Answers1001400 English 4 Sem 1 - DonofroAnalyzing the Use of Rhetoric, Part 2

Analyzing the Use of Rhetoric, Part 2 — Cumulative exam Answers

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Read the sentence from a rough draft.Every kid should take a foreign language class to learn the ins and outs of a whole different culture.

A
Kids should really study foreign language to learn about lots of cultures.
B
Kids: you know you want to sign up to learn a new language and culture!
C
Students should take a bunch of classes that allow them to learn new cultures.
D
Students should study foreign language to be exposed to new cultures.
4

Read the sentence.All people who exercise regularly are more fun to be around.What is the best revision of the sentence that avoids bias?

A
Every person who exercises regularly is more fun to be around.
B
Only people who exercise regularly are more fun to be around.
C
People who exercise regularly are always more fun to be around.
D
People who exercise regularly are often more fun to be around.
6

Which sentence should be revised to include commas to set off a nonrestrictive element?

A
The car in my driveway belongs to my oldest sister.
B
The game that my mom gave me is really fun to play.
C
The tree in front of my house has been there for a century.
D
The TV show which we watch together airs on Friday nights.
7

Which source could best help answer the research question "Does cutting art and music programs impact high school students’ academic success?”

A
a wiki page about government-funded art and music programs for students
B
a museum’s website that focuses on the history of modern art
C
a government website that includes a study about a music program at a school
D
a blog that showcases student music from schools around the country
8

Read the excerpt from The Republic by Plato. But is war an art so easily acquired that a man may be a warrior who is also a husbandman, or shoemaker, or other artisan; although no one in the world would be a good dice or draught player who merely took up the game as a recreation, and had not from his earliest years devoted himself to this and nothing else? No tools will make a man a skilled workman, or master of defence, nor be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them, and has never bestowed any attention upon them.

A
He uses inductive reasoning to arrive at a broad conclusion about the art of war.
B
He uses deductive reasoning to reach a specific conclusion about the role of warriors in society.
C
He uses inductive reasoning to make specific observations about commitment to art.
D
He uses deductive reasoning to arrive at a specific conclusion about the training required to learn a skill.
9

Read Noni’s research question about the history of the airplane.What did the Wright brothers use to make their first powered airplane?

A
What was the Wright brothers’ first powered airplane made of?
B
Would the Wright brothers’ first powered airplane have been successful if they had chosen other materials?
C
How did the materials the Wright brothers chose contribute to the success of their first powered airplane?
D
What materials did the Wright brothers use to build their first powered airplane?
11

Read the excerpt from "Digging."My father, digging. I look down

A
The alliteration connects the speaker inside the house to his father outside.
B
The alliteration allows the reader to imagine all of the actions performed by the father.
C
The alliteration emphasizes the history of the speaker’s family.
D
The alliteration makes the speaker appear unsatisfied with his life as a writer.
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Read this conclusion.When people carelessly discard plastic, the world’s oceans suffer. Marine life must share space with water bottles and sandwich bags. Sea creatures often mistake plastic waste for food, and they suffer dire consequences. Do not contribute to this growing problem.

A
Make an effort to properly dispose of plastic trash and recyclables.
B
There is a growing island of plastic waste off the coast of California.
C
Plastic waste is not easily biodegradable, and it stays in the ecosystem.
D
Study the ocean and learn about the needs of endangered marine wildlife.
15

amusementcuriosityexcitementhorror

A
amusement
B
curiosity
C
excitement
D
horror
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Read the claim.The way to improve education is to divide schools by gender, so that males and females are taught separately.

A
If students spend even 10% of their time being distracted by the opposite gender, then that is just silly.
B
My dad has been a teacher since 1993, and I think he does fine teaching in a school that has only male students.
C
At least 50% of my class is the opposite gender, and the amount of time they are distracted by the opposite sex is minimal.
D
A 1993 study showed that teachers tend to favor males over females, thereby creating an inequality in mixed-gender schools.
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Read the excerpt from The Republic by Plato.And so at last, instead of loving contention and glory, men become lovers of trade and money; they honour and look up to the rich man, and make a ruler of him, and dishonour the poor man.They do so.They next proceed to make a law which fixes a sum of money as the qualification of citizenship; the sum is higher in one place and lower in another, as the oligarchy is more or less exclusive; and they allow no one whose property falls below the amount fixed to have any share in the government. These changes in the constitution they effect by force of arms, if intimidation has not already done their work.Read the excerpt from Utopia by Sir Thomas More.Even the Syphogrants, though excused by the law, yet do not excuse themselves, but work, that by their examples they may excite the industry of the rest of the people; the like exemption is allowed to those who, being recommended to the people by the priests, are, by the secret suffrages of the Syphogrants, privileged from labour, that they may apply themselves wholly to study; and if any of these fall short of those hopes that they seemed at first to give, they are obliged to return to work; and sometimes a mechanic that so employs his leisure hours as to make a considerable advancement in learning is eased from being a tradesman and ranked among their learned men.

A
Injustice will unquestionably make a society fall.
B
Social classes must coexist in a thriving society.
C
Money is the sole driving factor for most people.
D
Leaders should be excused from manual labor.
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Read the sentence.During the Cold War, scientists competed in the "space race.”

A
The “space race” by competing scientists occurred during the Cold War.
B
During the Cold War, scientists led the “space race” competition.
C
During the Cold War “space race,” scientists competed.
D
The “space race” was a Cold War competition by scientists.

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