Final Exam Review for ENGL0101 PDF

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This is the review for the final exam. The actual exam measures your level of English, they will not focus on reading articles, but what words go well with others and where to place them, there will also be a listening part....

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ENGL 0101 Final Review Supplement. This Final Review Supplement was created by Vicki Sheri Towne and Jo Szewczyk in hopes to allow you to have extra practice with some of the material covered in the course. It is important to note, that the skills found below are to help you with general English and may not translate directly into studying for the Final Exam. Sentence structures and grammar Directions. Choose the answer that best fits the sentence. 1. I’m afraid I ……… here for your wedding party. a) have not to be b) am not being c) will be not d) can't be 2. How ……… are you? a) high b) wide c) long d) tall 3. Herzog knows that she ……… to leave now. a) had better b) needn't c) should d) ought 4. Bill will return the newspaper when he ……… it. a) will have finish b) looked c) has finished d) look 5. They said they ……… juggle, but they didn’t. a) can not b) going to c) maybe d) might 6. Masie has ……… old Rolling Stones albums. a) very much b) a lot of c) lots d) a very lot 7. What about Bob? Will he ……… for a walk? a) to go 1

b) gone c) going d) go 8. I made a few mistakes, but ……… of my answers were correct. a) much b) most c) more d) few 9. This is ……… drawing. a) a very interesting b) very an interesting c) very interesting d) very interested 10. Is ……… than his father? a) Luke taller b) taller Luke c) Luke more tall d) Luke as tall as 11. ……… is it from here to Las Vegas? a) How long way b) How long c) How far d) How many 12. Would you like some more Mint-Chocolate Rooibos tea? There's still ……… left. a) few b) a few c) a little d) little 13. They ……… him of stealing the car. a) blamed b) accused c) punished d) arrested 14. My boots are filthy. I'd better take them ……… before I come in. a) of b) away c) on d) up 15. We can finish the rest of the bread for ……… . 2

a) b) c) d)

a breakfast the breakfast breakfast a breakfasts

16. Did you ……… to the concert yesterday? a) go b) going c) was d) went 17. I think ……… mail clerk. a) her job is b) she's a c) her job is an d) she's 18. Did you ……… to the store? a) ran b) running c) run d) vanish 19. I ……. snow is very cold. a) think b) smell c) eat d) make 20. Did you ……… the cat yesterday? a) walking b) walked c) has walked d) walk Reading Comprehension Directions. Choose the answer that best answers the question based upon the reading given.

Passage 1: Read the following passage from the 2001 book, In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd by Ana Menéndez, and published by Grove Press: 1. Máximo was one of the first to leave L Street, boarding a plane for Miami on the eve of the first of January 1961, exactly two years after Batista had done the same. For reasons he told himself he could no longer remember, he said good-bye to no one. He was thirty-six years old then, already balding, with a wife and two young daughters whose names he tended to confuse. He

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left behind the row house of long shiny windows, the piano, the mahogany furniture, and the pension he thought he'd return to in two years' time. Three if things were as serious as they said. 2. In Miami, Máximo tried driving a taxi, but the streets were a web of foreign names and winding curves that could one day lead to glitter and another to the hollow end of a pistol. His Spanish and his University of Havana credentials meant nothing here. And he was too old to cut sugarcane with the younger men who began arriving in the spring of 1961. But the men gave Máximo an idea, and after teary nights of promises, he convinced his wife—she of stately homes and multiple cooks—to make lunch to sell to those sugar men who waited, squatting on their heels in the dark, for the bus to Belle Glade every morning. They worked side by side, Máximo and Rosa. And at the end of every day, their hands stained orange from the lard and the cheap meat, their knuckles red and tender where the hot water and the knife blade had worked their business, Máximo and Rosa would sit down to whatever remained of the day's cooking and they would chew slowly, the day unraveling, their hunger ebbing away with the light. 3. They worked together for years like that, and when the Cubans began disappearing from the bus line, Máximo and Rosa moved their lunch packets indoors and opened their little restaurant right on Eighth Street. There, a generation of former professors served black beans and rice to the nostalgic. When Raúl showed up in Miami one summer looking for work, Máximo added one more waiter's spot for his old acquaintance from L Street. Each night, after the customers had gone, Máximo and Rosa and Raúl and Havana's old lawyers and bankers and dreamers would sit around the biggest table and eat and talk and sometimes, late in the night after several glasses of wine, someone would start the stories that began with "In Cuba I remember." They were stories of old lovers, beautiful and round-hipped. Of skies that stretched on clear and blue to the Cuban hills. Of green landscapes that clung to the red clay of Güines, roots dug in like fingernails in a good-bye. In Cuba, the stories always began, life was good and pure. But something always happened to them in the end, something withering, malignant. Máximo never understood it. The stories that opened in sun, always narrowed into a dark place. And after those nights, his head throbbing, Máximo would turn and turn in his sleep and awake unable to remember his dreams.

