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1. How does paragraph 5 fit into the overall structure of the passage and contribute to the development of ideas?2026 Practice Test A English, question 11
   • Type Text structure
   • NYS standards 7R5, 7R8
   • Difficulty 3 of 5
2. How does paragraph 11 contribute to the plot of the excerpt?2026 Practice Test A English, question 19
   • Type Text structure, Development of ideas and characters
   • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
   • Difficulty 3 of 5
3. Paragraphs 1–2 contribute to the development of the central idea of the excerpt by2026 Practice Test A English, question 30
   • Type Text structure, Central idea and theme
   • NYS standards 7R5, 7R2
   • Difficulty 3 of 5
4. How does paragraph 3 convey the effect of the setting on the cattle drive?2026 Practice Test A English, question 31
   • Type Development of ideas and characters, Text structure
   • NYS standards 7R3, 7R5
   • Difficulty 4 of 5
   • Level Above grade 7
5. Read these sentences from the excerpt. He was riding to turn the herd, too, back from the rim, as the horse also knew. (paragraph…2026 Practice Test A English, question 33
   • Type Text structure, Central idea and theme
   • NYS standards 7R5, 7R2
   • Difficulty 4 of 5
   • Level Above grade 7
6. Read this sentence from paragraph 1. As one Scottish traveler observed during his visit to America, “Niagara and Lowell are the two objects I…2026 Practice Test A English, question 36
   • Type Text structure
   • NYS standards 7R5
   • Difficulty 3 of 5
7. Read this sentence from paragraph 3. From the early to mid-1800s, women left the constricted lifestyle of small rural towns and rural areas for…2026 Practice Test A English, question 39
   • Type Text structure
   • NYS standards 7R5
   • Difficulty 4 of 5
   • Level Above grade 7
8. Read this sentence from paragraph 5. Although Lowell received an influx of Irish families during this time, the Irish were a part of the…2026 Practice Test A English, question 40
   • Type Text structure
   • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
   • Difficulty 2 of 5
9. Read these sentences from paragraph 7. Bannister said, “I felt that the moment of a lifetime had come. There was no pain, only a…2026 Practice Test B English, question 9
   • Type Text structure
   • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
   • Difficulty 3 of 5
10. Read paragraph 2 from the excerpt. To the proprietors of… mangy lynxes, moth-eaten coyotes, and dancing bears I returned courteous but uncompromising refusals—of course,…2026 Practice Test B English, question 14
    • Type Text structure, Development of ideas and characters
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 2 of 5
11. How does the exchange between the professor and the narrator in paragraphs 8–11 contribute to the development of the characters?2026 Practice Test B English, question 16
    • Type Text structure, Development of ideas and characters
    • NYS standards 7R3, 7R5
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
12. How does the interaction between the narrator and the professor in paragraphs 26–28 contribute to the development of the theme?2026 Practice Test B English, question 18
    • Type Text structure, Central idea and theme
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R2
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
13. How does paragraph 34 help develop the plot of the excerpt?2026 Practice Test B English, question 20
    • Type Text structure, Development of ideas and characters
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 2 of 5
14. Read lines 5–8 from the poem. So beneath the level of molecules are atoms, and beneath the level of atoms, we find protons, electrons,…2026 Practice Test B English, question 23
    • Type Text structure, Central idea and theme
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R2
    • Difficulty 2 of 5
    • Level Below grade 7
15. Read lines 30–32 from the poem. Their names sound like dinosaurs or maybe bands playing terrible music in someone’s garage. The speaker refers to…2026 Practice Test B English, question 26
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R4
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
16. Read lines 36–39 from the poem. both together and apart, what keeps together the pencil in your hand right now as well as separate…2026 Practice Test B English, question 27
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R2
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
17. Read this sentence from paragraph 6. The patch-burn system is so successful that the conservationists at the preserve provide training to prairie farmers about…2026 Practice Test B English, question 31
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
18. How does the structure of the poem affect the poem’s meaning?2026 Practice Test B English, question 36
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
19. Read lines 5–6 from the poem. The weather will turn cold. But that all happens later. How do the lines develop a central theme…2026 Practice Test B English, question 38
    • Type Text structure, Central idea and theme
    • NYS standards 7R2, 7R5
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
20. Read these lines from the poem. I can already see how this will end. (line 1) How Brooklyn makes me nostalgic for the moment…2026 Practice Test B English, question 41
    • Type Text structure, Central idea and theme
    • NYS standards 7R2, 7R5
