Strategies
The first strategy you should apply when on a new prompt
Read the questions/answers first
But she too would sometimes raise her pale eyes to look at me in her unseeing gentle way. Her glance was by no means stupid; it beamed out soft and diffuse as the moon beams upon a landscape—quite differently from the scrutinizing inspection of the stars. You were drowned in it, and imagined yourself to appear blurred.
Her gaze was _____ .
encompassing harsh unexpected restrained
encompassing
All elements are arranged in the periodic Table of Elements according to their atomic number. The atomic number of an element refers to the number of protons or electrons that make up an atom of that element. The order of elements may also be arranged by atomic weight. The atomic weight of an element refers to the approximate number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus.
This is how the Table of Elements is _____ .
organized estimated criticized secured
organized
Jose was hired for a fish and wildlife technician position with the U.S. Forest Service even though he had little experience. He had worked on construction jobs during the summers to make money and help his family. His boss told him that he was chosen because his application showed that he had always worked when he wasn't in school. The boss remarked that he'd rather hire someone who knew how to work and train him for the job.
Jose's summer jobs _____ his boss.
Impressed alarmed confused fascinated
Impressed
It is nearly 26,000 miles around the world. In 1986, Rick Rutan and Jean Yeager were trying to fly 13,468 miles further than had ever been flown without stopping for fuel. Since there was no airplane already in existence that could do this, Rick, Jean, and their friends and family had built their own craft: the H-shaped Voyager.
They had a(n) _____ .
Dispute Accident Challenge Exhibition
Challenge
If you don't know this amount of words as answer choices, you should use a skip
3 or more
That first morning, Miss Susan told her to go and sweep the parlor and dust it. Harriet was awed by the room. There was a thick carpet on the floor, soft and springy under her feet, like walking on layers of pine needles, and there were so many different kinds of chairs and tables, and the wood around the fireplace was carved into a pattern. She'd never seen anything like it.
Harriet was _____ .
Amazed Worried Understanding Thoughtful
Amazed
The role that sports plays in a young adult's life is an important one. So many aspects of adult life can be learned from being a young athlete. Most important, you might learn that the discipline that pushes you to go faster, shoot better, move quicker, or even just attend practice regularly is the same discipline that will help you study more, learn more, and achieve more. There are no shortcuts to being a good athlete. You will be only as good as the effort you put into training and practice.
Sports can help you _____ .
Succeed Communicate Relax Meditate
Succeed
At the top of the stairs I saw there were two parts to the attic. The right side was an unfinished area and had a lot of trunks and junk piled in it. But the left side was a real room with a slanting roof that would have been great for anyone who had a posture of forty-five degrees. The only place I could really stand up straight was in the middle of the room. And the bed was arranged so that if I had a bad dream I'd bolt up and bang my head on a rafter.
The space was _____ .
Extended awkward deteriorated decorated
Awkward
Gorman was a veteran pilot and had been a flying instructor during the war. Yet this encounter left him so rattled that he had great difficulty landing his plane. When he described the encounter to his commander at the base, he said that he was convinced that "there was thought" behind the maneuvers.
The encounter had _____ Gorman.
Bored disturbed offended amused
Disturbed
True or False: You should answer the question as soon as you find the answer in the prompt
False--read the entire passage
It was Emi who suddenly spoke up, her face flushed, her voice rising. "Well, I'm not going with you if you do," she said defiantly. And she picked up her dishes, marched to the dishwashing area where she quickly washed her dishes in the tub of soapy water, and left the building. She hadn't even waited for dessert.
Emi was _____ .
Firm Apologetic Impressed Thoughtful
Firm
I guess it was so long since I had let myself cry that I found myself crying again. Twice in the same day—it was humiliating. I wiped at my eyes with the back of my sleeve but the more I tried to stop, the more tears I could feel coming out.
I was _____ .
Upset absent silly warm
upset
Bats are true hibernators that must find a shelter that stays above freezing all winter. A cave where bats or other hibernating animals gather is called a hibernaculum. Some cold-blooded animals, such as frogs and toads, bury themselves in mud while they are hibernating. The mud keeps them warm and safe until spring.
