unit 2, lesson 4 green team 4.16.15. reading: long passages unit 2

Unit 2, Lesson 4Green Team4.16.15

Reading: Long PassagesUnit 2

Strategy: Mark the Long Passages

Skim the question stems for the passages written by Louisa May Alcott.

Read the passage, marking important words and phrases as you go.• Identify any opinions• Identify the purpose of each paragraph• Underline any key words or ideas• Include brief notes in the margin

Answer the questions. If you get stuck, eliminate as many as possible and guess.

Writing Multiple Choice: Sentence CorrectionsUnit 2

Review: Sentence Corrections

1. Playing ball, swimming in the pool, and a diet without starchy foods help keep his weight down.

A. a diet without starchy foods helpB. avoiding starchy foods helpC. dieting without starchy foods helpsD. avoiding starchy foods helpsE. a diet without starchy foods helped


• B is correct

• To maintain parallel structure with playing and swimming the verb avoiding is required. • The verb must agree with a compound (plural)

subject


2. Seatbelts, while unquestionably a good idea, it’s sometimes a nuisance to use them.A. Seatbelts, while unquestionably a good idea, it’s sometimes a nuisance to use them.B. Seatbelts, while unquestionably a good idea, are sometimes a nuisance.C. Seatbelts are unquestionably a good idea and also they are sometimes a nuisance.D. Seatbelts, while unquestionably a good idea, but sometimes a nuisance.E. Seatbelts, while it’s unquestionably a good idea to have them, it’s sometimes a nuisance to use them.


• B is correct

• Seatbelts needs a verb, and it keeps the sentence from making sense• Choice C offers the verb, but it’s too wordy and

awkward


3. Your application for a scholarship arriving late, however: it will still be considered by the committee.A. arriving late, however; it will still be considered by the committeeB. arrived late, however the committee will consider it stillC. arrived late; however, the committee will still consider itD. will be considered by the committee that arrived lateE. arriving late and is being considered by the committee


• C is correct

• however is not a coordinating conjunction (FANBOYS), so it cannot be used to join independent clauses with a comma. B is out.• Option D confuses the modifier. The other

options do not create complete sentences.


4. Living in the city for the first time, the traffic noise, she found, disrupted her sleep.A. the traffic noise, she found, disrupted her sleepB. she found that the traffic noise disrupted her

sleepC. she found out how the traffic noise disrupted

her sleepD. her sleep, she found, was disrupted by the

traffic noiseE. her sleep disrupted, she found, by traffic noise


• B is correct

• The original sentence says traffic noise lives in the city; the modifier is connected to the wrong subject.• B provides the correct subject for the modifier. C

also provides the correct subject, but that should be used in place of how.

Sentence & Paragraph Corrections

• Complete Paragraph Corrections #1, #2 and #3 in your Kaplan Practice Packet.

• General Organization Questions• Revising Sentences• Combining Sentences

• Practice by completing 30-35 on pages 743-744.

VocabularyUnit 2

Sentence Completion Practice

20. Though a __ of four campaigns, he had never seen action on the front lines.21. The __ of the early morning light __ the room, making it larger and cozier at once.22. As a(n) __ of the original team, Mickey had free __ for all their games.23. From his __ manner, we could all tell that he was of __ birth.

Sentence Completion Practice

24. The presence of armed guards __ us from doing anything disruptive.25. A careful __ of the house revealed no clues.26. For his diligent work in astronomy, Professor Wilson was __ at the banquet as __ of the Year.27. Because of his __ sense of his own importance, Larry often tried to __ our activities.

After making predictions, turn to page 98 to select your answers.

Review: Vocabulary

Without your notes, identify a synonym for each of the following:• alleviate• ascertain• incredulous• voracious• stringent• tact

24. arbitrary (adjective)

•unreasonable or unsupported

•synonyms: capricious, inconsistent, irrational

25. oblivious (adjective)

•unmindful or unaware; forgetful

•synonyms: blind, inattentive

26. volatile (adjective)

• evaporating rapidly; tending or threatening to erupt in violence, explosive

•synonyms: erratic, fickle

27. allege (verb)

• to assert without proof

•synonyms: charge, declare

28. personage (noun)

• a person of distinction or importance

•synonyms: celebrity, dignitary

29. precursor (noun)

• a person or thing that precedes, as in a job or method

•synonyms: forerunner, harbinger

30. demagogue (noun)

• an orator or political leader who gains power by arousing people’s emotions and prejudices

•synonyms: agitator, firebrand, hothead, inciter

Review: Sentence Completion

• Complete questions 1-9 on pages 604-605.

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