California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress Reading Grade 11

Question 1

The Cedar Row Debate Society is a student club, and the charter is a set of rules the members wrote for themselves. Article 4 states the voting rule in one sentence. A motion passes only if more than half of the members present vote yes. Members who are absent are not added to the number present. The half is taken from the people in the room.

At the March meeting, 11 members were present. Half of 11 is 5.5. More than half means a yes count greater than 5.5, so 6 yes votes pass, and 5 yes votes do not. The March motion received 6 yes votes. Under Article 4, that motion passes.

The May meeting had the same number in the room: 11 members present. The May motion received 5 yes votes. Five is not more than half of 11, so the May motion does not pass. A member who wants the absent names added into the 11 is reading a rule the charter does not contain. Six yes votes pass. Five yes votes do not.

Accepted Answer

6 yes votes pass.

Question 2

The Cedar Row Debate Society is a student club, and the charter is a set of rules the members wrote for themselves. Article 4 states the voting rule in one sentence. A motion passes only if more than half of the members present vote yes. Members who are absent are not added to the number present. The half is taken from the people in the room.

At the March meeting, 11 members were present. Half of 11 is 5.5. More than half means a yes count greater than 5.5, so 6 yes votes pass, and 5 yes votes do not. The March motion received 6 yes votes. Under Article 4, that motion passes.

The May meeting had the same number in the room: 11 members present. The May motion received 5 yes votes. Five is not more than half of 11, so the May motion does not pass. A member who wants the absent names added into the 11 is reading a rule the charter does not contain. Six yes votes pass. Five yes votes do not.

Accepted Answer

It does not add them to the number of members present.

Question 3

The Cedar Row Debate Society is a student club, and the charter is a set of rules the members wrote for themselves. Article 4 states the voting rule in one sentence. A motion passes only if more than half of the members present vote yes. Members who are absent are not added to the number present. The half is taken from the people in the room.

At the March meeting, 11 members were present. Half of 11 is 5.5. More than half means a yes count greater than 5.5, so 6 yes votes pass, and 5 yes votes do not. The March motion received 6 yes votes. Under Article 4, that motion passes.

The May meeting had the same number in the room: 11 members present. The May motion received 5 yes votes. Five is not more than half of 11, so the May motion does not pass. A member who wants the absent names added into the 11 is reading a rule the charter does not contain. Six yes votes pass. Five yes votes do not.

Accepted Answer

Five yes votes are not more than half of the 11 members present.

Question 4

The Cedar Row Debate Society is a student club, and the charter is a set of rules the members wrote for themselves. Article 4 states the voting rule in one sentence. A motion passes only if more than half of the members present vote yes. Members who are absent are not added to the number present. The half is taken from the people in the room.

At the March meeting, 11 members were present. Half of 11 is 5.5. More than half means a yes count greater than 5.5, so 6 yes votes pass, and 5 yes votes do not. The March motion received 6 yes votes. Under Article 4, that motion passes.

The May meeting had the same number in the room: 11 members present. The May motion received 5 yes votes. Five is not more than half of 11, so the May motion does not pass. A member who wants the absent names added into the 11 is reading a rule the charter does not contain. Six yes votes pass. Five yes votes do not.

Accepted Answer

Included in the count of members present.

Question 5

The Cedar Row Debate Society is a student club, and the charter is a set of rules the members wrote for themselves. Article 4 states the voting rule in one sentence. A motion passes only if more than half of the members present vote yes. Members who are absent are not added to the number present. The half is taken from the people in the room.

At the March meeting, 11 members were present. Half of 11 is 5.5. More than half means a yes count greater than 5.5, so 6 yes votes pass, and 5 yes votes do not. The March motion received 6 yes votes. Under Article 4, that motion passes.

The May meeting had the same number in the room: 11 members present. The May motion received 5 yes votes. Five is not more than half of 11, so the May motion does not pass. A member who wants the absent names added into the 11 is reading a rule the charter does not contain. Six yes votes pass. Five yes votes do not.

Accepted Answer

March passes with 6 yes votes, and May does not pass with 5.

Question 6

The Cedar Row Debate Society is a student club, and the charter is a set of rules the members wrote for themselves. Article 4 states the voting rule in one sentence. A motion passes only if more than half of the members present vote yes. Members who are absent are not added to the number present. The half is taken from the people in the room.

At the March meeting, 11 members were present. Half of 11 is 5.5. More than half means a yes count greater than 5.5, so 6 yes votes pass, and 5 yes votes do not. The March motion received 6 yes votes. Under Article 4, that motion passes.

The May meeting had the same number in the room: 11 members present. The May motion received 5 yes votes. Five is not more than half of 11, so the May motion does not pass. A member who wants the absent names added into the 11 is reading a rule the charter does not contain. Six yes votes pass. Five yes votes do not.

Accepted Answer

The rule uses the members present and leaves absent members out of that number.

Question 7

A handout from the Ridge Planetarium corrects a guess students often make about the seasons. Earth's path around the sun is slightly oval, so the distance from the sun is not the same all year. Earth is closest to the sun in January. In July the planet is farther from the sun.

A northern winter still happens in January. The handout names the cause as tilt, not distance. In January the Northern Hemisphere leans away from the sun. Sunlight arrives at a lower angle, and the daylight is shorter, so that hemisphere receives less warming light even though the planet is at its nearest point.

Distance is one fact about the whole planet at a single time. It cannot, by itself, chill one hemisphere and warm the other. In that same January the Southern Hemisphere leans toward the sun and has its warmer season. If a shorter distance were what made a hemisphere warm, both hemispheres would warm together in the month when Earth is closest to the sun. They do not. Tilt sets the seasons opposite each other. January nearness and the northern winter share a month. They do not share a cause.

