GED Writing SECTION 2: LANGUAGE ARTS - WRITING Exam Questions in PDF

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Comics:A Window on Life

(A)
(1) When I was a child. (2) A clergyman said that he read the comic strips in the daily paper every day. (3) This amazed me because I believed that comics was for the young. (4) I thought adults considered comics juvenile. (5) "But no, "he said."Comic strips can give you an insight into the human condition the way people think and behave." (6) Today, most would agree that he will be right.(7) The wide range of topics treated in the daily comic strips doesn’t miss much about how people live their lives.
(B)
(8) A popular comic strip subject is family life.(9) Strips on the family range from stay-athome parenting with all its joys and trials to when the kids went to a restaurant with all the things that can go wrong there.(10) Some strips deal with sibling relationships.(11) Others explore adolescence and the stresses of children becoming more independent.(12) The humorous look at the role of husbands and wives in the family also makes for interesting reading.
(C)
(13) Pets have been playing an important role in comic strips.(14) Sometimes they are secondary to the human characters, the family dog, or rabbit, but sometimes it is the whole point of the strip.(15) Who can resist a cynical self-centered cat or a lolloping, brainless dog, especially if it gets the better of the humans?
(D)
(16) Comic strips allow people to laugh at themselves and their very human failings.(17) A little light is brought into our lives by them for a brief moment each day.(18) They are also a barometer of popular culture, telling what the social trends are and how some people regard them.(19) If the comic strips suddenly disappeared from the newspapers, society would lose a valuable piece of its culture.

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Sentence 5:
"But no, " he said."Comic strips can give you an insight into the human condition the way people think and behave." Which correction should be made to sentence 5?

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Sentence 7:Thus, to ensure that everyone is given an equal opportunity for a quiet working area, you are requested to observe this new policy.

Which correction should be made to sentence 7?

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Cowgirls

(A)
(1) Who was the first rodeo cowgirls? (2) While some of the earliest cowgirls were products of the American West, where they learned their skills on a ranch or farm, others came from different backgrounds. (3) One had emigrated from Norway, another was a hairdresser from New York, and still another learned to ride horses on a Georgia plantation (4) Attracted by the excitement, glory, and possible financial rewards, this first group of daredevil riders and ropers rose to prominence in the first half of the 1900s.
(B)
(5) Lucille Mulhall and Bertha Kalpernik were two of the first rodeo cowgirls.(6) As a teenager, Mulhall rode and put on a roping exhibition in a public celebration where Teddy
Roosevelt was a guest.(7) During a visit to the Mulhall family’s ranch Roosevelt witnessed
Lucille’s breathtaking ride on an outlaw horse.(8) Impressed by her skill and daring, Roosevelt later inviting Mulhall to lead the inaugural procession when he took office as president of the United States.(9) Kalpernik is believed to be the first cowgirl to ride a bucking horse in serious competition.(10) Around 1900, she rode 100 miles from Colorado to Wyoming to enter the previously all-male rodeo.(11) She won on a horse named Tombstone.(12) She rode him all the way back to Colorado! (13) Roy Rogers named his horse "Trigger" and Gene Autry, another famous singing cowboy, had a horse named "Champ." (14) A year later, Kalpernik becomes the star performer in a Wild West show and continued competing in top rodeos held throughout the country.(15) As true pioneers those women and many others are part of the history and heritage of the West.
Material adapted from Milt Riske.Those Magnificent Cowgirls:A History of the Rodeo Cowgirl.Cheyenne:Wyoming Publishing, 1983.

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Sentence 1 As true pioneers those women and many others are part of the history and heritage of the West.

Which is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If the original is the best way, choose option

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Sentence Are you a handy person with the knowledge to do it yourself but you do not have the tools or equipment?

Which correction should be made to sentence 3?

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Sentence 1
Family and social obligations became burdensome.
Which is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If the original is the best way, choose option A.