1. PRACTICUM: LANE 462 2010
QUIZ 1
PRACTICUM IN LANGUAGE
SUMMER 2010
Choose the best revisions of the following sentences?
1. “What makes the situation worse is that as a young person, the only jobs available are
usually boring or unpleasant.”
a. What makes the situation worse is that because you are a young person, the only jobs
available are boring or unpleasant.
b. Usually, the jobs available to young people are boring or unpleasant, which makes the
situation worse.
c. Worsening the situation, the jobs available to young people are usually boring or
unpleasant.
d. Boring and unpleasant jobs available to young people make the situation worse.
e. Worsening the situation, available jobs are boring and unpleasant.
2. “Picking up of garbage was not only disgusting, it was also exhausting.”
a. Picking up garbage was not only disgusting; it was also exhausting.
b. Picking up garbage was not only exhausting, it was also disgusting.
c. Picking up garbage wasn't only exhausting, it was also disgusting.
d. Picking up garbage was disgusting and exhausting.
e. Picking up garbage is disgusting and exhausting.
3. Sweating from the high temperatures, the customers complained the food was not warm
enough, while I served them standing between the warming ovens and the steam table.
a. While I sweated from the high temperatures, the customers complained that the food
was not warm enough while I served them standing between the warming ovens and the
steam table.
b. While I stood between the warming ovens and the steam table on the serving line and
sweated, the customers complained the food was not warm enough.
c. The customers complained the food was not warm enough, sweating from the high
temperatures of the serving line standing between the warming ovens and the steam
table.
d. The warming ovens and the steam table surrounded the serving line where I stood, and
so I sweated, but the customers complained the food was not warm enough.
e. I sweated while the customers complained.
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2. PRACTICUM: LANE 462 2010
QUIZ 1
Which of the following is the best way to revise the underlined portions of the sentences so
that the two sentences are combined into one?
4. Spilled drinks made the seats and floors sticky. Popcorn that was dropped and stepped
on became a mushy pulp.
a. the seats and floors sticky, and popcorn
b. the seats and floors sticky and popcorn
c. the seats and floors sticky; popcorn
d. the seats and floors sticky; but popcorn
e. the seats and floors is sticky; however, popcorn
5. I was constantly being threatened with losing my job, and the customers have been the
rudest people I ever met.
a. are the rudest people
b. are being the rudest people
c. had been the rudest people
d. were among the most rude
e. were the rudest people
Which of the following would best replace But at the beginning of the following
sentence?
6. But it was the rude customers that made the job unpleasant.
a. Now
b. However
c. And
d. There
e. Again
Select the correct error. No sentence contains more than one error. If No Error exists, then
select (e).
7. (a)It was the (b)worse storm (c)that the inhabitants of the island (d)could remember.
a. It
b. worse
c. that
d. could
e. no error
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3. PRACTICUM: LANE 462 2010
QUIZ 1
8. He had no interest (a)toward music, art, or the theater, (b) since his time (c)was spent (d)in
making money.
a. toward
b. since
c. was spent
d. in making
e. no error
Identify the type of errors in the following sentences:
9. The teacher identified the troublemakers, in her classroom.
a. Capitalization
b. Punctuation
c. Spelling
d. Grammar
10. Was the patient's mind lucid during the evaluation.
a. Capitalization
b. Punctuation
c. Spelling
d. Grammar
11. The bachalor never married. Most people thought it was because of misogyny.
a. Capitalization
b. Punctuation
c. Spelling
d. Grammar
Fill in the space with the right word:
12. Critical thinking is a “…………….. of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing,
and/or evaluating information gathered from, or gathered by, observation, experience,
reflection, reasoning, or communication as a guide to belief and action.”
13. Without critical thinking, a person may ………… to conclusion.
14. Without critical thinking, a person may have a …………….. life in which he/she may never solve
his problems.
15. A well cultivated critical thinker raises vital ……………… and problems clearly and precisely
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4. PRACTICUM: LANE 462 2010
QUIZ 1
TRUE or FALSE:
16. All reasoning has a skill.
17. A critical thinker has more sudden way in dealing with problems.
18. The intellectual roots of critical thinking are as new as its etymology
19. Socrates established the importance of asking deep questions that probeprofoundly into
thinking before we accept ideas as worthy of belief.
20. Evaluation is a critical thinking skill.
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