Test Review

By the start of the Bronze Age, people in Britain had learned to use horses for moving from one place to another. Then, around 1000 BCE, they learned to make carts with wheels. The wheel was one of the most important inventions of the Bronze Age, and it is used even today. Some farmers traveled on horseback or used wooden carts with wheels that were pulled by horses or oxen. They used these carts to plant crops in their fields faster.

What is the best summary for this passage?

• Horses were being used before the Bronze Age. The cart and wheels were both very important inventions during the Bronze Age. The farmers were able to plant crops faster and used horses and carts to travel.

• The invention of the wheel in about 1000 BCE was very important and adding carts to the wheels was a great advance. The use of horses or oxen and carts helped farmers travel and plant their fields faster.

• People were using horses in the Bronze Age, and the wheel was the greatest invention of that time. Farmers could travel on horseback and made carts, which made it easier to get around.

• Farmers needed a way to plant their crops more quickly, which made the invention of the wheel important in about 1000 BCE. They made carts to help farmers get around and plant their crops.

If you put some pieces of an eggshell into a cup and pour over them a little vinegar, you will see them melt gradually. Then, small bubbles of gas will rise into the air. But if you take a long and narrow strip of the shell and heat one end of it, after a short time, that end will become softer. It will also glow brightly. This happens because the shell is converted into lime. Lime is the substance builders use to make cement. This bright glow is really a light, which is always produced when a piece of lime is heated.

What is the best summary of this passage?

• Vinegar can be poured on eggshells to make them melt slowly. Bubbles of gas come out as they melt. Lime is made when heat is applied to an eggshell. Lime is used to make cement.

• When vinegar is added to an eggshell, it starts to melt. Applying heat to the eggshell also makes it softer. It glows just like lime does. Lime is used to make cement.

• Vinegar will make an eggshell melt gradually. Eggshells will soften and glow when heat is applied because the eggshell turns into lime.

• When heat is applied to eggshells, they glow brightly and turn into lime. Lime is also used to make cement. When heat is applied to lime, it also glows brightly.

What is the Central Idea (Main Idea) of the text?

• Disneyland's first day was a successful day.

• Many of the rides and attractions broke down with the

  strain of so many guests.

• Disneyland’s first day was not a successful one.

• Main Street’s asphalted streets softened from the heat,

  causing women’s high heels to get stuck in the gooey tar.

What details from the text supports the Central Idea (Main Idea)?

• Fantasyland had to close temporarily due to a gas leak.

• Disneyland opened in 1955

• Walt Disney is an important person

• Many of the rides and attractions broke down with the

  strain of so many guests.

What is the definition of an Idiom?

• Compares two different things

• A word of encouragement

• An expression that holds a different meaning from what the words actually say. They have hidden meanings.

• Adds human characteristics to non human things.

An Idiom is considered a

• Part of Speech

• Figurative Language

• Punctuation Mark

• Wrong answer to a question.

What does the idiom 'break a leg' mean?

• A way of telling someone to stop trying

• A way of wishing someone good luck, especially before a performance or presentation.

• A way of wishing someone to actually break their leg

• A way of insulting someone's ability to perform

Choose the correct meaning of the idiom 'piece of cake':

• 
  A type of dessert

• Something that is very difficult to do

• A small piece of bread

• Something that is very easy to do

Choose the correct meaning of the idiom 'cost an arm and a leg':

• Something is moderately priced.

• 
  Something is very cheap or affordable

• Something is very expensive or costly.

• Something is free of cost.

Why does an author use idioms in their writing?

• To use figurative language and enhance their writing.

• To confuse their writing.
  

• To add more words to their writing.

• None of the above