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Test Prep GED Section 2: Language Arts - Writing Exam
Section Two : Language Arts - Writing (Page 6 )

Updated On: 19-Jan-2026
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Sentence 10:It’s more than just changing fluids and wipers or fixing breaks.

Which correction should be made to sentence 10?

  1. replace It’s with Its
  2. replace than with then
  3. insert a comma after wipers
  4. change fixing to fixed
  5. replace breaks with brakes

Answer(s): E



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Ethnic Architecture

(A)
(1) Here is a question that is not as silly as it sound:Have you ever wondered why houses are shaped the way they are? (2) Bringing with them many different ideas about how to build a house, settlers from around the world have come to the United States for centuries.
(B)
(3) Many of us today take for granted certain features of a house and forget that someone had to invent them. (4) The veranda, a covered porch that wraps around the front of many southern houses is probably an adaptation of overhanging roofs found all over the world. (5) In addition to the veranda, the South is known for its cooking and its hospitality.(6) Long ago, home buildersresponded to hot, humid climates by making the cooling shade of a porch a common feature of houses in such places as West Africa, Asia, and the Mediterranean area.
(C)
(7) For instance, French settlers in New Orleans tried to put the frames of their homes directly on the ground as they had done in France; however, the heat, humidity, and abundant rainfall caused the homes to rot within a few years.(8) The settlers learned a lesson by observing the West Indian Creoles, which built raised houses with many doors and windows to keep cool.
(D)
(9) Some settlers, like those from Germany, held on to their old building methods even though such methods were no longer necessary.(10) Because of a shortage of wood in some parts of Germany, builders had constructed half-timber houses; they used clay or brick to save wood.(11) When German immigrants settled in Wisconsin where wood was abundant, they still built their familiar half-timber homes.(12) European peasants and their animals once shared a shelter called a "house-barn, " which allowed immediate care for the animals during harsh whether.(13) Today’s covered breezeways serve a related purpose of protecting people who need to go to their"car barns, "or garages.
(E)
(14) No matter which country settlers started from, they brought home-building traditions.(15) Some they changed to adapt to their new land, some they abandoned, and some their descendants still use today.

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Sentence 1European peasants and their animals once shared a shelter called a "housebarn, " which allowed immediate care for the animals during harsh whether.
Which correction should be made to sentence 12?

  1. change peasants to Peasants
  2. replace and with because
  3. replace their with there
  4. replace which with when
  5. replace whether with weather

Answer(s): E



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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) B. 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 Roy Rogers named his horse "Trigger" and Gene Autry, another famous singing cowboy, had a horse named "Champ."
Which revision should be made to the placement of sentence 13?

  1. move sentence 13 to follow sentence 10
  2. move sentence 13 to follow sentence 14
  3. move sentence 13 to follow sentence 15
  4. remove sentence 13
  5. no revision is necessary

Answer(s): D



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Sentence 1Facilitators at our two sessions are human resources experts they have logged many hours with Fortune 500 firms.

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

  1. experts they have logged
  2. experts and logged
  3. experts who have logged
  4. experts who will log
  5. experts logging

Answer(s): C



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Sentence Along with the tools needed to scale the mountain’s icy inclines, climbers also took with them bottles of various beverages, containers of food, oxygen tanks, and other items required to survive Everest’s challenge.

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

  1. beverages, containers of food, oxygen tanks, and
  2. beverages, containers of food oxygen tanks and
  3. beverages containers of food, oxygen tanks, and
  4. beverages, containers of food oxygen tanks, and
  5. beverages, containers, of food, oxygen, tanks, and

Answer(s): A



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