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Table of Contents Table of Contents For the Student . .2 Pretest 1 . 4 Pretest 2 . 7 Pretest 3 . 10 Pretest 4 . 13 Pretest 5 . 16 Benchmark 1. 20 Benchmark 2. 24 Benchmark 3. 28 Benchmark 4. 32 Benchmark 5. .Education . 36 Post Test 1 . .41 Post Test 2 . .44 Post Test 3 . .47 Post Test 4 . .50 Post Test 5 . Brownlow. .53 Pretest Answer Form. 57 Self-assessment 1. 58 Hawker Post Test Answer© Form . 59 Self-assessment 2. 60 Benchmark Answer Form . .61 © 2012 Hawker Brownlow Education • 9781743305614 • CARS Plus Student Guide F CA12132 1 For the Student Comprehensive Assessment of Reading Strategies (CARS Plus Series) is a reading program that gives you practice with 12 reading strategies. In Comprehensive Assessment of Reading Strategies, Book F, you will complete 15 reading tests. Each test contains a reading passage and questions about the passage. After you read each passage, you will answer 12 questions. Each question helps you practise a particular reading strategy. Comprehensive Assessment of Reading Strategies, Book F, will help you get the most from your reading. You will understand what important information to look for as you read. You will also learn to judge your own work and set reading goals. By the time you finish working with this book, you will be a better reader. Education Brownlow Hawker © 2 CARS Plus Student Guide F CA12132 • 9781743305614 • © 2012 Hawker Brownlow Education PretestPretest 5 5 Read this letter to the editor that appeared in a local newspaper. Then answer questions about the letter. Choose the best answer for Numbers 1 to 12. Letter to the Editor Third, what does Dr Baker think is going to happen to the students currently at Evatt In an effort to save money, Dr Samuel when it’s closed? Where will these students Baker, the State Minister for Education, go? Existing schools are already crowded. has suggested that Evatt Primary School There is no extra classroom space. Does be closed. Dr Baker says that the state Dr Baker plan on renovating these schools? government will save 2 million dollars by Dr Baker’s plan does not take the cost of closing the school. His plan, however, is poorly construction into account. thought out at best. Fourth, since existing schools are already First, the population in the Evatt Primary crowded, the students at Evatt will still need School neighbourhood is rising. Currently, teachers. The salaries for at least 13 classroom there are 320 students enrolled at Evatt. teachers and 7 aides will still need to be Recent estimates show that in just 6 years, Education paid. Add in the cost of business, supplies, however, the number of students in the area textbooks and so forth, and you see my point. could be triple that amount. Why close a Dr Baker’s projected savings estimates are school in an area that is growing rapidly? completely off the mark. Second, does anyone remember what Dr Baker and his advisors are clearly happened 10 years ago when Calwell Primary not thinking ahead. All parents, students was closed? That school closing was supposedBrownlow and concerned citizens should consider the to save the state government millions. Plus, consequences of Dr Baker’s proposal. Insist the government was to benefit from the that this issue be looked at again from a more sale of the school to a private developer. informed position. The developer turned Calwell Primary into Ms Enid Gupta apartments. And what happenedHawker just 5 years President, Evatt Primary School Parent after Calwell Primary closed?© A new school Teacher Association had to be constructed because there were too many students and too few schools. Taxpayers in that urban community are still paying for the mistake. In the end, the government lost money on that deal. 16 CARS Plus Student Guide F CA12132 • 9781743305614 • © 2012 Hawker Brownlow Education Finding Main Idea Recognising Cause and Effect 1. Which of these best expresses the main 4. According to the letter, which of these idea of the letter? would be a result of the school closing? School closings often result in Hundreds of families would leave enormous savings to a state the Evatt Primary neighbourhood. government. Present classrooms would quickly A minister has decided to close a become overcrowded. local school. School populations would decrease School closings always result in costs dramatically. to the taxpayer. Existing schools would need to be A school-closing plan may not be as expanded. prudent as some people believe. Recalling Facts and Details Comparing and Contrasting 2. Who is the writer of the letter? 