GED Language Arts - Writing (Essay Writing Exam) - GED-Writing Exam Practice Test

A. Joys and trials

B. The kids went to

C. When I was a child.B.A clergyman said that he read the comic strips in the daily paper every day.C.This amazed me because I believed that comics was for the young.D.I thought adults considered comics juvenile.E."But no,"he said."Comic strips can give you an insight into the human condition the way people think and behave." (6) Today, most would agree that he will be right.(7) The wide range of topics treated in the daily comic strips doesn't miss much about how people live their lives.
(B)
(8)
A popular comic strip subject is family life.(9) Strips on the family range from stay-athome parenting with all its joys and trials to when the kids went to a restaurant with all the things that can go wrong there.(10) Some strips deal with sibling relationships.(11) Others explore adolescence and the stresses of children becoming more independent.(12) The humorous look at the role of husbands and wives in the family also makes for interesting reading.
(C)
(13)
Pets have been playing an important role in comic strips.(14) Sometimes they are secondary to the human characters, the family dog, or rabbit, but sometimes it is the whole point of the strip.(15) Who can resist a cynical self-centered cat or a lolloping, brainless dog, especially if it gets the better of the humans?
(D)
(16)
Comic strips allow people to laugh at themselves and their very human failings.(17) A
little light is brought into our lives by them for a brief moment each day.(18) They are also a barometer of popular culture, telling what the social trends are and how some people regard them.(19) If the comic strips suddenly disappeared from the newspapers, society would lose a valuable piece of its culture. -- Exhibit -Sentence 9:Strips on the family range from stay-at-home parenting with all its joys and trials to when the kids went to a restaurant with all the things that can go wrong there. The most effective revision of sentence 9 would include which group of words?

D. trials.To when

E. to taking the kids

F. go wrong their

A. move sentence 14 to the end of paragraph D

B. remove sentence 17

C. move sentence 15 to the end of paragraph D

D. move sentence 13 to the end of paragraph D

E. remove sentence 16

A. Those will give you

B. firsthand witness

C. will give them just

D. nature at working

E. exercise and an opportunity

A. change Baking to Bake

B. change are to is

C. change cooked to cooking

D. Its almost impossible to bake a Sicilian pizza at home like those pizzas baked in your hometown pizza parlor.B.The reason is that wood-fired brickovens at the pizza parlor generates the intense heat needed to create fine pizza.
(B)

E. no correction is necessary

F. Generally, you start with the bread dough, putting on some toppings, and bake the pizza
in the oven.(6) However, you must first preheat the oven to 500 degrees for at least a half an hour.(7) After preheating the oven divide the dough into four equal balls.(8) There are, however, a few specific steps to follow for successfully making a pizza at home (9) Flatten one of the balls and stretch them with your hands into a circle.(10) Next, place the dough on a metal or wooden baking sheet that has been dusted with flour, then coat the dough with tomato sauce and other toppings, including a drizzle of olive oil.(11) Finally, for the best effect, slide the dough from the baking sheet onto the pizza stone.(12) Baking for about 15 minutes until the bottom is cooked and the edges are brown.
(D)
(13)
There is other important things to remember as you make your own pizza.(14) Make sure that your dough is soft so that it is easy to work with.(15) Also, to avoid creating a soggy pizza, you should use tomato sauce sparingly.(16) Now you are ready to enjoy a pizza at home that is the equal to that of your favorite pizza parlor.(17) Bon appetit! -- Exhibit -Sentence 1Baking for about 15 minutes until the bottom is cooked and the edges are brown. Which correction should be made to sentence 12?

