CBEST CBEST - California Basic Educational Skills Reading: Vocabulary and Text Structure

Question 1

Read the sentence: "The teacher's demeanor was stern but fair, earning the respect of all her students." What does 'demeanor' most likely mean?

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Manner or behavior

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Teaching method

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Tone of voice

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Years of experience

Question 2

A passage opens with a general claim, then provides three supporting examples, and closes with a restatement. This text structure is called:

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Main idea with supporting details

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Cause and effect

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Compare and contrast

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Problem and solution

Question 3

The prefix 'mis-' in 'mislead' means:

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Wrongly

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Again

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Before

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Against

Question 4

A passage describes how drought leads to crop failure, which then leads to food shortages. This is an example of which text structure?

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Cause and effect

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Compare and contrast

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Chronological order

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Problem and solution

Question 5

Which context clue strategy is used when a sentence defines an unfamiliar word right after a comma or dash?

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Appositive or definition clue

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Synonym clue

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Antonym clue

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Inference clue

Question 6

The suffix '-ology' in 'biology' means:

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The study of

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The practice of

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Without

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