Reading Review 4

Junior was glad to be visiting Grandma and Grandpa Quicksolve, especially when his twin cousins, Flora and Fauna, were there too. But he was disappointed the first night when Grandpa said he was leaving in the morning and would be out of town for four days. "What will we do without you?" Flora asked Grandpa.

They were _____ .

• displeased

• early

• exhausted

• silly

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

Down they fell into the basement below. Luckily, they were saved by the big old bed, which landed first. Jane and the scouts came crashing through the lace canopy, right onto the thick mattress.

They were _____ .

• daring

• boring

• fortunate

• merry

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

"At last!" I said, shutting the door after them. I flopped down on my bed, fluffed up two pillows behind my back, dug into my book bag (which I had been lugging all over the house with me), and opened my math book to page ninety-eight. I took a piece of paper and a pencil out of my bag and sighed. "Peace and quiet."

I'm going to _____ .

• study

• sleep

• eat

• explore

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

In 1794, a scientist named Ernst Chladni wrote about meteorites. Chladni was the first to say that meteorites came from space, but no one believed him. When thousands of meteorites fell on a town in northern France in 1803, scientists noticed they were different from other Earth rocks. Some had black crusts, as if they had been burned. Others were made of dense iron. Scientists accepted the idea that these meteorites were rocks from space.

The meteorites provided necessary _____ .

• targets

• minerals

• stability

• evidence

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

She glanced around as the tall young man struggled to balance his boxes. No one seemed to be paying any attention to him. Perhaps in all the confusion of this new group of passengers boarding, he had slipped by the crew. He must not have understood the class designation on his ticket.

Something _____ had happened.

• destructive

• unusual

• silly

• dreadful

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

The sun hadn't set yet. It turned the water along the low shore into liquid gold for a brief period. Then dusk quickly descended as the tenders made for the ship. Elizabeth imagined how the Titanic must look from where they were. The ship's lights had all come on, hundreds, perhaps thousands of them, and were turning the ship into a fairyland castle sitting high in the water.

Elizabeth _____ the scene.

• witnessed

• rotated

• pictured

• denied

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.1

It was too dark to see now. By the evening star and then by the position of the Big Bear, the only constellation I knew, I thought we must be moving north and toward the coast. But I was not sure, though the compass pointed in the right direction. Even in the channel the night wind was sharp and full of spray.

I was _____ .

• uncertain

• angry

• tired

• unconcerned

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.1

I figured out a new way to set up the mixing machines in the bakery to speed up production. Mr. Donner says he will save labor costs and increase profits. He gave me a fifty-dollar bonus and a ten-dollar-a-week raise.

My idea was _____ .

• remote

• rejected

• ridiculous

• rewarded

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Four crew members wait with air-powered wrenches and new tires. Wearing fireproof gloves and suits, the crew members dash to their stations. They wait for the air jacks to lift the car. As soon as the car is raised, the crew begins to take off the hot tires.

The crew must be _____ .

• quick

• relaxed

• loud

• alone

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

The sun rose on our right, behind the wooded hills. There were clouds there, too, forming with ominous speed. Within half an hour they had darkened the sky and blanked out the sun; in three quarters, a gray belt of rain was sweeping down the slope toward us. Five minutes later, already soaking wet, we found shelter in a ruined building lying back from the road.

We were in a _____ .

• cave

• storm

• forest

• lake

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.4.1