Accepted Answer

tilt

Question 8

A handout from the Ridge Planetarium corrects a guess students often make about the seasons. Earth's path around the sun is slightly oval, so the distance from the sun is not the same all year. Earth is closest to the sun in January. In July the planet is farther from the sun.

A northern winter still happens in January. The handout names the cause as tilt, not distance. In January the Northern Hemisphere leans away from the sun. Sunlight arrives at a lower angle, and the daylight is shorter, so that hemisphere receives less warming light even though the planet is at its nearest point.

Distance is one fact about the whole planet at a single time. It cannot, by itself, chill one hemisphere and warm the other. In that same January the Southern Hemisphere leans toward the sun and has its warmer season. If a shorter distance were what made a hemisphere warm, both hemispheres would warm together in the month when Earth is closest to the sun. They do not. Tilt sets the seasons opposite each other. January nearness and the northern winter share a month. They do not share a cause.

Accepted Answer

January.

Question 9

A handout from the Ridge Planetarium corrects a guess students often make about the seasons. Earth's path around the sun is slightly oval, so the distance from the sun is not the same all year. Earth is closest to the sun in January. In July the planet is farther from the sun.

A northern winter still happens in January. The handout names the cause as tilt, not distance. In January the Northern Hemisphere leans away from the sun. Sunlight arrives at a lower angle, and the daylight is shorter, so that hemisphere receives less warming light even though the planet is at its nearest point.

Distance is one fact about the whole planet at a single time. It cannot, by itself, chill one hemisphere and warm the other. In that same January the Southern Hemisphere leans toward the sun and has its warmer season. If a shorter distance were what made a hemisphere warm, both hemispheres would warm together in the month when Earth is closest to the sun. They do not. Tilt sets the seasons opposite each other. January nearness and the northern winter share a month. They do not share a cause.

Accepted Answer

Both hemispheres would warm together, but they do not.

Question 10

A handout from the Ridge Planetarium corrects a guess students often make about the seasons. Earth's path around the sun is slightly oval, so the distance from the sun is not the same all year. Earth is closest to the sun in January. In July the planet is farther from the sun.

A northern winter still happens in January. The handout names the cause as tilt, not distance. In January the Northern Hemisphere leans away from the sun. Sunlight arrives at a lower angle, and the daylight is shorter, so that hemisphere receives less warming light even though the planet is at its nearest point.

Distance is one fact about the whole planet at a single time. It cannot, by itself, chill one hemisphere and warm the other. In that same January the Southern Hemisphere leans toward the sun and has its warmer season. If a shorter distance were what made a hemisphere warm, both hemispheres would warm together in the month when Earth is closest to the sun. They do not. Tilt sets the seasons opposite each other. January nearness and the northern winter share a month. They do not share a cause.

Accepted Answer

It arrives at a lower angle during shorter daylight, so the hemisphere gets less warming light.

Question 11

A handout from the Ridge Planetarium corrects a guess students often make about the seasons. Earth's path around the sun is slightly oval, so the distance from the sun is not the same all year. Earth is closest to the sun in January. In July the planet is farther from the sun.

A northern winter still happens in January. The handout names the cause as tilt, not distance. In January the Northern Hemisphere leans away from the sun. Sunlight arrives at a lower angle, and the daylight is shorter, so that hemisphere receives less warming light even though the planet is at its nearest point.

Distance is one fact about the whole planet at a single time. It cannot, by itself, chill one hemisphere and warm the other. In that same January the Southern Hemisphere leans toward the sun and has its warmer season. If a shorter distance were what made a hemisphere warm, both hemispheres would warm together in the month when Earth is closest to the sun. They do not. Tilt sets the seasons opposite each other. January nearness and the northern winter share a month. They do not share a cause.

Accepted Answer

The distance from the sun is not the same all year.

Question 12

A handout from the Ridge Planetarium corrects a guess students often make about the seasons. Earth's path around the sun is slightly oval, so the distance from the sun is not the same all year. Earth is closest to the sun in January. In July the planet is farther from the sun.

A northern winter still happens in January. The handout names the cause as tilt, not distance. In January the Northern Hemisphere leans away from the sun. Sunlight arrives at a lower angle, and the daylight is shorter, so that hemisphere receives less warming light even though the planet is at its nearest point.

Distance is one fact about the whole planet at a single time. It cannot, by itself, chill one hemisphere and warm the other. In that same January the Southern Hemisphere leans toward the sun and has its warmer season. If a shorter distance were what made a hemisphere warm, both hemispheres would warm together in the month when Earth is closest to the sun. They do not. Tilt sets the seasons opposite each other. January nearness and the northern winter share a month. They do not share a cause.

Accepted Answer

They share a month, and they do not share a cause.

Question 13

Memorandum. To the events desk. From Imani Cole, building manager. Subject: How many people West Hall can seat.

West Hall is arranged in a fixed grid. There are 12 rows, and each row has 40 seats. The seats are bolted down. A booking cannot add a thirteenth row, and it cannot add a forty-first seat to a row.

Use the product rather than last year's poster. Forty seats in each of 12 rows means the hall holds 480 people. A request for 500 does not fit. A request for 480 fills every seat and leaves none unused.

If a row is closed for repair, count only the open rows before you confirm the date. The figure 480 applies when all 12 rows are open, with 40 seats in each. It is not a wish, and it is not the capacity of the lobby. This memo does not give a lobby count.

Accepted Answer

The hall holds 480 people.

Question 14

Memorandum. To the events desk. From Imani Cole, building manager. Subject: How many people West Hall can seat.

West Hall is arranged in a fixed grid. There are 12 rows, and each row has 40 seats. The seats are bolted down. A booking cannot add a thirteenth row, and it cannot add a forty-first seat to a row.