G. Since the conventional oven at home cannot produce such intense heat, you must use a conventional oven equipped with a pizza stone.D.An oven of this kind preheated for half an hour will make you a very good pizza.
(C)

H. insert a comma after minutes

A. Lucille Mulhall and Bertha Kalpernik were two of the first rodeo cowgirls.(6) As a teenager, Mulhall rode and put on a roping exhibition in a public celebration where Teddy Roosevelt was a guest.(7) During a visit to the Mulhall family's ranch Roosevelt witnessed Lucille's breathtaking ride on an outlaw horse.(8) Impressed by her skill and daring, Roosevelt later inviting Mulhall to lead the inaugural procession when he took office as president of the United States.(9) Kalpernik is believed to be the first cowgirl to ride a bucking horse in serious competition.(10) Around 1900, she rode 100 miles from Colorado to Wyoming to enter the previously all-male rodeo.(11) She won on a horse named Tombstone.(12) She rode him all the way back to Colorado! (13) Roy Rogers named his horse "Trigger" and Gene Autry, another famous singing cowboy, had ahorse named "Champ." (14) A year later, Kalpernik becomes the star performer in a Wild West show and
continued competing in top rodeos held throughout the country.(15) As true pioneers those
women and many others are part of the history and heritage of the West.
Material adapted from Milt Riske.Those Magnificent Cowgirls:A History of the Rodeo
Cowgirl.Cheyenne:Wyoming Publishing, 1983.
-- Exhibit --
Sentences 7:During a visit to the Mulhall family's ranch Roosevelt witnessed Lucille's
breathtaking ride on an outlaw horse.
Which correction should be made to sentence 7?

B. insert a comma after ride

C. Who was the first rodeo cowgirls? B.While some of the earliest cowgirls were products of the American West, where they learned their skills on a ranch or farm, others came from different backgrounds.C.One had emigrated from Norway, another was a hairdresser from New York, and still another learned to ride horses on a Georgia plantation.D.Attracted by the excitement, glory, and possible financial rewards, this first group of daredevil riders and ropers rose to prominence in the first half of the 1900s.
(B)

D. change witnessed to having witnessed

E. insert a comma after ranch

F. insert a comma after visit

G. change Lucille's to Lucilles'

A. need to be painted

B. need painted

C. needs painting

D. would needs to be painted

E. needs to be painted

A. members companies

B. members, and companies,

C. member's and companies

D. members and companies

E. members, companies

A. have worked

B. works

C. can work

D. had worked

E. is working

A. replace on behalf with for

B. change Academy to academy

C. no correction is necessary

D. change am to have been

E. replace to with too

A. replace In addition with Also in addition

B. change took to taken

C. no correction is necessary

D. change took to had took

E. insert a comma after including

A. experts they have logged

B. experts who will log

C. experts who have logged

D. experts and logged

E. experts logging

A. insert a comma after marketing

B. replace Its with It's

C. change businesses to business's

D. move valuable to follow tool

E. replace and with or

F. We use the Internet or hear about it almost daily.B.However, there was a time when the Internet was known to just a network of scientists who used it as a means to communicate research information.C.They lived all over the world, the idea of calling on the phone was a major problem and a major expense.D.Faxing was a problem also if they wanted to keep their ideas secret.E.This group of international scientists needed a means to share their information with each other.
(B)
(6)
In 1989, computer scientist Timothy Berners-Lee created a system that enabled an elite group of scientists to communicate with one another.(7) The original goal of the scientists is to share information that was number- and text-based.(8) This format was an easy procedure for the early computers and computer programs to use.
(C)
(9)
Many other people were interested in this"new"exchange of information for a few reasons.(10) It was much cheaper than a long distance phone call or fax, and it provided
some privacy.(11) Soon, others were experimenting with this new communication device.(12) Eventually, a group of people at the Massachusetts Institute of technology developed the World Wide Web.
(D)
(13)
Changes that are made in computers and the way they communicate with each other
provide the opportunity for the Web to evolve.(14) This evolution continue to change the
way we all communicatewith each other, too.(15) To do more than just communicate today,
the Web is used.(16) Its a valuable marketing and selling tool for businesses.(17) How
interesting to think of the many new ways that this technology shaping our future.
-- Exhibit --
Sentence 16:Its a valuable marketing and selling tool for businesses.
Which correction should be made to sentence 16?

A. dizziness headache and nausea

B. dizziness headache, nausea

C. dizziness, headache, nausea

D. dizziness and headache and nausea and

E. dizziness, headache nausea

A. too low to effect

B. to low to affect

C. too low to affect

D. to low to effect

E. to low, to affect