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ARW2 - Final Exam

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Next, you will be assessed on the contents of the course.

This written exam focuses on Reading Comprehension and Writing.

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You will have 50 minutes to complete the test.

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Section I: Reading Comprehension

To identify main ideas, details, specific information, inferences

Question 1 25 / 25 pts

Read the following text and answer the questions.

Toys by the truckload: Ashley helps kids in need

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When you’re little, toys are a big deal. Ashlee Smith, a 13-year-old from Reno, Nevada, understands
this – that’s why she started Ashlee’s Toy Closet, an organization that collects toys and donates them to
kids who have been affected by natural disasters, house fires or tough economic times. Ashlee knows
from experience what it’s like to lose a favorite toy. When she was just five years old, her family’s home
burned down and she lost all of her possessions, including her fave stuffed animal.

When a large fire hit South Lake Tahoe, California, in 2007, she saw the devastation and wanted to
help the kids affected. “I basically knew how they felt because they didn’t have any toys and neither did I
[after our house fire],” Ashlee explains. She held a toy drive that was a huge success. She collected a
semi-truck trailer full of toys for kids in need!

Since then, Ashlee’s Toy Closet has given out more than 175,000 toys. More than that, Ashlee has
seen how her service has a positive effect on the kids she helps. She tells the story of her first drive.
There was a little girl who was really shy and wouldn’t talk to anyone. Ashlee asked the little girl if she
liked Strawberry Shortcake, because that’s what Ashlee liked when she was five. The girl said yes, so
Ashlee grabbed a $5 Target Strawberry Shortcake puzzle for her, not thinking it would be a big
deal. But it was. The toy was actually the exact same as one she had lost, and had been one of her
favorite toys. “She spoke to me for the rest of the day,” Ashlee says.

At 13, Ashlee’s already accomplished so much. For the work she’s done with Ashlee’s Toy Closet,
she was named a National Honoree at the Prudential Spirit of Community awards, a yearly program that
recognizes middle level and high school students for outstanding community service. Being recognized
as a National Honoree makes her one of America’s Top 10 Youth Volunteers for 2012. But Ashlee wants
to keep going and do even more. She hopes to take her organization nationwide, or even help kids in
Africa.

No matter what, Ashlee knows that any act of kindness, big or small, counts. “You don’t really have
to make a huge impact to help somebody. Anybody can do it,” she says. What’s her advice for other girls
who want to lend a hand? Find a cause you’re passionate about. She explains, “You just have to have
a motive. You have to have a reason behind your organization of why you want to do it.”
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Volunteer Service by Young People From High School Through Early Adulthood

Authors: Mike Planty Michael Regnier Education Statistics Services Institute

https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2004/2004365.pdf

Questions:

1. What is the main idea of the article? [ Select ]

2. In paragraph 3, what can we infer from Ashlee’s giving a puzzle to the little girl?
[ Select ]

3. When did a fire destroy Ashlee’s house and her toys? [ Select ]

4. This was not a reason for receiving the Prudential Spirit of Community award. She helped kids in Africa
with her organization.

5. In paragraph 5, when she says: “You don’t really have to make a huge impact to help somebody. Anybody

can do it,” she means... [ Select ]

Answer 1:

Anybody can make a difference.

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Answer 2:

It was very important for the girl.

Answer 3:

When Ashlee was five.

Answer 4:

She helped kids in Africa with her organization.

Answer 5:

it doesn’t matter if the action is small, it helps.

Section II: Organizing information

Question 2 25 / 25 pts

According to this graphic organizer, think of 3 strong arguments you will use to support your
PERSONAL opinion on one of the following topics:

A: "Organizing Mandatory Volunteering Programs to Help Nursing Homes in Peru"

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B: "Creating an Organization to Give Toys to Children Affected by Natural Disasters"

Then, think of two COUNTERARGUMENTS.

Arguments Counterarguments
a) d)
b) e)
c)

In the answer box below, list the letters (a), (b), (c), etc, and then write your answers.

Your Answer:

ARGUMENTS:

a) Help in Nursing Homes would be a new experience where patients can tell you many stories or things
about life.

b) It is a place which is very forgotten by the community, but it would be great if you could help these
places.

c)You can learn more about the situation of children affected by Natural Disasters, and with some toys
you can make them happy.

COUNTERARGUMENTS:

d) It could be boring to spend time with the elderly and to take care of them, you need to have knowledge
of medicine to be able to help them, because some of them suffer from diseases.

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e) To create an organation to give toys to children, the team need to have enough money to buy them,
and it can be difficult to spend money in a lot of toys.

Section III: Written Expression

Question 3 40 / 50 pts

Write a persuasive essay about the topic you chose in Section II.

A: "Organizing Mandatory Volunteering Programs to Help Nursing Homes in Peru"

B: "Creating an Organization to Give Toys to Children Affected by Natural Disasters"

Remember your essay must include an introduction, two body paragraphs and a concluding
paragraph. Convince your reader to agree with your position and refute possible counterarguments.
You may include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

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Your Answer:

Help Those In Need, A Good Idea

Helping other people can make you happy, and I am sure that to do that can give you experiences.
Organizing Mandatory Programs to help Nursing Homes is something forgotten in Peru, and Organizations
to give toys to children affected by natural disasters as well. We can learn to help other in different ways and
it would be great to make others happy only with visiting and help nursing homes or gave children some
toys. Doing some activities like this can make us and make them happy and learn things from each other.

I have had the opportunity to attend a home for the elderly and I can say that is a good experience, because
they tell you stories or some thing of life that can help you in some years, because they have experience.
And also is sad to see them there, because the elderly were abandoned by their own families there, I went to
a Nurisng home it was tired at first, but then I learned a lot of medicine and those people.

About give toys to children is a very good idea, because you can make them happier with only a things and
word, I would like to help more people,

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