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Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) 2019

INSTRUCTIONS

Attempt all questions. If you leave a question blank, the question will be scored zero.

Use only pencil or blue or black pen.

Answering Multiple-Choice Questions

Choose the best or most correct answer for each question.

To indicate your answer, fill in the circle completely, as shown below.

Like this: Not like this:

�If�you�fill�in�more�than�one�circle�for�a�question,�the�question�will be scored incorrect.

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Answering Open-Response Questions

For the writing sections, pay attention to clarity, organization, spelling, grammar and punctuation.

The lined space in this booklet indicates the approximate length of the response expected.

Provide ALL your answers to

multiple-choice and open-response questions

in this booklet.

Space is available for rough notes.

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Released Selections and Test Questions

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ROUGH NOTES Use the space below for rough notes. Nothing you write in this space will be scored.

Continue writing your series of paragraphs on the next page.

Read the question in the Question Booklet before providing your answer here.

1 Do people depend too much on technology?

Section Writing a Series of Paragraphs page 3I

Section Writing a Series of Paragraphs (continued) page 4I

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Section Writing page 5II

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Section Reading page 6III

Mustard Oil Versus Malaria

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Section Reading page 7IV

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Open-Response Answer

6 How�does�Basira�demonstrate�that�she�is�focused�on�life�after�high�school?�Use�specific�details�from�the�selection to support your answer.

Open-Response Answer

7 Which�character�(Ali�or�Basira)�encourages�Jacob�the�most?�Use�specific�details�from�the�selection�to�support your answer.

ROUGH NOTES Use the space below for rough notes. Nothing you write in this space will be scored.

Section Reading (continued) page 8IV

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Short Writing Task

1 Identify�one�guest�speaker�you�would�invite�to�your�school.�Use�specific�details�to�explain�why�your�school�would�benefit�from�this�visit.�

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Section Writing page 9V

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Section Reading page 10VI

Filbert Facts

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CANADA

Washington

Oregon

UNITEDSTATES

PRODUCTION IN TURKEYWorld’s largest hazelnut producer. Exports to 110 countries.

Turkey still met more than 70% of the world’s demand for hazelnuts despite losing one-third of its crop due to storms and freezing weather in late March 2014.

Exports 2012

$1.8 billion 265 000 tonnes

2013 $1.7 billion 276 000 tonnes

2014 $2.3 billion 252 500 tonnes

GROWING HAZELNUTS When a hazelnut is ripe, the husk releases it, and the nut drops to the ground.

Harvesting involves two steps: The hazelnuts are swept or blown into long continuous piles in the centre of the aisles. Next, machines scoop up the rows of hazelnuts, which are taken to the processing plant.

Hazelnuts are harvested from late August through October.

WORLD PRODUCTION, METRIC TONNES

ESTIMATED 2013 HAZELNUT PRODUCTION KERNEL BASIS/METRIC TONNES

Italy 56 400 (13%)

Turkey 300 000 (72%)

Others11 261 (3%)

Spain 9750 (2%)Georgia 12 000 (3%)

U.S.A. 14 000 (3%)

Azerbaijan 15 021 (4%)

2008 584 400

2010 417 950

2009 321 890

2011 374 600

Down 11% from 2012

2012 469 908

2013 418 432

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PRODUCTION IN BRITISH COLUMBIA Hazelnuts (also called filberts) are the only nut crop produced commercially in British Columbia.Production: About 333 000 kilograms annually.Area: 330 hectares (eastern Fraser Valley, mainly around Chilliwack and Agassiz).Wild hazelnut trees grow throughout most of British Columbia. Production is threatened by eastern filbert blight, a fungal disease that has spread from Oregon and Washington states.

PRODUCTION IN OREGONOregon grows 99% of the United States’ hazelnut crop.Production: About 34 700 tonnes annually.

Filbert FactsHazelnut trees can live75–100years.

Filbert Facts 75–100yearsAmount

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UNRELEASED ITEMS

The following March 2019 OSSLT questions are not being released this year:

Components Questions

News Report (Reading) 1–6

Multiple-Choice Writing Items 7–10

Short Writing 11

Long Writing (News Report) 12

Information Paragraph (Reading) 13–19

Permissions and Credits

Section III: ReadingAdapted from “Science prodigy Jessie MacAlpine, 18, takes on malaria with mustard oil” by Jennifer Yang, published in the Toronto Star, January 23, 2014. Reprinted with permission—Torstar Syndication Services. © Photo: Jessie MacAlpine.

Section IV: ReadingWritten for EQAO.

Section VI: ReadingAdapted from infographic “Oh, nuts!” by Susan Batsford, published in The Edmonton Sun, May 27, 2015. Material republished with the express permission of: Edmonton Sun, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.