7th Grade Reading Basic Set 7

Read the passage.
Sally was home alone. She could hear thunder and see lightning when she looked out the window. All of a sudden, the lights went out. Sally stood rigidly still as the tears filled her eyes.
Identify Sally’s problem and what resolution she should use.

Read the passage.
Then Miss Hopley did a formidable thing. She stood up. Had she been standing when we entered, she would have seemed tall. But rising from her chair, she soared. And what she carried up and up with her was a buxom superstructure, firm shoulders, a straight sharp nose, full cheeks slightly molded by a curved line along the nostrils, thin lips that moved like steel springs, and a high forehead topped by hair gathered in a bun. Miss Hopley was not a giant in body, but when she mobilized it to a standing position she seemed a match for giants. I decided
I liked her.
Which sentence is the best example of the opposite of this description of Miss Hopley?

Complete the sentence.
The farmer went into the fields to _____ his seeds.

Read the passage.
Then he jumped. The head was lying a little clear of the water jar, under the curve of it; and as his teeth met, Rikki braced his back against the bulge of the red earthenware to hold down the head. This gave him just one second’s purchase, and he made the most of it. Then he was battered to and fro as a rat is shaken by a dog—to and fro on the floor, up and down, and round in great circles, but his eyes were red and he held on as the body cartwhipped over the floor, upsetting the tin dipper and the soap dish and the flesh brush, and banged against the tin side of the bath.

Read the sentence and choose the best synonym for the underlined word.
In the gloom of the rainy dawn, Kayla scanned the horizon searching for the long-promised arrival of the horse-drawn carriage.