Sentence completion

Directions:

Complete the sentence using the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

1. This spinach omelet makes for ______ breakfast; it has the vegetables and protein needed for a healthy diet.

A. a delicious

B. a filling

C. a fortunate

D. an edible

E. a nutritious

2. Jerry’s grandfather’s house is full of ______ technology such as rotary-dial phones and other devices that are no longer in use.

3. My younger brother constantly misbehaves and is always causing ______.
 

4. The teacher only has one copy of the worksheet right now, so she is going to ______ it and give the new copy to her student.

5. Montero was ______ about the upcoming investigation, and he was only made more ______ by the newspaper accounts of it.
 

6. Almost no one actually believes that the god Zeus lives on top of Mount Olympus; most people understand that this is just a ______, not a reality.

A. poem

B. lyric

C. myth

D. sonnet

E. counterfeit  

7. The carpenter ant is ______ critter and is not at all ______.

A. an immense … gigantic

B. an industrious … lazy

C. a stupid … ignorant

D. an active … energetic

E. a tireless … hardworking

8. The attorney suggested that the witness's testimony was ______ because the witness was a known liar.

A. sincere

B. amazing

C. insane

D. unreliable

E. innocent