Making Inferences Practice

 “Larry, as your boss, I must say it’s been very interesting working with you,” Miss Valdez said. “However, it seems that our company’s needs and your performance style are not well matched. Therefore, it makes me very sad to have to ask you to resign your position effective today.”
What was Miss Valdez telling Larry?   

Blood cholesterol used to be thought of as a problem only for adults. 

When apple growers talk about new varieties of apples, they don’t mean something developed last month, last year, or even in the last decade. 

In all cultures, gestures are used as a form of communication, but the same gestures may have very different meanings in different cultures. 

Although sheepherding is an older and more beloved occupation, shepherds never caught the attention of American filmmakers the way cowboys did. 

As an architect, Thomas Jefferson preferred the Roman style, as seen in the buildings of the University of Virginia, to the English style favored by Charles Bullfinch. 

Even spiders that do not build webs from silk use it for a variety of purposes, such as constructing egg sacs and nursery tents. 

There is more quartz in the world than any one kind of feldspar, but the feldspars as a group are five times more common than quartz. 

Illegible handwriting does not indicate weakness of character, as even a quick glance at the penmanship of George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, or John Kennedy reveals.