Questions based on Passage 1, In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd. 1. The main topic for this entire passage is about: a. how Maximo left his wife and children in Cuba to immigrate to Miami. b. why Maximo built a new life in Miami. c. why Maximo left Cuba to immigrate to Miami. d. how Maximo came to own a restaurant in Miami. e. None of the other choices are correct. 2. “The stories that opened in sun, always narrowed into a dark place.” This sentence from paragraph 3 refers to a. Maximo’s life in Cuba. b. Maximo’s life in Miami. c. memories shared by immigrants about Miami d. memories shared by other immigrants about Cuba 4

e. 3.

All of the other choices are correct.

Maximo started a catering business in Miami because he liked to cook. a. True b. False

4. Based on the information in this passage, the German Shepherd mentioned in the title is probably referring to the young men who worked in the sugarcane field. a. True b. False 5.

The German Shepherd mentioned in the title is an example of the author’s use of a. metaphor b. analogy c. parody d. paraphrase e. None of the other choices are correct.

6. Maximo was “thirty-six years old then, already balding, with a wife and two young daughters” when he left Cuba. The most appropriate APA style citation for this sentence is a. (Menendez, A., 2001) b. (Menendez, 2001, para. 1) c. (Menendez, 2001, p. 1) d. (Menendez, 2001) e. (Ana Menendez, p. 1, 2001) 7.

In the second sentence of paragraph three, the word “nostalgic” probably means a. hungry Cuban immigrants that want waiters to serve them food. b. people who remember good times in Cuba. c. people who never cook black beans and rice at home anymore. d. Cuban immigrants who associate that food with their former home. e. people who talk a lot about where they used to live.

8. One summer, several years after opening his restaurant, Maximo’s old friend Raul moved to Miami and needed work so Maximo gave him a job. This sentence is a. the story of how Raul came to work at Maximo’s restaurant and does not require citation. b. a paraphrase from the story of how Raul came to work at Maximo’s restaurant and does not require citation. c. a paraphrase from the story of how Raul came to work at Maximo’s restaurant that should include a citation. d. a quotation from the story about how Raul came to work at Maximo’s restaurant that should include a citation. e. not from the story so it does not require a citation.

Passage 2: Read the following passage taken from a story published on this webpage: 5

1. It was December—a bright frozen day in the early morning. Far out in the country there was an old Negro woman with her head tied in a red rag, coming along a path through the pinewoods. Her name was Phoenix Jackson. She was very old and small and she walked slowly in the dark pine shadows, moving a little from side to side in her steps, with the balanced heaviness and lightness of a pendulum in a grandfather clock. She carried a thin, small cane made from an umbrella, and with this she kept tapping the frozen earth in front of her. This made a grave and persistent noise in the still air that seemed meditative, like the chirping of a solitary little bird. 2. She wore a dark striped dress reaching down to her shoe tops, and an equally long apron of bleached sugar sacks, with a full pocket: all neat and tidy, but every time she took a step she might have fallen over her shoelaces, which dragged from her unlaced shoes. She looked straight ahead. Her eyes were blue with age. Her skin had a pattern all its own of numberless branching wrinkles and as though a whole little tree stood in the middle of her forehead, but a golden color ran underneath, and the two knobs of her cheeks were illumined by a yellow burning under the dark. Under the red rag her hair came down on her neck in the frailest of ringlets, still black, and with an odor like copper. 3. Now and then there was a quivering in the thicket. Old Phoenix said, 'Out of my way, all you foxes, owls, beetles, jack rabbits, coons and wild animals! ... Keep out from under these feet, little bob-whites ... Keep the big wild hogs out of my path. Don't let none of those come running my direction. I got a long way.' Under her small black-freckled hand her cane, limber as a buggy whip, would switch at the brush as if to rouse up any hiding things. 4. On she went. The woods were deep and still. The sun made the pine needles almost too bright to look at, up where the wind rocked. The cones dropped as light as feathers. Down in the hollow was the mourning dove—it was not too late for him. Questions based on Passage 2, “A Worn Path.” 6

