FREE CSET Subtest II Life Sciences Questions and Answers

Question 1

Multiple pronunciations are associated with common vowel patterns (e.g., steam and bread). Which of the following nonsense words best exemplifies a vowel pattern that is pronounced consistently?

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Troan

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Spow

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Mough

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Stook

Question 2

The best way for oral rhyme-making exercises to foster phonemic awareness in kids is to teach them how to:

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Attend to the sounds shared by words in the same word family

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Identify the junctures between syllables in spoken words

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Identify spelling patterns that correspond to specific sounds

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Recognize how the structure of a word relates to its meaning

Question 3

Which of the following describes the degree to which languages around the world are similar?

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The basic principles of phrase structure (e.g., the subject-predicate structure of sentences)

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The speech sounds that are used to form words

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The role of volume in communicating information

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The basic rules of morphology (e.g., adding s to a singular noun to make a plural)

Question 4

Which of the following best describes how learning a language that has a history of being related to English (such as German, French, or Spanish) might help someone learn English as a second language?

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Many terms and roots in English and the person's original language probably have similar spellings and meanings.

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Prefixes and suffixes in English are probably similar to those in the person's native tongue.

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The most common speech sounds in the individual's original language and English are probably the same.

Question 5

Reading difficulties that are not brought on by low IQ or a lack of educational opportunities are most frequently brought on by:

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A deficit in phonological processing

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Poorly developed visual discrimination skills

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A lack of motivation

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Poorly developed oral language abilities

Question 6

A reader's ability to decode is most likely to benefit from having a sizeable oral vocabulary if it helps the reader:

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Recognize a word after sounding it out

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Use syntactic cues to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word

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Apply phonics generalizations to sound out a word

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Relate an unfamiliar word to known words with similar spellings

Question 7

Which of the following abilities in phonemic awareness is often the simplest for kids to learn?

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Identifying the initial sound in a word (e.g., /b/ in bed)

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Recognizing that two words contain the same sound (e.g., thin and path)

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Identifying a word that does not belong in a group of three spoken words (e.g., gate, game, shake)

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Blending sounds together to form a spoken word (e.g., /t/ + /a/ + /g/ = tag)

Multiple pronunciations are associated with common vowel patterns (e.g., steam and bread).Which of the following nonsense words best exemplifies a vowel pattern that is pronounced consistently?

Multiple pronunciations are associated with common vowel patterns (e.g., steam and bread).
Which of the following nonsense words best exemplifies a vowel pattern that is pronounced consistently?