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tips for taking the test here are some suggestions to help you do your best · be sure to read carefully all the directions in the test book · plan your time · read each question carefully and think about the answer before choosing your response acknowledgments ctb/mcgraw-hill llc is indebted to the following for permission to use material in this book excerpts from the hero by ron woods copyright © 2002 by ron woods used by permission of alfred a knopf an imprint of random house children s books a division of random house inc used by permission bindi by milan sandhu and photo of girl wearing a bindi from highlights for children magazine s june 2005 issue text copyright © 2005 by highlights for children inc columbus ohio photograph copyright © by dinodia photo library used by permission excerpt from building bridges by andrea davis pinkney from stay true short stories for strong girls edited by marilyn singer copyright © 1998 by andrea davis pinkney reprinted by permission of scholastic inc photograph of brooklyn bridge east river new york city image no rf5061857 copyright © by image100/corbis used by permission excerpt from video racing games by donna o meara from faces magazine s december 2006 issue fun around the world copyright © 2006 by carus publishing company published by cobblestone publishing 30 grove street suite c peterborough nh 03458 all rights reserved reprinted by permission of the publisher photograph of kids playing battleship video game at museum image no ih166617 copyright © richard r nowitz/corbis used by permission wilderness rivers from summer green by elizabeth coatsworth copyright © 1948 by macmillan publishing co copyright © renewed 1975 by elizabeth coatsworth beston reprinted by permission of simon schuster books for young readers an imprint of simon schuster children s publishing division developed and published by ctb/mcgraw-hill llc a subsidiary of the mcgraw-hill companies inc 20 ryan ranch road monterey california 93940-5703 copyright © 2010 by the new york state education department all rights reserved no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means or stored in a database or retrieval system without the prior written permission of the new york state education department.[close]
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book 1 reading d irections in this part of the test you will do some reading and answer questions about what you have read go on do not reproduce do not discuss contents until end of designated makeup schedule secure material book 1 page[close]
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d irections read this passage then answer questions 1 through 6 the hero by ron woods the book the hero is about 14-year-old jamie in this part of the story jamie has been burning some leaves as part of his chores and the fire has gotten out of control i wasn t one to panic but my fun had turned to fear and desperation and i realized help was needed so while i still beat at the flames with my shovel i gave up my pride turned my face to the house and began to shout for mom the house was fifty yards away and i didn t know if she d hear me i d last seen her at the kitchen table sewing school clothes and the kitchen was on the opposite side of the house at one spot rocks and sparse grass slowed the fire s pace up the slope and i made good progress but i d abandoned the other end as long as i dared it might have been best to stay where i was but i made a decision and ran back to the front just as flames there reached the base of the hill sweat flew from my face as i pounded and dug in vain all the while shamelessly shouting for help toward the house like a man overboard beating off sharks while screaming at a passing ship finally i spotted marie in the yard she had come around the side of the house and was staring openmouthed get mom i yelled get mom out here she disappeared through the front door blond hair flying almost immediately mom was out the door and coming across the yard on the run suddenly she stopped turned and ran back into the house in a moment she came out again with an old blanket in her arms at the gate she stabbed a finger at marie probably telling her to stay in the yard and ran across the road her short legs pounding and her dress flying at the irrigation ditch she stopped and threw the blanket into the water by now the flames behind me had crawled through the rocky area sprinted through thick grass and now were halfway to the big ditch and in spite of my present efforts the front end of the blaze had a renewed start up the slope in heavy grass that looked like it was begging to be burned fire was everywhere go on do not reproduce do not discuss contents until end of designated makeup schedule secure material book 1 page[close]
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i felt like sitting down and letting it go it was too hard my eyes stung my throat was raw my arm hair was singed and my legs ached from running up and down the hill i was soaked in sweat and my hands that i d thought so tough from hoeing all summer were already red and starting to blister from my grip on the shovel handle what was the point it was too late how could we stop it now jamie come down let it go help me over here jamie i looked mom wasn t heading for the burning hill at all she was over by the pigpen flailing with her soggy blanket the pen was to the north against the creek and to my amazement the fire had a good start across the fifty-foot rocky swale1 separating the garden and the pigpen fence it had jumped our small irrigation ditch the ready-made barrier like a lion after a mouse we ll have to let the hill go mom said when i reached her have to we can t stop it there her voice was different lower than usual and controlled mom was known as an enthusiastic person in everyday conversation but in a crisis she was calm i d seen it once when i cut my foot and we had trouble getting the bleeding stopped another time when marie was a baby and had a convulsion that wouldn t quit and again when dad developed a reaction to penicillin and his face and throat started swelling up like a movie monster mom was using that controlled voice right now help me here jamie over here she was already in action smothering flames with each throw of her sodden blanket but it was like trying to stop a flood with a sponge it just wasn t fast enough a flood that was it i was a genius here mom i ve got it i know what to do i shouted our garden ditch could save us my shovel made four or five quick slices into the sod bank and in a moment the stream was rushing across the small field the effect was impressive the fire immediately lost its power as its roots were killed small plumes of steam rose from clumps of burning grass as the flames hissed out only their tops were left momentarily burning like tiny volcanoes jutting from a miniature sea until they toppled over and drowned sloshing through the flood i scooped and splashed with my shovel where water was needed most mom s blanket reached isolated spots and soon the whole burn was extinguished in the little swale in one place fire had come within a few feet of the fence but to our relief nowhere had the wood or the brush been touched 1swale a low marshy area page book 1 do not reproduce do not discuss contents until end of designated makeup schedule secure material[close]
