Test Taking

1. To cheer up the hallway, Rachel embellished her children’s bedroom doors. She painted colorful circus pictures on her son’s door and pasted seashells on her daughter’s. Embellished means

Replaced

Erased

Decorated

Recognized

2. A standardized test:

Is given to a small amount of people to measure their abilities or what they learned.

Is given to a small amount of people to measure what they need to learn.

Is given to a large amount of people to measure their abilities or what they learned.

Is given to a large amount of people to measure what they need to learn.

3. Nina makes a big fuss about every little thing her children do, whether it’s harmful or innocuous.
Innocuous means

Loud

Stubborn

Dangerous

Harmless

4. Which of the following is not a good way to approach a test with confidence:

Think positively

Build your vocabulary

Practice

Study the night before

5. The first step in the process of elimination is:

Get rid of the answer choices you know are incorrect.

Read each answer choice, one by one.

Save the answer choice that might be correct.

Choose the best answer choice.

6. Their purpose is to test whether Florida high school students have met certain criteria.
What does criteria mean?

Specific goals

Broad goals

Standard goals

Dificult goals

7. Most multiple choice questions have at least 3 ______________ that are believable but do not answer the question.

Distractor

Leader line

Answer choice

8. Particularly fast setting PVA glue is for quick adhesive jobs. Apply thinly and uniformly with brush, or other spreaders. Press parts immediately together after application. Do not add water or other liquid and avoid contact of it with metals. It is non-toxic and non-flammable. Store in a cool, dry place. Avoid temperature over 40 degrees. The message infers that _________.

Children's handling on the glue is prohibited

Children are allowed to use the adhesive glue

It is possible for glue to cause fire

It is better to keep the glue in the freezer

9. Which of the following is not a way to improve your writing:

I have a dream- describe your goals, dreams, and hopes for the future

Suggestion box- write a letter suggesting ways to make your home, school, city, or country a better place

Critically speaking- review books, CDs, concerts, movies, computer games, stores, or restaurants.

Flash cards- review vocabulary words to improve your vocabulary.

10. Small children will play gangster games with shooting or sword play, very often inspired by a visit to the cinema. Yet long before the film era children played gang games-tag, touch, etc. Stories and films will give a direction to some kinds of play, but the fundamentals are in the heart of all children of all races. It can be inferred that the child play is fundamentally

Organized

Competitive

Dangerous

Imaginative