Use the product rather than last year's poster. Forty seats in each of 12 rows means the hall holds 480 people. A request for 500 does not fit. A request for 480 fills every seat and leaves none unused.

If a row is closed for repair, count only the open rows before you confirm the date. The figure 480 applies when all 12 rows are open, with 40 seats in each. It is not a wish, and it is not the capacity of the lobby. This memo does not give a lobby count.

Accepted Answer

It multiplies 40 seats in each row by 12 rows.

Question 15

Memorandum. To the events desk. From Imani Cole, building manager. Subject: How many people West Hall can seat.

West Hall is arranged in a fixed grid. There are 12 rows, and each row has 40 seats. The seats are bolted down. A booking cannot add a thirteenth row, and it cannot add a forty-first seat to a row.

Use the product rather than last year's poster. Forty seats in each of 12 rows means the hall holds 480 people. A request for 500 does not fit. A request for 480 fills every seat and leaves none unused.

If a row is closed for repair, count only the open rows before you confirm the date. The figure 480 applies when all 12 rows are open, with 40 seats in each. It is not a wish, and it is not the capacity of the lobby. This memo does not give a lobby count.

Accepted Answer

Five hundred is more than the 480 seats in the grid.

Question 16

Memorandum. To the events desk. From Imani Cole, building manager. Subject: How many people West Hall can seat.

West Hall is arranged in a fixed grid. There are 12 rows, and each row has 40 seats. The seats are bolted down. A booking cannot add a thirteenth row, and it cannot add a forty-first seat to a row.

Use the product rather than last year's poster. Forty seats in each of 12 rows means the hall holds 480 people. A request for 500 does not fit. A request for 480 fills every seat and leaves none unused.

If a row is closed for repair, count only the open rows before you confirm the date. The figure 480 applies when all 12 rows are open, with 40 seats in each. It is not a wish, and it is not the capacity of the lobby. This memo does not give a lobby count.

Accepted Answer

The capacity of the lobby.

Question 17

Memorandum. To the events desk. From Imani Cole, building manager. Subject: How many people West Hall can seat.

West Hall is arranged in a fixed grid. There are 12 rows, and each row has 40 seats. The seats are bolted down. A booking cannot add a thirteenth row, and it cannot add a forty-first seat to a row.

Use the product rather than last year's poster. Forty seats in each of 12 rows means the hall holds 480 people. A request for 500 does not fit. A request for 480 fills every seat and leaves none unused.

If a row is closed for repair, count only the open rows before you confirm the date. The figure 480 applies when all 12 rows are open, with 40 seats in each. It is not a wish, and it is not the capacity of the lobby. This memo does not give a lobby count.

Accepted Answer

Count only the open rows before confirming the date.

Question 18

Memorandum. To the events desk. From Imani Cole, building manager. Subject: How many people West Hall can seat.

West Hall is arranged in a fixed grid. There are 12 rows, and each row has 40 seats. The seats are bolted down. A booking cannot add a thirteenth row, and it cannot add a forty-first seat to a row.

Use the product rather than last year's poster. Forty seats in each of 12 rows means the hall holds 480 people. A request for 500 does not fit. A request for 480 fills every seat and leaves none unused.

If a row is closed for repair, count only the open rows before you confirm the date. The figure 480 applies when all 12 rows are open, with 40 seats in each. It is not a wish, and it is not the capacity of the lobby. This memo does not give a lobby count.

Accepted Answer

The seats stay in the grid, so a booking cannot add a row or an extra seat.

Question 19

1 The garden gate sticks in the minute the sprinklers stop.

2 I put a shoulder to it, and the latch answers late.

3 Bean vines hang on twine that sags between the stakes,

4 a low curve, as if the row had let out a breath.

5 A paper sign calls the plots resting.

6 Resting is a polite word for a rule: no picking after nine.

7 Someone has left a bowl of cherry tomatoes on the bench,

8 a small bright objection set beside the sign.

9 I leave the bowl where it is.

10 A bowl is not an exception the sign agreed to.

11 The sign remains the rule, and the fruit remains in the bowl.

12 I take the late click of the latch with me, and nothing else.

Accepted Answer

No picking after nine.

Question 20

1 The garden gate sticks in the minute the sprinklers stop.

2 I put a shoulder to it, and the latch answers late.

3 Bean vines hang on twine that sags between the stakes,

4 a low curve, as if the row had let out a breath.

5 A paper sign calls the plots resting.

6 Resting is a polite word for a rule: no picking after nine.

7 Someone has left a bowl of cherry tomatoes on the bench,

8 a small bright objection set beside the sign.

9 I leave the bowl where it is.

10 A bowl is not an exception the sign agreed to.

11 The sign remains the rule, and the fruit remains in the bowl.

12 I take the late click of the latch with me, and nothing else.

Accepted Answer

Leaves the bowl where it is.

Question 21

1 The garden gate sticks in the minute the sprinklers stop.

2 I put a shoulder to it, and the latch answers late.

3 Bean vines hang on twine that sags between the stakes,

4 a low curve, as if the row had let out a breath.

5 A paper sign calls the plots resting.

6 Resting is a polite word for a rule: no picking after nine.

7 Someone has left a bowl of cherry tomatoes on the bench,

8 a small bright objection set beside the sign.

9 I leave the bowl where it is.

10 A bowl is not an exception the sign agreed to.

11 The sign remains the rule, and the fruit remains in the bowl.

12 I take the late click of the latch with me, and nothing else.

Accepted Answer

The bowl is not an exception the sign agreed to, and the sign remains the rule.