5. In the letter, the current school-closing a distressed state government official issue is compared to an angry taxpayer a steady rise in taxes due to building a concerned member of a school expenses. organisation Educationa school closing that occurred ten a worried advisor to the minister years ago. the construction of a new school five years ago. a poor decision recently made in another area. Brownlow Understanding Sequence Making Predictions 3. Which of these happenedHawker first? 6. Predict what will probably occur if Enid Gupta wrote© a letter to protest enough citizens oppose Dr Baker’s plan. the closing of a school. Dr Baker will follow through with Calwell Primary was closed. his current plan. A new school was constructed in an The President of the Evatt Primary urban neighbourhood. School Parent Teacher Association Dr Baker made a proposal to close will replace the minister. Evatt Primary School. Dr Baker will develop a new plan, but will not share it with the public. Dr Baker will be forced to review the plan with a new set of advisors. © 2012 Hawker Brownlow Education • 9781743305614 • CARS Plus Student Guide F CA12132 17 BenchmarkBenchmark 5 5 Read this article about Australian Prime Ministers. Then answer questions about the article. Choose the best answer for Numbers 1 to 12. Leaving Office they’d been personally voted out of Parliament. As of 2012, Australia has had twenty- But what about the seven Prime Ministers. This seems like a lot others? when you think that we’ve only had Prime Three Prime Ministers for just over one hundred and ten Ministers died while years. This means on average we’ve had a they were in office. The new Prime Minister every four years! Of first one was Joseph course this isn’t true in reality. Australia Lyons. He was Prime has had Prime Ministers that were in office Minister from 1932 to for a very short time, like Frank Forde and 1939. On 7 April 1939 Joseph Lyons drove Earle Page, who were PM for only eight from The Lodge, the Prime Minister’s official days and twenty days each. We’ve also had house in Canberra, to Sydney. Lyons was Prime Ministers who were around for a long headingEducation to his family home in Tasmania for time, like Robert Menzies and John Howard, Easter. Lyons had a massive heart attack PM for 16 years and 11 years straight, and died in hospital in Sydney. respectively. The second Prime Minister to die in The conventional way for a person to office was John Curtin. Curtin was Prime stop being Prime Minister is to lose an Minister through most of World War Two. He election. Australia’s Prime Minister is the had made sure that Australia was safe from leader of the party that gets the most seats Brownlowinvasion. This meant many hard decisions, at an election. If they go to an election and like forming a new alliance with the United another party wins more seats, the leader of States. It also meant that he brought in that party becomes Prime Minister. So you conscription. This is where people are called would think that most people who stopped up to fight rather than volunteering. This being Prime Minister probably lost an last one was very hard on Curtin. It almost election, right? Wrong! Hawker split his party. It was especially difficult for Since 1901, only ten Prime Ministers © Curtin because, as a young man, he had even have been defeated at a general election. gone to jail for opposing conscription during They are Alfred Deakin (the third time he the First World War. Curtin made hard was Prime Minister), Andrew Fisher (the decisions that saved Australia, but they took second time he was Prime Minister), Joseph a toll on his health. He died just before the Cook, Stanley Bruce, James Scullin, Ben war ended. Chifley, William McMahon, Malcolm Fraser, The third and most mysterious Prime Paul Keating and John Howard. Deakin and Ministerial death was that of Harold Holt. Fisher were both Prime Minister at other Holt decided to go swimming at one of his times, and left office at those times after favourite spots, Cheviot Beach in Victoria. resigning for different reasons. Bruce and The surf was heavy and Cheviot Beach Howard both lost not only elections but also was known for having strong rip tides. But their own seats. This means that even if Harold Holt was a strong swimmer and had their governments had won they would have been there many times. His friends tried to been unable to still be Prime Minister, as tell him not to go in, but Holt ignored them. 36 CARS Plus Student Guide F CA12132 • 9781743305614 • © 2012 Hawker Brownlow Education Soon he disappeared from view. A massive Liberal Coalition government. This was a search was undertaken. But Harold Holt, big achievement and Whitlam quickly set the seventeenth Prime Minister of Australia, about trying to start up many new programs was never seen again! and ideas. Many of the programs Whitlam Six Prime Ministers chose to resign.
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