SRI Practice

Good skateboarding means staying in control. If you're moving fast in a straight line, especially downhill, you're probably out of control. Carving turns back and forth across the pavement is the best way to keep good control.
Good skateboarding requires _____ .

• skill
• luck
• friends
• money

Her mother sat her down on the toadstool couch and said, "Patti, when caterpillars know that it is the right time, they each go and spin their own white cocoon. Then they slip inside and fall asleep. While they sleep, they dream the dreams of the Dream Tree. When they wake up, they have been transformed into beautiful butterflies."
Caterpillars rely on _____ to spin their cocoons.

• instinct
• instructions
• dreams
• neighbors

Junior knew that being a professional ballplayer was going to take some getting used to. He was here to mature and to improve, and it was going to take time. Still, as the weeks went by, the stress began to take its toll. Ken went into a slump at the plate that he just couldn't seem to get out of. His batting average fell all the way to .230. For the first time since he'd started playing baseball, he wasn't having fun.
His performance was _____ .

• offensive
• extraordinary
• unimpressive
• average

The party at the St. Croix house was part of the winter season in Charleston. Pig, Mark, and I went to the party together, and all of us were nervous about being the only cadets among the two hundred invited guests. None of us was comfortable around the St. Croix's friends.
We were _____ .

• dependable
• uneasy
• curious
• happy 

So now the boat is shorthanded by one man, and we are without a cook. Captain Aumack says that since I was the cause of the trouble, I must be the cook. Beggars can't be choosers, I guess. Mr. Audubon chuckles about my new role, but I don't think it's funny. The more chores I have, the less time I can spend on my drawing. And I am getting a powerful hankering to spend more time at it, thanks to John James Audubon!
I want to _____ more.

• sketch
• sleep
• eat 
• read

Soon she was back with an armful of grass, and up again on the fence. None of the horses noticed her at first. By and by some of them seemed to smell the grass and came over to where she was perched on the fence.
The horses became _____ .

• sleepy
• sleek
• interested
• fat

She had never asked me to read to the children before. As she handed the note to me, her large brown eyes met mine. And I saw a warmth in them, a trust. No, she would not teach me herself, but she would do as her father had done for her. She would send me to those who could open the way for me to help myself.
She wanted me to _____ .

• learn
• listen
• celebrate
• hurry 

Mary Anne had decided to stay at home and look through more of her pamphlets and maps and books. She was acting just like when she, Kristy, Claude and Dawn came to visit me in New York. Mary Anne could have been our tour guide then. For that matter, she could have been the tour guide for visiting foreign dignitaries. Somehow, she knew everything about the city I'd grown up in and that she just dreamed of visiting. Now, here she was in California, doing the same thing. Oh, well.
She loved learning about different _____ .

• places
• dishes
• people
• departments

A hard-boiled egg is a solid. It spins easily. A raw egg contains a liquid. Liquid requires more force than a solid to set it in motion. Since you apply only one force to the egg when you spin it, the liquid inside the raw egg does not move as rapidly as the solid shell. This creates a drag between the inside of the shell and the surface of the liquid, which slows down and eventually stops the movement of the egg.
Solids _____ faster.

• melt
• rotate
• fracture
• fall

Eleanor and I stayed silent. Henry paced around the room, frowning at everything. Then he stood between our two chairs and rested one hand on each. He leaned over and said, very solemnly, "You see now, ladies, why I must have Becket as Archbishop of Canterbury as well as chancellor. The country cannot have two kinds of laws."
Henry was _____ .

• troubled
• tired
• caring 
• understanding