The animals find ways to stay _____ .
Protected awake fragrant transparent
protected
The widely held opinion of wolves is that they are extremely dangerous. For centuries, children have been told fairy tales with wolves as the villains. Thanks in part to movies and books, the mere sound of a wolf howling in the distance is often enough to inspire terror.
Wolves are _____ .
Respected observed feared excluded
Feared
The number of pieces of evidence you should find in the passage to prove your answer correct
Two
Gourmet Week at the Pop Bistro was a resounding success. Suddenly our seedy little neighborhood was the hottest place in town, just as we'd envisioned in the pre-summer buildup. Cars, even a few limos, were double-parked on Bathurst and all the side streets, Pitt included, and customers lined up around the block to get into Hamish's restaurant.
The restaurant had become _____ .
Messy Outdated Popular Expensive
Popular
For a long distance the road had been bordered by fields on both sides, but now on the left there was a forest of oaks, madronos, and gigantic spruces whose lower parts only could be seen, dim and ghostly in the fog. The undergrowth was, in places, thick, but nowhere impenetrable. For some moments Holker saw nothing of the building, but as they turned into the woods it revealed itself in faint grey outline through the fog, looking huge and far away. A few steps more, and it was within an arm's length, distinct, dark with moisture, and insignificant in size. It had the usual country-schoolhouse form—belonged to the packing-box order of architecture; had an underpinning of stones, a moss-grown roof, and blank window spaces, whence both glass and sash had long departed.
The growth had _____ the abandoned building.
Destroyed Improved Concealed Exposed
Concealed
Jim was a phenomenal athlete, maybe the greatest of all time. At Manhasset High School on Long Island, New York, he won thirteen letters in five sports, and in his senior year was all-state in lacrosse, basketball (averaging 20 points per game) and football (averaging 14.9 yards per carry). And, in his spare time, he managed to win the state high jump championship.
Jim's athletic talents were _____ .
Diverse Beneficial Impossible Common
Diverse
Since July, that business—making anti-pollution devices—has exploded. The plant in Treyburn Corporate Park in northern Durham has doubled its production and almost doubled its work force, from 50 to 90 people, in the past six weeks. Maurer expects to double output again by the end of September and end the year with 100 employees.
The company is _____ .
Expanding Downsizing Researching Restricting
Expanding
Name the ONE thing you cannot apply when considering your answer to an RI prompt
Personal opinion
f you look at the map of the schools that the Central Asia Institute has built since 1995, you will see that nearly every one of our projects is in a location that lacks an educational infrastructure because of geographical isolation, severe poverty, religious extremism, or war. These are areas that few people from the outside world even know about, the regions where almost nobody else goes. They are the places where we begin.
The Institute builds in _____ areas.
Conventional Metropolitan Underprivileged Vibrant
Dairy farmers and private veterinarians like Cohn Whitaker alerted the State Veterinary Service of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF). Since epidemics typically begin with an index case—a first focus of infection—the distribution of the outbreak in widely separate counties was surprising, because the herds involved were closed, with no contact with other cattle and no importations. How did the disease jump from one end of England to the other?
This epidemic was _____ .
Benign Cyclical Abnormal Ignominious
Abnormal
Early roads in both Canada and the United States were little more than trails through the woods. As land was divided up and given to settlers, surveyors marked roadways, but it was often left to the newly arrived pioneers to make the roads for their communities by cutting down trees and removing the stumps. Even after that was done, the road was a mess of holes and bumps and could be swamped with mud and water after each rain.
The roads were _____ .
Congested Primitive Narrow Polluted
Primitive
The population of the American black bear, which numbers around 400,000 animals, is the largest bear population in the world. In fact, there are more American black bears than there are of the seven other species of bears combined. It is possibly the most flexible and adaptable of all the bears, and its ability to live in a great variety of habitats, from deserts to forests and tundra, has allowed the American black bear to flourish.
The American black bear is _____ .
Neglected Abundant Attractive Subservient
Abundant