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 list of the images in the final stanza, without saying what they mean
   • a detailed, line-by-line explanation of what the final stanza means
   • 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. Sentence

   After ten years of payments on the debt for their building, the owners of the Larkspur Bakery had built up enough equity in it to borrow against its value.

4. 2.

   Pia reads a sentence in a small-business course. What does equity mean here?

   • the building's value minus the debt still owed on it
   • fair and equal treatment of people
   • the money the owners still owe on the building
   • the ten years of payments the owners made

5. Line

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

6. 3.

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

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

7. 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.

8. 4.

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

9. 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.

10. 5.

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

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

11. 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.

12. 6.

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

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

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 amount the company pays before the insurer covers the rest
    • 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

15. Assignment

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

16. 8.

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

17. Sentence

    When the restaurant group missed six straight payments on the money it owed a bank, the bank declared the debt in default and began steps to recover the money.

18. 9.

    Luz reads a sentence in a business-law course. What does default mean here?

    • failure to pay a debt that is owed
    • the setting a computer uses unless told otherwise
    • a lower interest rate a bank offers a borrower
    • the six payments the restaurant group missed

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 transit pass for the weeks of the program
    • money the assistant pays to join the program
    • the pay given in return for work