Academic Focus 2/19

Select the word that means having a huge appetite.

The shrew is a tiny, mouse-like mammal with an elevated metabolic rate. In the space of just one minute, it breathes about eight hundred times, and its heart beats about one thousand times. The shrew is also voracious. Every day, it eats its entire body weight in prey such as insects, worms, and salamanders.

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• voracious

• metabolic

• salamanders

• mammal

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Select the word that means very noisy and lively.

For robotics competitions, teams spend weeks designing their robots and programming them to do battle against competitors' robots. The resulting robot games are often boisterous. Watching their creations perform against the others, the human competitors don't hold back from whooping and cheering.

• creations

• boisterous

• cheering

• competitors

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Select the word that means to do something special to honor and remember.

The Chinese festival of Qingming takes place on the fifteenth day after the spring equinox. On this day, people burn paper "spirit money" and models of houses and cars to commemorate the dead. Their hope is to make their departed relatives more comfortable in the spirit world.

• festival

• equinox

• commemorate

• relatives

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Select the word that means gave a false idea of.

Edith Piaf was a French singer born in 1915 who influenced many other singers, including Frank Sinatra. She stood just under five feet tall, but her tiny size belied the size of her voice. She sang huge, booming songs and is especially remembered for her recording of a song titled "Non, je ne regrette rien," French for "No, I regret nothing."

• especially

• influenced

• singers

• belied

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Select the word that means grown very well.

Scotch broom can damage native ecosystems in much of the United States. The flowering plant was introduced to this country from Europe, and it has flourished in the wild here. The problem is that it spreads quickly and crowds out native plants, destroying habitats for native wildlife.

• spreads

• flourished

• destroyinh

• flowering

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4