Reading Placement Inventory D

Jeb often changed his disguise after General Sheridan's troops started to ______the roads.

• dumped

• plants

• patrol

• address

As a teenager, I believe young people can take their knocks and solve their ______ like adults.

• problems

• swerved

• predicted

• meadows

"You poor thing," the wealthy woman exclaimed, "the necklace you borrowed was an ______, it was made of paste!"

• explained

• arranging

• imitation

• occasional

Why did people during the Middle Ages build ______of stone with moats and drawbridges?

• forget

• pretty

• homesick

• castles

In 1707, Mount Fuji suddenly ______ violently, leaving Tokyo covered with six inches of ash.

• stinger

• parallels

• erupted

• machine

Her "generous" offer of a free Bahamas ______ was merely a come-on to get us to listen to the company's sales pitch.

• advance

• vacation

• latitude

• intertwined

The villagers were ______ about the astronomer's "time machine," and how he could look both outward into space and backward into the past.

• rubbish

• talking

• initial

• shrugged

The small statue of the Empire State Building that Emanuel's great aunt gave him was his only ______ of his visit to New York.

• popcorn

• giraffe

• succeed

• memory

Because rhinos have bad sight, they depend almost entirely on their ____ of small and hearing to detect danger.

• senses

• marked

• bowstring

• searched

From the boat, we took pictures of sea birds ______ on big pelicans, waiting to catch a ride whenever the pelicans flew.

• pancake

• cripple

• standing

• meadow