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Read the selection and choose the best answer to each question.

Javier wrote this paper about ocean mining in response to a class assignment. Read Javier's paper and think about the revisions he should make. When you finish reading, answer the questions that follow.

Jewels of the Sea

(1) Though they have been prized for their beauty over the past 2,500

years, diamonds have an unfortunate history. (2) South African diamond mines

are fraught with danger and cruelty. (3) They have marred the reputation of this

most precious of jewels. (4) Over recent decades, more and more information

about the brutal treatment of diamond-industry workers and their families has

filtered out of South Africa.

(5) Consumers today realize that a diamond's cost is often much greater

than its price. (6) Many who wish to buy diamonds have been tormented by the

ethics of their purchases. (7) How do you balance the desire for a diamond with

the knowledge that you may be endorsing the continuing mistreatment of African

workers? (8) Marine diamond mining offers a unique solution to the problem.

(9) Using technology borrowed from the offshore oil-drilling industry, diamond

miners have turned to the rich deposits of high-quality diamonds off the coast of

Africa.



(10) First discovered in India in the fourth century BCE; diamonds were

considered sacred gems because of their incredible hardness. (11) For the next

several centuries, India was the only source of diamonds in the world. (12) In

1725, diamonds were discovered in Brazil. (13) Yet, when huge deposits of

diamonds were discovered in South Africa, diamonds did not become something

the commoner could obtain until 1875. (14) Before that, only aristocrats could

afford the high price of diamonds.

(15) For millions of years, rivers have washed diamonds downstream and

deposited them along the shoreline in distinct layers called diamondiferous

zones. (16) Robot or human divers can simply vacuum up the diamond-filled

sediment in the zone and deposit it onto the boat waiting above. (17) Automated

sifters then separate the diamonds, and the excess rock and sediment is

returned to the ocean floor.

(18) Aside from its relative safety and the overall abundance of marine

diamonds, ocean mining's greatest allure is probably the quality of the gems.

(19) Of diamonds mined from the ocean, up to 95 percent are gem quality,

compared to 10 percent from traditional pit mines. (20) The constant action of

waves against the shore is responsible for the high grade of marine diamonds.

(21) Poor-quality diamonds are destroyed by the waves' incessant pounding.

(22) Leaving only the hardest and purest diamonds intact.

(23) The major disadvantage of ocean mining is the amount of money

needed to begin a project. (24) Ocean mining also requires the lease or purchase

of boats and underwater equipment. (25) And over time, the nearest shoreline

deposits will be depleted, forcing companies to invest even more money for

deep-water operations further offshore.



(26) Disadvantages aside, what makes ocean mining worthwhile is the

alternative it offers to traditional pit mines. (27) Under pressure from consumers,

civil rights advacates, and others in the international community, the mining

industry is making changes. (28) South African diamond companies can look to

ocean mining as an ethical and profitable solution to their dilemma. (29) And

consumers can feel better about the source of their diamonds.

Expectation: E.13(C) DOK: 2

What is the most effective way to combine sentences 2 and 3?

A South African diamond mines have marred the reputation of this most precious of jewels, fraught with danger and cruelty.

B Fraught with danger and cruelty, the reputation of this most precious of jewels has been marred by South African diamond mines.

C The reputation of this most precious of jewels has been marred by the South African diamond mines that are fraught with danger and cruelty.

South African diamond mines, fraught with danger and cruelty, have marred the reputation of this most precious of jewels.

1 Expectation: E.15(Avi)DOK: 2

Javier wants to add a sentence to paragraph 6 (sentences 23-25) to support its topic sentence. Which of the following could best be added after sentence 23?

F Miners can save money by modifying traditional land-based mining equipment to fit on the boats.

Specialists such as divers and geologists, who are necessary for ocean mining, are quite expensive to retain.

H It probably won't take long for diamond companies to deplete the ocean's entire supply of diamonds.

J Despite the high expenses,ocean diamond mining is still a better option than traditional pit mining.

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Expectation: E.15(Av)DOK: 2

Javier wants to add the following detail to his paper.

Using geological surveying techniques and complex computer programs, ocean mining operations can pinpoint these locations.

Where is the most effective place to insert this sentence?

