Reading Module 1 Review

Astronauts must _________________ limitations and challenges.

• excel

• illustrious

• transcend

• revere

The __________________ inventor was known around the world.

• excel

• illustrious

• transcend

• revere

1. To _______________ at something is to be very good at it.

• excel

• illustrious

• transcend

• revere

1. I ________________ people whose inventions improve the world.

• excel

• illustrious

• transcend

• revere

The _________________ is the big idea, or main idea, that readers should take away from reading a text.

• central idea

• summary

• text structure

• author's craft

Thomas Edison’s invention of the ____________________ changed the course of music history.

• locomotive

• phonograph

• cylinder

• patent

If a machine _______________ along, it moved slowly and noisily.

• sputtered

• flopped

• incandescent

• chugged

1. The new Broadway show turned out to be a _____________.

• flop

• cylinder

• gadget

• locomotive

The powerful new _______________ brought the trains to their destination in record time.

• phonographs

• patents

• locomotives

• incandescents

A cell phone is a _____________.

• gadget

• locomotive

• flop

• cylinder