Target Reading U41

At Christmas, we ________ colored lights around the room.

• dangle

• danger

• split

• lure

The economic pressures on small businesses are _________.

• spectacular

• mysterious

• interest

• intense

The light hangs right over the anglerfish's nasty ________. Fish that approach it get snapped up quickly.

• preys

• jaws

• stalks

• pressures

The bank launched an advertising campaign to ________ back its traditional customers.

• tolerate

• snap

• lure

• withstand

The police are investigating the ________ deaths of children at the hospital.

• mysterious

• intense

• sustainable

• split

She played a really ________ trick on me - she put syrup in my shampoo bottle!

• nasty

• intense

• mysterious

• dangling

________ builds as you go deeper under the sea.

• Trenches

• Jaws

• Pressures

• Stalks

Mice and other small creatures are the owl's ________.

• split

• jaw

• stalk

• prey

Between Japan and Papua New Guinea, deep under the ocean, is a ________ in the earth.

• prey

• split

• stalk

• pressure

To freshen a celery ________, trim the base and place in cold water.

• trench

• prey

• stalk

• pressure