7th Grade TCAP Review

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Text Excerpt: "To store and retrieve spatial memory, humans use a part of the brain called the hippocampus."

The sentence talks about using the hippocampus to store and retrieve memory. "Access" makes the most sense — the brain uses the hippocampus to get to the memory.

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Text Excerpt: “The scientists asked each participant to sit down at a computer and wander through three-dimensional rooms... As the people became familiar... their brain cells were taking notes...”

These paragraphs describe the step-by-step process of the study — from training to scanning.

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Text Excerpt: “After a few repetitions, the scientists could identify patterns in the subjects’ brains.” (Paragraph 7)

Repeated brain scans revealed consistent patterns that matched locations in the virtual rooms.

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Text Excerpt: “She might be an impudent little genius-in-the-rough, but Constance was one of the few people in the world Reynie could count as a true friend.” (Paragraph 4)

"Impudent" describes someone who behaves in a bold or disrespectful way — here, Constance is a bit rude, but still lovable.

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Text Excerpt: “Reynie’s brow wrinkled. That conscientious goat was not the first unusual thing he’d seen this morning.” (Paragraph 9)

A wrinkled brow usually means confusion or curiosity. Reynie notices something odd and is thinking deeply.

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Text Excerpt: “Reynie broke into a run.” (Paragraph 5)

“To think he would see Kate any minute! And Sticky Washington...”

Reynie’s excitement builds as he gets closer to reuniting with his friends — this motivates him to run.

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Text Excerpt: “Constance, Kate, and Sticky were like family to him. It didn’t matter that he’d met them only a year ago.” (Paragraph 4)

Reynie reflects on how meaningful his friendships are, even after time and distance. This supports the idea that true friendships last.

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A comma is needed before a coordinating conjunction (like but) when it connects two independent clauses.

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A semicolon can join two closely related independent clauses without a coordinating conjunction.

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Option C is concise and clear. Phrases like "due to the fact that" and "cold in temperature" are unnecessarily wordy.

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Proper nouns and official names (like Statue of Liberty and New York City) must be capitalized. The season summer is not capitalized unless part of a title.