Ga Milestone Test Prep

A student is writing an essay that argues that community service benefits those who perform it. The student must use sources that are credible and relevant to the topic. Which source would be BEST for the student to use for the essay?

• a newspaper article about local organizations seeking volunteers for community service opportunities

• a university study describing the positive effects of community service on volunteers’ emotional health

• a blog post telling how to fulfill community service hours required to graduate high school

• a novel about a teen’s experiences performing community service at a local animal shelter

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CCSS.L.3.1A

Read the sentences.

As an avid runner, I cannot imagine how I would successfully cope with life’s challenges if I were not able to go running. Going running helps me to clear my mind of stressful thoughts.

What is the BEST way to combine the sentences to maintain their detail while avoiding repetition?

• Clearing my mind of stressful thoughts, I cannot imagine how I would successfully cope with life’s challenges if I were not able to go running, since I am an avid runner.

• Going running helps me to clear my mind of stressful thoughts as an avid runner, so I cannot imagine how I would successfully cope with life’s challenges if I were not able to go running.

• As an avid runner, I cannot imagine how I would successfully cope with life’s challenges without going running, which helps me clear my mind of stressful thoughts.

• As an avid runner, I cannot imagine how I would successfully cope with life’s challenges if I were not able to go running because going running helps me to clear my mind of stressful thoughts.

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CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.7.1B

A group of students is writing a report about a specific treatment available for patients with a medical condition called arthritis. One of their most credible sources is a study that was published in a medical journal three years ago. How can the students BEST use the Internet to locate the most current findings on the subject?

• by searching for the names of the physicians who authored the study to find out the names of the medical facilities where the treatment is implemented

• by searching for the name of the treatment to find out if any studies on the treatment have been published in medical journals more recently

• by searching for the title of the medical journal to find out what articles on other medical problems it has published more recently

• by searching for articles on other topics that were written by the physicians who authored the original study to find out additional areas of expertise

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CCSS.L.1.2B

CCSS.L.5.2

Select the correct verb phrase to complete the sentence for blank 1

One possible solution to the overcrowding at South Georgia High School parking lot could be to limit parking privileges to seniors only; this ___1___ the management of vehicles easier. If this designation would have been implemented last year, there ___2___ less congestion when we were dismissed each day.

• Will have made

• Will make

• Would make

• Would made

Select the correct verb phrase to complete the sentence for blank 2

One possible solution to the overcrowding at South Georgia High School parking lot could be to limit parking privileges to seniors only; this ___1___ the management of vehicles easier. If this designation would have been implemented last year, there ___2___ less congestion when we were dismissed each day.

• Should have been

• would be

• would have been

• would been

Read the sentences from the first paragraph.

Canadian writer Margaret Eleanor Atwood is the author of more than forty volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and nonfiction, but she is best known for her novels. They hold her readers spellbound, leaving them with much to ponder afterward. Her work has been published in more than forty languages.

Which word is closest in meaning to spellbound as it is used in the first paragraph?

• Confused

• Excited

• Facinated

• Troubled

Which sentence contains correct capitalization?

• Sophia spent hours combing the local gift shops to find the perfect item for grandma Iris.

• Maria’s family moved to the southwest after her Dad’s job was transferred to the main office.

• Contact representative Whitney’s office to obtain further information about the public meetings.

• Icarus is a character from a Greek myth who tries to escape from Crete by means of wings made from wax.

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CCSS.L.1.2A

CCSS.L.2.2A

CCSS.L.3.2A

CCSS.L.4.2A

CCSS.L.K.2A

Read the sentence.

Edith Wharton was an American novelist, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and typically explored such themes as the limitations of social class and societal expectations.

Which revision BEST improves the syntax of the sentence?

• As an American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner, limitations of social class and societal expectations were themes that Edith Wharton typically explored.

• An American novelist, Edith Wharton, a Pulitzer Prize winner, typically explored such themes as the limitations of social class and societal expectations.

• Typically exploring such themes as the limitations of social class and societal expectations, Edith Wharton was an American novelist, and she was a Pulitzer Prize winner.

• Edith Wharton, an American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner, typically explored such themes as the limitations of social class and societal expectations.

Selected-Response Which sentence uses hyphenation correctly?

• When I was twenty-two years-old, I lived in the Czech Republic for a summer and worked as an English speaking tour guide.

• Marcus does not usually care for peanuts unless they are chocolate-covered.

• My brother recently purchased a state of-the-art blender that can make delicious smoothies in a matter of seconds.

• Mr. Donovan’s lease is up in mid-September, at which point he will move to a different city.

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CCSS.L.11-12.2A

There was no doubt in Thomas's mind--- the handwriting was _________ Rachel's.

• unmistakable

• mistakably

• unmistaken

• unmistakably

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CCSS.L.3.1G