1. Which of the following options most accurately summarizes the passage? A. Steven was coming home from...
Question:
1. Which of the following options most accurately summarizes the passage?
A. Steven was coming home from school and took a shortcut through the graveyard. He paid careful attention to the details of his surroundings to report back to his friend. He enters the mausoleum, which gets the best light in the graveyard. He meets the groundskeeper, who is smoking a cigarette. He gets distracted and leaves the graveyard.
B. Steven had never walked through the graveyard before but liked to visit places where cypress trees grow. On his way to the mausoleum, he realized he was bleeding from a scrape on his leg. He met an old man, who was also visiting the mausoleum. He visited the machine shed with his friend, David but left an hour.
C. Steven sneaked into the graveyard but immediately regretted his decision to do so. The sights and sounds of the graveyard at night were unfamiliar and frightening. The graveyard groundskeeper unexpectedly appeared and then walked away. Steven left the graveyard, making the decision to lose the wager with his friend.
D. Steven went into the graveyard after school because he had bet the town bully $5 that he could stay there for an hour. The ominous sights and sounds in the graveyard indicated that it was haunted, and Steven was very frightened. Just Just when he was most scared, he saw a mysterious figure that could have been a walking corpse. Steven ran away from the graveyard.
2. Based on the passage, which of the following can be inferred as the reason why Steven accepts David’s $5 wager?
A. Based on his knowledge of the mausoleum, he knew he could cheat to win
B. He wants to impress David, who is usually the daredevil in his group of friends
C. Based on his daily routine, he assumed he could easily win the bet
D. He is saving up money to buy a new watch
3. Which of the following details best supports the main idea of the passage, “He must stay here a full hour to win the bet.”?
A. “An hour in this place just wasn’t worth it.”
B. “It made a terrible, guttural sound, like the groans of a dying man.”
C. “Steven froze, and then turned with underwater slowness.”
D. “He could not feel his legs; he struggled to draw breath.”
4. Which of the following is a logical conclusion one could make based on the passage?
A. The graveyard groundskeeper is a very frightening person
B. Steven becomes most frightened by the atmosphere of the graveyard at night
C. Steven and David often make bets with each other
D. Children who live nearby often dare each other to visit the graveyard at night
4.Which of the following sentences as used in the passage indicates a “compare and contrast text structure
A. “An hour in this place just wasn’t worth it.”
B. “Things were different this evening”
C. “He must stay here the full hour to win the bet”
D. “He heard a low scrape from behind him.”
5. Which of the following definition matches the meaning of the word “threshold” as it is used in this passage?
A. A level at which one starts to feel or react to something.
B. A strip of wood or stone forming a bottom of a doorway
C. A point of launch of the beginning, as into a new stage of phase
D. A level, rate, or amount at which something takes effect.
6. Which of the following is a logical conclusion one could make based on the passage?
A. The graveyard groundskeeper is a very frightening person
B. Steven becomes most frightened by the atmosphere of the graveyard at night
C. Steven and David often make bets with each other
D. Children who live nearby often dare each other to visit the graveyard at night
Auditing and Assurance Services
ISBN: 978-0077862343
6th edition
Authors: Timothy Louwers, Robert Ramsay, David Sinason, Jerry Straws