5.05 Practice Making Improvements To A Passage

Question: Refer to the excerpt from London Labour and the London Poor (1851) by Henry Mayhew on the Unit Test Reading Passages page.

Refer to Passage 1 to answer this question.

The author’s main purpose in this passage is to __________.

Answer: classify the types of fruit sold on the street

Question: Refer to Passage 1 to answer this question.

According to the author, a gooseberry is a __________ fruit.

Answer: green

Question: Refer to Passage 1 to answer this question.

What quality of nuts does the author have in mind when he writes “in contradistinction to such productions as nuts which may be kept without injury for a season”?

Answer: Nuts can be kept fresh and good for eating for long periods of time.

Question: Refer to Passage 1 to answer this question.

When the author writes that “fresh” or “tender” fruit are “in contradistinction to such productions as nuts which may be kept without injury for a season,” he means that nuts are different because they __________.

Answer: can be stored without spoiling for a long time

Question: Refer to Passage 1 to answer this question.

In line 2 commerce most nearly means __________.

Answer: buying and selling

Question: Refer to the excerpt from London Labour and the London Poor (1851) by Henry Mayhew on the Unit Test Reading Passages page.

According to the passage, which type of fruit is sold mainly in nicer neighborhoods?

Answer: plums

Question: Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence.

Although the medication brought Josiah’s fever down, it did not offer any __________ for his other symptoms.

Answer: succor

Question: Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence.

The family whose house was robbed is considered a __________ of virtue because they offered __________ to the thief.

Answer: paragon…amnesty

Question: Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence.

One of the most memorable _________ I learned during childhood is “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” a(n) __________ that I still try to live by today.

Answer: maxims…dictum

Question:

Answer: was sure