1.
D No, because this parenthetical statement
would fit better in another paragraph. C the last sentence in Paragraph 2.
D the first sentence in Paragraph 2.
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51 Why is it significant that Browning wrote a novel in verse with a heroine who is a poet?
56 In the past decade, the salaries of average professional athletes have increased into the multi-
million-dollar range. Some people feel that professional athletes are highly overpaid; others feel
that the entertainment, inspiration, and money they generate to millions of fans justifies their
salaries. Write a letter to the editor of a sport’s magazine expressing your views on this issue.