Question 22

1 The garden gate sticks in the minute the sprinklers stop.

2 I put a shoulder to it, and the latch answers late.

3 Bean vines hang on twine that sags between the stakes,

4 a low curve, as if the row had let out a breath.

5 A paper sign calls the plots resting.

6 Resting is a polite word for a rule: no picking after nine.

7 Someone has left a bowl of cherry tomatoes on the bench,

8 a small bright objection set beside the sign.

9 I leave the bowl where it is.

10 A bowl is not an exception the sign agreed to.

11 The sign remains the rule, and the fruit remains in the bowl.

12 I take the late click of the latch with me, and nothing else.

Accepted Answer

The sagging twine, compared with a row breathing out.

Question 23

1 The garden gate sticks in the minute the sprinklers stop.

2 I put a shoulder to it, and the latch answers late.

3 Bean vines hang on twine that sags between the stakes,

4 a low curve, as if the row had let out a breath.

5 A paper sign calls the plots resting.

6 Resting is a polite word for a rule: no picking after nine.

7 Someone has left a bowl of cherry tomatoes on the bench,

8 a small bright objection set beside the sign.

9 I leave the bowl where it is.

10 A bowl is not an exception the sign agreed to.

11 The sign remains the rule, and the fruit remains in the bowl.

12 I take the late click of the latch with me, and nothing else.

Accepted Answer

The late click of the latch, and nothing else.

Question 24

1 The garden gate sticks in the minute the sprinklers stop.

2 I put a shoulder to it, and the latch answers late.

3 Bean vines hang on twine that sags between the stakes,

4 a low curve, as if the row had let out a breath.

5 A paper sign calls the plots resting.

6 Resting is a polite word for a rule: no picking after nine.

7 Someone has left a bowl of cherry tomatoes on the bench,

8 a small bright objection set beside the sign.

9 I leave the bowl where it is.

10 A bowl is not an exception the sign agreed to.

11 The sign remains the rule, and the fruit remains in the bowl.

12 I take the late click of the latch with me, and nothing else.

Accepted Answer

It softens the wording of a rule that still forbids picking after nine.

Question 25

The student senate should keep the library open for a tenth hour, until 9 p.m., on weeknights during the term. The extra hour costs a student wage and a utility bill. I am not calling that cost imaginary. The budget office priced it at the March hearing, and that price is real.

The hour still belongs on the calendar because the only quiet seats after sports practice are in that building. The March count, taken on four weeknights, found the reading room above 80 percent full at 8:15 p.m. A room that full at 8:15 is evidence that the ninth hour is not spare capacity. It is not evidence about weekend mornings, and I am not using it that way.

The opposing letter says students can study in the cafeteria. The cafeteria closes its kitchen at 7 and stacks the chairs at 7:30. A room that is already stacked is not an alternative to a room that is still open. The letter names a place and skips the hour when that place can no longer be used.

Keep the tenth hour through the term. Revisit the wage in June with a new count. Do not end the hour in April on the claim that a room which shuts at 7:30 is available.

Accepted Answer

A student wage and a utility bill, priced at the March hearing.

Question 26

The student senate should keep the library open for a tenth hour, until 9 p.m., on weeknights during the term. The extra hour costs a student wage and a utility bill. I am not calling that cost imaginary. The budget office priced it at the March hearing, and that price is real.

The hour still belongs on the calendar because the only quiet seats after sports practice are in that building. The March count, taken on four weeknights, found the reading room above 80 percent full at 8:15 p.m. A room that full at 8:15 is evidence that the ninth hour is not spare capacity. It is not evidence about weekend mornings, and I am not using it that way.

The opposing letter says students can study in the cafeteria. The cafeteria closes its kitchen at 7 and stacks the chairs at 7:30. A room that is already stacked is not an alternative to a room that is still open. The letter names a place and skips the hour when that place can no longer be used.

Keep the tenth hour through the term. Revisit the wage in June with a new count. Do not end the hour in April on the claim that a room which shuts at 7:30 is available.

Accepted Answer

On four weeknights the reading room was above 80 percent full at 8:15, so the ninth hour is not spare.

Question 27

The student senate should keep the library open for a tenth hour, until 9 p.m., on weeknights during the term. The extra hour costs a student wage and a utility bill. I am not calling that cost imaginary. The budget office priced it at the March hearing, and that price is real.

The hour still belongs on the calendar because the only quiet seats after sports practice are in that building. The March count, taken on four weeknights, found the reading room above 80 percent full at 8:15 p.m. A room that full at 8:15 is evidence that the ninth hour is not spare capacity. It is not evidence about weekend mornings, and I am not using it that way.

The opposing letter says students can study in the cafeteria. The cafeteria closes its kitchen at 7 and stacks the chairs at 7:30. A room that is already stacked is not an alternative to a room that is still open. The letter names a place and skips the hour when that place can no longer be used.

Keep the tenth hour through the term. Revisit the wage in June with a new count. Do not end the hour in April on the claim that a room which shuts at 7:30 is available.

Accepted Answer

It is not evidence about weekend mornings.

Question 28

The student senate should keep the library open for a tenth hour, until 9 p.m., on weeknights during the term. The extra hour costs a student wage and a utility bill. I am not calling that cost imaginary. The budget office priced it at the March hearing, and that price is real.

The hour still belongs on the calendar because the only quiet seats after sports practice are in that building. The March count, taken on four weeknights, found the reading room above 80 percent full at 8:15 p.m. A room that full at 8:15 is evidence that the ninth hour is not spare capacity. It is not evidence about weekend mornings, and I am not using it that way.

The opposing letter says students can study in the cafeteria. The cafeteria closes its kitchen at 7 and stacks the chairs at 7:30. A room that is already stacked is not an alternative to a room that is still open. The letter names a place and skips the hour when that place can no longer be used.

