SRI Practice Quiz 2

She was whistling always. She whistled like a bird whistling a tune, clear and soft, clear and sweet, trilling, chirping, or dropping notes one by one as a meadowlark drops them from the sky. I was pleased to hear her whistling again.

She was _____ .

• angry

• talented

• annoying

• famous

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 _____ .

• mother

• teacher

• doll

• cat

Uncle Emanuel rubbed his face and neck with a big red handkerchief. He stood for a moment to admire the neat, healthy rows of corn, tomatoes, beans, okra, mustard greens, and cabbage growing in his garden. "This is a good place to live," he said, almost to himself. "From this garden we get all the vegetables that we need."

He felt _____ .

• brave

• lonely

• scared

• proud

: It was a dreadful ordeal. The men wrestled huge boulders out of the way, chopped trees, dug roadways in rocky ground. The hillsides were steep, the heat suffocating; alkali dust stung their eyes and throats. When oxen couldn't move a wagon, soldiers came to the rescue, a dozen men hauling on long ropes attached to the vehicle. Several wagons overturned, breaking their axles, injuring their teams, and scattering goods down the hillsides.

There were many _____ .

• obstacles

• earthquakes

• attractions

• questions

Mr. Brewster and the few who owned land sold their possessions. Secretly, arrangements were made with a Dutch ship captain to meet them at the coast and carry them to Amsterdam. There would be no farewells to their neighbors, for their leaving must be kept as quiet as possible.

They were _____ .

• discreet

• careless

• greedy

• unwelcome

"We must call out the hunters from all the countryside," the village people said next. The tiger hunters came, in their blue uniforms and their red-tasseled hats. Their matchlock guns were slung over their shoulders. Their deer horn cases were filled with bullets, and their oilpaper packets of gunpowder were safe and dry inside their sleeves.

They were _____ .

• confused

• equipped

• forgetful

• lazy

The crescent wrench is popular because it is the most useful adjustable wrench. This wrench has a crescent or C-shaped jaw at one end. The jaw can be adjusted to fit tightly around different size nuts and bolts. The crescent wrench is made in many sizes. They range from tiny pocket size models to very large wrenches two feet long. A crescent wrench can adjust to fit almost any size nut, like the ones used on bicycles.

The crescent wrench is _____ .

• versatile

• heavy

• affordable

• shiny

In the fall of the year Mrs. Bell's garden glowed with rose, lavender, purple, and white asters. White spider lilies popped like miniature fireworks around the stately white house. Clematis blanketed the iron fence with fragrant stars. I thought that even Henry must have come to see the beauty of it, even if he didn't like to work there.

Mrs. Bell's garden was _____ .

• creative

• overpopulated

• second-rate

• thriving

Cooperative ownership combines the advantages of home ownership with the convenience of apartment living. Under the cooperative form of ownership, an apartment building is managed and run as a corporation. The buyer purchases stock in the corporation that runs the building and, thereby, receives an apartment. The value of the apartment determines the amount of stock purchased. The buyer receives a lease that grants them exclusive right to possession of the apartment.

It is meant to be a _____ arrangement

• fulfilling

• beneficial

• artificial

• disagreeable

Mars and Venus, Earth's nearest neighbors, are similar in size and composition, but they are very different from Earth. Venus is too hot for liquid water to exist. Radar images from the Magellan spacecraft show a hot, dry planet with high plateaus, long valleys, and rugged mountains. But green plants and blue waters are missing from the landscape.

Venus is _____ .

• desolate

• enormous

• colorful

• unexplored