Question

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1. Which revision eliminates the passive voice?

After the game, Sam was spoken to by the coach.
A) Sam and the coach were spoken to by Sam's parents after the game.
B) After the game, the coach was spoken to by Sam.
C) The coach spoke with Sam after the game.
D) The coach was spoken to by Sam after the game.

2. When future historians examine our contemporary age, they will likely be perplexed by many things. Of course, change is a constant throughout history. The past flows into the present, which in turn ________ the future.
Fill in the blank with the correct answer.
A) destroys
B) controls
C) merges with
D) rallies around

3. I think River Elementary School needs a recycling program so that we can help keep the earth clean. Many other schools have recycling programs. The students 
in those schools collect used paper and empty drink containers and send them to recycling centers. (A) Recycling centers use the old paper to make new paper. (B) They use old containers to make new containers and other products. We need a recycling program like this at our school. (C) Students and teachers throw away a lot of used paper, and it mostly ends up in the earth. (D) If we had a used-paper collection box in each classroom near the trash bin, students and teachers could put their used paper into the collection box instead of throwing it away. Then we could send this used paper to a recycling center. If we did this, less paper would go into the earth.
When a paragraph contains two main ideas, it should be divided into two paragraphs. Choose the letter at the point where the passage should be divided.
A) A
B) B
C) C
D) D

4. Long ago, in the very olden time, there lived a powerful king. Crime was punished, or innocence was decided, by the result of chance. When a person was accused of a crime, his future would be judged in the public arena. All the people would gather in this building. (A) The king sat high up on his ceremonial chair. He gave a sign. A door under him opened. (B) The accused person stepped out into the arena. Directly opposite the king were two doors. They were side by side, exactly alike. (C) The person on trial had to walk directly to these doors and open one of them. He could open whichever door he pleased.If the accused man opened one door, out came a hungry tiger, the fiercest in the land. (D) The tiger immediately jumped on him and tore him to pieces as punishment for his guilt.
When a paragraph contains two main ideas, it should be divided into two paragraphs. Choose the letter at the point where the passage should be divided.
A) A
B) B
C) C
D) D

Answer 1

Answer:

C) The coach spoke with Sam after the game.

C) merges with

(C) Students and teachers throw away a lot of used paper

(A) The king sat high up on his ceremonial chair

Explanation:

1)

For changing a passive voice of verb tenses into active voice.

• Change object of the tense into subject, and write it in subject's place
• Change subject into object and use it in object's place.
• Identify the tense from helping verb(s) used in the passive voice, and use that tense in active voice. (use of " only was" in passive voice shows that this is past indefinite tense.

2)

Present can not destroy or control the future. It does not rally around future (rally around means to join or support someone in a difficult task). Present fuses or merges with future. For example some event of tomorrow will become a present moment when that time comes.

3)

Text of the point B has concluded the first part about what recycling program is and how other schools organize it. The author concludes this paragraph by saying that they needed a recycling program of that type in their school. The text from point C is talking about strategies to arrange that program in their school. It is here when a new idea starts; and hence from here it should be made a new paragraph.

4)

The text before point A is the introduction to a state, king and his place for judging the accused. This part describes the setting of the story. From point A onward the procedure of trying and punishing an accused person is described. It is here (point A), where a new idea/information is presented. So the paragraph should be split into two separate ones from this point.

Answer 2

C) The coach spoke with Sam after the game.

C) merges with

(C) Students and teachers throw away a lot of used paper

(A) The king sat high up on his ceremonial chair