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Read the selection and choose the best answer to each question.
Javier wrote this paper about ocean mining in response to a class assignment.
Read Javier's paper and think about the revisions he should make. When you
finish reading, answer the questions that follow.
Jewels of the Sea
(1) Though they have been prized for their beauty over the past 2,500
years, diamonds have an unfortunate history. (2) South African diamond mines
are fraught with danger and cruelty. (3) They have marred the reputation of this
most precious of jewels. (4) Over recent decades, more and more information
about the brutal treatment of diamond-industry workers and their families has
filtered out of South Africa.
(5) Consumers today realize that a diamond's cost is often much greater
than its price. (6) Many who wish to buy diamonds have been tormented by the
ethics of their purchases. (7) How do you balance the desire for a diamond with
the knowledge that you may be endorsing the continuing mistreatment of African
workers? (8) Marine diamond mining offers a unique solution to the problem.
(9) Using technology borrowed from the offshore oil-drilling industry, diamond
miners have turned to the rich deposits of high-quality diamonds off the coast of
Africa.
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(10) First discovered in India in the fourth century BCE; diamonds were
considered sacred gems because of their incredible hardness. (11) For the next
several centuries, India was the only source of diamonds in the world. (12) In
1725, diamonds were discovered in Brazil. (13) Yet, when huge deposits of
diamonds were discovered in South Africa, diamonds did not become something
the commoner could obtain until 1875. (14) Before that, only aristocrats could
afford the high price of diamonds.
(15) For millions of years, rivers have washed diamonds downstream and
deposited them along the shoreline in distinct layers called diamondiferous
zones. (16) Robot or human divers can simply vacuum up the diamond-filled
sediment in the zone and deposit it onto the boat waiting above. (17) Automated
sifters then separate the diamonds, and the excess rock and sediment is
returned to the ocean floor.
(18) Aside from its relative safety and the overall abundance of marine
diamonds, ocean mining's greatest allure is probably the quality of the gems.
(19) Of diamonds mined from the ocean, up to 95 percent are gem quality,
compared to 10 percent from traditional pit mines. (20) The constant action of
waves against the shore is responsible for the high grade of marine diamonds.
(21) Poor-quality diamonds are destroyed by the waves' incessant pounding.
(22) Leaving only the hardest and purest diamonds intact.
(23) The major disadvantage of ocean mining is the amount of money
needed to begin a project. (24) Ocean mining also requires the lease or purchase
of boats and underwater equipment. (25) And over time, the nearest shoreline
deposits will be depleted, forcing companies to invest even more money for
deep-water operations further offshore.
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(26) Disadvantages aside, what makes ocean mining worthwhile is the
alternative it offers to traditional pit mines. (27) Under pressure from consumers,
civil rights advacates, and others in the international community, the mining
industry is making changes. (28) South African diamond companies can look to
ocean mining as an ethical and profitable solution to their dilemma. (29) And
consumers can feel better about the source of their diamonds.
1
Expectation: E.13(C)
DOK: 2
2
What is the most effective way to
combine sentences 2 and 3?
Expectation: E.15(Avi)
DOK: 2
Javier wants to add a sentence to
paragraph 6 (sentences 23-25) to
support its topic sentence. Which of
the following could best be added
after sentence 23?
A South African diamond mines
have marred the reputation of
this most precious of jewels,
fraught with danger and cruelty.
F
B Fraught with danger and cruelty,
the reputation of this most
precious of jewels has been
marred by South African diamond
mines.
C The reputation of this most
precious of jewels has been
marred by the South African
diamond mines that are fraught
with danger and cruelty.
Specialists such as divers and
geologists, who are necessary for
ocean mining, are quite
expensive to retain.
H It probably won't take long for
diamond companies to deplete
the ocean's entire supply of
diamonds.
South African diamond mines,
fraught with danger and cruelty,
have marred the reputation of
this most precious of jewels.
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Miners can save money by
modifying traditional land-based
mining equipment to fit on the
boats.
J
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Despite the high expenses,
ocean diamond mining is still a
better option than traditional pit
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Expectation: E.15(Av)
DOK: 2
4
Javier wants to add the
following detail to his paper.
Javier thinks there is a paragraph
that should be deleted. Reread the
paragraphs. Which paragraph should
be deleted?
