1. Which of these would BEST serve as a topic
sentence for a paragraph?
A) The amazing human eye is the organ of
sight.
B) You open up a camera stop to permit more
light to reach the film on a gray day.
C) Light strikes the retina, and produces
impulses that are transmitted by the nerves.
D) This adjustment helps people see as much
as possible under various light conditions.
2. Which of these would BEST serve as a topic
sentence for a paragraph?
A) Catherine the Great extended Russia's
boundaries.
B) Catherine the Great authored new
guidelines for government.
C) Russian empress Catherine the Great more
than doubled the number of factories in Russia.
D) Russian empress Catherine the Great
worked tirelessly during her thirty four year
reign, making Russia a world power.
3. Which of these would BEST serve as a topic
sentence for a paragraph?
A) The amazing Milo of Kroton was victorious
at Olympia six times.
B) Milo of Kroton is one of the most legendary
athletes in the ancient world.
C) Milo of Kroton was born in southern Italy
and won the boys' wrestling competition in 540
BCE.
D) One of Milo of Kroton's favorite
demonstrations of his unrivaled strength was to
tie a cord around his forehead, hold his breath,
and then break the cord with his bulging
forehead veins.
4.
Emily Dickinson
Carole Jenkins
(1) Emily Dickinson is regarded as one of the
greatest American poets. (2) She was born in
1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a very
prominent family. (3) Her childhood was normal,
filled with friends, activities, and having
fun. (4) As she grew older, she began to isolate
herself and even to refuse to leave her
home. (5) In her latter years, she wore only
white and would not let anyone but her family
see her. (6)She spent most of her time alone
writing poetry. (7) During her lifetime, she
published only seven of her poems, and she
published those anonymously. (8) After her
death in 1886, her sister discovered packets of
her poems in her drawer. (9) Four years later,
her first books of poems were
published.
(10) Her poetry is wonderful to
read. (11) Concrete imagery was used by her to
illustrate abstract concepts, such as love and
death. (12) Her unusual use of capitalization and
punctuation and her use of irregular meter and
rhyme make her poetry unique.
5. Identify the sentence that is irrelevant to the
theme of the first paragraph.
A) Ralph Emerson was also a popular
American poet in the nineteenth century.
B) Common themes of Dickinson's poetry
include nature, faith, death, and death.
C) She wrote nearly 2,000 poems, but many
were unknown to her family and friends.
D) Dickinson did not complete many of her
poems and many were not written for
publication.
Sta Which of these BEST serve as a topic
sentence for the opening paragraph of a
speech?
A) His affection for this ship is best reflected in
his choice of her as the site for his retirement
ceremony.
B) In saying goodbye today, we bid farewell to
one of the very last of a generation of officers
who began their service in the Vietnam War.
C) After flying numerous combat missions in
that conflict, Fox went on to spend twenty four
years in flying assignments as a flight officer and
logged more than 1,300 carrier arrested
landings.
D) In 1991, as Mike indicated, he commanded
a carrier air wing aboard this ship during the Gulf
War and in 1995 was the commander of
the Theodore Roosevelt battle group as it
supported NATO operations in Bosnia.
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