    • Difficulty 5 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
21. Read this sentence from paragraph 3. These are the lower rapids, a sight more terrifying than the Falls, because less intelligible. Which statement best…2026 Practice Test C English, question 8
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
22. Read lines 6–7 from the poem. The birds took their hops and zigzags a little more anxious; a home is a home; worms are…2026 Practice Test C English, question 20
    • Type Text structure, Central idea and theme
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R2
    • Difficulty 5 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
23. How does the repetition of “ ‘This is the beginning of summer’ ” in lines 2–3 and lines 18–19 contribute to the meaning of…2026 Practice Test C English, question 22
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R4
    • Difficulty 2 of 5
24. How does the poem’s form contribute to the poem’s meaning?2026 Practice Test C English, question 26
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
25. Lines 1–2 contribute to the development of ideas in the poem by2026 Practice Test C English, question 28
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 2 of 5
    • Level Below grade 7
26. Read line 28 from the poem. At the mouth end, there was an oval mound How does the line contribute to the development of…2026 Practice Test C English, question 29
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R6
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
27. Read this sentence from paragraph 5. Though astronauts can spend upwards of 100 days in space, their on-mission meals come dehydrated and pre-packaged; their…2026 Practice Test C English, question 35
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R2
    • Difficulty 2 of 5
28. How is the quotation from Lashelle Spencer at the end of paragraph 9 relevant to the discussion of the peppers referred to in paragraph…2026 Practice Test C English, question 41
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
29. How is the discussion of the genetic engineering of the peppers consumed on the ISS (paragraphs 7–8) important to the excerpt as a whole?2026 Practice Test C English, question 42
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
30. Read this sentence from paragraph 7. As the Internet’s resources continue to expand our “external” memory, some question whether the process may cause people…2026 Practice Test D English, question 3
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R6
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
31. Read this sentence from paragraph 4. Wilbur having used his turn in the unsuccessful attempt on the 14th, the right to the first trial…2026 Practice Test D English, question 9
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
32. The use of chronological structure contributes to the development of ideas in the excerpt by2026 Practice Test D English, question 14
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 2 of 5
    • Level Below grade 7
33. Why does the author include details about the conversation between Starr and Darimont in paragraph 2?2026 Practice Test D English, question 16
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 2 of 5
34. The author uses the word “admits” in paragraph 5 most likely to2026 Practice Test D English, question 18
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R4, 7R5
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
35. The use of italics on the word “night” in line 24 is most likely intended to emphasize the2026 Practice Test D English, question 23
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R4
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
36. What is the purpose of the repeated words “rising and falling” in lines 26 and 37?2026 Practice Test D English, question 24
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R4
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
37. Read this sentence from paragraph 2. Including both ideograms (which convey a whole word or idea, either concrete or abstract, in a single sign)…2025 Practice Test A English, question 10
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 2 of 5
38. Read these sentences from paragraph 2. Dad always said Mom could make all the dishes he’d had back in Vermont as well as though…2025 Practice Test A English, question 17
    • Type Text structure, Central idea and theme
    • NYS standards 7R2, 7R5
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
39. Read this sentence from paragraph 3. “I’ll be taking the train tomorrow night,” I said aloud, more to hear it myself. This remark contributes…2025 Practice Test A English, question 18
    • Type Development of ideas and characters, Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R3, 7R5
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
40. Read these sentences from the excerpt. Mom seems to think of nothing farther away than today or perhaps yesterday or tomorrow morning. (paragraph 1)…2025 Practice Test A English, question 21
    • Type Text structure, Central idea and theme
    • NYS standards 7R2, 7R3
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
41. The flashback in paragraphs 10–24 affects the plot by2025 Practice Test A English, question 22
    • Type Text structure, Development of ideas and characters
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 5 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
42. How does paragraph 9 fit into the overall structure of the excerpt?2025 Practice Test A English, question 37