A After sentence 8

After sentence 15C After sentence 25D After sentence 28

3 Expectation: E.15(Aiv)DOK: 2

Javier thinks there is a paragraph that should be deleted. Reread the paragraphs. Which paragraph shouldbe deleted?

Paragraph 3 (sentences 10-14)G Paragraph 4 (sentences 15-17)H Paragraph 6 (sentences 23-25)J Paragraph 7 (sentences 26-29)

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Read the selection and choose the best answer to each question.

Ariana wrote th article about a restoration project for her school paper. ead Ariana's article and look for . Then answer the questions that follow.

River Restoration Project a Go

(1) Last November, Decatur voters overwhelmingly approved a bond

measure to help fund riverbank habitat restoration. (2) The city still needed

Congress to approve $78 million in federal funding, however. (3) To promote the

project Mayor Susan Gutierrez flew to Washington several times in the following

months, but federal budget-tightening left the project in limbo. (4) Yesterday,

Congress and the president approved the Water Resources Development Act,

authorizing the funding needed to bring five blighted miles of the Decatur River

back to its original state.

(5) The concept began fifteen years ago as a research project by a

Decatur City College architecture student named Barbara Chou. (6) Members of

the city planning department, believing her ideas had merit, approved her initial

recommendations. (7) Chou's project involved restoring the nearly dry and

very polluted Decatur River to a habitat that would be a haven for wildlife.

(8) It would include a small stream, wetlands, and stands of native oak and

willow trees.



(9) The Gateway, shaped like a large semicircle, will overlook the river

from the south bank, right off Hanover Street. (10) Noted architect and Decatur

resident Jewel DeSanto designed the structure, which will be constructed of local

granite and river rock. (11) Natural-looking landscaping will lead people up to

the building, where informational displays educate visitors about the functions

and benefits of riverbank habitats.

(12) Standing on the riverbank near the Sixteenth Street Bridge,

Gutierrez triumphantly announced that construction would begin next week.

(13) A ceremonial groundbreaking took place along the bank, symbolizing the

start of the first major phase: the building of the Gateway Visitors Center.

(14) "We thought it was appropriate to start with the Gateway," commented the

Mayor after the ceremony. (15) "Residents can enjoy the beauty of the structure

and observe the progress of the restoration from this vantage. (16) We are

hoping it will grow into a cherished community landmark."

(17) Individual rest areas along the bike paths will be designed and

created by local artists. (18) Area schoolchildren will aid artist Loren Jackson, for

the walkways, in creating tiles. (19) Each tile will represent a native plant or

animal that had once thrived in or along the Decatur River. (20) "I think it is

important to acknowledge our role in the loss of environments," said Jackson.

(21) "Through this project, residents will be able to realize what they have lost

and hopefully appreciate the restored habitat they've gained."



(22) The proposed restoration includes other public amenities as well.

(23) In hopes of revitalizing the downtown area, the project now includes

community bicycle and walking paths, interpretive signs, and several parks.

(24) In addition, Decatur business owners have committed time and money to

the offshoot project "City Alive!," which is geared toward reenergizing the areas

surrounding the river. (25) "This project is a great new beginning for Decatur,"

Mayor Gutierrez said. (26) "With community involvement, who knows where it

can lead?"



Expectation: E.18(A)DOK: 2

What change should be made in sentence 14?

A Change appropriate to apropriate

B Change the comma to a period

Change Mayor to mayorD No change should be made

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Expectation: E.13(D)DOK: 2

What change be made in sentence 25?

F Change This to ThatG Change project to ProjectH Insert a comma after great

No change be made

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Insert a comma after the first project

B Change Mayor to mayor

C Change flew to will flyD Change federal to Federal

Expectation: E.18(Bi)DOK: 2

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F Change Natural-lookinglandscaping to Naturallooking-landscaping

G Change informational to information

Change educate to will educateJ Change benefits to benifits

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Read the information in the box below.

A parents' group is proposing that high-school students have a "B" average in order to obtain a driver's license.

There are many possible ramifications of letting only certain students obtain driver's licenses. Think carefully about this idea.

Write an essay stating your position on tying the privilege of driving to academic achievement.

