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EDITING
Excerpt from: The Mouse and the Frog – a traditional folk tale
As ________ met, the frog said, "Good morning, Sir Mouse; I hope I find you well to-day."
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1) Look at the blank with the number 3 in the passage. Which of these answers correctly completes the
sentence?
A) it
B) them
C) they
D) we
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The Secret Garden
by: Frances Hodgson Burnett
When Mary Lennox was 1sent to Misselthwaite manor to live with her uncle everybody 2said she was the
most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She 3had a little thin face, and a little thin
body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had
been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another.
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Her father had held a position under the English Government and had always been busy and ill himself,
and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay
people. She had not wanted a little girl at all, and, when Mary was born, she handed her over to the care
of an Ayah 4who was made to understand that if she wished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the
child out of sight as much as possible. So when she was a sickly, fretful, ugly little baby, 5she was keept
out of the way, and when she became a sickly, fretful, toddling thing, she was kept out of the way also.
She never remembered seeing familiarly anything but 6the dark faces of her Ayah and the other native
servant’s, and as they always obeyed her and gave her her own way in everything, because the Mem
Sahib would be angry if she was disturbed by her crying, by the time she was six years old she was as
tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.
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The young English, governess who came to teach her to read and write disliked her so much that she
gave up her place in three months, and, when other governesses came to try to fill it, they always went
away in a shorter time than the first one. So if Mary had not chosen to really want 8to know how to read
books she would never have learned her letters at all.
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One frightfully hot morning, when she was about nine years old, she awakened feeling very cross, and
she became crosser still when she saw that the servant who stood by her bedside was not her Ayah.
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‘Why did you come?’ she said to the strange woman? "I will not let you stay. Send my Ayah to me.’The
woman looked frightened, but she only stammered that the Ayah could not come, and, 10when Mary
through herself into a passion and beat and kicked her, she looked only more frightened and repeated that
it was not possible for the Ayah to come to Missie Sahib.
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There was something mysterious in the air that morning. 11Nothing was done in its regular order, and
several of the native servants seemed missing while those whom Mary saw slunk or hurried about with
ashy and scared faces. But no one would tell her anything, and her Ayah did not come. She was actually
left alone as the morning went on, and at last 12she wandered out into the garden, and began to play by
herself under a tree near the veranda. She pretended that she was making a flower-bed, and she stuck
big scarlet hibiscus blossoms into little heaps of earth, all the time growing more and more angry and
muttering to herself the things she would say and the names she would call Saidie when she returned.
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2) Read the passage underlined (1-2). There may be a mistake in punctuation, capitalization, or spelling.
If you find a mistake, choose the answer that corrects the mistake. If there is no mistake, choose ‘Correct
as is.’
A) Correct as is.
B) with her uncle everybody said, she was the most disagreeable-looking child
C) with her uncle everybody said she was the most, disagreeable-looking child
D) with her uncle, everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child
3) 9'Why did you come?' she said to the strange woman?
Which
A)
B)
C)
D)
BEST corrects the error found in this sentence?
'"Why did you come?" she said to the strange woman.
'Why did you come'? she said to the strange woman.
Why did you come? she said to the 'strange' woman?
'Why did you come? she said to the strange woman?'
4) Read the passage underlined (6). There may be a mistake in punctuation, capitalization, or spelling. If
you find a mistake, choose the answer that corrects the mistake. If there is no mistake, choose ‘Correct as
is.’
A) Correct as is.
B) the dark faces of her Ayah and the other native servants
C) the dark face’s of her Ayah and the other native servants
D) the dark face’s of her Ayah and the other native servant’s
5) Read the passage underlined (1). There may be a mistake
in punctuation, capitalization, or spelling. If you find a mistake, choose the answer that corrects the
mistake. If there is no mistake, choose ‘Correct as is.’
A) Correct as is.
B) sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live
C) sent to misselthwaite Manor to live
D) sent to misselthwaite manor to live
6) Read the passage underlined (12). There may be a mistake in punctuation, capitalization, or spelling. If
you find a mistake, choose the answer that corrects the mistake. If there is no mistake, choose ‘Correct as
is.’
A) Correct as is.
B) she wandered out into the garden and began to play by herself
C) she wandered out into the garden and began to play, by herself
D) she wandered, out into the garden and began to play by herself
Jackie Robinson - The Early Years
By: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Robinson
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Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 — October 24, 1972), became the first African American
Major League Baseball player of the modern era in 1947.
