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"The place looks fabulous, Sebastian," Vivian said. She turned and saw a large square sheet cake which had their four names inscribed on it. "Vivian, Joanna, Johnny, Sebastian," Vivian read out loud. "My goodness, you guys did it up right, didn't you!" Vivian gave Sebastian a _____ .

• compliment

• response

• suggestion

• lesson

I'm not saying that they were the guilty party. But it was awfully easy to imagine Cokie putting them up to no good. Still, some other strange things went on that afternoon. For example, Stacey told me later that Jackie Rodowsky, who had stayed at the day-care center during the afternoon session, disappeared for a while and came back with flour all over his shirt. But we knew he wouldn't sabotage our contest entries. Would he? I was _____ .

• uncertain

• unhappy

• excited

• beautiful

Some of these footprints are like snapshots. They catch dinosaurs in action, millions of years ago. Tracks in Australia, for example, tell of a stampede. A herd of plant-eaters had been milling around together. Suddenly they all turned in one direction and ran. Another set of footprints tells why. They are the tracks of a meat-eating dinosaur, and they appear on top of the tracks made by the fleeing herd. The herd was _____ .

• angry

• frightened

• sleeping

• fighting

Clay stood up and dusted himself off. His legs felt weak and his head ached. Breaking the horses wasn't going to be as easy as he'd thought. For the first time, fear played with Clay's mind and made him question what he was doing. Maybe Dylan did know best. Clay _____ himself.

• forgave

• doubted

• excused

• dressed

Did you ever forget to return a library book? The first U.S. president, George Washington, did. On October 5, 1789, Washington borrowed a book called The Law of Nations from the New York Society Library. Now, 221 years later, librarians there discovered that he never returned it! Washington's home in Virginia is now a museum. People who work there gave the library another copy of the long-overdue book. Luckily, they were not charged a fine. That could have cost about $300,000! The book was _____ .

• late

• dull

• convenient

• brief

Hudson flipped the switch on his laptop and called up a new database program he'd been developing. Jose glanced over at the computer and sighed. There will be no talking to him now, he thought. Hudson was like a man possessed when it came to his computer. He seemed to think the machine had all the answers. Hudson was _____ about computers

• nervous

• angry

• excited

• ignorant

The U.S. government wanted to explore the new territory. In 1806, Lieutenant Zebulon Pike led an expedition into the Rocky Mountains. A famous mountain called Pikes Peak is named after Pike. Lieutenant Pike was sent to _____ information.

• gather

• sell

• relay

• destroy

Drag racing is the most popular type of monster truck racing. The vehicles race in pairs. The winner of each pair races again against the winner of another pair. Each race has _____ trucks.

• several

• dirty

• two

• stalled

"Well, Mr. Rogers," said Mrs. North. "I do not like the way you walked in without knocking. You disturbed my class. And I don't want you embarrassing any of my students on television. Now, if you want to stay, you may wait, quietly, in the back of the room. Otherwise you will have to leave." Mrs. North was _____ .

• sleepy

• stern

• noisy

• thirsty