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Reading Placement Inventory C

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The ______ of air conditioning makes living in deserts more comfortable.

a)

goblet

b)

glue

c)

blankets

d)

invention

2.

When my turn came, I was a ______ in front of my father's whole congregation.

a)

locust

b)

coward

c)

jacket

d)

pecan

3.

Christmas was only a few weeks away, but Ben had not ______ a single penny.

a)

moaned

b)

saved

c)

immune

d)

whenever

4.

December brings______, freezing winds, and holiday treats.

a)

shove

b)

bike

c)

snow

d)

breath

5.

He rode alone on the bus, _____ the the bus would make make the trip for one passenger.

a)

excuse

b)

stars

c)

barren

d)

grateful

6.

If they practiced more and took the ______ seriously, they could still win the basketball tournament.

a)

game

b)

pigment

c)

discard

d)

radish

7.

Explorers used the North Start to steer their ______ in search of new lands.

a)

harbor

b)

mouthful

c)

ships

d)

sentence

8.

A thunderstorm is caused by rapidly rising air that contains ______ vapor.

a)

mermaid

b)

enlarge

c)

water

d)

peaches

9.

Before the Revolutionary War, many colonists died resisting the ______ Britain forced on them.

a)

plastics

b)

speak

c)

unpack

d)

laws

10.

Daemon heard the sound of the creature's ______and the spine-tingling echo coming from the swamp.

a)

peacefully

b)

bellow

c)

election

d)

acrobat

11.

Fortunately, Nadia loved gymnastics so the long hours of ______ and exercise were not such a hardship.

a)

practice

b)

arrested

c)

satisfied

d)

galoshes

12.

______ can move almost straight up and down, backward and forward, and hover in the sky like a hummingbird.

a)

Conductors

b)

Legislatures

c)

Helicopters

d)

Experience

13.

The mountains we face in life are actually ______ in our minds that come in all sizes and degrees of difficulty.

a)

inheritance

b)

illegitimate

c)

problems

d)

intrigued

14.

The wolf's two main enemies, not only now but throughout ______, have been sportsmen and the owners of livestock.

a)

porcupine

b)

written

c)

recollect

d)

history

15.

Aluminum, the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust, is found in compounds combined with other ______.

a)

inkwells

b)

elements

c)

children

d)

buckets