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GRADE 10

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Read the story Growing Up. Then answer Numbers 1 through 11.

GROWING UPby Russell BakerRUSSELL BAKER began his career in journalism in 1947, when he was hired by theBaltimore Sun. In 1954 he joined the New York Times, for which he coveredthe White House, Congress, and national politics. He has written hisObserver column for the Times since 1962. In 1979 he won the George PolkAward for Commentary and the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary.His columns were most recently collected in So This Is Depravity. He receivedthe 1983 Pulitzer Prize for biography for Growing Up.

With my load of magazines I headed toward Belleville Avenue. Thats where the peoplewere. There were two filling stations at the intersection with Union Avenue, as well asa grocery store, a fruit stand, a bakery, a barber shop, Zuccarellis drugstore, and a dinershaped like a railroad car. For several hours I made myself highly visible, shifting positionnow and then from corner to corner, from shop window to shop window, to make sureeveryone could see the heavy black lettering on the canvas bag that said THE SATURDAY EVENINGPOST. When the angle of the light indicated it was suppertime, I walked back to the house.

How many did you sell, Buddy? my mother asked.None.Where did you go?The corner of Belleville and Union Avenues.What did you do?Stood on the corner waiting for somebody to buy a Saturday Evening Post.You just stood there?Didnt sell a single one.Uncle Allen intervened. Ive been thinking about it for some time, he said, and Ive

about decided to take the Postregularly. Put me down as a regular customer. I handed hima magazine and he paid me a nickel. It was the first nickel I earned.

Afterwards my mother instructed me in salesmanship. I would have to ring doorbells,address adults with charming self-confidence, and break down resistance with a sales talkpointing out that no one, no matter how poor, could afford to be without the Saturday

Evening Postin the home.I told my mother Id changed my mind about wanting to succeed in the magazine

business.If you think Im going to raise a good-for-nothing, she replied, youve got another

think coming. She told me to hit the streets with the canvas bag and start ringing doorbellsthe instant school was out next day. I bowed to superior will and entered journalism with aheavy heart.

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My mother and I had fought this battlealmost as long as I could remember. Itprobably started even before memory began,

when I was a country child in northernVirginia and my mother, dissatisfied with myfathers plain workmans life, determinedthat I would not grow up like him. In mymothers vision of the better life there weredesks and white collars, well-pressed suits,evenings of reading and lively talk, andperhapsif a man were very, very lucky andreally made something important ofhimselfperhaps there might be a fantasticsalary of $5,000 a year to support a bighouse and a car with a rumble seat and a

vacation in Atlantic City.And so I set forth with my sack of

magazines. I was afraid of the dogs thatsnarled behind the doors of potential buyers.I was timid about ringing the doorbells ofstrangers, relieved when no one came to thedoor, and scared when someone did. Despitemy mothers instructions, I could not deliveran engaging sales pitch. When a dooropened I simply asked, Want to buy a

Saturday Evening Post? In Belleville fewpersons did. It was a town of 30,000 people,and most weeks I rang a fair majority of its

doorbells. But I rarely sold my thirty copies.Some weeks I canvassed the entire town forsix days and still had four or five unsoldmagazines on Monday evening; then Idreaded the coming of Tuesday morning,when a batch of thirty fresh SaturdayEvening Posts was due at the front door.

Better get out there and sell the rest ofthose magazines tonight, my mother wouldsay.

I usually posted myself then at a busyintersection where a traffic light controlled

commuter flow from Newark. When thelight turned red I stood on the curb andshouted my sales pitch at the motorists.

Want to buy a Saturday Evening Post?One rainy night when car windows were

sealed against me I came back soaked andwith not a single sale to report. My motherbeckoned to Doris.

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Go back down there with Buddy and I moaned that I had rung every doorbell inshow him how to sell these magazines, she town and knew there wasnt a singlesaid. potential buyer left in Belleville that week.

Brimming with zest, Doris, who was then After listening to my explanation, she

seven years old, returned with me to the handed me the canvas bag and said, If atcorner. She took a magazine from the bag, first you dont succeed . . .and when the light turned red she strode to Three years in that job, which I wouldthe nearest car and banged her small fist gladly have quit after the first day exceptagainst the closed window. The driver, for her insistence, produced at least oneprobably startled at what he took to be a valuable result. My mother finallymidget assaulting his car, lowered the concluded that I would never makewindow to stare, and Doris thrust a something of myself by pursuing a life inSaturday Evening Postat him. business and started considering careers

You need this magazine, she piped, that demanded less competitive zeal.and it only costs a nickel. One evening when I was eleven I

Her salesmanship was irresistible. Before brought home a short composition onthe light changed half a dozen times she my summer vacation which the teacher haddisposed of the entire batch. I didnt feel graded with an A. Reading it with her ownhumiliated. To the contrary. I was so happy I schoolteachers eye, my mother agreed thatdecided to give her a treat. Leading her to it was top-drawer seventh grade prose andthe vegetable store on Belleville Avenue, I complimented me. Nothing more was saidbought three apples, which cost a nickel, about it immediately, but a new idea hadand gave her one. taken life in her mind. Halfway through

You shouldnt waste money, she said. supper she suddenly interrupted theEat your apple. I bit into mine. conversation.You shouldnt eat before supper, she Buddy, she said, maybe you could be

said. Itll spoil your appetite. a writer.

