Friday, 2/16/01--Test 2/16 (Vocabulary
+ "The Earth Men--Part 1." Use the back of your crossword puzzle sheet,
underneath the KBAR chart. Be sure to record any extra credit you may have
earned this week. All do #1-8. Vocabulary-exempt people can stop there.)
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(2) Draw a diagram of what a day and a year are, astronomically
speaking.
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(2) Explain, using a diagram, why the distance from Earth
to Mars changes with the time of year.
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On page 17, after Mrs. Ttt yells at him about his muddy boots,
the captain says, "This is no time for trivialities...we should
be celebrating." The word trivialities means...a) worries about
cleanliness, b) important things, c) womanly worries, d) unimportant things,
e) yelling.
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Even though it doesn't really have anything to do with the
story, Ray Bradbury spends time describing a mechanical spider toy that
the little girl plays with. What might be the point? a) To show how weird
the Martians are. b) To show us a glimpse of what Martian life is like.
c) He's comparing the Earth men to the spider; they are just toys that
the Martians play with. d) All of the above.
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It turns out that the line of work a Martian needs to be
in to welcome Earth men is...a) military, b) government leader, c) police,
d) immigration, e) psychiatry.
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The best word(s) to describe most Martians' reaction to the
Earth men would be...a) fear, b) anger, c) indifference, d) annoyance,
e) all of the above.
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What is it the Earth men want from the Martians? a) Land.
b) They want the Martians to surrender. c) Recognition. d) Goods to trade
with Earth. e) All of the above.
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(2) What is euthanasia? Give an example of a "nice"
way to say it. (Extra Credit Opportunity: What
do we call those "nice" ways of saying unpleasant things?--Example: passed
away = died.)
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"Crushing certain plants could add up ___________(ly). A
little, tiny error here would multiply in sixty million years, all out
of proportion."
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"The government doesn’t like us here. We have to pay big
_______ to keep our business."
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The green carpet of grass and moss was _________ and soft.
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"It ran with a gliding ballet step, far too _______ and balanced
for its ten tons."
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"Maybe Time can’t be changed by us. Or maybe it can be changed
only in __________, not so noticeable ways."
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The machine glowed. It had an __________ that flickered brightly;
orange, blue, and silver.
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The display of colored lights in the sky that happens near
the North Pole is called the _________ borealis. (EC:
It is more commonly known as the ________ _________.)
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A good quality to have is _____-- the ability to bounce back
when things go wrong.
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He was a very ________, very confident public speaker, he
never got nervous in front of a crowd.
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He tried to be be very _______ and calm when he met his girlfriend's
parents.
graft, resilient, resilience, aurora, expendable, poised,
subtle, infinitesimal, correlate
