TEAS English Questions

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: The correct answer is A: piqued. In this context, "piqued" means to stimulate or arouse. A childhood reading of Tales from Shakespeare would stimulate or arouse Helene's interest in studying Shakespeare. The other choices are incorrect: B: peaked means reached the highest point, C: peked and D: peeked are misspellings and do not make sense in the context of the sentence.

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: The correct answer is A: Suffix; verb; noun. - 'Tion' is a suffix added to verbs to form nouns. - Suffixes are added at the end of a word to change its meaning or function. - Therefore, '-tion' turns a verb (action word) into a noun (person, place, thing, or idea). Other choices are incorrect because: B: Affixes can be prefixes, suffixes, or infixes but '-tion' is specifically a suffix, not an affix in general. C: Prefixes are added at the beginning of a word, not at the end like '-tion'. D: Infixes are inserted within a word, which is not the case for '-tion'.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: The given sentence, "You are a tutor," is a simple sentence as it consists of only one independent clause without any dependent clauses. It contains a subject ("You") and a predicate ("are a tutor"). Therefore, the correct answer is A: Simple. The other choices are incorrect because a complex sentence would require at least one independent clause and one dependent clause, a compound sentence would consist of two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction, and a compound-complex sentence would have multiple independent clauses and at least one dependent clause.

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: The correct answer is A: fought. In the sentence, "fought" is the only word that functions as a verb, indicating an action (past tense of fight). "Control," "trade," and "those" are all nouns or adjectives, not verbs. Verbs show action or state of being, while nouns and adjectives describe or identify. Therefore, "fought" is the only word in the choices that fits the criteria of being a verb in the sentence, making it the correct answer.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: The correct answer is B: irrelevant. Extraneous means unnecessary or irrelevant in this context. The sentence indicates that the details mentioned in the report were not related to the main findings, making them extraneous. Choice A, sophisticated, does not align with the context of the sentence. Choice C, diligent, does not convey the idea of being unnecessary. Choice D, useful, is the opposite of extraneous, as extraneous details are not useful in this context. Therefore, the best explanation for extraneous in this sentence is irrelevant.