Back at the house that evening, she I clasped the idea to my heart. I haddutifully reported me for wasting a nickel. never met a writer, had shown no previousInstead of a scolding, I was rewarded with a urge to write, and hadnt a notion how topat on the back for having the good sense to become a writer, but I loved stories andbuy fruit instead of candy. My mother thought that making up stories must surelyreached into her bottomless supply of be almost as much fun as reading them.maxims and told Doris, An apple a day Best of all, though, and what reallykeeps the doctor away. gladdened my heart, was the ease of the

By the time I was ten I had learned all my writers life. Writers did not have to trudgemothers maxims by heart. Asking to stay up through the town peddling from canvaspast normal bedtime, I knew that a refusal bags, defending themselves against angrywould be explained with, Early to bed and dogs, being rejected by surly strangers.early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, Writers did not have to ring doorbells. Soand wise. If I whimpered about having to far as I could make out, what writers didget up early in the morning, I could depend couldnt even be classified as work.on her to say, The early bird gets the I was enchanted. Writers didnt have toworm. have any gumption at all. I did not dare tell

The one I most despised was, If at first anybody for fear of being laughed at in theyou dont succeed, try, try again. This was schoolyard, but secretly I decided that whatthe battle cry with which she constantly sent Id like to be when I grew up was a writer.me back into the hopeless struggle wheneverAdaptation of excerpt from Growing Up by Russell Baker, copyright 1982 by Russell Baker.

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Now answer Numbers 1 through 11. Base your answers on the article Growing Up.

Read this sentence from the passage.

My mother reached into her bottomless supply of maxims and told

Doris, An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

What does maxims mean?

A. explanations

B. ideas

C. sayings

D. stories

Which word best describes Russells approach to selling magazines?A. ambitious

B. argumentative

C. defensive

D. passive

Which word best describes the tone of the story?A. discouraged

B. dramatic

C. reflective

D. sarcastic

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What is the conflict between Buddy and his mother? How is it resolved? Use detailsand information from the story to support your answer.

READ

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EXPLAIN

Read this quote.

Writers did not have to trudge through the town peddling from

canvas bags, defending themselves against angry dogs, being

rejected by surly strangers.

What does surly mean?

A. distracted

B. ordinary

C. penniless

D. unpleasant

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Why was the author afraid to mention his new career choice to his classmates?A. He was embarrassed that he quit his sales job.

B. He was worried that his mother would find out.

C. His friends would want to read his composition.

D. His friends would reject writing as a serious profession.

How are Doris and her mother similar? Use details and information from the storyto support your answer.

READ

THINK

EXPLAIN

Buddy expects to perform better as a writer than as a salesman because heA. succeeds in pleasing his mother.

B. is excited about inventing stories.

C. is aware of his need for employment.

D. acknowledges his weak business skills.

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What conflict is revealed when the author writes, My mother and I had foughtthis battle almost as long as I could remember?

A. the authors lack of interest in sales versus his mothers desire for a betterlife

B. the authors determination to spend money versus his mothers advice to

save it

C. the authors dreams of becoming a writer versus his mothers plans for him

in business

D. the authors struggle for success versus his mothers disappointment in his

performance

10 Why did the authors mother urge her son to sell magazines?

A. She needed her son to earn additional income.

B. She recognized salesman-like qualities in her son.

C. She wanted her son to follow in the footsteps of his father.

D. She thought her son needed business skills to earn a good living.

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11 Why, as a child, did the author strongly dislike the saying If at first you dont

succeed, try, try again? Use details and information from the story to support yourREAD

THINK answer.EXPLAIN

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GRADE 10

Read the story Cosmic Speed Trap. Then answer Numbers 12 through 19.

Reading

COSMIC SPEED TRAPCapturing cosmic rays will help physicists figure out their origin

By Steve Nadis

In October 1991, a

mysterious intrudershattered the calm of a

Utah desert. Ever since that

night, investigators in thetown of Dugway have beenasking the usual questions:What was it? Where did it

come from? How manyothers are on the way?