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Paragraph two from the story is a good example of a. an illustrative paragraph. b. a narrative paragraph. c. an informative paragraph. d. a descriptive paragraph. e. a persuasive paragraph.

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In the first sentence of paragraph three, the word quivering probably describes a. the sound of something moving in the thicket. b. the sound of wind blowing through the thicket. c. the sound of the cane hitting the path in the thicket. d. the sound of her feet on the path through the thicket. e. None of the other choices are correct because quivering is a noun.

11. In the first paragraph, third sentence, the author describes Phoenix’s walk as having “the balanced heaviness and lightness of a pendulum in a grandfather clock.” To add an appropriate citation to this sentence you would need to a. None of the other choices are correct because the sentence does not need a citation. b. simply keep the punctuation where it is and place the brackets after the quotation marks. c. move the punctuation from where it is and place the brackets after the quotation marks. d. simply keep the punctuation where it is, place the brackets after the quotation marks, then add another punctuation at the end. e. move the punctuation from where it is, place the brackets after the quotation marks, then put the punctuation at the end. 12. Based on the information provided about this story on the screenshot of the web page, the most appropriate reference citation would be a. Welty, Eudora. (1941). A Worn Path. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1941/02/a-worn-path/376236/ b. Welty, E. (n.d.). A Worn Path. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1941/02/a-worn-path/376236/ c. Welty, E. (1941, February). A worn path. Original retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1941/02/a-worn-path/376236/ d. Welty, E. (n.d.). A worn path. The Atlantic. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1941/02/a-worn-path/376236/ (Original work published 1941) e. Welty, E. (n.d.). A worn path. The Atlantic. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1941/02/a-worn-path/376236/ (Original work published 1941) 13.

Quotation marks always signal that a passage from a text is appropriately paraphrased. a. True b. False

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The most appropriate citation for a quotation taken from paragraph two would be a. (Welty, n.d., p. 2) b. (Welty, n.d.) c. (Welty, n.d., para. 2) d. (Welty, 1941) e. (Welty, 1941, p.2)

15. Based on the language used when Old Phoenix speaks in paragraph three, the author portrayed Old Phoenix as a. someone who speaks mostly colloquial English. b. someone who speaks English with a heavy dialect. c. someone who is hard to understand when they speak. d. someone who speaks using mostly good English. e. someone who speaks nonsense to imaginary friends. 16.

Old Phoenix lives in the city, but is taking a walk through the woods near her home. a. True. b. False.

17. two.

We know Old Phoenix looks young for her age because of the description in paragraph a. b.

True. False.

Passage 3: Read the following passages taken from the article by Neil Gaiman that appeared on 15 October 2013, in the book section of the online newspaper, The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/15/neil-gaiman-future-libraries-reading-daydreaming. The article is titled “Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming” and was last accessed on 30 January 2017. 1. Libraries are places that people go to for information. Books are only the tip of the information iceberg: they are there, and libraries can provide you freely and legally with books. More children are borrowing books from libraries than ever before – books of all kinds: paper and digital and audio. But libraries are also, for example, places that people, who may not have computers, who may not have internet connections, can go online without paying anything: hugely important when the way you find out about jobs, apply for jobs or apply for benefits is increasingly migrating exclusively online. Librarians can help these people navigate that world. 2. I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle turned up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still sharks around is that sharks are better at being sharks than anything else is. Physical books are tough, hard to destroy, bath-resistant, solar-operated, feel good in your hand: they are good at being books, and there will always be a place for them. They belong in libraries, just as libraries have already become places you can go to get access to ebooks, and audiobooks and DVDs and web content. 8

