Quiz - Reading - Feb 7 And 8
FCAT 10 Selection from Released Test
- 1.How did Dawkins change after working with the Argus editors?
- A.
He learned to ask the right questions for a story.
- B.
He learned to meet deadlines in a timely manner.
- C.
He began to check his own work for errors in grammar.
- D.
He became familiar with the newspaper-making process.
- 2.Dawkins regrets having misspelled a person’s name in a profile he wrote. Why is this error more embarrassing to him than other errors he has made?
- A.
His subject was a schoolteacher.
- B.
He had a reputation to maintain.
- C.
His editor failed to catch the error.
- D.
He had no excuse for such an error.
- 3.Read these sentences from the article. . . . she left and was replaced by Steve Burgard, who also came in early and read a lot of my copy. Steve, who is now at The Los Angeles Times, always asked a lot of questions about facts in the story. What is the most likely meaning of the word copy?
- A.
A printout of a newspaper
- B.
Editorial criticisms of writing
- C.
Grammatical concerns in writing
- D.
Text that reporters write for the paper
- 4.“The Police Beat” was written in the same style as
- A.
A news report.
- B.
A formal speech.
- C.
A persuasive paper.
- D.
A personal narrative.
- 5.Why did the author write “The Police Beat”?
- A.
To present the lessons learned by a first-year reporter
- B.
To encourage the reader to take up a career in journalism
- C.
To describe the process by which a report becomes a news story
- D.
To relate the experiences of one reporter while covering crime stories
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