Keep the tenth hour through the term. Revisit the wage in June with a new count. Do not end the hour in April on the claim that a room which shuts at 7:30 is available.

Accepted Answer

It stacks the chairs at 7:30, so it is not open during the later hour.

Question 29

The student senate should keep the library open for a tenth hour, until 9 p.m., on weeknights during the term. The extra hour costs a student wage and a utility bill. I am not calling that cost imaginary. The budget office priced it at the March hearing, and that price is real.

The hour still belongs on the calendar because the only quiet seats after sports practice are in that building. The March count, taken on four weeknights, found the reading room above 80 percent full at 8:15 p.m. A room that full at 8:15 is evidence that the ninth hour is not spare capacity. It is not evidence about weekend mornings, and I am not using it that way.

The opposing letter says students can study in the cafeteria. The cafeteria closes its kitchen at 7 and stacks the chairs at 7:30. A room that is already stacked is not an alternative to a room that is still open. The letter names a place and skips the hour when that place can no longer be used.

Keep the tenth hour through the term. Revisit the wage in June with a new count. Do not end the hour in April on the claim that a room which shuts at 7:30 is available.

Accepted Answer

Keep the tenth hour through the term, and revisit the wage in June with a new count.

Question 30

The student senate should keep the library open for a tenth hour, until 9 p.m., on weeknights during the term. The extra hour costs a student wage and a utility bill. I am not calling that cost imaginary. The budget office priced it at the March hearing, and that price is real.

The hour still belongs on the calendar because the only quiet seats after sports practice are in that building. The March count, taken on four weeknights, found the reading room above 80 percent full at 8:15 p.m. A room that full at 8:15 is evidence that the ninth hour is not spare capacity. It is not evidence about weekend mornings, and I am not using it that way.

The opposing letter says students can study in the cafeteria. The cafeteria closes its kitchen at 7 and stacks the chairs at 7:30. A room that is already stacked is not an alternative to a room that is still open. The letter names a place and skips the hour when that place can no longer be used.

Keep the tenth hour through the term. Revisit the wage in June with a new count. Do not end the hour in April on the claim that a room which shuts at 7:30 is available.

Accepted Answer

Unused room during the ninth hour, which the count says the library does not have.

Question 31

A memo from a transit intern argues that riders have abandoned the east platform. The evidence offered is one Saturday in April. A counter recorded 30 boardings on the east platform and 90 on the west platform.

The number 30 is a real count for that Saturday. It describes that day. It does not describe a year, and it does not name a cause. The memo adds that people dislike the east platform. Dislike is a motive. The count shows fewer boardings on one date. It does not show why those boardings were fewer.

A note from the station chief, attached under the memo, says the east elevator was locked for repair that Saturday. The note is a possible explanation for a low count on that date. It is not proof that riders have permanently left the platform. A locked elevator on one Saturday can lower that day's number without settling the larger claim.

A careful sentence stops where the count stops: on that Saturday, with the elevator locked, the east platform had 30 boardings and the west had 90. The jump from that sentence to a claim of abandonment treats one constrained day as a lasting preference.

Accepted Answer

On one Saturday in April, 30 east-platform boardings and 90 west-platform boardings.

Question 32

A memo from a transit intern argues that riders have abandoned the east platform. The evidence offered is one Saturday in April. A counter recorded 30 boardings on the east platform and 90 on the west platform.

The number 30 is a real count for that Saturday. It describes that day. It does not describe a year, and it does not name a cause. The memo adds that people dislike the east platform. Dislike is a motive. The count shows fewer boardings on one date. It does not show why those boardings were fewer.

A note from the station chief, attached under the memo, says the east elevator was locked for repair that Saturday. The note is a possible explanation for a low count on that date. It is not proof that riders have permanently left the platform. A locked elevator on one Saturday can lower that day's number without settling the larger claim.

A careful sentence stops where the count stops: on that Saturday, with the elevator locked, the east platform had 30 boardings and the west had 90. The jump from that sentence to a claim of abandonment treats one constrained day as a lasting preference.

Accepted Answer

Dislike is a motive, and the count shows only fewer boardings on one date.

Question 33

A memo from a transit intern argues that riders have abandoned the east platform. The evidence offered is one Saturday in April. A counter recorded 30 boardings on the east platform and 90 on the west platform.

The number 30 is a real count for that Saturday. It describes that day. It does not describe a year, and it does not name a cause. The memo adds that people dislike the east platform. Dislike is a motive. The count shows fewer boardings on one date. It does not show why those boardings were fewer.

A note from the station chief, attached under the memo, says the east elevator was locked for repair that Saturday. The note is a possible explanation for a low count on that date. It is not proof that riders have permanently left the platform. A locked elevator on one Saturday can lower that day's number without settling the larger claim.

A careful sentence stops where the count stops: on that Saturday, with the elevator locked, the east platform had 30 boardings and the west had 90. The jump from that sentence to a claim of abandonment treats one constrained day as a lasting preference.

Accepted Answer

The east elevator was locked for repair that Saturday.

Question 34

A memo from a transit intern argues that riders have abandoned the east platform. The evidence offered is one Saturday in April. A counter recorded 30 boardings on the east platform and 90 on the west platform.

The number 30 is a real count for that Saturday. It describes that day. It does not describe a year, and it does not name a cause. The memo adds that people dislike the east platform. Dislike is a motive. The count shows fewer boardings on one date. It does not show why those boardings were fewer.

A note from the station chief, attached under the memo, says the east elevator was locked for repair that Saturday. The note is a possible explanation for a low count on that date. It is not proof that riders have permanently left the platform. A locked elevator on one Saturday can lower that day's number without settling the larger claim.

