Keystone D reading 4

1. Inventors wanted to create a light bulb powered by heat, not fire, because

it would be ...........................

• a. brighter

• b. less expensive

• c. safer

• d. cheaper

2. According to the article, young Edison created a laboratory in ..............................

• a. his parent’s home

• c. a newspaper office

• b. a train car

• d. his bedroom

3. Edison was in his ...................... when he began work on a small electric light.

• a. forties

• b. twenties

• a. teens

• c. thirties

One of Edison’s failures was the .......................................

a. kinetophone b. stock ticker c. phonograph

• a. stock ticker

• b. kinetophone

• c. telephone

• d. phonograph

Edison secured more than .............................. patents in his lifetime.

• a. 300

• b. 1,000

• c. 10,000

• d. 5000

Choose the correct word by adding the suffix.

• noticeable

• noticeble

• noticable

• noticabel

Create a new word by adding the suffix to the following word :

expose + ure

 

Create a new word by adding the suffix to the following word :

courage + ous

Create a new word by adding the suffix to the following word :

agree + able

Create a new word by adding the suffix to the following word :

true + ly