QUESTION 1 Language: Read the sentences carefully and select the correct answer.

Fernando gets up at six o’clock every day. Today his alarm clock didn't work, so he up late.

a) wakes
b) woke
c) wake
d) waking

QUESTION 2

Read the sentence carefully and select the correct answer.

Fernando left his house in a hurry because he half an hour late!

a) is
b) are
c) were
d) was

QUESTION 3

Read the sentences carefully and select the correct answer.

When he looked at his car, it had a flat tire. Fernando the tire rapidly.

a) changes
b) change
c) changed
d) changing

QUESTION 4

Read the sentences carefully and select the correct answer.

He got in his car and to work. There was a lot of traffic, and he arrived more than an hour late!

a) drove
b) drives
c) drive
d) driving

Read the passage below and answer the question, dill was a curiosity. in the excerpt above, the word "curiosity" suggests that dill is odd dill asks a lot of questions dill is hard to understand dill is lost

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

2. page 1: schlosser describes "just another gorgeous rocky mountain vista. and yet cheyenne mountain is hardly pristine." why do you think schlosser describes the beautiful cheyenne mountain scene in detail before describing the military installation that lies inside?