Sentence Structures and Grammar

Sentence structures and grammar Directions. Choose the answer that best fits the sentence. 1. I’m afraid I ……… here for your wedding party. a) have not to be b) am not being c) will be not d) can't be 2. How ……… are you? a) high b) wide c) long d) tall 3. Herzog knows that she ……… to leave now. a) had better b) needn't c) should d) ought 4. Bill will return the newspaper when he ……… it. a) will have finish b) looked c) has finished d) look 5. They said they ……… juggle, but they didn’t. a) can not b) going to c) maybe d) might 6. Masie has ……… old Rolling Stones albums. a) very much b) a lot of c) lots d) a very lot 7. What about Bob? Will he ……… for a walk? a) to go 1 b) gone c) going d) go 8. I made a few mistakes, but ……… of my answers were correct. a) much b) most c) more d) few 9. This is ……… drawing. a) a very interesting b) very an interesting c) very interesting d) very interested 10. Is ……… than his father? a) Luke taller b) taller Luke c) Luke more tall d) Luke as tall as 11. ……… is it from here to Las Vegas? a) How long way b) How long c) How far d) How many 12. Would you like some more Mint-Chocolate Rooibos tea? There's still ……… left. a) few b) a few c) a little d) little 13. They ……… him of stealing the car. a) blamed b) accused c) punished d) arrested 14. My boots are filthy. I'd better take them ……… before I come in. a) off b) away c) on d) up 15. We can finish the rest of the bread for ……… . 2 a) b) c) d) a breakfast the breakfast breakfast a breakfasts 16. Did you ……… to the concert yesterday? a) go b) going c) was d) went 17. I think ……… mail clerk. a) her job is b) she's a c) her job is an d) she's 18. Did you ……… to the store? a) ran b) running c) run d) vanish 19. I ……. snow is very cold. a) think b) smell c) eat d) make 20. Did you ……… the cat yesterday? a) walking b) walked c) has walked d) walk Reading Comprehension Directions. Choose the answer that best answers the question based upon the reading given. Passage 1: Read the following passage from the 2001 book, In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd by Ana Menéndez, and published by Grove Press: 1. Máximo was one of the first to leave L Street, boarding a plane for Miami on the eve of the first of January 1961, exactly two years after Batista had done the same. For reasons he told himself he could no longer remember, he said good-bye to no one. He was thirty-six years old then, already balding, with a wife and two young daughters whose names he tended to confuse. He left behind the row house of long shiny windows, the piano, the mahogany furniture, and the 3 pension he thought he'd return to in two years' time. Three if things were as serious as they said. 2. In Miami, Máximo tried driving a taxi, but the streets were a web of foreign names and winding curves that could one day lead to glitter and another to the hollow end of a pistol. His Spanish and his University of Havana credentials meant nothing here. And he was too old to cut sugarcane with the younger men who began arriving in the spring of 1961. But the men gave Máximo an idea, and after teary nights of promises, he convinced his wife—she of stately homes and multiple cooks—to make lunch to sell to those sugar men who waited, squatÝng on their heels in the dark, for the bus to Belle Glade every morning. They worked side by side, Máximo and Rosa. And at the end of every day, their hands stained orange from the lard and the cheap meat, their knuckles red and tender where the hot water and the knife blade had worked their business, Máximo and Rosa would sit down to whatever remained of the day's cooking and they would chew slowly, the day unraveling, their hunger ebbing away with the light. 3. They worked together for years like that, and when the Cubans began disappearing from the bus line, Máximo and Rosa moved their lunch packets indoors and opened their little restaurant right on Eighth Street. There, a generation of former professors served black beans and rice to the nostalgic. When Raúl showed up in Miami one summer looking for work, Máximo added one more waiter's spot for his old acquaintance from L Street. Each night, after the customers had gone, Máximo and Rosa and Raúl and Havana's old lawyers and bankers and dreamers would sit around the biggest table and eat and talk and sometimes, late in the night after several glasses of wine, someone would start the stories that began with "In Cuba I remember." They were stories of old lovers, beautiful and round-hipped. Of skies that stretched on clear and blue to the Cuban hills. Of green landscapes that clung to the red clay of Güines, roots dug in like fingernails in a good-bye. In Cuba, the stories always began, life was good and pure. But something always happened to them in the end, something withering, malignant. Máximo never understood it. The stories that opened in sun, always narrowed into a dark place. And after those nights, his head throbbing, Máximo would turn and turn in his sleep and awake unable to remember his dreams. Questions based on Passage 1, In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd. 1. The main topic for this entire passage is about: a. how Maximo left his wife and children in Cuba to immigrate to Miami. b. why Maximo built a new life in Miami. c. why Maximo left Cuba to immigrate to Miami. d. how Maximo came to own a restaurant in Miami. e. None of the other choices are correct. 2. “The stories that opened in sun, always narrowed into a dark place.” This sentence from paragraph 3 refers to a. Maximo’s life in Cuba. b. Maximo’s life in Miami. c. memories shared by immigrants about Miami d. memories shared by other immigrants about Cuba e. All of the other choices are correct. 4 3. Maximo started a catering business in Miami because he liked to cook. a. True b. False 4. Based on the information in this passage, the German Shepherd mentioned in the title is probably referring to the young men who worked in the sugarcane field. a. True b. False 5. The German Shepherd mentioned in the title is an example of the author’s use of a. metaphor b. analogy c. parody d. paraphrase e. None of the other choices are correct. 6. Maximo was “thirty-six years old then, already balding, with a wife and two young daughters” when he left Cuba. The most appropriate APA style citation for this sentence is a. (Menendez, A., 2001) b. (Menendez, 2001, para. 1) c. (Menendez, 2001, p. 1) d. (Menendez, 2001) e. (Ana Menendez, p. 1, 2001) 7. In the second sentence of paragraph three, the word “nostalgic” probably means a. hungry Cuban immigrants that want waiters to serve them food. b. people who remember good times in Cuba. c. people who never cook black beans and rice at home anymore. d. Cuban immigrants who associate that food with their former home. e. people who talk a lot about where they used to live. 8. One summer, several years after opening his restaurant, Maximo’s old friend Raul moved to Miami and needed work so Maximo gave him a job. This sentence is a. the story of how Raul came to work at Maximo’s restaurant and does not require citation. b. a paraphrase from the story of how Raul came to work at Maximo’s restaurant and does not require citation. c. a paraphrase from the story of how Raul came to work at Maximo’s restaurant that should include a citation. d. a quotation from the story about how Raul came to work at Maximo’s restaurant that should include a citation. e. not from the story so it does not require a citation. Passage 2: Read the following passage taken from a story published on this webpage: 5