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Context Clues & Reference

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1. Our baseball team's pitcher has a few eccentric habits, such as throwing exactly thirteen warm-up pitches and never wearing socks.

a)

Normal

b)

Strange

c)

Messy

2.

2. After the heavy rains, the stream became murky; in fact, the water was so cloudy you couldn't see the bottom.

a)

Cloudy

b)

Bottomless

c)

clear

3.

3. The debris on the stadium floor included numerous paper cups, ticket stubs, and cigarette butts.

a)

products

b)

paper

c)

trash

4.

4. The coach takes every opportunity to censure his players, yet he ignores every opportunity to praise them.

a)

Approve of

b)

Criticize

c)

Choose

5.

5. The newlyweds agreed to be very frugal in their shopping because they wanted to save enough money to buy a house.

a)

Economical

b)

Wasteful

c)

Interested

6.

6. Although Alex usually looks unkempt, he had a very neat appearance at his job interview.

a)

orderly

b)

handsome

c)

messy

7.

7.The Ancient Olympic Games were a religious and athletic festival held every four years at the sanctuary of Zeus in Olympia, Greece among representatives of several city-states and kingdoms of Ancient Greece. These games featured mainly athletic but also combat and chariot racing events.

a)

Olympic Games

b)

The Ancient Olympic Games

c)

Greece among representatives

8.

8.According to legend, it was Heracles who first called the Games "Olympic" and established the custom of holding them every four years.

a)

Heracles

b)

Olympic

c)

Legend

9.

9.The Games were part of a cycle known as the Panhellenic Games, which included the Pythian Games, the Nemean Games, and the Isthmian Games.

a)

Isthmian Games

b)

Panhellenic Games

c)

Pythian Games

10.

10.Following its completion, he walked in a straight line for 200 steps and called this distance a "stadion"

a)

Following its completion

b)

in a straight line for 200 steps

c)

a stadion