A careful sentence stops where the count stops: on that Saturday, with the elevator locked, the east platform had 30 boardings and the west had 90. The jump from that sentence to a claim of abandonment treats one constrained day as a lasting preference.

Accepted Answer

One constrained Saturday is treated as a lasting abandonment.

Question 35

A memo from a transit intern argues that riders have abandoned the east platform. The evidence offered is one Saturday in April. A counter recorded 30 boardings on the east platform and 90 on the west platform.

The number 30 is a real count for that Saturday. It describes that day. It does not describe a year, and it does not name a cause. The memo adds that people dislike the east platform. Dislike is a motive. The count shows fewer boardings on one date. It does not show why those boardings were fewer.

A note from the station chief, attached under the memo, says the east elevator was locked for repair that Saturday. The note is a possible explanation for a low count on that date. It is not proof that riders have permanently left the platform. A locked elevator on one Saturday can lower that day's number without settling the larger claim.

A careful sentence stops where the count stops: on that Saturday, with the elevator locked, the east platform had 30 boardings and the west had 90. The jump from that sentence to a claim of abandonment treats one constrained day as a lasting preference.

Accepted Answer

The sentence that stops at that Saturday's 30 and 90 boardings, with the elevator locked.

Question 36

A memo from a transit intern argues that riders have abandoned the east platform. The evidence offered is one Saturday in April. A counter recorded 30 boardings on the east platform and 90 on the west platform.

The number 30 is a real count for that Saturday. It describes that day. It does not describe a year, and it does not name a cause. The memo adds that people dislike the east platform. Dislike is a motive. The count shows fewer boardings on one date. It does not show why those boardings were fewer.

A note from the station chief, attached under the memo, says the east elevator was locked for repair that Saturday. The note is a possible explanation for a low count on that date. It is not proof that riders have permanently left the platform. A locked elevator on one Saturday can lower that day's number without settling the larger claim.

A careful sentence stops where the count stops: on that Saturday, with the elevator locked, the east platform had 30 boardings and the west had 90. The jump from that sentence to a claim of abandonment treats one constrained day as a lasting preference.

Accepted Answer

A year of ridership.

Question 37

The excerpt is from The Second Copy, a short play set in a classroom after the bell. The borrowed book is a blue paperback. Maris enters carrying a shop bag.

MARIS: I brought it back. Your copy is returned.

(Maris sets a different book, still in the shop bag, on the windowsill. The borrowed blue paperback remains on the teacher's desk. Maris does not touch it.)

ELIAS: Then the record is clear.

MARIS: I said I brought it back.

ELIAS: The one you borrowed is still on my desk.

The spoken claim is that the copy was returned. The stage direction puts a different book on the windowsill and leaves the borrowed paperback on the desk. A reader who keeps only Maris's line will think the borrowed copy came back. The direction shows it did not. In this scene the direction is the more reliable report of where the borrowed book is, because it shows the two books in two places, while the line only claims a return.

Accepted Answer

That the borrowed copy was brought back.

Question 38

The excerpt is from The Second Copy, a short play set in a classroom after the bell. The borrowed book is a blue paperback. Maris enters carrying a shop bag.

MARIS: I brought it back. Your copy is returned.

(Maris sets a different book, still in the shop bag, on the windowsill. The borrowed blue paperback remains on the teacher's desk. Maris does not touch it.)

ELIAS: Then the record is clear.

MARIS: I said I brought it back.

ELIAS: The one you borrowed is still on my desk.

The spoken claim is that the copy was returned. The stage direction puts a different book on the windowsill and leaves the borrowed paperback on the desk. A reader who keeps only Maris's line will think the borrowed copy came back. The direction shows it did not. In this scene the direction is the more reliable report of where the borrowed book is, because it shows the two books in two places, while the line only claims a return.

Accepted Answer

A different book is set on the windowsill, and the borrowed paperback stays on the desk.

Question 39

The excerpt is from The Second Copy, a short play set in a classroom after the bell. The borrowed book is a blue paperback. Maris enters carrying a shop bag.

MARIS: I brought it back. Your copy is returned.

(Maris sets a different book, still in the shop bag, on the windowsill. The borrowed blue paperback remains on the teacher's desk. Maris does not touch it.)

ELIAS: Then the record is clear.

MARIS: I said I brought it back.

ELIAS: The one you borrowed is still on my desk.

The spoken claim is that the copy was returned. The stage direction puts a different book on the windowsill and leaves the borrowed paperback on the desk. A reader who keeps only Maris's line will think the borrowed copy came back. The direction shows it did not. In this scene the direction is the more reliable report of where the borrowed book is, because it shows the two books in two places, while the line only claims a return.

Accepted Answer

The borrowed book is still on the desk.

Question 40

The excerpt is from The Second Copy, a short play set in a classroom after the bell. The borrowed book is a blue paperback. Maris enters carrying a shop bag.

MARIS: I brought it back. Your copy is returned.

(Maris sets a different book, still in the shop bag, on the windowsill. The borrowed blue paperback remains on the teacher's desk. Maris does not touch it.)

ELIAS: Then the record is clear.

MARIS: I said I brought it back.

ELIAS: The one you borrowed is still on my desk.

The spoken claim is that the copy was returned. The stage direction puts a different book on the windowsill and leaves the borrowed paperback on the desk. A reader who keeps only Maris's line will think the borrowed copy came back. The direction shows it did not. In this scene the direction is the more reliable report of where the borrowed book is, because it shows the two books in two places, while the line only claims a return.

Accepted Answer

Thinking the borrowed copy came back.

Question 41

The excerpt is from The Second Copy, a short play set in a classroom after the bell. The borrowed book is a blue paperback. Maris enters carrying a shop bag.