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
43. How does the author’s use of chronological structure contribute to the development of ideas in the passage?2025 Practice Test B English, question 15
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 2 of 5
    • Level Below grade 7
44. The author’s use of sequence in paragraphs 1 and 2 contributes to the development of ideas in the excerpt by2024 Test A English, question 11
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
45. Read this sentence from paragraph 7. Always after these confining lessons I was wild with surplus spirits, and found joyous relief in running loose…2024 Test A English, question 15
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
46. The table after paragraph 7 expands on a central idea in the excerpt because it shows that2024 Test A English, question 18
    • Type Text structure, Central idea and theme
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R2
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
47. The isolation of the words “—here here—” in line 7 contributes to the meaning of the poem mainly by2024 Test A English, question 20
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R4
    • Difficulty 5 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
48. Which statement describes how the author’s use of a problem-and-solution structure in paragraph 5 contributes to the development of ideas in the passage?2024 Test A English, question 28
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
49. The table builds on the information in the passage mainly by2024 Test A English, question 34
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R1
    • Difficulty 5 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
50. How does paragraph 7 fit into the overall structure of the passage?2024 Test A English, question 38
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R6
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
51. The studies described in paragraph 6 are important to the author’s observations in paragraphs 7 and 8 because the findings2024 Test A English, question 40
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R8
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
52. Read these sentences from paragraph 4. I’m not sure why I decided to take a look. It was still an hour before sunrise, and…2024 Test A English, question 44
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
53. The author’s use of cause and effect in paragraphs 10–11 mainly emphasizes the idea that2024 Test A English, question 53
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
54. How does the author’s use of comparison in paragraphs 4 and 5 contribute to the development of ideas in the excerpt?2024 Test B English, question 16
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
55. Read this sentence from paragraph 6. To see what effects exercise might have on this process, the researchers first recruited 40 college-age Chinese men…2024 Test B English, question 17
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5
    • Difficulty 2 of 5
56. Paragraph 1 contributes to the setting of the excerpt by establishing that2024 Test B English, question 23
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 2 of 5
    • Level Below grade 7
57. How do paragraphs 7 and 9 convey a central idea of the excerpt?2024 Test B English, question 25
    • Type Text structure, Central idea and theme
    • NYS standards 7R2, 7R5
    • Difficulty 2 of 5
58. In paragraph 8, the author repeats the word “played” most likely to2024 Test B English, question 26
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R4
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
59. How do paragraphs 11–13 affect the plot of the excerpt?2024 Test B English, question 27
    • Type Text structure, Development of ideas and characters
    • NYS standards 7R3, 7R5
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
60. Read this sentence from paragraph 5. Empires rose and fell; wars raged;… and the tree from 2500 B.C. continued its implacable slow-motion existence, adding…2024 Test B English, question 52
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R2
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
61. What is the most likely reason the author uses the word “surprisingly” in paragraph 1?2018 Test A English, question 12
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R4
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
62. Read this sentence from paragraph 3. Ederle knew that if she did not complete the challenge this time, she might never get the opportunity…2018 Test A English, question 18
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
63. Which statement describes how the author’s use of problem-and-solution in paragraph 5 contributes to the development of ideas in the passage?2018 Test A English, question 21
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
64. Paragraph 7 contributes to the development of the central idea of the passage by2018 Test A English, question 22
    • Type Text structure, Central idea and theme
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R2
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
65. The table contributes to the development of the topic of the passage mainly by2018 Test A English, question 25
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R1
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
66. Read this text from paragraph 2. He… comes to a weed; it never occurs to him to go around it. No; he must climb…2018 Test A English, question 29
