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In most of the English grammar problems, students have can be solved by a teacher knowing the weak points of their students and helping them through it. Are you planning on passing the upcoming Arizona Educator Proficiency...
Questions: 78 | Attempts: 58 | Last updated: Apr 28, 2023
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Sample Question 1Read the passage below from Coal: A Human History by Barbara Freese; then answer the question that follows.When the Romans invaded Britain, among the natural riches they found there were conspicuous outcrops of a velvety deep black mineral. It was declared the "best stone in Britain" by one Roman writer because it could easily be carved and polished into beautiful jewelry. In time, Britain became known for its exports of this prized material, and fashionable citizens back in Rome eagerly adorned themselves with it. Not only were the black trinkets they carved from it stylish, but they had the surprising and mysterious attribute of being flammable as well. They called this mineral gagate (a word that over the years changedto "jet," as in "jet black"), which is actually a special form of dense coal. Because they weren't good at telling the difference, though, it seems that many Romans were not wearing true jet but plain old coal—the same stuff that would much later be considered the best stone in Britain for entirely different reasons.Based on information presented in thepassage above, a reader would be best ableto draw which of the followingconclusions?
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Sample Question 2Read the passage below; then answer the three questions that follow.Recent discoveries have bolstered the case for the existence of life on Mars. This possibility, long debated in both the scientific and popular press, centers on whether the Red Planet contains sufficient quantities of liquid water to sustain life. Although it has long been known that the Martian polar caps are partially composed of ice, evidence for the existence of liquid water has been much more elusive—so elusive, in fact, that most scientists discounted the possibility of Martian life. They argued that atmospheric conditions near the planet's equator turned ice directly into gas without going through a liquid phase. Any liquid water rising to the surface from warmer regions inside the planet would immediately freeze and be slowly drawn into the atmosphere.Then in the 1990s, an unmanned space vehicle from the European Space Agency's Mars Express project landed on the planet's surface and produced photographs that made the possibility of liquid water much more conceivable than many had imagined. The new photographs showed an equatorial formation that looked like terrestrial pack ice. The photos pointed to the possibility of liquid subsurface water whose motion had caused the ice on the surface to move, break into pieces, and then refreeze.The area in question is roughly 278,000 square miles in extent, 150 feet deep, and is covered with a layer of ash and dust that appears to have protected the ice from reacting with the atmosphere. Nearby formations suggest that this "ocean" of ice gushed onto the planet's surface from a group of deep cracks in the ground. The evidence indicates a sudden bursting of great quantities of water from the ground, which quickly froze into a vast area of ice. The same area where the ice was discovered also was found to contain high concentrations of methane. That this gas is often an end product of biological reactions makes the prospect of life on Mars even more likely.These findings have stirred considerable excitement in the scientific community. The discovery of warm, wet places beneath the Martian surface that predate the beginnings of life on Earth, scientists note, is a matter of considerable importance. That some such places are probably still there is even more significant. For where there is water, there is always the potential for life.Which of the following excerpts from thepassage is a general statement?
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Sample Question 3Which of the following lists of topicsbest summarizes the information as it ispresented in the passage?
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