STAAR Reading Inferences

Many Americans like to eat Chinese food.  They really look forward to the end of the meal when the fortune cookies are served.  These folded-up cookies have messages in them.  Some messages tell what the future will bring.  Other messages give advice.  Still others are just wise sayings.  All the messages are written for Americans.  Fortune cookies are never served in China.  This story suggests that:

• the messages are in Chinese
• people in China can't read
• fortune cookies are an American custom
• people in China don't like cookies

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On June 3, 1965, Major Edward White made history with a 6000 mile walk in space.  With his 27 foot umbilical cord, he traveled at speeds of 17,500 miles per hour with little sensation of speed and no sensation of falling.  Without his pressurized suit, Major White’s blood would have boiled, and he would have lost consciousness instantly.  Major White was born in San Antonio, Texas, graduated from West Point, and before becoming an astronaut, he was a test pilot.  An inference drawn from this passage is -

• Previous training didn't help prepare major White for his space walk.
• His space suit was of little importance.
• Speeds in space don't affect a person.
• Major White was quite tired from his 6,000 mile walk.

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Inventors record their inventions with the U.S. government.  The inventors hope that someone will buy their bright ideas.  But some inventions are so strange that no one wants them.  The government files show inventions for flying fire escapes.  There are eyeglasses for chickens.  There is even an alarm clock that hits you on the head with a piece of wood.  The reader can infer that the inventions mentioned in the paragraph-

• do not work
• were turned down by the government
• have been used in many places
• did not make money

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The largest planet in our solar system in Jupiter, and it weighs more than all the other planets combined.  Jupiter is made up mostly of hydrogen, ammonia, methane and helium gases.  Jupiter has a diameter of nearly 89,000 miles, which is 11 times the diameter of the earth.  It spins on its axis in 10 hours, a day on Jupiter, but it takes more than 11 years to orbit the sun.   Because of its rapid rotation, there are incredible winds in its atmosphere, and one such wind is “the Great Red Spot.”  This “spot” seems to be a permanent hurricane with winds so fast that we can’t even imagine.  While the temperature of the planet is somewhere around 190 degrees below zero, the planet radiates more energy than it receives from the sun.   From the passage, the reader can see that-

• it is possible for humans to live on Jupiter
• astronauts have visited Jupiter many times
• Jupiter is unsuitable for human habitation
• extremely cold planets produce no energy

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Read the sentences below:           Dad was suddenly chatty and I knew why.  In the car, I was a captive audience.The author uses these sentences to explain that being in the car -

• made the narrator feel helpless.
• gave the narrator's father a chance to talk.
• made her father become deeply interesting.
• allowed her father to display his skills.

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Read the sentence below:Thanks to my abilities, the rear end of our car had seen trees, telephone poles, and ditches all up close and personal.What can the reader infer?

• The narrator is not a good driver.
• The narrator's car has a camera mounted in the back.
• The car has eyes.
• I can't think of another wrong answer.  Just don't pick this!

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