Active Skills for Reading 3, Vocabulary Review, Unit 7

Plants _________ carbon dioxide from the air and moisture from the soil.

• balance

• adapt

• absorb

• urge

I try to _________ work and family commitments.

• adapt

• rush

• urge

• balance

Although I have been taking medicine for two weeks, I still cannot get rid of this ______________cough.

• ache

• persistent

• rush

• clear-cut

Even though my wife hates crowded events, I tried to ______ her to go to the career fair because it would help her get a job.

• adapt

• rush

• balance

• urge

My legs are _________ after all that exercise.

• aching

• balancing

• adapting

• rushing

We had to _________ to catch the bus.

• absorb

• adapt

• rush

• balance

When James relocates to a different side of the country, he will have to _________ to a new weather pattern.

• absorb

• rush

• balance

• adapt

She has ___________ evidence that the company cheated her.

• adapting

• balancing

• clear-cut

• persistent