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The passage describes Theo, the most popular kid in school who is a skilled rapper. However, he feels excluded by the chess club. One day, Theo comes to school wearing glasses and says he has become nearsighted. He stops rapping and joins other academic clubs. The school is bewildered by his transformation. In the end, the chess club accepts Theodore as one of their own.

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1 Transformation Exercises

The passage describes Theo, the most popular kid in school who is a skilled rapper. However, he feels excluded by the chess club. One day, Theo comes to school wearing glasses and says he has become nearsighted. He stops rapping and joins other academic clubs. The school is bewildered by his transformation. In the end, the chess club accepts Theodore as one of their own.

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Do You Remember?

Synonym Matching: In the space provided, write the letter of the synonym on
the right that corresponds to the word on the left.

1. Placate _____ A. Defiant


2. Ratiocinate _____ B. Appease
3. Tedious _____ C. Adept
4. Tome _____ D. Prance
5. Recalcitrant _____ E. Book
6. Redact _____ F. Think
7. Burgeon _____ G. Summary
8. Synopsis _____ H. Blossom
9. Deft _____ I. Boring
10. Cavort ____ J. Revise

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Reading Comprehension: Read the passage below and answer the questions
based on the text.

The most popular kid in school was a rapper named Theo. He was the paragon
of popularity at Attleboro High; so deft with a microphone that it rendered
people silent with awe. He had a colossal entourage that faithfully followed
him from class to class, and he dressed in the most cosmopolitan fashions.
But if you asked Theo, he would have told you that he felt ostracized by one
particular group: the chess club. Then, one day, Theo wasn’t in school. When
he came in the next day, something had changed. He wore thick, black-rimmed
glasses. When someone asked Theo why, he said, “Why don’t you ratiocinate
for a minute? Could it be because I’m myopic? Oh, and call me Theodore.”
Needless to say, the school didn’t know what to do. Theodore stopped rapping
and joined the debate team to study elocution. He joined the Ant-Lovers Club to
study entomology, and he walked the hallways with oversized Dungeons and
Dragons tomes under his arm. There is a happy ending, however, for the chess
club no longer treated him like a pariah. They welcomed Theodore as one of
their own.

1. Which of the following does not attest or contribute to Theo’s popularity


early on in the passage?

(A) He was a skilled rapper.


(B) He had many followers.
(C) He wore sophisticated clothes.
(D) He was mostly silent.
[(E) is missing?]

2. Which of the following most closely describes the reaction of the school in
general to Theo’s transformation?

(A) Hatred
(B) Bewilderment
(C) Appreciation
(D) Apprehension
(E) Disgust

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Transformation Puzzle #2
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ACROSS DOWN

2 to prance, dance about 1 loud, energetic


4 to persist, remain constant 3 a summary
8 skilled, adept 4 model of perfection
9 enormous, immense 5 excessive, over-the-top
12 worldly, sophisticated 6 to exclude from a community
15 able to see and detect things that others 7 an enormous structure
cannot 10 present but hidden
17 careful, showing care 11 large, ample
18 spacious, roomy 13 an outcast
19 rhythm 14 excessive
20 insane, foolish 16 to come forth, blossom

WORD BANK: Boisterous, burgeon, cadence, cavort, clairvoyant, colossus,


commodious, cosmopolitan, daft, deft, diligent, exorbitant, extravagant, latent,
ostracize, paragon, pariah, persevere, synopsis, vast, voluminous.
Transformation Puzzle #1
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2 defiant 1 sociable
8 the art of public speaking 3 the study of insects
13 to repeat, reiterate 4 to say, or to make
14 to examine carefully 5 a large book
16 boring, dull 6 indirect language
17 talkative 7 to soothe, appease
18 original, ground-breaking 9 deserving of praise or merit
19 intelligent, viable 10 wordy
11 to revise, edit
12 to think, contemplate
15 short-sighted

WORD BANK: Circumlocution, cogent, elocution, entomology, gregarious,


loquacious, meritorious, myopic, peruse, placate, ratiocinate, recalcitrant, recapitulate,
redact, render, seminal, tedious, tome, verbose.

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