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this passage is told from the point of view of abcd jamie marie a narrator outside the story a person watching the action 2 which of these events happens first in the passage abcd jamie slices the sod bank mom tells jamie to help her by the pigpen mom smothers the flames with a blanket jamie sees marie in the yard read this sentence from the passage at one spot rocks and sparse grass slowed the fire s pace up the slope and i made good progress the word pace means about the same as abcd direction magnitude speed warmth go on do not reproduce do not discuss contents until end of designated makeup schedule secure material book 1 page[close]
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read this sentence from the passage by now the flames behind me had crawled through the rocky area sprinted through thick grass and now were halfway to the big ditch this sentence suggests that the flames are abcd growing larger moving faster getting hotter roaring louder how does jamie change from the beginning of the passage to the end of the passage abcd he is angry at first then happy he is surprised at first then afraid he is annoyed at first then satisfied he is scared at first then relieved the events in this passage can mostly be described as abcd amusing inspiring intense reflective page book 1 do not reproduce do not discuss contents until end of designated makeup schedule secure material[close]
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d irections read this article then answer questions 7 through 12 bindi by milan sandhu why don t you have a jewel carved in your forehead the little girl who asked me that was hardly six and she knew i was from india i was six too beginning first grade and it was years before trendy tattoos became popular i stared at the girl a moment trying to determine whether she was serious or not she was a jewel carved in my head was first of all likely to hurt and second it didn t sound very attractive ouch was my reaction for many mornings i had seen my mother apply her bindi she had her own style using the round end of a lipstick cap she would first dip the cap in petroleum jelly and then dip it in red powder finally she carefully pressed the cap between her eyes leaving a red powder dot on her forehead i thought she was the most beautiful woman i d ever seen and i couldn t wait to do the same thing sometimes to make me happy she d use an eyeliner stick to apply a tiny black dot on my forehead i d skip away satisfied waiting patiently until i could wear a big red one hindus have adorned their bodies with bindis for thousands of years not that long ago a bindi which is also known as a tilak was nothing more than ground vermilion powder applied to the forehead it was a sign that a woman was married like wearing a wedding ring vermilion powder was made from a mix of mercury and sulfur a combination thought to have a cooling effect very helpful in a warm country like india in fact men often wore tilaks made from sandalwood paste also to make them feel cool some people think that the tradition of wearing bindis began with the ancient ritual of the bridegroom applying his blood to his wife s forehead during the wedding ceremony others believed that the area between the eyebrows is the spot where there is a third eye a point of hidden energy and wisdom wearing a bindi on this spot helps focus concentration and brings happiness and good fortune go on do not reproduce do not discuss contents until end of designated makeup schedule secure material book 1 page[close]
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no matter what its origins were a bindi was always worn with pride and served as a gentle reminder to others to respect a married woman red the color of life-giving blood and an important color in the hindu religion was always used for bindis in the early twentieth century bindis became more of a fashion statement instead of wearing only round red bindis married and unmarried women in india started wearing bindis of different sizes and shapes on their foreheads today women wear fashion stickers decorated with beads crystals sequins or glitter on their foreheads to match what they are wearing even though the jewel in the forehead isn t far from the truth i still don t have one carved into my head and nobody i know does either but i do wear stickers from time to time i look in the mirror and smile as i think about my beautiful mother and the days she painted a black dot on my forehead how is the way the author wears her bindis different from the way they are traditionally worn in india 9 which sentence from the article best illustrates the author s feelings about her mother s bindi abcd the author s bindis are large red dots the author wears bindis that are fashion stickers the author s bindis are made from expensive jewels the author wears bindis in the middle of her forehead abcd read this sentence from the article hindus have adorned their bodies with bindis for thousands of years the word adorned means about the same as she would first dip the cap in petroleum jelly and then dip it in red powder finally she carefully pressed the cap between her eyes leaving a red powder dot on her forehead i thought she was the most beautiful woman i d ever seen and i couldn t wait to do the same thing sometimes to make me happy she d use an eyeliner stick to apply a tiny black dot on my forehead abcd decorated honored perfected strengthened page book 1 do not reproduce do not discuss contents until end of designated makeup schedule secure material[close]
