College and career words

Grade 11 Reading Worksheet - Building Confidence

Circle the best answer.

1. Read this first

   Task

   For Friday's literature seminar, explicate the final stanza of the assigned poem, working through it line by line so that a classmate who found it puzzling could follow every image.

2. 1.

   Jun reads a task on a college literature syllabus. What does the task ask for?

   • a detailed, line-by-line explanation of what the final stanza means
   • a list of the images in the final stanza, without saying what they mean
   • a judgment of how well the final stanza works as an ending
   • a detailed, line-by-line explanation of the poet's life and early career

3. Line

   The internship agreement at Fernhill Design stipulates that interns work no more than twenty hours a week during the school year.

4. 2.

   Bo reads a line in an internship agreement. What does stipulates mean here?

   • guesses about what may happen later on
   • leaves it open for each intern to decide
   • describes the design work that interns do
   • states it as a condition that must be met

5. Direction

   In your lab report's discussion section, elucidate why the second trial ran faster than the first, so that a reader who skipped the methods section still understands the cause.

6. 3.

   Milo reads a direction in a college chemistry lab guide. What does elucidate ask the student to do?

   • make the steps in the methods section clear by explaining them
   • make the cause of the faster second trial clear by explaining it
   • predict how fast a third trial of the same reaction would run
   • state that the second trial ran faster than the first one did

7. Sentence

   The bookstore sells each new hardcover for $30 after paying the publisher $18, so its margin on a hardcover is $12 before wages and other costs are paid.

8. 4.

   Zee reads a sentence in a retail-management textbook. What does margin mean here?

   • the money left after wages and other costs are paid each month
   • the blank space along the edge of a printed page
   • the gap between an item's selling price and its cost
   • the $18 the store pays the publisher for each book

9. Line

   The job offer from the Alder County library is contingent on a background check, so the start date will be set only after the check comes back clear.

10. 5.

    Kira reads a line in a job offer letter. What does contingent mean here?

    • about the start date of the library job
    • depending on something that must happen first
    • happening by chance, with no plan behind it
    • certain no matter what else happens

11. Advice

    Before you cite the 1910 travel guide in your history paper, interrogate its claims: ask who wrote it, for what reader, and what the author had reason to leave out.

12. 6.

    Ren reads advice in a college history course guide. What does interrogate mean in this advice?

    • copy the guide's most useful claims into the paper
    • find out who wrote the 1910 travel guide
    • question the guide's claims closely and systematically
    • question the other students' papers closely and systematically

13. Sentence

    The delivery company pays a monthly premium to its insurer, and in return the insurer covers the cost if one of its vans is damaged in a storm.

14. 7.

    Esme reads a sentence in a business-insurance training guide. What does premium mean here?

    • the cost of repairing a van after a storm
    • a product of higher quality that costs more than usual
    • the regular payment that keeps an insurance policy in force
    • the amount the company pays before the insurer covers the rest

15. Sentence

    Because the delivery schedule changed after the contract was signed, the bakery and the café attached a one-page addendum that sets the new delivery days.

16. 8.

    Noah reads a sentence in a business-law handout. What is an addendum?

    • a section removed from a signed document
    • the new days on which the bakery delivers
    • a section added to a document after it is written
    • a list of topics to discuss at a meeting

17. Assignment

    In the museum-studies practicum, appraise each donated quilt, and record a dollar figure beside your notes on its age, stitching and condition.

18. 9.

    Ari reads an assignment for a museum-studies practicum. What does appraise ask for?

    • a plan for displaying each quilt in the museum
    • an expert estimate of what each quilt is worth
    • notes on each quilt's age, stitching and condition
    • an expert estimate of what the museum building is worth

19. Posting

    The listing for a summer lab assistant gives the remuneration as $16 an hour, plus a transit pass for the weeks of the program.

20. 10.

    Tala reads a summer job posting. What does remuneration mean here?

    • a numbered list of the job's duties
    • the pay given in return for work
    • the transit pass for the weeks of the program
    • money the assistant pays to join the program