The intruder was notyour typical UFO. It was a

cosmic ray, one of countlessparticlesprotons orheavier atomic nucleithat

continually bombard Earth.High-energy cosmic rays are

the most energetic particlesin the universe, and the

1991 visitor was theswiftest and most energeticobject ever detected. The

record-setting cosmic ray, aproton with an energy of3 x 1020 electron-volts, hitour atmosphere while

traveling at virtually thespeed of light. It wasmoving closer to the speed

of light than anything weve

seen before . . . except light,explains University of Utahphysicist Eugene Loh, a

member of the Dugwayinvestigation team. With thatvelocity, the single protonweighing just one-trillionth of

a trillionth of a gram packedthe wallop of a tennis ballflying at about 100 miles anhour.

The source of high-energy cosmic rays is one ofastronomys long-standing

puzzles, and the 3 x 1020 eVparticle has so far defied

efforts to find its roots.Normally a particle that

energetic is like a tracerbullet; you should be able totrace it back to the gun that

shot the bullet, Loh says.Weve been trying to trace itback, but it seems to havecome from nowhere. It

doesnt point to an obvious

source, he explains, such

as a known hot oractivethat is, radiation-spewinggalaxy.

Scientists hope tosolve the mystery of high-energy cosmic rays bysnaring thousands of them

in a mammoth speed trapof sorts called the GiantArray. The driving forcebehind the project is

James Cronin, a NobelPrize-winning physicistfrom the University of

Chicago. He proposes toerect vast networks of

cosmic-ray detectors inboth the northern and

southern hemispheres,each spanning an area of5,000 square kilometers.

Each network consists oftwo kinds of detectors.One type of detector,located in the networks

center, will probe the nightsky, looking for the telltaleflashes of fluorescent light

Peppy particles: Scientists want to know whether high-energy cosmic rays

come from black holes or somewhere else altogether.

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that occur when a high-energy particle slams intothe atmosphere, creating

billions of secondaryparticles that rain throughthe sky and excite nitrogenatoms along the way. Someof these secondary particlessurvive their passage to theground. A fraction of these,in turn, might be interceptedby the second batch ofdetectors4,000scintillators that emit tiny

light flashes when hit by acharged particle.

The entire system will

cost about $50 million to $60million, Cronin estimates.Hes spent the better part ofthree years trying to sell theidea while lining upparticipating research teamsin the United States, China,Japan, England, France,and Australia. Aninternational team, hostedby Fermilab in Batavia,

Illinois, and supported bythe National ScienceFoundation; the United

Nations Educational,Scientific, and CulturalOrganization; and privatesources, expects tocomplete a major designstudy in July. If thenecessary funding comesthrough, the team plans tohave the cosmic-raydetectors up and running bythe turn of the century.

Excerpt from Cosmic Speed Trap by Steve Nadis, reprinted by permission of OMNI, 1995, OMNI PublicationsInternational, Ltd.

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Now answer Numbers 12 through 19. Base your answers on the story Cosmic Speed Trap.

12 Which statement does the article support?

A. Cosmic rays are a key to comprehending other parts of the universe.

B. Travel outside the solar system is threatened by mysterious particles.

C. Finding the source of cosmic rays means re-examining the laws of physics.

D. Searching for mysterious particles may increase understanding of other

life forms.

13 Besides traveling at almost the speed of light, what made the intruder unique?

A. its duration

B. its energy

C. its size

D. its weight

14 What does eV stand for?

A. electron-voltB. energy variation

C. extraterrestrial vehicle

D. extreme velocity

15 Which of these could make use of data gathered from a cosmic-ray detector?

A. a plan to investigate a comet

B. a listening device to track intersellar probes

C. a formula to calculate near-light-speed travel

D. a project to map radiation sources in the night sky

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16 You are an assistant to James Cronin, the physicist mentioned in the article. Prepare

an argument he can use to convince Congress to approve the funding needed toREAD

THINK complete plans for the Giant Array. Use details and information from the article toEXPLAIN support your argument.

For a full and complete response, consider these points.

what is needed and what can be gained from the Giant Array how much it will cost and whether Congress will have to pay

for everything when results can be expected some possible objections to the proposal

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17 This article would probably be useful for someone doing research on

A. new UFO theories.

B. stellar map-making.

C. the search for space dust.

D. the effects of radio waves.

18 What topic in the article does the picture represent?

A. the speed of light

B. the presence of cosmic rays

C. the path of the tracer bulletD. the center of the Giant Array

19 The Giant Array of detectors would find high-energy cosmic rays by

A. tracking specific flashes of light.

B. mapping variations in Earths rotation.

C. scanning Earths surface for atmospheric residue.

D. measuring how fast light bounces off a telescope.

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