If Bart’s parents leave him alone with his sister for even thirty seconds, he _______ a fight with her.

The invitation we sent our parents to attend a friend’s birthday party was a ___. We were actually giving a surprise party in honor of their anniversary.

Choose if the boldfaced word is used correctly or incorrectly. Earth happens to be the place where oxygen is ubiquitous, making the planet suitable for many forms of life.

Asians tend to ___ the elderly, but in America, age does not necessarily bring respect.

The main ideas of the following paragraphs appear at different locations. Identify the sentence (number) that expresses the main idea of this paragraph. 1What is the connection between our nightly dreams and the actual events that precede them? 2A naturalistic study of the impact of daytime events on the content of dreams was conducted by researchers shortly after a major earthquake struck the San Francisco area and caused more than $5 billion in damages and killed 62 people. 3The researchers asked students at two universities in the San Francisco area to keep track of the number of upsetting dreams that they had during a three-week period immediately following the earthquake. 4As a control group, students at the University of Arizona who had not been near the earthquake did the same thing. 5Not surprisingly, the students in the area of the earthquake reported more vivid, upsetting dreams then the students in Arizona. 6In addition, 40 percent of the students in the San Francisco area reported at least one dream about earthquakes, compared with 5 percent of the students in Arizona. 7Persons exposed to highly stressful events, such as wars, sometimes have nightmarish dreams about them for many years afterwards. 8Clearly, events and concerns in our daily lives are among the most common things that we dream about. Main Idea is sentence number _____. 

The main ideas of the following paragraphs appear at different locations. Identify the sentence (number) that expresses the main idea of this paragraph. 1In the 1800s, the discovery of gold in California created images of “striking it rich.” 2Lured by these images, thousands of men moved west, dreaming of making their fortune by working in the mines. 3In reality, retrieving minerals from rock was difficult, expensive, and dangerous. 4A successful mine required a large labor force, industrial tools, and railroad links. 5Miners worked far below the earth’s surface in poorly ventilated tunnels, with no means for removing human or animal waste. 6Temperatures could reach as high as 120 degrees. 7Accidents were part of the job, which depended on blasting equipment and industrial machinery. 8In 1884, a Montana miner drilled into an unexploded dynamite charge and lost his eyes and ears. 9He received no compensation, for the court decided that the accident “was the result of an unforeseen and unavoidable accident incident to the risk of mining.” Main Idea is sentence number _____. 

Answer the supporting-detail questions that follow the passage below. 1The other day I heard someone say, “I wish I’d known then what I know now.” 2The statement made me ask myself what I do know now that I didn’t know when I was a teenager, still in high school, living at home with my parents. 3I eventually decided that I have learned several important lessons. 4The first is that almost any decision is better than no decision. 5Gather the best information you can, make a decision, and then show up and do your best. 6No matter what happens next, you will learn and grow from the experience. 7Another lesson I’ve learned is that life is not fair. 8Good people sometimes suffer unimaginable hardships; bad people sometimes live seemingly charmed lives. 9You can protest, “But that’s not fair!” until you’re blue in the face, but it won’t change a thing. 10All you can do is to try to be fair and just in your own life and not be embittered by the reality around you. 11A final lesson I’ve learned is that people are very complex. 12The worst of us are capable of moments of generosity and compassion; the best of us can be petty, small-minded, and hurtful. 13To decide that you know everything about someone is to set yourself up for a shock. 14We are all full of surprises; we are wonderfully and maddeningly complicated. The major supporting details of this paragraph are _____________

Answer the supporting-detail questions that follow the textbook passage below.1Conflict is an inevitable part of every person’s life. 2Everyone deals with conflict in a more or less individual manner. 3At the same time, five general patterns of reacting to conflict can be identified. 4One such pattern is withdrawal, the physical or psychological removal from a conflict situation. 5Another manner of dealing with conflict is surrender, giving in immediately to another’s wishes in order to avoid an argument. 6Aggression is a third way to deal with conflict. 7Those favoring aggressive behavior try to force other people to accept the aggressor’s opinions. 8Conflict also can be dealt with through persuasion, or attempting to change the behavior or attitude of another person. 9A final means of dealing with conflict is discussion, or verbal problem solving, in which the pros and cons of the issue in conflict are weighed and considered. Sentence 3 provides __________.

The main ideas of the following paragraphs appear at different locations. Identify the sentence (number) that expresses the main idea of this paragraph. 1Many bank robbers and home thieves are caught and convicted in this country. 2However, the American criminal justice system is not as well equipped to deal with white-collar crime as it is to handle street crime. 3Unlike a robbery, a stock or insurance fraud is complex and difficult to unravel. 4Local law enforcement officials commonly lack the skills and resources necessary to tackle crimes outside the sphere of street crime. 5Federal agencies will handle only the more serious white-collar crimes. 6And the handful of white-collar criminals who are prosecuted and convicted are given a slap on the wrist. 7Street criminals who steal $100 may find their way to prison, while the dishonest executive who embezzles $1 million may receive a suspended sentence and a relatively small fine. 8Federal statistics indicate that embezzlers at banks steal nine times more than bank robbers. 9Yet whereas 91 percent of bank robbers end up in jail, only 17 percent of the embezzlers go to jail. Main Idea is sentence number _____. 

The main ideas of the following paragraphs appear at different locations. Identify the sentence (number) that expresses the main idea of this paragraph. 1The list of the ten deadliest animals, as determined by the group Live Science, contains many of the fearsome killers you’d expect, and a few that you’ve probably never heard of. 2African lions, number five on the list, and great white sharks, number four, are well known for their killer instincts. 3Few people ever choose to tangle with an Australian saltwater crocodile, number six, or a 16,000-pound African elephant, number seven. 4More than 50,000 people die every year from snakebite, and the leading assassin in the snake world is he Asian cobra, which puts it at number two. 5You’d have to be in some very specific corners of the world to run afoul of a cape buffalo, number nine, or a polar bear, number eight. 6One deadly creature that you might not expect to find on the list is the poison dart frog, number ten. 7Don’t pet the cute amphibian, however, because the slime on its back is deadly enough to kill ten people. 8The Australian box jellyfish is beautiful and graceful in the water, but each of its many fifteen-foot-long tentacles has enough toxins to kill sixty humans, which puts it all the way up at number 3. 9The most deadly animal of all is not exotic. 10In fact, you have probably done battle with it many times. 11Nevertheless, it’s responsible for millions of deaths every year by infecting people with the parasites that cause malaria. 12Yes, the most deadly animal on the planet is the mosquito. Main Idea is sentence number _____.