Language Arts Weekly Challenge (Jan. 24 - 28, 2011) - CRCT Practice

This week's challenge practices Sentence Type, Revision, and Main Idea.

To answer the challenge, reply with the number and the correct letter to the answer.

1) Which type of sentence is this?

Impressionist works of art, which were produced in nineteenth-century France, are now very valuable.

A. simple
B. complex
C. compound
D. compound-complex


(1) When Bill said that students should not take the trouble to vote in school elections, Consuela disagreed. (2) She said that students learn valuable lessons by announcing for office, getting other students to support them, campaigning for office, and getting elected. (3) Consuela convinced Bill with her logic. (4) Afterward he thought of several other reasons students should run for office in school elections. (5) Jimmy Carter won his first election in 1962, to become a Georgia state senator.

2) If you revise the paragraph, what should you do with sentence 5?

A. Add President before Jimmy Carter.
B. Delete the sentence because it is not related to the topic.
C. List all elective offices Carter held before becoming president.
D. Delete to become a Georgia state senator because that detail is not necessary.


Maya's father often made homemade pasta for dinner when it was his turn to cook. Maya decided to watch and help him so she could learn how to make it her own. Her father started by mixing eggs and flour together, which made a thick dough that he kneaded. Next, he cut the dough into four pieces and rolled them into balls. In order to make the dough into pasta they needed the pasta machine. First they used the pasta machine to make the dough very flat. Maya fed the dough through the rollers while her father turned the crank. They had to feed the dough through several times while it was gradually flattened by the rollers. Finally they were ready to make the dough into pasta. They fed the flat pieces of dough through another part of the machine, which cut the dough into long flat strips. Now the pasta could be boiled and eaten!

3) What is the unifying idea of this passage?

A. Pasta is easy to make at home.
B. This is how to make homemade pasta.
C. Everyone should have a pasta machine.
D. A father and daughter spend time together.