Be sure to

state your position clearly use appropriate organization provide specific support for your argument choose your words carefully edit your writing for grammar, mechanics, and spelling

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Read "The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act II, Scenes i-ii" before answering the questions that follow.

fromThe Tragedy of Macbeth

Act II, Scenes i-iiby William Shakespeare

1 Dramatis PersonaeMACBETH, general of the King's armyLADY MACBETHBANQUO, general of the King's armyFLEANCE, son to Banquo

2 [Court of Macbeth's castle.]

3 [Enter Banquo, and Fleance bearing a torch before him.]

4 BANQUO: How goes the night, boy?

5 FLEANCE: The moon is down; I have not heard the clock.

6 BANQUO: And she goes down at twelve.

7 FLEANCE: I take't, 'tis later, sir.

8 BANQUO: Hold, take my sword. There's husbandry1 in heaven,Their candles are all out. Take thee that too.

9 [Gives him his belt and dagger.]

10 A heavy summons lies like lead upon me,And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers,Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that natureGives way to in repose!

11 [Enter Macbeth and Servant with a torch.]

12 Give me my sword.Who's there?

13 MACBETH: A friend.



14 BANQUO: What, sir, not yet at rest? the King's a-bedHe hath been in unusual pleasure, andSent forth great largess to your offices,This diamond he greets your wife withal,By the name of most kind hostess, and shut upIn measureless content.

15 MACBETH: Being unprepar'd,Our will became the servant to defect,Which else should free have wrought.

16 BANQUO: All's well.I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters2:To you they have show'd some truth.

17 MACBETH: I think not of them;Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve,We would spend it in some words upon that business,If you would grant the time.

18 BANQUO: At your kind'st leisure.

19 MACBETH: If you shall cleave to my consent,3 when 'tis,It shall make honor for you.

20 BANQUO: So I lose noneIn seeking to augment it, but still keep My bosom franchis'd4 and allegiance clear, I shall be counsell'd.5

21 MACBETH: Good repose the while!

22 [Exeunt Banquo and Fleance.]

23 BANQUO: Thanks, sir; the like to you!

24 MACBETH: Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready,She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed.

25 [Exit Servant.]



26 Is this a dagger which I see before me,The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.Art thou not, fatal vision, sensibleTo feeling as to sight? or art thou butA dagger of the mind, a false creation,Proceeding from the heat-oppressed6 brain?I see thee yet, in form as palpableAs this which now I draw.Thou marshal'st7 me the way I was going,And such an instrument I was to use,Mine eyes are made the fools o' th' other sensesOr else worth all the rest. I see thee still;And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,Which was not so before. There's no such thing:It is the bloody business which informsThus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one half world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuseThe curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebratesPale Hecate's offerings,8 and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's9 ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou [sure] and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which [way they] walk, for fear The very stones prate of my whereabout,And take the present horror from the time,Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives: Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.

27 [A bell rings.]

28 I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knellThat summons thee to heaven or to hell.

29 [Exit.]

Scene ii

30 [The same.]

31 [Enter Lady Macbeth.]



32 LADY MACBETH: That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold;What hath quench'd them hath given me fire. Hark! Peace!It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman,10

Which gives the stern'st good-night. He is about it:The doors are open and the surfeited grooms11

Do mock their charge with snores, I have drugg'd their possets,12 That death and nature do contend about them,Whether they live or die.

33 MACBETH: [Within.] Who's there? What ho?

34 LADY MACBETH: Alack, I am afraid they have awak'd,And 'tis not done; th' attempt, and not the deed,Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready,He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembledMy father as he slept, I had done't.

35 [Enter Macbeth.]

36 My husband!

37 MACBETH: I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise?

38 LADY MACBETH: I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry.Did not you speak?

39 MACBETH: When?

40 LADY MACBETH: Now.

41 MACBETH: As I descended?

42 LADY MACBETH: Ay.

43 MACBETH: Hark! Who lies i' the second chamber?

44 LADY MACBETH: Donalbain.

45 MACBETH: This is a sorry sight.

46 [Looking on his hands.]

