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"The Most Brilliant Invention" -VERY Challenging Informational Text

Quiz by Kelly Pennell

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  • Q1
    1. PART A: What paragraph structure is used to organize paragraph 6?
    C. sequential order
    A. compare-contrast
    D. order of importance
    B. cause-effect
    120s
  • Q2
    2. PART B: Which paragraph from the passage uses the same structure as PART A?
    C. paragraph 4
    B. paragraph 2
    D. paragraph 5
    A. paragraph 1
    120s
  • Q3
    3. Read this sentence: "When a person learns a language, he or she also comes away with a deeper understanding of the culture of that people, what they value, and what they abhor." Why does the author include this sentence in the final paragraph?
    C. to illustrate the lasting impact that learning a new language has on a person
    B. to explain the significance of language studies
    D. to persuade the reader to learn a new language
    A. to describe the importance of understanding a language's history before learning it
    120s
  • Q4
    4. Which of the following provides an objective summary of the text?
    D. By studying a language and its origins, people will have a better understanding of its history and the people who first spoke it.
    A. Mandarin Chinese is the most spoken language in the world, but English is spoken in more countries.
    B. Thousands of different languages exist all over the globe, and they originated in many different ways throughout history.
    C. Because theories differ on how language first originated among humans, the study of its evolution is fascinating.
    120s
  • Q5
    5. Read the sentence from paragraph 1: "There are over 6,000 languages, both spoken and written, in existence today, and a general consensus among linguistic experts is that 50 to 90% of the languages spoken today will be extinct by the year 2100." --Based on this statement, what inference can the reader MOST logically make?
    C. By 2100, people around the world will only speak one or two languages, and all the others will vanish.
    D. By 2100, communication around the world will improve because there will be fewer languages to confuse people.
    A. By 2100, people will no longer communicate verbally which will result in languages becoming extinct.
    B. By 2100, language will evolve to the point that only major languages will be spoken, and others will die out.
    120s
  • Q6
    6. Read the sentence from paragraph 4: "Because language emerged in such early prehistory of man, there are little to no traces of its origins, and no comparable processes are able to be seen today, LEAVING LINGUISTICS EXPERTS IN THE DARK on how language could have evolved from its earliest roots." -- What is the effect of the idiom LEAVING LINGUISTICS EXPERTS IN THE DARK on the meaning of the paragraph?
    C. It proves that the continuity-based theory is most likely to be true as linguistic experts do not have any other bright ideas.
    D. It reinforces the idea that regardless of the different theories, experts truly do not know how language began in humans.
    B. It supports the idea that even though experts have some evidence of how language first began, they still don't know for sure.
    A. It illustrates that experts are attempting to discover the origins of language by studying places that are dark, such as caves.
    120s
  • Q7
    7. What circumstances led to the evolution of the Romance languages?
    B. The Romance languages evolved because of fighting after the fall of the Roman Empire.
    A. The Romance languages evolved from Latin because of physical and cultural barriers.
    C. The Romance languages evolved because families lived in different villages and had poor communication with one another.
    D. The Romance languages evolved because people already spoke different languages in different countries.
    120s
  • Q8
    8. How does the author effectively support the claim that there are differing theories about the origins of language?
    B. The author explains that linguistics experts have had to guess how language started in humans because there is no evidence.
    A. The author explains the many ideas associated with the continuity-based theories, such as language evolving from pre-language communication.
    D. The author explains that there are different perspectives on the origins of language and describes how many experts still argue over its beginnings.
    C. The author explains the opposing views of continuity-based and discontinuity-based theorists and their major ideas.
    120s

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