03/30/2021 Practice

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Instructions You will be working on this practice WizerMe today.-Pace yourself.-Double-check your answers.-Get into the habit of re-reading and annotating the passages.-Jot down any unknown words and use context clues to determine the meaning of the words.-Use process of elimination.I will post the responses tomorrow. Looking for a Rainbow 1. Rain crashed against the brick wall of the library and pounded on the window behind me. Absorbed in a book, I heard the rain subside and felt late afternoon sunlight warm the back of my neck. I finished my chapter. 2. Half an hour later I was slogging through puddles toward a faded yellow two-story house set back into the woods. My cousins Sara, Jason, and Kendra stood in the doorway to greet me.3. “Did you see the rainbow?” Kendra asked. 4. “It stretched all the way down to the horizon at both ends,” Jason said. 5. “The brightest colors you can imagine,” Sara added. 6. “No, I didn’t see the rainbow,” I said. I hadn’t seen a rainbow in at least two years. I love rainbows but usually only hear about them after they disappear. 7. Seeing the disappointment on my face, Jason beckoned me into the house and said, “Don’t worry. We’ll show you a rainbow tomorrow.” 8. “What do you mean? You can’t store a rainbow away in a jar,” I objected. 9. “Wait and see. Come back tomorrow a little earlier than you did today.” 10. I took off my muddy shoes and set them by the door. “That makes no sense. The forecast doesn’t even say rain tomorrow.” 11. “You just have to look in the right place,” Sara said with a twinkle. “We’ll show you where to look.” 12. “A rainbow isn’t in a place,” I replied. 13. “Of course it is. Everything is in a place,” argued Sara. 14. “That’s not true. Strength and honesty and bedtime stories and songs you’ve known all your life— lots of things aren’t in a place.” I crossed my arms in front of my chest and waited for her response. 15. “You can’t see those things. Everything you can see is in a place. A rainbow is in the sky, isn’t it?” 16. I knew she was teasing me, but I couldn’t find the flaw in her logic. Halfway up the stairs it struck me. I turned triumphantly. “A rainbow is an optical illusion. The water in the air bends different parts of the sunlight at different angles, separating the colors that the water reflects back to your eyes.” 17. “So?” 18. “So a rainbow isn’t really there in the sky. It’s the way the light reaches your eyes. If other people are standing somewhere else, they’ll see the rainbow in a different position in the sky.” 19. Sara gave me the kind of look that only a cousin can give. “Are you trying to tell me that you create the rainbow by looking at it? If everyone stops looking, does the rainbow cease to exist? Are you saying rainbows aren’t real?” 20. “They’re real; they’re just not really in the sky. They’re really in your eyes and mind, and in the light that comes to you. I wish I’d been watching some of that light this afternoon,” I said. 21. “Come back tomorrow and we’ll show you,” Jason repeated. “Then you can decide where it is and whether it’s real.” 22. That night I dreamed about rainbows: rainbows in the sky, rainbows reaching my eyes, groups of people standing around with a slightly different rainbow for each of them. The next afternoon I walked back to my cousins’ house. The day was sunny and clear, not rainbow weather at all. 23. “Keep your shoes on,” Kendra told me. They led me down a narrow path through the woods behind the house. The trees were tall and dense. Pines as straight and tall as Greek columns stood contrasted with the gnarly, crooked branches of ancient oaks. On our right, a fallen log offered a home for countless forest creatures. Tall ferns danced around the end where the roots had pulled up out of the ground. 24. A haphazard pile of boulders to our left looked as if some giant had thrown them aside. A carpet of green softened their shaded sides. Sara asked, “Now are you going to tell me you don’t see the moss, you just see the light from the moss as it reaches your eyes?” 25. “That’s different,” I said. “You can touch the moss. You can feel it. It’s really there on the rocks. You can’t feel a rainbow.” Satisfied, or perhaps tiring of the game, my cousins led me on without comment. 26. Into the gentle sounds of chirping birds and creaking branches broke another sound: the gurgle of rushing water. We emerged into a clearing at the base of a tall, narrow waterfall spilling into a gleaming pool. Droplets of water splashed out from the stony ledge overhead. Jason drew me to a spot near the pool’s edge and pointed up to the droplets, sparkling in the sunlight. 27. There near the top of the waterfall—or so it appeared to my delighted eyes—was a brilliant, beautiful, perfect double rainbow. What literary element is NOT present in the passage? setting mood conflict flashback Read the sentence from the story. Half an hour later I was slogging through puddles toward a faded yellow two-story house set back into the woods. The narrator uses the word slogging in the sentence to show that she is walking quickly through the puddles. making loud noises while stomping through the puddles. splashing in the puddles. having difficulty walking in the puddles. The words crashed and pounded in Paragraph 1 help create an image of a brief cloudburst. a powerful storm. an unexpected shower. an abundant amount of rain. Read this sentence from the passage. A haphazard pile of boulders to our left looked as if some giant had thrown them aside. The word haphazard means disorganized. orderly. stacked. huge. How is the narrator’s conflict resolved in the passage? The narrator sees a rainbow near the waterfall. The narrator notices a rainbow up in the sky The narrator dreams about many rainbows. The narrator decides that rainbows are optical illusions. Which argument does the narrator make to convince Sara that moss and rainbows are DIFFERENT? You can see moss, but you cannot see a rainbow. You can touch moss, but you cannot touch a rainbow. You can store moss in a jar, but you cannot store a rainbow in a jar. You can find moss anywhere, but you cannot find a rainbow anywhere. Read the sentence. Into the gentle sounds of chirping birds and creaking branches broke another sound: the gurgle of rushing water. What literary device does the narrator use to describe the sounds heard in the woods? irony allegory metaphor onomatopoeia What is the MAIN purpose of the passage? to inform the reader about cousins and their relationships to give the reader scientific facts about waterfalls to entertain the reader with an account of a girl who sees a double rainbow to convince the reader that rainbows occur in specific places Which is the BEST alternative title for the passage? When the Rain Stops Looking in the Right Place An Afternoon With My Cousins Dreaming of Rainbows Which BEST explains the narrator’s conflict in the passage? The narrator is confused about how rainbows are formed The narrator does not think a rainbow can be put into a jar. The narrator is disappointed at not seeing a rainbow. The narrator thinks that rainbows are real, but Sara does not This passage can BEST be described as a legend. a tall tale. a realistic fiction. biographical information. Which paragraph BEST conveys the central idea of the passage? Paragraph 2 Paragraph 16 Paragraph 22 Paragraph 27 The narrator and her cousins found a rainbow in a jar. in the sky. on the rocks. near a waterfall. When Jason and Sara promise to show the narrator a rainbow, how does the narrator feel? confused, because she is not sure it will rain eager, because she hasn’t seen a rainbow in two years impatient, because she wants to see the rainbow right away upset, because she thinks they are teasing her Read the sentence from Paragraph 26.We emerged into a clearing at the base of a tall, narrow waterfall spilling into a gleaming pool.The images described in the sentence BEST convey which theme? the quest for understanding the beauty of nature the importance of family the peacefulness of being alone