Foundation Entrance Exam- English

1. What is a lesson this fable teaches?

2. Reread paragraph 1 from the fable. The grain of wheat is waiting to be

3. Why does the grain of wheat in this fable want to hide once more beneath the soil?

4. What word BEST describes the grain of wheat in this fable?

5. What is the subject of this sentence?

Weather interests many people. Read this selection about extreme types of weather. Use information from the selection to answer the questions that follow.

6. The author begins the selection with a question to

7. According to this selection, blizzards are MOST LIKELY to start in the

8. According to the selection, the storm that has the strongest winds is a

9. According to the selection, snowflakes are special because they are

10. In paragraph 13, the author uses the phrase “an enormous arch of colored stripes” to describe

11. What is the purpose of the last paragraph?

12. The type of storm that is MOST LIKELY to start over the ocean is a

Read this selection about Martin Luther King, Jr., from the book I Have a Dream. Use information from the selection to answer the questions that follow. 13. Why were books so important to Martin?

14. One of Martin’s heroes was a great teacher who founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. This person was

15. Which phrase BEST describes Martin’s dream?

16. A synonym for the word grand in the sentence above is

In the days before planes flew regularly from coast to coast in the United States, pilots who made the trip were considered heroes. Calbraith Perry Rodgers attempted to be the first flier to make it from New York to California by air. Newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst was offering $50,000 to the person who could fly from coast to coast in thirty days or less, but the deadline for winning was October 11, 1911. When Rodgers began his flight, only twenty-five days remained before the Hearst offer would expire. Read the excerpt and then answer the questions that follow. 17. The main idea of this article is best summarized by which statement?

18. The author wrote this article primarily to

19. At first, Rodgers’s main reason for making a flight from coast to coast was to

20. Rodgers nearly lost his magneto plugs on his flight from Elmira to Salamanca because