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He was born in Cairo, Georgia and moved with
his mother and siblings to Pasadena, California, in 1920 after his father deserted the family. He attended
John Muir Junior College and Pasadena City College where he was an enthusiastic athlete. At the
University of California, Los Angeles, he was a star player of football, basketball,
there he was the first athlete in UCLA history to letter in four different sports.
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track, and baseball
Robinson's honors at
UCLA were impressive: for two years, he was the highest scorer in basketball competition in the Pacific
Coast Conference, national champion long jumper, All-American football halfback and varsity baseball
shortstop. He left college in 1941 because of financial problems.
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After leaving UCLA his senior year Robinson enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War II. He enlisted
with a segregated Battalion, the U.S. 761st Tank Battalion. While initially refused admission to Officer
Candidate School,
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he fought for it, and eventually was accepted, graduating as a first lieutenant. While
training in the Army at Fort Hood, Texas, Robinson refused to go to the back of a public bus. He was
court-martialed for insubordination and, therefore, never made it to Europe with his unit. He later received
an honorable discharge in 1944 after being acquitted of all charges at the court-martial.
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Jackie played baseball in 1944 for the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro American League where he
was noticed by Clyde Sukeforth, a scout working for Branch Rickey who was the club president and
general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Rickey had the secret goal of signing the Negro Leagues' top
players to the team. Although there was no official ban on blacks in organized baseball, previous attempts
at signing black baseball players had been thwarted by league officials and rival clubs in the past, so
Rickey operated undercover. Robinson drew national attention
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when Rickey selected him from a list of
promising candidate’s and signed him. In 1946, Robinson was assigned to play
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for the Dodgers' minor
league affiliate in Montreal the Montreal Royals. Although that season was very tiring emotionally for
Robinson, it was also a success in a city that treated him well and without the racial tension present in
many North American cities of the times.
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Robinson was a slightly curious candidate to be the first black Major Leaguer in fifty-seven years. Not
only was he 27 (relatively old for a prospect), he also had a fiery temperament. While some felt his more
laid-back future teammate Roy Campanella might have been a better candidate to face the expected
abuse,
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Rickey chosed Robinson, feeling that Jackie's outspoken nature would, in the long run, be more
beneficial for their cause than Campanella's relative docility. But to be sure Rickey had the right man, he
laid upon Robinson a three-hour tirade of racial slurs, taunts, and insults in his office. Exasperated at the
ordeal, Jackie asked if he should fight back.
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"I want someone with guts enough not to fight back,
Rickey replied.’ Aware of what was at stake, Robinson agreed.
7) Read the passage underlined (4). There may be a mistake in punctuation, capitalization, or spelling. If
you find a mistake choose the answer that corrects the mistake. If there is no mistake, choose ‘Correct as
is.’
A) Correct as is.
B) Robinson's honors at UCLA were impressive for two years
C) Robinson's honors at UCLA were impressive, for two years
D) Robinson's honors at UCLA were impressive; for two years
8) Read the passage underlined (5). There may be a mistake in punctuation, capitalization, or spelling. If
you find a mistake choose the answer that corrects the mistake. If there is no mistake, choose ‘Correct as
is.’
A) Correct as is.
B) After leaving UCLA his senior year, Robinson enlisted in the U.S. Army
C) After leaving UCLA his senior year; Robinson enlisted in the U.S. Army
D) After leaving UCLA, his senior year Robinson enlisted in the U.S. Army
9) Read the passage underlined (7). There may be a mistake in punctuation, capitalization, or spelling. If
you find a mistake choose the answer that corrects the mistake. If there is no mistake, choose ‘Correct as
is.’
A) when Rickey selected him, from a list of promising candidates and signed him
B) when Rickey selected him from a list of promising candidates’ and signed him
C) when Rickey selected him from a list of promising candidates and signed him
D) Correct as is.
10) Read the passage underlined (9). There may be a mistake in punctuation, capitalization, or spelling. If
you find a mistake choose the answer that corrects the mistake. If there is no mistake, choose ‘Correct as
is.’
A) Correct as is.
B) Rickey chose Robinson, feeling that Jackie's outspoken nature
C) Rickey choosed Robinson, feeling that Jackie's outspoken nature
D) Rickey had chose Robinson, feeling that Jackie's outspoken nature