McGraw-Hill's GED with CD-Rom: The Most Complete and Reliable Study Program for the GED Tests
America's #1 guide to acing the GED just got better\ Fully updated to reflect the latest exam guidelines, McGraw-Hill's GED has established itself as the bestselling GED study guide by giving the hundreds of thousands of people who each year take the high school equivalency exam everything they need to ace the test. It features precisely targeted assessments, easy-to-follow instructions, extensive practice, and simulated GED tests for all five subject areas covered in the exam—Language Arts,...
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America's #1 guide to acing the GED just got betterFully updated to reflect the latest exam guidelines, McGraw-Hill's GED has established itself as the bestselling GED study guide by giving the hundreds of thousands of people who each year take the high school equivalency exam everything they need to ace the test. It features precisely targeted assessments, easy-to-follow instructions, extensive practice, and simulated GED tests for all five subject areas covered in the exam—Language Arts, Writing; Social Studies; Science; Language Arts, Reading; and Mathematics.Enhanced with interactive capability, McGraw-Hill's GED with CD-ROM now combines the strengths of the market-leading book with the versatility of the CD-ROM: Coverage of the latest additions to the test, including sections on the GED essay, critical thinking skills, and graphs and Illustrations Priceless test-taking tips from a veteran GED test prep expert Guidelines for using the Casio fx-260 solar calculator for the mathematics sections A total of four full-length practice tests—two in the book and two additional ones on the CD-ROM Automatic marking and score analysis on the CD-ROM, including an additional diagnostic test that targets strengths and weaknesses
Acknowledgments xiii To the Student xvii PRETESTS Language Arts, Writing Pretest 3 Part I: Editing 3 Part II: The Essay 9 Answer Key and Evaluation Chart 10 Social Studies Pretest 13 Answer Key and Evaluation Chart 23 Science Pretest 27 Answer Key and Evaluation Chart 37 Language Arts, Reading Pretest 39 Answer Key and Evaluation Chart 48 Mathematics Pretest 51 Answer Key and Evaluation Chart 57 LANGUAGE ARTS, WRITING CHAPTER 1 Basic English Usage What is standard English? Writing in Complete Sentences Parts of Speech What is a noun? What is a verb? Subject-Verb Agreement What is a pronoun? Identifying Antecedents 65 65 68 69 73 87 91 95 CHAPTER 2 Sentence Structure Three Characteristics of a Sentence 105 Run-ons and Comma Splices 108 Sentence Combining 110 Using Active and Passive Voice 119 Sentence Structure and Types of Questions on the GED Test 121 Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers 126 Parallel Structure 129 I Table of Contents CHAPTER 3 Mechanics135 Capitalization Punctuation Spelling 135 139 147 CHAPTER 4 Organization 153 Paragraph Composition 153 Text Division 157 Paragraph Unity 160 Paragraph Coherence 162 CHAPTER 5Preparing for the GED Essay The Writing Process Types of Writing The Written Product Example Essay What You Should Know about the GED Test Essay Making the Most of Your Time Sample Topics for Practice LanguagE! Arts, Writing Answer Key Critical Thinking Skills for the GED Knowledge--Forming, Attaining, or Recalling Concepts Comprehension-Understanding What You Read Application--Applying What You Read Analysis-Examining What You Read Synthesis-Putting Elements Together to Form a New Whole Evaluation-•Judging What You Read Interpreting Graphs and Illustrations Interpreting Graphs Interpreting Maps Interpreting Tables Interpreting Editorial Cartoons Critical Thinking Skills for the GED Answer Key 213 217 231 237 263 271 275 275 283 285 286 288 Table of Contents I V SOCIAL STUDIES CHAPTER 1 World History 297 Early Humanity 297 Early Civilization 299 Chinese Dynasties 305 The Middle Ages and the Feudal System 306 The Renaissance 309 The French Revolution and Napoleon 314 Central America 316 The Industrial Revolution 317 The World Enters World War I 318 The Russian Revolution and the Rise of Communism 320 World War II 321 India is Divided 323 Technology as a Future 324 CHAPTER 2 U.S. History 327 A New Nation is Born 327 The Original Thirteen Colonies 329 The Beginnings of American Government 334 Early Domestic and Foreign Policy 338 Prelude to War 342 The Civil War 345 The Industrial Revolution 347 Growth of Big Business and Urbanization 348 The United States as a World Power 351 World War I 353 The Suffrage Movement 354 From the Roaring Twenties to the Stock Market Crash 355 The New Deal 356 World War II 357 The Korean Conflict 358 The Eisenhower Years 360 The Kennedy Administration 361 The Vietnam War 363 Detente and Watergate 363 Ending the Twentieth Century 364 I Table of Contents CHAPTER 3:Civics and Government 367 Types of Political Systems 367 The U.S. Federal Government 370 System of Checks and Balances 377 Amending the Constitution 379 State and Local Governments 381 The U.S. Political System 385 Becoming a Citizen of the United States 396 CHAPTER 4 Economics 399 Factors of Production 399 I Economics and Government 400 II Supply and Demand 403 II Imports and Exports 407 Ii Economic Growth 408 Ii Money and Monetary Policy 413 II Government and Fiscal Policy 416 The American Consumer 417 I: The Baby Boom Generation 424 CHAPTER 5 Geography 427 Mapping 427 Latitude and Longitude 431 Time Zones 433 Topography 435 Climate 437 Population Distribution 440 Social Studies Answer Key 444 SCIENCE CHAPTER 1 Life Science: Biology-The Study of Living Things 459 The Cell, the Basic Unit of Life 459 Genetics and Heredity 469 Organ Systems 473 Growth, Energy, and Living Things 485 Classification of Organisms 490
