SOL 6.6e: Conclusions and Inferences in Nonfiction

"Due to their incredible force and unpredictability, floods can cause tremendous damage. They can ruin houses, roads and buildings. Floods can take down trees and cause mudslides. It often leaves mud, sand and debris behind. It can take months to clean up after a flood."

Based on what you have read, you can conclude that:

• Cleaning up after a flood can be expensive and take time.

• Floods only occur along the coast.

• Floods are not that dangerous.

• After flood waters dry up then the problem is over.

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Which conclusion is best supported by this sentence: "The Golden Gate bridge spans the San Francisco Bay, connecting northern California to the peninsula of San Francisco."

• The bridge enables many people to go from San Francisco to northern California.

• The bridge has the longest span of any other suspension bridge in the world.

• Thick cables are used on the Golden Gate bridge

• The bridge is the most popular bridge in the Bay Area

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_______ + ________ = Inference

• Background knowledge + Clues from the text

• Background knowledge + Opinion

• A guess without evidence + information from the text

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Water from California’s northern mountains is pumped south along a 400-mile canal through the farming communities of the Central Valley. Not only is this canal system a marvel of modern engineering, its water fuels the state’s economic engine. In 2006, these farms produced $31 billion-worth of food and fiber, more than any other state. By contrast, world-wide ticket sales of Hollywood movies, a more famous export of California, totaled $25 billion that year.
What inference can the reader make from this paragraph?

• The author thinks it is more important to eat than go to movies.
• Water is a precious resource and shouldn't be wasted on making movies.
• The writer thinks moving water to the Central Valley is a good investment.
• The movie industry is more important to California than farming.

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The launch of the space shuttle Atlantis has been postponed while NASA evaluates a problem with the new robot arm on space station Alpha. The arm will be used to carry out the installation of a new U.S.-built airlock on the space station.

What can you infer from this paragraph? 

• The robot space arm is critical to the space shuttle's mission.
• The robot arm was poorly constructed.
• The space shuttle experiences frequent launch delays.
• The space program is very expensive.

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a preacher and a civil rights leader. He was born in 1929 and died in 1968. In 1963, he organized the March on Washington, which brought more than 200,000 people together. In 1964, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
 In 1968, he was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee, by an assassin's bullet on the balcony of the motel where he was staying. James Earl Ray was convicted of his murder.

Which of the following can you infer from the passage above? 

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a major political figure in the 1960s.
• James Earl Ray was a racist man.
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a great public speaker.
• Memphis, Tennessee is an extremely dangerous city.

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I love to go into my sister's room. On her shelf she has shiny trophies—gold and silver, tall and short, skinny and wide. All of the trophies have athletes on top swinging golf clubs. My favorite trophy is one that is as tall as my arm is long. "City Champion 2001" it says on its engraved front. It is beautiful and impressive!
What inference can the reader draw based on the information in the passage? 

• The person relating the passage is a younger sister.
• The sister is a very good golfer.
• The person relating the passage plays golf also.
• The sister is a professional golfer.

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What does it mean to draw a conclusion?

• To take a random guess at something.

• To draw a good guess based on evidence and detail from a source, as well as your own personal experience.

• To draw a good guess based on the mood that you are in that day.

• To base a good guess on your own personal experience.

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  In the seventeenth century, the Incan people of South America had an empire that stretched more than 2,500 miles. They built highways throughout their empire. One of their tunnels extended 750 feet through a mountain cliff. One of their rope suspension bridges is still used today. 
 From this article you cannot tell...... 

• why the roads were important to the Inca.
• the size of the Inca Empire.
• if the Inca were skilled in engineering.
• in what period the Inca lived.

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When the Tacoma Narrows Bridge was built in 1940, it was the world's third-largest suspension bridge. Large suspension bridges had been built before, but the builders didn't count on the winds near Tacoma, Washington. Four months after its opening, the bridge was blown down.  From this article you can conclude that... 

• the two larger bridges had similar problems.
• earlier bridges weren't in high-wind areas.
• high winds have little effect on suspension ridges.
• the Tacoma Narrows Bridge was too large.

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