Question
3.
The reader can infer that May asked her parents to help move the tadpoles to the river.
Which sentence from the text best supports this inference?
A. That was when we noticed that some of the tadpoles had flopped out of the water and died
before we got there.
B. Since it was a hot day, it was obvious that the puddles would soon disappear and the rest of
the stranded tadpoles would die, too.
C. She raced back empty-handed, and after our parents checked the puddles, they announced
that there were too many tadpoles to move to the river by hand.
D. May and I emptied buckets of tadpoles into the wheelbarrow while Mom used the shovel to
dig around the tadpoles wriggling in the mud.
4. The following texts relate to space flight. Read them both and then answer the
question(s).
Private Space Flight--A Success
June 21, 2004
Answer
C. She raced back empty-handed, and after our parents checked the puddles, they announced that there were too many tadpoles to move to the river by hand.