Reading Inventory Practice 2 (5th-6th)

The thought of him depressed me horribly. Here was I condemned to some rotten buffoonery in inglorious safety, while the salt of the earth like Blaikie was paying the ghastliest price. From him my thoughts flew to old Peter Pienaar, and I sat down on a roadside wall and read his last letter. It nearly made me howl.

I was _____ .

• skeptical

• distressed

• justified

• diligent

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Next time you look at a grocery store or supermarket cheese display, look at the French cheeses and see how different they are in shape, size, and color. There are hard cheeses such as Cantal; cheeses with soft rinds and creamy insides such as Brie and Camembert; small, tangy goats'-milk cheeses, called chevres; and blue cheeses such as Roquefort with thin green-blue lines through them.

France produces _____ cheeses.

• various

• contoured

• expensive

• tasteless

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

She would mimic anyone and anything, and very well at that: the cat's meow, her friend's voice, her teacher's authoritative tone. We couldn't help laughing at her little performances, she was so skilled with her voice. Anne loved having an attentive audience, and loved to hear us respond to her skits and clowning.

She _____ us.

• believed

• entertained

• frightened

• pestered

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Mr. Jones has had a garden in his yard for many years. This summer he notices twice as many caterpillars on his tomato plants as last summer. He recalls that last summer there were twice as many caterpillars as in the previous summer. Mr. Jones thinks, "If this increase continues, the caterpillars will completely destroy my tomato plants next summer."

The caterpillars keep _____ .

• fleeing

• climbing

• multiplying

• sleeping

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

"There!" Kayugh said suddenly, and Samiq straightened in his kayak, holding his paddle vertically in the water to steady himself. Yes, Samiq could see the island. It was large, with a long flat beach that rose toward a jumble of hills and the jagged peaks of a mountain. The day was misty. The sun was only a light place in the clouds, and so Samiq could not see the entire island, but it seemed large, and the beach was three, four times as long as Tugix's beach.

They _____ the island

• protected

• liked

• avoided

• found

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Now watch me, says Frank, and he repeats Gimpy's performance. Charlie is confused. There are differences. Gimpy holds his elbows out as he rolls the dough, like a bird's wings, but Frank keeps his arms close to his sides. Gimpy keeps his thumbs together with the rest of his fingers as he kneads the dough, but Frank works with the flat of his palms, keeping his thumbs apart from his other fingers and up in the air.

Their styles are _____ .

• indentical

• unsanitary

• incorrect

• unique

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Yet if the sameness of the sea and the wind was scary, it was also scary to remember that they were in the Unknown, where anything might happen at any time. When a meteor with a long, branching tail of white fire streaked into the sea one night, they were terrified. Oh, it was a bad sign, the sailors cried. They should have stayed home.

They were _____ .

• frightened

• compelled

• insensitive

• ashamed

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

Many times, Jefferson has said that the U.S. government has the power to do only those things listed in the Constitution. Jefferson has said that a President should follow the words of the Constitution strictly. Otherwise, the people's liberties may be in danger.

He believed government needed _____ .

• money

• limits

• space

• leaders

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

And with that Allan realized that the all-too-short Arctic summer was over. The whaling ships would now be setting sail for home, those that had not already left. His chances of being rescued by a ship were practically gone. He would have to spend another terrible winter in his ice prison. He had been a castaway now for a full year and the thought of starting another year on the iceberg made him desperately unhappy.

His situation seemed _____ .

• exciting

• hopeless

• comfortable

• secure

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

In the course of his eclectic education, Simon had been exposed to some unusual and gifted people and their workplaces. Almost as a rule, the offices of his mentors were not the traditional desk-with-facing-upholstered-chairs-and-Brueghel-right-behind-you-on-the-wall. But he'd never seen anything like this place.

It was _____ .

• dirty

• cold

• extraordinary

• modest

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4