Reading Inventory - 900's

When Peter was finished with the bike, he wiped his hands on the grease cloth and asked Max if he would check it over for him. Max seemed astonished at first, but agreed to do it. He went over the bike and scrutinized every detail of Peter's repair job.

Peter wanted Max's _____ .

• reaction

• discipline

• sympathy

• momentum

:Our car is jammed with people—2 to a seat with little ones like Tomas on laps—all of us going to Opportunity. If the train would ever move, that is. We have not even reached Philadelphia and we have been on this train over 24 hours. Mr. Conductor has not presented himself today and there is much grumbling. I will write Francesca a letter and post it at our next stop.

We are _____ .

• hungry

• comfortable

• fortunate

• frustrated

Kenya and Tanzania have set up wild game preserves where animals roam savanna and forest freely. Tourism in these game parks and along the beaches brings in millions of dollars each year and provides much needed jobs. Domesticated herds of cattle, sheep and camels also roam here. Nomadic tribes follow them across the savanna.

The game preserves have many _____ .

• Benefits

• costs

• risks

• conveniences

Ask your teacher for guidance in selecting possible research-paper topics. After all, this may be your first attempt at writing a research paper. It helps to bounce ideas around with an expert who has probably read and corrected hundreds of such papers. Your teacher will have a pretty good idea of topics that worked for students in the past and those which are dead ends.

Teachers are good _____ .

• resources

• actors

• athletes

• inventors

If he were alive today, Sam Adams could probably run a successful political campaign for a presidential candidate. He was not a great public speaker. But he was an excellent speech writer, with a keen sense of how to excite an audience. Historian Samuel Eliot Morison said of Sam Adams, "He was certainly the western world's first orchestra leader of revolution."

Adams was _____ .

• different

• effective

• humorous

• inexperienced

• foreign

She stretched out, her head pillowed in the satin smoothness of her saddle. Above her, in a pocket of the canyon wall, mountain sheep searched for grass, their slate-colored hides barely discernible against the rock. Closer, on a rocky outcrop streaked with bands of grass and trees, she found the big head and horns of a ram feeding, and near it, two brown spots, one larger than another, a ewe and her lamb. They saw her, but did not run, continuing to eat, confident of their safety. All around them dragonflies flashed. Smaller insects hummed. A squirrel scampered up a nearby trunk rich with yellow and green lichen. The sun felt warm, the peace palpable.

This was a(n) _____ place to stop.

• fancy

• expensive

• dangerous

• comfortable

As he was told, Squeakers put out the candle and tried to fall asleep. But no matter how he tried, he couldn't sleep and he lay on his bed and tossed and turned in the shadowed moonlight. Finally, at nearly the crack of dawn, he fell into a fitful sleep filled with nightmares of an evil tree knocking and scraping at his window sill. Squeakers woke from his sleep, but he felt like he had never slept at all. He looked terrible.

He had a(n) _____ night.

• restfull

• restless

• successful

• confusing

• uneventful

Will had told Meribah that their leader had crossed the country to California no less than twenty times, sometimes following the emigrant trail, sometimes exploring new ones. His condition was movement. The act of getting someplace was far more important than actual arrival.

He _____ moving.

• supervized

• prevented

• relished

• condemned

Miss Hickory heard heavy footsteps, clump, clumping along the stones of the pasture, then approaching her lilac bush. Out of the corner of one sharp little black eye she could see a pair of large yellow feet but she did not turn her head. As a matter of fact Miss Hickory had difficulty in turning her head. It was a hickory nut that had grown with an especially sharp and pointed nose. Her eyes and mouth were inked on. Her body was an apple-wood twig formed like a body with two arms and two legs, hand and feet, as twigs sometimes grow. To this body Miss Hickory's nut head was glued. She wore a blue-and-white checked gingham dress.

Actually, Miss Hickory was a _____ .

• teacher

• cat

• mother

• doll

Visual thinking is commonly represented in graphs. Bar graphs, circle graphs, and line or coordinate graphs appear in newspapers and magazines. Business people, scientists, and mathematicians are constantly using information from graphs.

Graphs provide _____ information.

• crooked

• insufficent

• entertaining

• valuable