- Which of these factual statements best supports the following thesis? Thesis: Exercising excessively can be bad for your health.
Your answer:
Moderate exercise can help to relieve stress
None of the above.
Exercise can increase your overall sense of well-being.
Exercise can help you build a strong heart.
People who exercise to extremes have more injuries than people who exercise more moderately.
- How do native speakers of English often approach the topics they choose to write about?
Your answer:
They try to inform their readers.
They try to persuade their readers.
They try to be humble and perhaps apologize for their opinions.
All of the above.
1 and 2.
- What is the purpose of the topic in the following passage? The current health-care crisis is a major illness. Managed competition is a Band-Aid. America urgently needs a more sensible, serious and informed intervention--not the minor tinkering of managed competition that leaves the greatest inequities and waste of our present system virtually intact.
Your answer:
To persuade the reader.
None of the above.
To express dialogue.
To instruct the reader how to do something.
To inform the reader.
- Which part of the three-part organizational pattern of an essay contains the summary?
Your answer:
The first supporting paragraph.
The last supporting paragraph.
The introduction.
The conclusion.
None of the above.
- Which of these factual statements best supports the following thesis? Thesis: New York City offers visitors and residents alike a wide variety of entertainment.
Your answer:
Museums, art galleries, Broadway plays, and concerts are just a few of the attractions of New York City.
Traffic in New York City can be intimidating, especially during rush hour.
The cost of housing can be quite high in many areas of New York City.
Because of its size, New York is a city in which people can easily get lost.
None of the above.
- Which part of the three-part organizational pattern of an essay states the thesis?
Your answer:
The first supporting paragraph.
The last supporting paragraph.
The introduction.
The transitions.
None of the above.
- How should passages containing several or more sentences be written?
Your answer:
With all short sentences.
With a mixture of long and short sentences.
With all long sentences.
With all simple sentences.
With all compound-complex sentences.
- What is a rhetorical question?
Your answer:
One which the reader is not expected to answer.
One which the reader is expected to answer.
One which makes a statement.
One which requests an action.
3 & 4 only.
- What is the writing error in the following passage? We decided to cancel our vacation. For a number of reasons.
Your answer:
Fused sentence.
Faulty parallelism.
Shift in tense.
Faulty verb agreement.
Sentence fragment.
- Which of the following sentences is the most concise?
Your answer:
Our coach, Mr. Barron, was a strict coach, but he was also a fair coach.
Mr. Barron was our coach; he was strict, but he was fair.
Mr. Barron, our coach, was strict; he was also fair.
Mr. Barron, our coach, was strict but fair.
Although Mr. Barron, our coach, was a strict coach, Mr. Barron was a fair coach.