MARIS: I brought it back. Your copy is returned.

(Maris sets a different book, still in the shop bag, on the windowsill. The borrowed blue paperback remains on the teacher's desk. Maris does not touch it.)

ELIAS: Then the record is clear.

MARIS: I said I brought it back.

ELIAS: The one you borrowed is still on my desk.

The spoken claim is that the copy was returned. The stage direction puts a different book on the windowsill and leaves the borrowed paperback on the desk. A reader who keeps only Maris's line will think the borrowed copy came back. The direction shows it did not. In this scene the direction is the more reliable report of where the borrowed book is, because it shows the two books in two places, while the line only claims a return.

Accepted Answer

It shows where each book is, while the line only claims a return.

Question 42

The excerpt is from The Second Copy, a short play set in a classroom after the bell. The borrowed book is a blue paperback. Maris enters carrying a shop bag.

MARIS: I brought it back. Your copy is returned.

(Maris sets a different book, still in the shop bag, on the windowsill. The borrowed blue paperback remains on the teacher's desk. Maris does not touch it.)

ELIAS: Then the record is clear.

MARIS: I said I brought it back.

ELIAS: The one you borrowed is still on my desk.

The spoken claim is that the copy was returned. The stage direction puts a different book on the windowsill and leaves the borrowed paperback on the desk. A reader who keeps only Maris's line will think the borrowed copy came back. The direction shows it did not. In this scene the direction is the more reliable report of where the borrowed book is, because it shows the two books in two places, while the line only claims a return.

Accepted Answer

It treats the return as settled, but the last line says the borrowed book is still on the desk.

Question 43

The research guide for the senior seminar defines peer-reviewed before the class may use the phrase. A source is peer-reviewed when a named reader, other than the author, examined the piece before publication and the publication says so. A name on a byline is the author, not that reader. Popularity is not the test.

In a sample project the guide discusses, a student calls a travel blog peer-reviewed because thousands of people liked it. The blog names its author. It does not name a reader who examined the piece before publication. Under the guide's definition, the blog is not peer-reviewed. Likes do not supply the missing reader.

The student may still cite the blog as a personal account. That would be a different label, about experience. It would not be the label the guide reserved for a named reader's examination before publication. Calling the blog peer-reviewed borrows a standard the guide already attached to a stricter process.

Accepted Answer

A named reader other than the author examined the piece before publication, and the publication says so.

Question 44

The research guide for the senior seminar defines peer-reviewed before the class may use the phrase. A source is peer-reviewed when a named reader, other than the author, examined the piece before publication and the publication says so. A name on a byline is the author, not that reader. Popularity is not the test.

In a sample project the guide discusses, a student calls a travel blog peer-reviewed because thousands of people liked it. The blog names its author. It does not name a reader who examined the piece before publication. Under the guide's definition, the blog is not peer-reviewed. Likes do not supply the missing reader.

The student may still cite the blog as a personal account. That would be a different label, about experience. It would not be the label the guide reserved for a named reader's examination before publication. Calling the blog peer-reviewed borrows a standard the guide already attached to a stricter process.

Accepted Answer

It names an author and does not name a reader who examined it before publication.

Question 45

The research guide for the senior seminar defines peer-reviewed before the class may use the phrase. A source is peer-reviewed when a named reader, other than the author, examined the piece before publication and the publication says so. A name on a byline is the author, not that reader. Popularity is not the test.

In a sample project the guide discusses, a student calls a travel blog peer-reviewed because thousands of people liked it. The blog names its author. It does not name a reader who examined the piece before publication. Under the guide's definition, the blog is not peer-reviewed. Likes do not supply the missing reader.

The student may still cite the blog as a personal account. That would be a different label, about experience. It would not be the label the guide reserved for a named reader's examination before publication. Calling the blog peer-reviewed borrows a standard the guide already attached to a stricter process.

Accepted Answer

It cannot serve as the test for peer-reviewed.

Question 46

The research guide for the senior seminar defines peer-reviewed before the class may use the phrase. A source is peer-reviewed when a named reader, other than the author, examined the piece before publication and the publication says so. A name on a byline is the author, not that reader. Popularity is not the test.

In a sample project the guide discusses, a student calls a travel blog peer-reviewed because thousands of people liked it. The blog names its author. It does not name a reader who examined the piece before publication. Under the guide's definition, the blog is not peer-reviewed. Likes do not supply the missing reader.

The student may still cite the blog as a personal account. That would be a different label, about experience. It would not be the label the guide reserved for a named reader's examination before publication. Calling the blog peer-reviewed borrows a standard the guide already attached to a stricter process.

Accepted Answer

Cite it as a personal account.

Question 47

The research guide for the senior seminar defines peer-reviewed before the class may use the phrase. A source is peer-reviewed when a named reader, other than the author, examined the piece before publication and the publication says so. A name on a byline is the author, not that reader. Popularity is not the test.

In a sample project the guide discusses, a student calls a travel blog peer-reviewed because thousands of people liked it. The blog names its author. It does not name a reader who examined the piece before publication. Under the guide's definition, the blog is not peer-reviewed. Likes do not supply the missing reader.

The student may still cite the blog as a personal account. That would be a different label, about experience. It would not be the label the guide reserved for a named reader's examination before publication. Calling the blog peer-reviewed borrows a standard the guide already attached to a stricter process.

Accepted Answer

The author, not the reader who examined the piece beforehand.

Question 48

The research guide for the senior seminar defines peer-reviewed before the class may use the phrase. A source is peer-reviewed when a named reader, other than the author, examined the piece before publication and the publication says so. A name on a byline is the author, not that reader. Popularity is not the test.

