Question 7:
B. Diction
Question 8:
D. self-confident
Question 9:
B. Bottomless hole
Question 10:
A. Dragons were all over the country.
Question 11:
C. The technology allowed customers to take virtual vacations; it was cutting-edge.
Question 12:
D. resolution
Question 7(Multiple Choice Worth 5 points)
(01.01 LC)
What is the term for the careful and purposeful choice of words to reach a desired effect?
A. Denotation
B. Diction
C. Syntax
D. Text feature
Question 8(Multiple Choice Worth 5 points)
(01.01 MC)
Choose the word with the connotative meaning that best completes the sentence.
Mariel was unanimously elected chess club president because of her extraordinary leadership skills and ________ personality.
A. bossy
B. domineering
C. overbearing
D. self-confident
Question 9(Multiple Choice Worth 5 points)
(01.05 MC)
Read the following sentence and answer the question below:
Peering over the ledge, I looked down into the deep, dark, empty pit of an abyss.
What does the word abyss mean in the context of this sentence?
A. Bright space
B. Bottomless hole
C. High mountain
D. Shallow water
Question 10(Multiple Choice Worth 5 points)
(01.07 MC)
The Book of Dragons
Chapter III The Deliverers of Their Country, an excerpt
By E. Nesbit
Part 2
The doctor was so pleased with the new specimen that he gave Effie a shilling, and presently the professor stepped round. He stayed to lunch, and he and the doctor quarreled very happily all the afternoon about the name and the family of the thing that had come out of Effie's eye.
But at teatime another thing happened. Effie's brother Harry fished something out of his tea, which he thought at first was an earwig. He was just getting ready to drop it on the floor, and end its life in the usual way, when it shook itself in the spoon—spread two wet wings, and flopped onto the tablecloth. There it sat, stroking itself with its feet and stretching its wings, and Harry said: "Why, it's a tiny newt!"
The professor leaned forward before the doctor could say a word. "I'll give you half a crown for it, Harry, my lad," he said, speaking very fast; and then he picked it up carefully on his handkerchief.
"It is a new specimen," he said, "and finer than yours, Doctor."
It was a tiny lizard, about half an inch long—with scales and wings.
So now the doctor and the professor each had a specimen, and they were both very pleased. But before long these specimens began to seem less valuable. For the next morning, when the knife-boy was cleaning the doctor's boots, he suddenly dropped the brushes and the boot and the blacking, and screamed out that he was burnt.
And from inside the boot came crawling a lizard as big as a kitten, with large, shiny wings.
"Why," said Effie, "I know what it is. It is a dragon like the one St. George killed."
And Effie was right. That afternoon Towser was bitten in the garden by a dragon about the size of a rabbit, which he had tried to chase, and the next morning all the papers were full of the wonderful "winged lizards" that were appearing all over the country. The papers would not call them dragons, because, of course, no one believes in dragons nowadays—and at any rate the papers were not going to be so silly as to believe in fairy stories. At first there were only a few, but in a week or two the country was simply running alive with dragons of all sizes, and in the air you could sometimes see them as thick as a swarm of bees. They all looked alike except as to size. They were green with scales, and they had four legs and a long tail and great wings like bats' wings, only the wings were a pale, half-transparent yellow, like the gear-boxes on bicycles.
What is the central idea of the bolded section?
A. Dragons were all over the country.
B. Dragons were burning people.
C. People did not believe in dragons.
D. The dragons were the same size.
Question 11(Multiple Choice Worth 5 points)
(01.04 MC)
Which of the following sentences uses a hyphenated adjective correctly?
A. Asia felt that a vacation to the mountains was much-needed after a long and challenging year.
B. The cold-blooded reptile basked in the warm sun on the first day of April.
C. The technology allowed customers to take virtual vacations; it was cutting-edge.
D. The novel, which was well-written, received numerous awards for its unique use of multiple narrators.
Question 12(Multiple Choice Worth 5 points)
(01.02 LC)
The point in the plot where the lesson learned by the protagonist becomes clear is the
A. climax
B. exposition
C. falling action
D. resolution
Answer each question separately
1 answer