RI Review (885)

He went on to play professional football for the Buffalo Bisons in the old NFL, played in a championship game against George Halas and the Chicago Bears. He also played professional baseball for the Boston Braves for the better part of two seasons. Later, he coached both football and basketball at Canisius.

He was a(n) __________ athlete.

• experienced

• unwilling

• arrogrant

• poor

She had never boasted either beauty or cleverness. Her youth had passed without distinction, and her middle of life was devoted to the care of a failing mother, and the endeavour to make a small income go as far as possible. And yet she was a happy woman, and a woman whom no one named without good-will. It was her own universal good-will and contented temper which worded such wonders.

She was _______________.

• stunning

• admirable

• argumentative

• affluent

For endless hours, Ben sweated over great pots of boiling tallow. He cut candlewicks, filled molds to make soap, and waited on customers.

Ben was _______________.

• sad

• busy

• hurt

• shy

In 1993, archaeologists in Russia unearthed a magnificent tomb from the bleak, windswept lands of Siberia. It belonged tot eh ancient Pazyryk people and was hidden far below the ground.

The archaeologists made a(n) ________________.

• discovery

• inspection

• impact

• program

Both humans and animals need salt in their diets to be healthy. In fact, adults need about 2.3 grams - or a thimbleful - a day, and children need about half as much. The body needs salt for the nerves and brain to function successfully. Salt is also needed to maintain a proper balance between the fluid portion of the blood and the number of molecules dissolved in it. Without the balance, the body's cells would absorb too much water and burst. So the body tries to maintain a certain concentration of salt in water.

The balance of salt and fluid is _____________.

• transparent

• costly

• magnetic

• vital

Volcanoes, earthquakes, and young mountain chains are signs of a restless, changing earth, a planet that is in a sense alive. Its land is worn down and rebuilt, worn down and rebuilt. And so it remains a planet of land and sea that can support many different kinds of life. It is the only such planet in our solar system.

The planet earth is ________________.

• peaceful

• dynamic

• empty

• enormous

As we approach the field through the woods, Dan and I exchange a worried look. What is John and Richie are there with the eighth graders? Or what if they come while we're in the gardener's shed trying to make our movie? After we hide our bikes in a new place, I check through the window that no one's in the shed.

We do not want to be _______________.

• attacked

• changed

• invovled

• disturbed

As if by magic, this small wonder of a machine was sewing the seam as a shoe sole beneath the shoemaker's hands. Jan had never seen anything like it. "It's a McKay sole-sewing machine, "the shoemaker informed his fascinated visitor. Something about the young man's intense interest touched the heart of the shoemaker. Jan soon had himself a new job - a job with a machine.

The machine _______________ Jan.

• captivated

• bored

• repulsed

• injured

In early America, handmade products were crude and plain. As people moved westward, they loaded and unloaded their belongings. Many times cabinets had to pass through small doorways. Furnishings were assembled with mechanical fasteners such as wedges, square pegs or round pins. These fasteners could be removed quickly to disassemble the furniture. To have carved, fragile furniture in this environment was not practical.

Early furniture needed to be ___________________.

• weak

• adaptable

• large

• curved

The ability to reason and solve problems generally develops between the ages of 13 and 15. Teens are able to think beyond concrete facts. Thinking through problems becomes easier. You will be able to think about options and consequences when solving problems. You'll be more interested to both sides of an argument.

You will be more _________________________.

• inattentive

• relaxed

• objective

• partial