In a sample project the guide discusses, a student calls a travel blog peer-reviewed because thousands of people liked it. The blog names its author. It does not name a reader who examined the piece before publication. Under the guide's definition, the blog is not peer-reviewed. Likes do not supply the missing reader.

The student may still cite the blog as a personal account. That would be a different label, about experience. It would not be the label the guide reserved for a named reader's examination before publication. Calling the blog peer-reviewed borrows a standard the guide already attached to a stricter process.

Accepted Answer

It borrows a standard the guide attached to a stricter process.

Question 49

Two pieces ran the morning the plaza fountain stopped. They do different work.

Desk note, written by the facilities clerk at 7 a.m.: The plaza fountain stopped circulating at 6:40 a.m. A valve in the pump room was closed. The clerk confirmed the time and said a technician would inspect the valve before noon. The note records a stoppage and a closed valve. It does not tell the council to replace the pump.

Column printed beside the note: The fountain is the plaza's public center, and the council should replace the pump this quarter rather than patch the valve again. A replacement is a choice about the quarter's budget. The column asks for that choice. It does not establish the minute the water stopped.

A record and a recommendation can share a page and keep separate jobs. The sentence that the fountain stopped at 6:40 can be checked against the clerk. The sentence that the council should replace the pump stands or falls as an argument about money. The time is not a budget request, and the request is not a clock.

Accepted Answer

At 6:40 a.m.

Question 50

Two pieces ran the morning the plaza fountain stopped. They do different work.

Desk note, written by the facilities clerk at 7 a.m.: The plaza fountain stopped circulating at 6:40 a.m. A valve in the pump room was closed. The clerk confirmed the time and said a technician would inspect the valve before noon. The note records a stoppage and a closed valve. It does not tell the council to replace the pump.

Column printed beside the note: The fountain is the plaza's public center, and the council should replace the pump this quarter rather than patch the valve again. A replacement is a choice about the quarter's budget. The column asks for that choice. It does not establish the minute the water stopped.

A record and a recommendation can share a page and keep separate jobs. The sentence that the fountain stopped at 6:40 can be checked against the clerk. The sentence that the council should replace the pump stands or falls as an argument about money. The time is not a budget request, and the request is not a clock.

Accepted Answer

A valve was closed.

Question 51

Two pieces ran the morning the plaza fountain stopped. They do different work.

Desk note, written by the facilities clerk at 7 a.m.: The plaza fountain stopped circulating at 6:40 a.m. A valve in the pump room was closed. The clerk confirmed the time and said a technician would inspect the valve before noon. The note records a stoppage and a closed valve. It does not tell the council to replace the pump.

Column printed beside the note: The fountain is the plaza's public center, and the council should replace the pump this quarter rather than patch the valve again. A replacement is a choice about the quarter's budget. The column asks for that choice. It does not establish the minute the water stopped.

A record and a recommendation can share a page and keep separate jobs. The sentence that the fountain stopped at 6:40 can be checked against the clerk. The sentence that the council should replace the pump stands or falls as an argument about money. The time is not a budget request, and the request is not a clock.

Accepted Answer

It does not tell the council to replace the pump.

Question 52

Two pieces ran the morning the plaza fountain stopped. They do different work.

Desk note, written by the facilities clerk at 7 a.m.: The plaza fountain stopped circulating at 6:40 a.m. A valve in the pump room was closed. The clerk confirmed the time and said a technician would inspect the valve before noon. The note records a stoppage and a closed valve. It does not tell the council to replace the pump.

Column printed beside the note: The fountain is the plaza's public center, and the council should replace the pump this quarter rather than patch the valve again. A replacement is a choice about the quarter's budget. The column asks for that choice. It does not establish the minute the water stopped.

A record and a recommendation can share a page and keep separate jobs. The sentence that the fountain stopped at 6:40 can be checked against the clerk. The sentence that the council should replace the pump stands or falls as an argument about money. The time is not a budget request, and the request is not a clock.

Accepted Answer

Replace the pump this quarter rather than patch the valve again.

Question 53

Two pieces ran the morning the plaza fountain stopped. They do different work.

Desk note, written by the facilities clerk at 7 a.m.: The plaza fountain stopped circulating at 6:40 a.m. A valve in the pump room was closed. The clerk confirmed the time and said a technician would inspect the valve before noon. The note records a stoppage and a closed valve. It does not tell the council to replace the pump.

Column printed beside the note: The fountain is the plaza's public center, and the council should replace the pump this quarter rather than patch the valve again. A replacement is a choice about the quarter's budget. The column asks for that choice. It does not establish the minute the water stopped.

A record and a recommendation can share a page and keep separate jobs. The sentence that the fountain stopped at 6:40 can be checked against the clerk. The sentence that the council should replace the pump stands or falls as an argument about money. The time is not a budget request, and the request is not a clock.

Accepted Answer

The minute the water stopped.

Question 54

Two pieces ran the morning the plaza fountain stopped. They do different work.

Desk note, written by the facilities clerk at 7 a.m.: The plaza fountain stopped circulating at 6:40 a.m. A valve in the pump room was closed. The clerk confirmed the time and said a technician would inspect the valve before noon. The note records a stoppage and a closed valve. It does not tell the council to replace the pump.

Column printed beside the note: The fountain is the plaza's public center, and the council should replace the pump this quarter rather than patch the valve again. A replacement is a choice about the quarter's budget. The column asks for that choice. It does not establish the minute the water stopped.

A record and a recommendation can share a page and keep separate jobs. The sentence that the fountain stopped at 6:40 can be checked against the clerk. The sentence that the council should replace the pump stands or falls as an argument about money. The time is not a budget request, and the request is not a clock.

Accepted Answer

The note is a record that can be checked, and the column is an argument about money.

Question 55