Colin uses his phone for everything, so he likes to keep it with him at all times. lately, though, he's found it difficult to concentrate when he's studying because people often call him or send him a text message. what should colin do to improve his concentration?
a. leave his phone at home when he goes out to study because he doesn’t need it
b. silence or turn off his phone while he's studying
c. tell his friends how irritating it is when they call him while he's studying
d. put his phone in his backpack so he can ignore incoming calls and messages

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.