Revising & Editing w/Comprehension2022

What new event was discovered that led to the alteration of the researchers' initial theory about the mammoths' extinction?

• Sudden catastrophe

• New discoveries

• Additional data

• Long drought

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Evaluating reasons and evidence

What skill does the passage aim to test?

• Understanding vocabulary

• Identifying main ideas

• Understanding text structures

• Making inferences

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Understanding text structures

What evidence from the text supports the researchers' theory about the mammoths dying during a long drought?

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Citing textual evidence

What is the primary text structure used in the passage?

• Cause and effect

• Chronological

• Compare and contrast

• Problem and solution

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Understanding text structures

Which sentence in the third paragraph (sentences 7–12) is extraneous

and should be deleted from the essay?

• Sentence 7

• Sentence 8

• Sentence 9

• Sentence 12

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E1.9B.ii

What skill does the passage aim to test?

• Understanding vocabulary

• Identifying main ideas

• Understanding text structures

• Making inferences

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Understanding text structures

What is the most effective way to combine sentences 10 and 11?

• Because they are so large, the mammoths likely would have

  struggled climbing out of the ravine in time surviving the sudden

  flooding.

• Because they are so large, the mammoths likely would have

  struggled to climb out of the ravine in time, surviving the sudden

  flooding

• Because they are so large, the mammoths likely would have

  struggled to climb out of the ravine in time, and to survive the

  sudden flooding

• Because they are so large, the mammoths likely would have

  struggled to climb out of the ravine in time to survive the sudden

  flooding.

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E1.9C

The pronoun in sentence 27 is unclear. Which word or phrase should

replace them to create a more effective sentence?

• other tourists

• wooly mammoths

• teenagers

• Baylor students and scientists

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E1.9C

Zendaya would like to add another detail in the fifth paragraph

(sentences 20–24).

Read the new sentence detail in the box. Where is the best place to insert this new sentence?

• After sentence 20

• After sentence 22

• After sentence 23

• After sentence 24

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E1.9B.i

Zendaya would like to add a concluding sentence to her essay that

restates her thesis. Which sentence should she add at the end of her

essay to accomplish this goal?

• The mystery of what happened to the woolly mammoths at Waco

  remains a total mystery to the researchers and everyone else.

• A complete skeleton of a woolly mammoth was recently discovered

  by a farmer in one of his fields in Michigan.

• Though there is no conclusive evidence, with continued research,

  scientists hope that one day they will know the specific cause of

  why the mammoths perished.

• Waco has many other interesting places to visit such as the campus

  of Baylor University, Magnolia Market, and the Cameron Park Zoo.

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E1.9B.i