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0 which sentence from the article best informs the reader about the author s culture abcd i was six too beginning first grade and it was years before trendy tattoos became popular a jewel carved in my head was first of all likely to hurt and second it didn t sound very attractive it was a sign that a woman was married like wearing a wedding ring vermilion powder was made from a mix of mercury and sulfur the author most likely wrote this article abcd to inform the reader about bindis and their history to describe the way her mother applied a bindi to her forehead to express her opinion about whether modern women should wear bindis to entertain the reader with a story about wearing a bindi in elementary school 2 read this sentence from the article in the early twentieth century bindis became more of a fashion statement now read the dictionary entry below state·ment noun 1 a written fact or intention 2 a bill for an amount due 3 a special announcement made to the public 4 an expression of an idea or concept especially by means other than words which definition best fits the meaning of statement as it is used in the sentence above abcd definition 1 definition 2 definition 3 definition 4 go on do not reproduce do not discuss contents until end of designated makeup schedule secure material book 1 page 9[close]
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d irections read this passage from the story building bridges then answer questions 13 through 17 building bridges by andrea davis pinkney the story building bridges is about a girl who lives with her grandmother mama lil and who dreams of someday becoming an engineer in this passage from the story the narrator is waiting for her grandmother to sign a consent form for her to participate in a summer program in which a group of students would work with a team of engineers to help repair the brooklyn bridge ahead in the distance stood the brooklyn bridge this was the best spot in brooklyn s red hook section for seeing the bridge i d come to this corner and studied the bridge a million times and on every one of those times i was taken with what i d come to call brooklyn belle i never got tired of looking out at its steel girders and iron cables at its beautiful crisscross rafters that had started out in somebody s imagination had been put to paper formalized in an engineer s plans then woven together bolt by bolt now belle was a powerful giant who carried all kinds of people to all kinds of places day after day at night belle was dressed in tiny lights that spanned her limbs on a cloudless night like this one she was a sight like no other sight in the whole city jeweled in light beautiful my fingers had tensed into fists at my sides fists full of strength and eagerness i uncurled my knuckles and shook them free of their strain then i reached into my jacket pocket where my consent form for the bridge project had been neatly folded for days and pulled out my pencil slowly i flipped through the pages of my sketchbook i d drawn belle in the high-noon light at sunset on snowy days and on foggy twilight mornings my favorite sketches were those of belle during rush hour when cars and taxis danced like trinkets along her outstretched beams tonight i d draw belle with her lighted cape i sketched slowly at first then faster my pencil working with the speed of my excitement the thrill that worked me over every time i sketched that bridge i was proud of my drawings i liked to think of them as portraits but with each page they showed a sad truth about belle she needed repair she was some forty years older than mama lil and as lovely as she was she had some serious rough spots corroded cables rust chipped paint and plain old grit that had built up over the decades that bridge renovation project needed me and i needed it in more ways than i could count page 10 book 1 do not reproduce do not discuss contents until end of designated makeup schedule secure material[close]
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when does this passage take place abcd at night at sunset on a snowy day on a foggy morning which sentence from the passage includes a metaphor used by the author to describe belle a b c what are the narrator s favorite sketches abcd the city in lights the bridge at twilight the bridge at rush hour the city in high-noon light d i was taken with what i d come to call brooklyn belle now belle was a powerful giant who carried all kinds of people to all kinds of places day after day on a cloudless night like this one she was a sight like no other sight in the whole city i d drawn belle in the high-noon light at sunset on snowy days and on foggy twilight mornings the author refers to the brooklyn bridge as brooklyn belle to help the reader abcd understand that the bridge is very old remember the bridge s history imagine the noise around the bridge appreciate the bridge s beauty in the passage the narrator refers to the bridge renovation project based on information in the passage the renovation project most likely refers to abcd repairing the bridge removing the bridge replacing the bridge remembering the bridge go on do not reproduce do not discuss contents until end of designated makeup schedule secure material book 1 page[close]
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d irections read this poem then answer questions 18 through 21 wilderness rivers by elizabeth coatsworth there are rivers that i know born of ice and melting snow white with rapids swift to roar with no farms along their shore with no cattle come to drink at a staid and welcoming brink with no millwheel ever turning in that cold relentless churning only deer and bear and mink at those shallows come to drink only paddles swift and light flick that current in their flight i have felt my heart beat high watching with exultant eye those pure rivers which have known no will no purpose but their own staid:quietand settled page 2 book 1 do not reproduce do not discuss contents until end of designated makeup schedule secure material[close]
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what is the speaker s attitude toward wilderness rivers abcd she is afraid of them she appreciates them she thinks only wild animals should use them she wishes more people would make use of them 9 this poem is written from the point of view of a speaker who abcd is afraid of what she describes is unaffected by what she describes has wanted to experience what she describes has personally witnessed what she describes 20 the speaker says that there are no farms cattle or millwheel near the river in order to show abcd how people want to tame the wilderness rivers that the wilderness rivers are untouched by people how people should behave near the wilderness rivers that the wilderness rivers are too cold for people to use 2 read these lines from the poem those pure rivers which have known no will no purpose but their own these lines contain an example of abcd hyperbole onomatopoeia personification simile go on do not reproduce do not discuss contents until end of designated makeup schedule secure material book 1 page[close]
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