College and career words

Grade 11 Reading Worksheet - Challenge Me

Circle the best answer.

1. 1.

   Jun is reviewing terms for a college physics course. Which sentence uses law the way a physics course does?

   • Once scientists proved the theory of gravity true, it was promoted to the rank of a law.
   • The Ridgemont council passed a law that limits the noise from leaf blowers.
   • Ohm's law states that the current in a wire rises in step with the voltage across it.
   • It is an unwritten law in the studio that the last one out turns off the lights.

2. Read this first

   Prompt (college history seminar)

   To what extent did the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 change how goods moved between New York City and the Great Lakes?

3. 2.

   Pia plans an answer to the seminar prompt above. Which plan answers the whole prompt?

   • Weigh how much the canal changed farming, naming what changed and what stayed.
   • Weigh how much the canal changed shipping, naming what it changed and what stayed the same.
   • Argue that the canal changed shipping, and list three ways in which it changed how goods moved.
   • Retell the story of how the canal was dug, from its start to its finish.

4. Case

   Last summer, the Cedar Point food truck took in $48,000 from sales. After paying $31,000 for food, fuel, wages and permits, the owners kept $17,000.

5. 3.

   Bo reads the business-class case above. Which statement uses both terms correctly?

   • The truck's revenue was $17,000, and its profit was $48,000.
   • The truck's revenue was $48,000, and its profit was $17,000.
   • The truck's revenue was $48,000, and its profit was $31,000.
   • The truck's revenue and its profit were each $48,000.
6. 4.

   Milo is studying for a statistics exam. Which sentence uses error the way a statistics course does?

   • Leaving the lab door unlocked was an error that Dr. Okafor quickly fixed.
   • The shortstop was charged with an error after the ball rolled past.
   • Because the survey reported a margin of error, its results must contain a mistake somewhere.
   • Each measurement's error is the gap between the value recorded and the true value.

7. Prompt (economics course)

   Account for the rise in bicycle sales in the city of Westmoor after it opened forty miles of protected bike lanes.

8. 5.

   Zee plans an answer to the course prompt above. Which plan answers the whole prompt?

   • Name the new lanes as one cause, without checking whether any other causes played a part.
   • Describe how many bicycles were sold in Westmoor in each of the past ten years.
   • Explain the causes of the rise, such as the new lanes, and give the evidence for each.
   • Explain the causes of the rise in bus ridership, and give the evidence for each.

9. Case

   For a paper on the Alder River Bridge, built in 1890, Ms. Varga's class has a diary kept by a worker on the bridge that year and a 2004 history of the bridge by a historian who read that diary.

10. 6.

    Kira reads the history-class case above. Which statement uses both terms correctly?

    • The diary and the 2004 history are both primary sources about the bridge.
    • The worker's diary is a primary source because a historian wrote it in 2004.
    • The worker's diary is a primary source, and the 2004 history is a secondary source.
    • The 2004 history is a primary source, and the worker's diary is a secondary source.

11. Prompt (logic and rhetoric course)

    Assess the validity of the argument in the Halden Courier editorial that the town should close its east library branch because fewer books were checked out there last year.

12. 7.

    Esme plans an answer to the course prompt above. Which plan answers the whole prompt?

    • Judge whether a rival paper's reasons for keeping the branch hold up.
    • Restate the editorial's argument and each of its reasons, in the same order, in your own words.
    • Judge whether the editorial's reasons truly support its conclusion, and say how well.
    • Check whether the checkout figure is accurate, and then stop there.

13. Case

    To study a new after-school tutoring program, Dr. Okafor counted how many sessions each student attended and also interviewed students about what the sessions felt like.

14. 8.

    Noah reads the research-methods case above. Which statement uses both terms correctly?

    • The attendance counts and the student interviews are both quantitative data.
    • The attendance counts are quantitative data, and the interviews are qualitative data.
    • The interviews are qualitative data because each student was asked the same number of questions.
    • The attendance counts are qualitative data, and the interviews are quantitative data.

15. Prompt (art history course)

    Situate the painting you chose from the Fenwick Museum collection in its time and place, then explain how that setting shaped what the artist painted.

16. 9.

    Luz plans an answer to the course prompt above. Which plan answers the whole prompt?

    • Give the year and the city where the painting was made, and then stop.
    • Describe what the painting shows, from the foreground up to the sky.
    • Place the painting in its period and setting, then link that setting to its subject.
    • Place the Fenwick Museum in its period and setting, and then explain how its collection grew.

17. Case

    The Brightwater Bike Co-op owns two repair stands and $6,000 in tools, and it owes $4,000 to a parts supplier for an order it has already received.

18. 10.

    Tala reads the accounting-class case above. Which statement uses both terms correctly?

    • The stands and tools are liabilities, and the $4,000 owed to the supplier is an asset.
    • The stands and tools are assets, and the $4,000 owed to the supplier is a liability.
    • The stands, the tools and the $4,000 owed count as assets of the co-op.
    • The stands and tools are assets, and the supplier's own warehouse is the co-op's liability.