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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?

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

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

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 and its profit were each $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.
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.
   • Each measurement's error is the gap between the value recorded and the true value.
   • Because the survey reported a margin of error, its results must contain a mistake somewhere.

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?

   • Explain the causes of the rise in bus ridership, and give the evidence for each.
   • Explain the causes of the rise, such as the new lanes, and give the evidence for each.
   • 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.

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 2004 history is a primary source, and the worker's diary is a secondary source.
    • 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 diary and the 2004 history are both primary sources about the bridge.
11. 7.

    Ren is learning how scientific papers are built. Which sentence uses abstract the way a research course does?

    • The abstract comes at the very end of the paper and lists the sources the authors drew on.
    • Read the abstract first: its short summary tells you whether the full paper will help.
    • The gallery's new room shows abstract paintings made of bold shapes.
    • Fairness is an abstract idea, so the essay needs concrete examples.

12. 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.

13. 8.

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

    • 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.
    • The attendance counts are quantitative data, and the interviews are qualitative data.
    • The attendance counts and the student interviews are both quantitative data.
14. 9.

    Ari is reviewing terms for a statistics project. Which sentence uses population the way a statistics course does?

    • The population was all 2,000 students at the school, and the survey reached a sample of 150.
    • The pond's frog population interbreeds and rarely mixes with the frogs from the next valley over.
    • The town's population grew by a fifth after the new rail line opened.
    • The population of the survey was the 150 students who actually filled out and returned it.

15. 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.

16. 10.

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

    • 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.
    • 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.