McGraw-Hill's GED with CD-Rom: The Most Complete and Reliable Study Program for the GED Tests » (BK&CD-ROM)

Patricia Mulchrone is a professor emerita in the adult educational development department at William Rainey Harper College, Palatine, Illinois.

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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