47 LADY MACBETH: A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.

48 MACBETH: There's one did laugh in's sleep, and one cried "Murder!"That they did wake each other: I stood and heard them;But they did say their prayers, and address'd themAgain to sleep.

49 LADY MACBETH: There are two lodg'd together.



50 MACBETH: One cried "God bless us!" and "Amen" the other,As they had seen me with these hangman's hands.Listening their fear, I could not say "Amen,"When they did say "God bless us!"

51 LADY MACBETH: Consider it not so deeply.

52 MACBETH: But wherefore could not I pronounce "Amen"?I had most need of blessing, and "Amen"Stuck in my throat.

53 LADY MACBETH: These deeds must not be thoughtAfter these ways; so, it will make us mad.

54 MACBETH: Methought I heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more!Macbeth does murder sleep" the innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath,Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,Chief nourisher in life's feast.

55 LADY MACBETH: What do you mean?

56 MACBETH: Still it cried, "Sleep no more!"

57 LADY MACBETH: Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane,You do unbend your noble strength, to thinkSo brain-sickly of things. Go get some water,And wash this filthy witness from your hand.Why did you bring these daggers from the place?They must lie there. Go carry them, and smearThe sleepy grooms with blood.

58 MACBETH: I'll go no more.I am afraid to think what I have done;Look on't again I dare not.

59 LADY MACBETH: Infirm of purpose!Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the deadAre but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhoodThat fears a painted devil. If he do bleed,I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal,For it must seem their guilt. [Exit. Knock within.]



60 MACBETH: Whence is that knocking?How is't with me, when every noise appalls me?What hands are here? Hah! they pluck out mine eyes. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this bloodClean from my hand? No; this is my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine,13

Making the green one red.

61 [Enter Lady Macbeth.]

62 LADY MACBETH: My hands are of your color, but I shameTo wear a heart so white. [Knock.] I hear a knockingAt the south entry. Retire we to our chamber.A little water clears us of this deed;How easy is it then! Your constancyHath left you unattended. [Knock.]Hark, more knocking.Get on your night-gown, lest occasion call usAnd show us to be watchers. Be not lostSo poorly in your thoughts.

63 MACBETH: To know my deed, 'twere best not know myself. [Knock.]Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!

1 husbandry: economy2 weird sisters: witches3 cleave to my consent: support my cause4 franchis'd: free from guilt5 I ... counsell'd: I am willing to listen.6 heat-oppressed: fevered7 marshal'st: lead8 Pale Hecate's offerings: rites to Hecate, goddess of witchcraft9 Tarquin: the ravisher of Lucretia, according to ancient Roman legend10 fatal bellman: night watchman who rang a bell at midnight outside the cells of prisoners scheduled for execution in the morning11 surfeited grooms: servants overcome by drink12 possets: drinks made with wine and hot milk13 The ... incarnadine: The multitude of seas turn red.



Use "The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act II, Scenes i-ii" to answer questions .

Expectation: E.4 Fig. 19(B)DOK: 2

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Wh is the most important event not shown onstage?

Lady Macbeth ringing the bell

The servants being smeared with blood

Banquo's misgivings about Macbeth

The death of Duncan

10 Expectation: E.1(C)DOK: 3

The use of the word confounds in paragraph 34 indicates Lady Macbeth's

fear that her husband's failure has destroyed them.

G belief that her husband and her father are too much alike.

H determination to help her husband achieve his goal.

J uncertainty about whether she wants her husband to succeed.


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According to Lady Macbeth, the "painted devil" mentioned in paragraph 59 is to be feared no more than

A the daggers that "gild the faces of the grooms."

B the need to "gild the faces of the grooms."

C "the eye of childhood."

"the sleeping and the dead."

Expectation: E.4 Fig. 19(B)DOK: 3

How does Lady Macbeth's view of water in paragraph 57 differ from Macbeth's view of it in paragraph 60?

F She believes it will remove the blood from his hands, and he thinks that seas of water will be necessary to clean his hands.

She views it as the practical way to remove traces of blood, but he knows that no amount of water will do that.

H She believes it will cleanse hishands, and he is afraid of the amount of water that will be needed to do so.

J She views it as a cleanser, but he believes that seas of water will be required to wash away the evidence of his deed.

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