Using geological surveying
techniques and complex
computer programs, ocean
mining operations can pinpoint
these locations.
Paragraph 3 (sentences 10-14)
G Paragraph 4 (sentences 15-17)
H Paragraph 6 (sentences 23-25)
J
Where is the most effective place to
insert this sentence?
A After sentence 8
After sentence 15
C After sentence 25
D After sentence 28
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Expectation: E.15(Aiv)
DOK: 2
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Paragraph 7 (sentences 26-29)
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Read the selection and choose the best answer to each question.
article about a restoration project for her school
Ariana wrote th
. Then
paper. ead Ariana's article and look for
answer the questions that follow.
River Restoration Project a Go
(1) Last November, Decatur voters overwhelmingly approved a bond
measure to help fund riverbank habitat restoration. (2) The city still needed
Congress to approve $78 million in federal funding, however. (3) To promote the
project Mayor Susan Gutierrez flew to Washington several times in the following
months, but federal budget-tightening left the project in limbo. (4) Yesterday,
Congress and the president approved the Water Resources Development Act,
authorizing the funding needed to bring five blighted miles of the Decatur River
back to its original state.
(5) The concept began fifteen years ago as a research project by a
Decatur City College architecture student named Barbara Chou. (6) Members of
the city planning department, believing her ideas had merit, approved her initial
recommendations. (7) Chou's project involved restoring the nearly dry
very polluted
and
Decatur River to a habitat that would be a haven for wildlife.
(8) It would include a small stream, wetlands, and stands of native oak and
willow trees.
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(9) The Gateway, shaped like a large semicircle, will overlook the river
from the south bank, right off Hanover Street. (10) Noted architect and Decatur
resident Jewel DeSanto designed the structure, which will be constructed of local
granite and river rock. (11) Natural-looking landscaping will lead people up to
the building, where informational displays educate visitors about the functions
and benefits of riverbank habitats.
(12) Standing on the riverbank near the Sixteenth Street Bridge,
Gutierrez triumphantly announced that construction would begin next week.
(13) A ceremonial groundbreaking took place along the bank, symbolizing the
start of the first major phase: the building of the Gateway Visitors Center.
(14) "We thought it was appropriate to start with the Gateway," commented the
Mayor after the ceremony. (15) "Residents can enjoy the beauty of the structure
and observe the progress of the restoration from this vantage. (16) We are
hoping it will grow into a cherished community landmark."
(17) Individual rest areas along the bike paths will be designed and
created by local artists. (18) Area schoolchildren will aid artist Loren Jackson, for
the walkways, in creating tiles. (19) Each tile will represent a native plant or
animal that had once thrived in or along the Decatur River. (20) "I think it is
important to acknowledge our role in the loss of environments," said Jackson.
(21) "Through this project, residents will be able to realize what they have lost
and hopefully appreciate the restored habitat they've gained."
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(22) The proposed restoration includes other public amenities as well.
(23) In hopes of revitalizing the downtown area, the project now includes
community bicycle and walking paths, interpretive signs, and several parks.
(24) In addition, Decatur business owners have committed time and money to
the offshoot project "City Alive!," which is geared toward reenergizing the areas
surrounding the river. (25) "This project is a great new beginning for Decatur,"
Mayor Gutierrez said. (26) "With community involvement, who knows where it
can lead?"
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7
Expectation: E.18(Bi)
DOK: 2
Expectation: E.18(A)
DOK: 2
What change should be made in
sentence 14?
What change should be made in
sentence 3?
A Change appropriate to
apropriate
Insert a comma after the first
project
B Change the comma to a period
B Change Mayor to mayor
Change Mayor to mayor
C Change flew to will fly
D No change should be made
D Change federal to Federal
8
Expectation: E.13(D)
DOK: 2
What change should be made in
sentence 11?
What change
sentence 25?
F
F
Change Natural-looking
landscaping to Natural
looking-landscaping
H Insert a comma after great
No change
Change educate to will educate
Change benefits to benifits
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Change This to That
G Change project to Project
G Change informational to
information
J
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Expectation: E.16(A)
DOK: 3
Read the information in the box below.
A parents' group is proposing that high-school
students have a "B" average in order to obtain a
driver's license.
