GACE
Practice Test

Which symbol most accurately reflects the relationship between the two numbers below?<br/><br/><tex>1.2</tex> ☐ <tex>\frac{9}{10}</tex>

Shane’s Softball Production Company can produce 12 softballs in an hour. How many softballs can they produce in 14 hours?

Students are plotting points on a coordinate plane. Rudy plots the point <tex> (-6, 3) </tex> in the second quadrant. Frank plots the same point in the third quadrant. Who plotted the point correctly?

Sharon bought an equal number of $65, $55, and $40 tickets for a concert. She spent $640 for all the tickets. How many of each did she buy?

The price of a shirt is increased by 20%, and the price of a $40 pair of shoes is decreased by 40%. If the new price of the shirt now equals the new price of the shoes, what was the original price of the shirt?

What is the term for the distance around a circle?

Which of the following is a prime number?

Which diagram shows the graph of y = | x – 3 | ?<br/><br/>A. B.<br/><br/><img src="asset:assets/questions/9d4e383766f561ed.gif"> <img src="asset:assets/questions/6fae00e1255e23ef.gif"><br/><br/>C. D.<br/><br/><img src="asset:assets/questions/8e57fd686e8936df.gif"> <img src="asset:assets/questions/1dc92697f16f39c1.gif">

A radius of a circle is 3 cm. What is its area?

The population of the town of Homeville increased by approximately 0.5% last year. If the population at the beginning of the year was 2,460, what was the approximate population by the end of the year?

Which of the following is an example of an ordered pair?

Which strategy is the most helpful in having students ask questions after reading?

The word embrace has a few different meanings and can be used as a noun or a verb. What does it mean in this segment of the attached passage and is it used as a noun or a verb? “A purpose that is large enough to embrace the wellbeing of the planet and all of its inhabitants.”

Text features, such as bold-faced and capitalized words, are important in directions because <code>________</code>.

Which of the following is a vowel?

Highlighting, underlining, and using post-it notes while reading are examples of <code>________</code>.

From the following, choose the best title for this passage.

Which of the following does this author believe a mature writer does when it comes to being original and truly imaginative?

The Black Death, or, as it has been known, the Oriental plague, the bubonic plague, or in England, simply the plague, and in Italy, "la mortalega" (the great mortality) derived its name from the Orient; its inflammatory boils, tumors of the glands, and black spots, indicative of putrid decomposition, were such as have been seen in no other febrile disease. All the symptoms were not found in every case, and in many cases one symptom alone preceded death. Although afflicted with all the manifestations of the plague, some patients recovered.<br/><br/>According to Hecker the symptoms of cephalic affliction were seen; many patients were stupefied and fell into a deep sleep, or became speechless from palsy of the tongue, while others remained sleepless and without rest. The fauces and tongue were black and as if suffused with blood; no beverage could assuage the burning thirst, so that suffering continued without alleviation until death, which many in their despair accelerated with their own hands. Contagion was evident, for attendants caught the disease from their parents and friends, and many houses were emptied of their inhabitants.<br/><br/>The passage suggests that the Black Death was hard to detect because:

Which of the following statements is the best example of a simile?

Which is an example of a high-frequency word?

Spanish in the U.S.<br/><br/>Did you know that the United States has the second largest Spanish-speaking population in the world? With over 37 million speakers the age of five and older the U.S. alone has more inhabitants that speak Spanish than the whole country of Venezuela.<br/><br/>Spanish students don’t have to study abroad to get a good look into Latin-American culture. There are many cities here in the U.S. with (1) thriving Latino (2) districts that any student of Spanish can visit to practice speaking. Miami, for example, is home to a multitude of diverse Hispanics from all over Latin America and Europe. When walking down the streets of Little Havana (one of the predominantly Hispanic <i>barrios</i>, or neighborhoods) you will hear the Cuban Spanish (3) language variety. In Chicago, the place to hear Mexican Spanish is <i>La Villita.</i><br/><br/>Since Spanish-speaking U.S. citizens are the fastest growing linguistic group in the United States, it is common to find Spanish-language television channels (such as Univisión and Telemundo) in larger cities. In fact, it’s thanks to these mass media that there are people (although few) that spend their whole lives in the United States without ever having to learn or speak English. The governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, even commented once that Hispanics in the U.S. need to “turn off the TV in Spanish” in order to learn English more quickly.<br/><br/>But Governor Schwarzenegger ought to know that, according to linguistic research on (4) bilingualism, families of Hispanic heritage (as well as other non-English speaking families) produce English dominant (or English only) speakers by the third generation after their immigration. That means, it is more common than not that the grandchildren of the Mexican immigrant cannot communicate with their grandparent in Spanish. Thus, the Spanish language does not seem to (5) pose a threat in the U.S. society, contrary to what many politicians often suggest in their political rhetoric.The word “bilingualism”, in bold after the (4) in paragraph 4, can best be defined as

(1) Determining which foods are junk and which aren't can be confusing. Is fast food junk? What about high-calorie or convenience-store foods? Think of it this way: If the food has very few vitamins, minerals, (3) and other nutrients that you need to be healthy, <u>it's</u> probably junk. The main <u>principle</u> to remember is that food classified as junk will have a lot of sugar, fat, and/or salt.<br/><br/>(5) The effects of junk food are <u>no laughing matter</u>. Junk food can lead to obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. But you may not realize how much it can immediately make you feel like, well, junk. The fat in (7) those foods can build up on your blood vessel walls, Dr. Harold Jayne explains, which "makes it harder for your blood vessels to circulate blood around your body." That buildup can quickly <u>effect</u> how<br/><br/>(9) well you are able to perform during sports and other exercise.<br/><br/>Which of the following statements best expresses the main idea of paragraph 1 of the selection?

Anthropology has taught us that in many primitive societies religion—a sense of man's dependence on a power higher than himself—is preceded by a stage of magic—a belief in man's own power to influence by occult means the action of the world around him. That the ancestors of the Roman community passed through this stage seems clear, and in surviving religious practice we may discover evidence of such magic in various forms. There is, for instance, what anthropology describes as 'sympathetic magic'—the attempt to influence the powers of nature by an imitation of the process which it is desired that they should perform. Of this we have a characteristic example in the ceremony of the <em>aquaelicium</em>, designed to produce rain after a long drought.<br/><br/>Which best summarizes the main idea of this passage?

Which word is most closely synonymous with organization in writing?

Which word is NOT spelled correctly?

Which sentence below contains a prepositional phrase?

Select the answer choice that corrects an error in the underlined portion. If there is no error, choose D indicating that no change is necessary. Mr. Alvarez said it was (A) <u>all right</u> for us to have a yard sale. (B) <u>Hoards</u> of people came to it as they (C) <u>always</u> do.

How does using published paragraphs as models help students learn to write their own paragraphs?

Which course of action most improves the following sentence?<br/><br/>The short story, that <i>Stand By Me</i> was based on, was written under an alias.