Reading Inventory Practice 01-08-21

The admiral said briefly yesterday that Dirk Pitt was an extremely resourceful and audacious man. During the course of his career, he had saved many lives, including those of Sandecker himself and the President during an incident in the Gulf of Mexico. Pitt never lacked for ingenuity or creativity. No project was too difficult for him to accomplish.

Pitt was ________________________ .

• careless

• talented

• devious

• handsome

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CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

On my last full day, the sixth day, the old man took me out fishing on the Rainy River. The afternoon was sunny and cold. A stiff breeze came in from the north, and I remember how the little fourteen-foot boat made sharp rocking motions as we pushed off from the dock. The current was fast. All around us, I remember, there was a vastness to the world, an unpeopled rawness, just the trees and the sky and the water reaching out toward nowhere. The air had the brittle scent of October.

My memories of that day are __________________ .

• vivid

• absent

• detached

• ordinary

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Billy Campbell, 18, was riding harder than he had ever ridden in his young life. His horse was wheezing with exhaustion; its chest and sides were foaming with sweat. Campbell hated to push the poor creature, but he was determined to make it to the next station faster than ever before.

He wanted to _________________________________.

• choose

• leave

• succeed

• sleep

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CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.4.1

Well, this year Sara decided that she was definitely not going to follow family tradition. She did not collect scraps of fabric and paper before Mother's Day. She did not press leaves or flowers between the pages of her heavy Grimm's Fairy Tales book. She did not do any of the things she had always done before a special day. For Mother's Day she absolutely would not make another pillow or pincushion or picture. She wouldn't even make a card.

She was being __________________________________.

• contrary

• helpful

• suspicious

• bossy

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CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

They called it spring training, but there wasn't much training involved and the weather in Winston-Salem didn't feel like any spring I'd ever known. The wind ripped across the field without mercy, cutting right through the threadbare shirt I practiced in. The veterans had jackets, but they weren't about to hand one over to an eighteen-year-old rookie.

It was __________________________ .

• overcast

• uncomfortable

• peaceful

• eerie

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CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

Botswana usually gets between eighteen and twenty-seven inches of rainfall each year. But rainfall is unpredictable, and the area is often hit by droughts. The summer rainy season lasts from October to April and can be very hot, though it is seldom humid. During the winter, temperatures often drop below freezing at night (particularly in the southern part of the country), resulting in many frosty mornings.

Botswana's weather is ________________________ .

• unseasonable

• dependable

• peaceful

• variable

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CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

Gemstone crystals should be very difficult to scratch. In 1812, a mineralogist named Friedrich Mohs developed a scale to rank the hardness of minerals. The diamond is at the top of the list. Not only is it the hardest gemstone, it is also the hardest substance known to humans! Rubies and sapphires are the next-hardest gemstones. Topaz, quartz, and emeralds are farther down on Mohs' scale.

The scale is useful in ______________________ minerals.

• assessing

• mining

• renewing

• detecting

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CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Liz, for one, was convinced rats had killed them. Mr. Bowyer didn't argue, but it was plain he didn't agree. Mrs. Bowyer, frankly, wasn't very interested. She had enough to do, she said, looking after the business of the farm, and her own family, without worrying about the family of a stable-cat. She'd had to phone Iceland again about those blasted sheep.

Mrs. Bowyer's _________________ was elsewhere.

• secret

• concern

• surprise

• information

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CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.4.1

Russia has rich natural resources. These include forests, farmland, minerals, and streams to harness for electric power. The best farms are in a region called the Black Earth Belt.

Russia has varied ____________________.

• geography

• foods

• telephones

• spices

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

I leaned back for a moment and let my eyes wander down below. We were way out over the ocean. I looked at my watch—a little more than thirty minutes from Orlando so far. The sea looked choppy, even with the bright, sunny weather. An occasional cloud cast its shadow down on the stony-looking water surface. The wavering outline of the plane appeared and disappeared.

I had a good _____________________ .

• view

• nap

• idea

• lunch

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CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4