    • Type Text structure, Central idea and theme
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R2
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
67. Read this sentence from paragraph 2. At the end of half an hour he fetches up within six inches of the place he started…2018 Test A English, question 31
    • Type Text structure, Central idea and theme
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R2
    • Difficulty 2 of 5
68. Read this sentence from paragraph 3. Evidently the friend remarks that a last year’s grasshopper leg is a very noble acquisition, and inquires where…2018 Test A English, question 33
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
69. How does the similar construction of the sentence in line 1 and the sentence in line 8 contribute to the meaning of the poem?2018 Test A English, question 42
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R6
    • Difficulty 5 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
70. Read lines 2–4 and lines 12–14 from the poem. I am what every athlete wants: to remain at the apex of the leap, up…2018 Test A English, question 43
    • Type Text structure, Central idea and theme
    • NYS standards 7R2, 7R5
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
71. Read line 7 from the first stanza. Swallows and ospreys nest in my trusses. How does the line contribute to the development of ideas…2018 Test A English, question 44
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5
    • Difficulty 2 of 5
    • Level Below grade 7
72. The last stanza (lines 36–42) conveys a central idea of the poem by2018 Test A English, question 47
    • Type Text structure, Central idea and theme
    • NYS standards 7R2, 7R5
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
73. How does the form of the poem contribute to its meaning?2018 Test A English, question 50
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R6
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
74. How does paragraph 3 contribute to the passage?2018 Test A English, question 54
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5
    • Difficulty 2 of 5
75. The author includes the details in paragraph 4 about the eruption of Mount Tambora in order to2018 Test A English, question 55
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 2 of 5
76. What is the primary role of paragraph 1 in the structure of the passage?2018 Test B English, question 14
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5
    • Difficulty 2 of 5
77. The author includes a series of questions at the end of the last paragraph most likely to2018 Test B English, question 15
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R2
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
78. Read this sentence from paragraph 4. Yet if the train started before she found the conductor she might be carried on somewhere and he…2018 Test B English, question 18
    • Type Development of ideas and characters, Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R3
    • Difficulty 5 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
79. How does paragraph 11 contribute to the plot of the excerpt?2018 Test B English, question 23
    • Type Text structure, Development of ideas and characters
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
80. Read this sentence from paragraph 3. These are the lower rapids, a sight more terrifying than the Falls, because less intelligible. Which statement best…2018 Test B English, question 27
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
81. Read this sentence from paragraph 4. There one can sit and let great cloudy thoughts of destiny and the passage of empires drift through…2018 Test B English, question 29
    • Type Text structure, Development of ideas and characters
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
82. What role does paragraph 2 play in the structure of the passage?2018 Test B English, question 34
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5
    • Difficulty 2 of 5
83. What is the most likely reason the author mentions the zooarchaeologist (paragraph 5)?2018 Test B English, question 37
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
84. Read line 1 and line 15 from the poem. Higher and still more high, Vaster and still more vast, The parallel structure of the…2018 Test B English, question 39
    • Type Text structure, Author's purpose and point of view
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R6
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
85. How does isolating the word “Uprise” in line 7 affect the meaning of the poem?2018 Test B English, question 41
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R4
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
86. Which statement describes how the author’s use of problem-solution in paragraph 2 contributes to the development of ideas in the passage?2018 Test B English, question 48
    • Type Text structure, Development of ideas and characters
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 4 of 5
    • Level Above grade 7
87. Which statement describes how the author’s use of sequencing in paragraph 3 contributes to the overall structure of the passage?2018 Test B English, question 49
    • Type Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R5, 7R3
    • Difficulty 3 of 5
88. How does the graph support the ideas in paragraph 8?2018 Test B English, question 53
    • Type Textual evidence, Text structure
    • NYS standards 7R1, 7R5
    • Difficulty 3 of 5