3. A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It’s a community space. It’s a place of safety, a haven from the world. It’s a place with librarians in it. What the libraries of the future will be like is something we should be imagining now. 4. Literacy is more important than ever it was, in this world of text and email, a world of written information. We need to read and write, we need global citizens who can read comfortably, comprehend what they are reading, understand nuance, and make themselves understood. 5. Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the opportunity to close libraries as an easy way to save money, without realising that they are stealing from the future to pay for today. They are closing the gates that should be open. Questions based on Passage 3 – “Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming” 18. The thesis for the selected passages is __________ and the topic is __________. Choose the best answer pair from the choices below: a. Libraries are necessary / Books are important. b. Books are necessary / Libraries are important. c. Information is necessary / Books are necessary. d. Libraries are important places / Access to information. e. Books are important objects / Tools for literacy. 19. When Gaiman writes that “physical books are like sharks,” he is making a/an ___________ to the theory of _______________. Choose the base answer pair from the choices below: a. contribution / ancestry. b. allusion / evolution. c. Illusion / evolution. d. constitution / illusion. e. distribution / ancestry. 20. Gaiman could have written that physical books are like cockroaches instead of sharks, and it would still be a/an _________________ to the theory of __________________. a. contribution / ancestry. b. allusion / evolution. c. Illusion / evolution. d. constitution / illusion. e. distribution / ancestry. 21. Gaiman believes that nothing will take the place of physical books, but libraries will probably change. a. True. b. False. 22.

Gaiman believes that only global citizens should have access to libraries. a. True. 9

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False.

23. According to Gaiman (2013), libraries are just information repositories, they are not meant to be “a community space. . . a place of safety, a haven from the world” (para. 3). This is an accurate paraphrase and quote of information from paragraph three. a. True. b. False. 24. Based on the information provided, this reference listing contains no APA style errors: Gaiman, N. (2013). Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming. The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/15/neil-gaimanfuture-libraries-reading-daydreaming a. True. b. False. 25.

In paragraph four, the word nuance probably means a. big details in meaning. b. information accuracy. c. subtle details in meaning. d. information relevancy. e. None of the other choices are correct; nuance is used as a verb in the sentence.

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Paragraph one is a good example of a/an a. an illustrative paragraph. b. a narrative paragraph. c. an informative paragraph. d. a descriptive paragraph. e. a persuasive paragraph.

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Paragraph four is a good example of a/an a. an illustrative paragraph. b. a narrative paragraph. c. an informative paragraph. d. a descriptive paragraph. e. a persuasive paragraph.

Passage 4: Read the following passage taken from the text that appears in the following screenshot:

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1. Valid neuroscience research is an increasingly useful resource for guiding interventions in education. But not all "neurocontent" is created equal. With the overall rise in accessible education content has come a rise in the niche of neurological educational content -- content developed for educators based on how the brain works. 2. One of the more common snags here is the advent of "neuromyths," or content purportedly based on neuroscience that, while sounding plausible, is incorrect. 3. Neuromyths result from unsupported claims about interventions or products supposedly "proven by neuroscience research." These claims (usually with interventions for sale) are based on research that is either not scientifically valid or not supportive of the specific intervention being promoted. 4. Consider the financial and socioeconomic costs of commercial products falsely claiming neuroscience proof that all learners need what they ofer. The expression "edu-cash-in" is a reasonable description of people trying to capitalize on unsupported claims about the research behind the design and promised outcome of their books, cure-all learning theories, curriculum packages, and edtech products. Further, the falsehoods that neuromyths perpetuate also make educators skeptical about educational practices that actually have a strong evidence base, adding another layer to the problem. 5. We study...