Read the passage from "Two Kinds.”In spite of these warning signs, I wasn't worried. Our family had no piano and we couldn't afford to buy one, let alone reams of sheet music and piano lessons. So I could be generous in my comments when my mother bad-mouthed the little girl on TV."Play note right, but doesn't sound good! No singing sound," complained my mother."What are you picking on her for?" I said carelessly. "She's pretty good. Maybe she's not the best, but she's trying hard." I knew almost immediately I would be sorry I said that."Just like you," she said. "Not the best. Because you not trying." She gave a little huff as she let go of the sound dial and sat down on the sofa.The little Chinese girl sat down also to play an encore of "Anitra's Dance" by Grieg. I remember the song, because later on I had to learn how to play it.
Which excerpts from "Two Kinds” show a connection between conflict and culture? Select two options.
Read the sentence.Some of the items on my shopping list _ chanterelle mushrooms, white asparagus, and eel _ were impossible to find.Which punctuation should be added in the underlined spaces?
How are prefixes and suffixes alike? Select two options.
Read the sentence from an interpretive literary analysis.Amy Tan describes Jing-mei's mother's efforts to get her to become a prodigy: "I soon found out why Old Chong had retired from teaching piano. He was deaf."
Which motivators are examples of extrinsic motivation? Select three options.
Read the definitions. shear = v., to cut sheer = adj., thin soar = v., to fly at a great height sore = adj., feeling pain
Read the definition.censorcen·sor[Latin censor, the Roman magistrate tasked with registering Roman citizens]noun1. a person who supervises conduct and moralsverb1. to examine something in order to suppress it2. to delete anything considered objectionablesensorsen·sor[Latin sentire, "to perceive”]noun1. a device that responds to a physical stimulus and transmits an impulse in response
Which sentence includes a nonrestrictive clause?
Read the definitions.bio = life anthrop = human micro- = small meteoro = high in the air -logy = study of
Read the sentence.The English poet and playwright William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in the mid-1500s.Which terms describe the underlined portion of the sentence? Select three options.
Read the passage from "Two Kinds.”She walked over and stood in front of the TV. I saw her chest was heaving up and down in an angry way."No!” I said, and I now felt stronger, as if my true self had finally emerged. So this was what had been inside me all along."No! I won’t!” I screamed.She yanked me by the arm, pulled me off the floor, snapped off the TV. She was frighteningly strong, half pulling, half carrying me toward the piano as I kicked the throw rugs under my feet. She lifted me up and onto the hard bench. I was sobbing by now, looking at her bitterly. Her chest was heaving even more and her mouth was open, smiling crazily as if she were pleased I was crying."You want me to be something that I’m not!” I sobbed. "I’ll never be the kind of daughter you want me to be!”"Only two kinds of daughters,” she shouted in Chinese. "Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind! Only one kind of daughter can live in this house. Obedient daughter!”
Read the stanza from "Sonnet in Primary Colors” by Rita Dove.Each night she lay down in pain and roseto the celluloid butterflies of her Beloved Dead,Lenin and Marx and Stalin arrayed at the footstead.And rose to her easel, the hundred dogs pantinglike children along the graveled walks of the garden, Diego’slove a skull in the circular windowof the thumbprint searing her immutable brow.
Read the passage from "Marriage Is a Private Affair” by Chinua Achebe. This passage is a conversation between a father named Okeke and his adult son, Nnaemeka. In the passage, Okeke speaks first."Whose daughter is she, anyway?”"She is Nene Atang.”"What!” All the mildness was gone again. "Did you say Neneataga, what does that mean?”"Nene Atang from Calabar. She is the only girl I can marry.” This was a very rash reply and Nnaemeka expected the storm to burst. But it did not. His father merely walked away into his room. This was most unexpected and perplexed Nnaemeka. His father’s silence was infinitely more menacing than a flood of threatening speech. That night the old man did not eat.When he sent for Nnaemeka a day later he applied all possible ways of dissuasion. But the young man’s heart was hardened, and his father eventually gave him up as lost."I owe it to you, my son, as a duty to show you what is right and what is wrong. Whoever put this idea into your head might as well have cut your throat. It is Satan’s work.” He waved his son away.
Read the sentence.For optimal health, eat plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, _______________, and sleep at least seven hours a night.
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