There are many possible ramifications of letting only certain students obtain driver's
licenses. Think carefully about this idea.
Write an essay stating your position on tying the privilege of driving to academic
achievement.
Be sure to
state your position clearly
use appropriate organization
provide specific support for your argument
choose your words carefully
edit your writing for grammar, mechanics, and spelling
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Read "The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act II, Scenes i-ii" before answering the
questions that follow.
from
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Act II, Scenes i-ii
by William Shakespeare
1
Dramatis Personae
MACBETH, general of the King's army
LADY MACBETH
BANQUO, general of the King's army
FLEANCE, son to Banquo
2
[Court of Macbeth's castle.]
3
[Enter Banquo, and Fleance bearing a torch before him.]
4
BANQUO: How goes the night, boy?
5
FLEANCE: The moon is down; I have not heard the clock.
6
BANQUO: And she goes down at twelve.
7
FLEANCE: I take't, 'tis later, sir.
8
BANQUO: Hold, take my sword. There's husbandry1 in heaven,
Their candles are all out. Take thee that too.
9
[Gives him his belt and dagger.]
10
A heavy summons lies like lead upon me,
And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers,
Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature
Gives way to in repose!
11
[Enter Macbeth and Servant with a torch.]
12
Give me my sword.
Who's there?
13
MACBETH: A friend.
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BANQUO: What, sir, not yet at rest? the King's a-bed
He hath been in unusual pleasure, and
Sent forth great largess to your offices,
This diamond he greets your wife withal,
By the name of most kind hostess, and shut up
In measureless content.
15
MACBETH: Being unprepar'd,
Our will became the servant to defect,
Which else should free have wrought.
16
BANQUO: All's well.
I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters2:
To you they have show'd some truth.
17
MACBETH: I think not of them;
Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve,
We would spend it in some words upon that business,
If you would grant the time.
18
BANQUO: At your kind'st leisure.
19
MACBETH: If you shall cleave to my consent,3 when 'tis,
It shall make honor for you.
20
BANQUO: So I lose none
In seeking to augment it, but still keep
My bosom franchis'd4 and allegiance clear,
I shall be counsell'd.5
21
MACBETH: Good repose the while!
22
[Exeunt Banquo and Fleance.]
23
BANQUO: Thanks, sir; the like to you!
24
MACBETH: Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready,
She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed.
25
[Exit Servant.]
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Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed6 brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.
Thou marshal'st7 me the way I was going,
And such an instrument I was to use,
Mine eyes are made the fools o' th' other senses
Or else worth all the rest. I see thee still;
And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Which was not so before. There's no such thing:
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one half world
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate's offerings,8 and wither'd murder,
Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace,
With Tarquin's9 ravishing strides, towards his design
Moves like a ghost. Thou [sure] and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which [way they] walk, for fear
The very stones prate of my whereabout,
And take the present horror from the time,
Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives:
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.
27
[A bell rings.]
28
I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
29
[Exit.]
Scene ii
30
[The same.]
31
[Enter Lady Macbeth.]
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LADY MACBETH: That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold;
What hath quench'd them hath given me fire. Hark! Peace!
It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman,10
Which gives the stern'st good-night. He is about it:
The doors are open and the surfeited grooms11
Do mock their charge with snores, I have drugg'd their possets,12
That death and nature do contend about them,
Whether they live or die.
33
MACBETH: [Within.] Who's there? What ho?
34
LADY MACBETH: Alack, I am afraid they have awak'd,
And 'tis not done; th' attempt, and not the deed,
Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready,
He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled
My father as he slept, I had done't.
35
[Enter Macbeth.]
36
My husband!
37
MACBETH: I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise?
38
LADY MACBETH: I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry.
Did not you speak?
39
MACBETH: When?
40
LADY MACBETH: Now.
41
MACBETH: As I descended?
42
LADY MACBETH: Ay.
43
MACBETH: Hark! Who lies i' the second chamber?
44
LADY MACBETH: Donalbain.
45
MACBETH: This is a sorry sight.
46
[Looking on his hands.]
47
LADY MACBETH: A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.
48
MACBETH: There's one did laugh in's sleep, and one cried "Murder!"
That they did wake each other: I stood and heard them;
But they did say their prayers, and address'd them
Again to sleep.
49
LADY MACBETH: There are two lodg'd together.
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MACBETH: One cried "God bless us!" and "Amen" the other,
As they had seen me with these hangman's hands.
Listening their fear, I could not say "Amen,"
When they did say "God bless us!"
51
LADY MACBETH: Consider it not so deeply.
52
MACBETH: But wherefore could not I pronounce "Amen"?
I had most need of blessing, and "Amen"
Stuck in my throat.
53
LADY MACBETH: These deeds must not be thought
After these ways; so, it will make us mad.
54
MACBETH: Methought I heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more!
the innocent sleep,
Macbeth does murder sleep"
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast.
55
LADY MACBETH: What do you mean?
56
MACBETH: Still it cried, "Sleep no more!"
57
LADY MACBETH: Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane,
You do unbend your noble strength, to think
So brain-sickly of things. Go get some water,
And wash this filthy witness from your hand.
Why did you bring these daggers from the place?
They must lie there. Go carry them, and smear
The sleepy grooms with blood.
58
MACBETH: I'll go no more.
I am afraid to think what I have done;
Look on't again I dare not.
59
LADY MACBETH: Infirm of purpose!
Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead
Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed,
I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal,
For it must seem their guilt. [Exit. Knock within.]
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MACBETH: Whence is that knocking?
How is't with me, when every noise appalls me?
What hands are here? Hah! they pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No; this is my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,13
Making the green one red.
61
[Enter Lady Macbeth.]
62
LADY MACBETH: My hands are of your color, but I shame
To wear a heart so white. [Knock.] I hear a knocking
At the south entry. Retire we to our chamber.
A little water clears us of this deed;
How easy is it then! Your constancy
Hath left you unattended. [Knock.]
Hark, more knocking.
Get on your night-gown, lest occasion call us
And show us to be watchers. Be not lost
So poorly in your thoughts.
63
MACBETH: To know my deed, 'twere best not know myself. [Knock.]
Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!
1
husbandry: economy
weird sisters: witches
3
cleave to my consent: support my cause
4
franchis'd: free from guilt
5
I ... counsell'd: I am willing to listen.
6
heat-oppressed: fevered
7
marshal'st: lead
8
Pale Hecate's offerings: rites to Hecate, goddess of witchcraft
9
Tarquin: the ravisher of Lucretia, according to ancient Roman legend
10
fatal bellman: night watchman who rang a bell at midnight outside the cells of
prisoners scheduled for execution in the morning
2
11
12
13
surfeited grooms: servants overcome by drink
possets: drinks made with wine and hot milk
The ... incarnadine: The multitude of seas turn red.
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Use "The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act II, Scenes i-ii" to answer questions
9
Expectation: E.4 Fig. 19(B)
DOK: 2
11 Expectation: E.7(A)
DOK: 3
is the most important event
Wh
not shown onstage?
According to Lady Macbeth, the
"painted devil" mentioned in
paragraph 59 is to be feared no more
than
Lady Macbeth ringing the bell
The servants being smeared with
blood
A the daggers that "gild the faces of
the grooms."
Banquo's misgivings about Macbeth
B the need to "gild the faces of the
grooms."
The death of Duncan
C "the eye of childhood."
10 Expectation: E.1(C)
DOK: 3
The use of the word confounds in
paragraph 34 indicates Lady
Macbeth's
"the sleeping and the dead."
12 Expectation: E.4 Fig. 19(B)
DOK: 3
How does Lady Macbeth's view of water
in paragraph 57 differ from Macbeth's
view of it in paragraph 60?
fear that her husband's failure has
destroyed them.
G belief that her husband and her
father are too much alike.
F
H determination to help her husband
achieve his goal.
J
.
uncertainty about whether she
wants her husband to succeed.
She believes it will remove the
blood from his hands, and he thinks
that seas of water will be necessary
to clean his hands.
She views it as the practical way to
remove traces of blood, but he
knows that no amount of water will
do that.
H She believes it will cleanse his
hands, and he is afraid of the
amount of water that will be
needed to do so.
J
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She views it as a cleanser, but he
believes that seas of water will be
required to wash away the evidence
of his deed.
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