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"What Comes Next" Reading Practice

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Reading Test Practice
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Question 1
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Select two ways that the interactions with other characters support the development of the narrator's character.

Question 2
2.

What effect does the narrator's use of the phrase "eons in advance" have on her description of her father in paragraph 4?

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Question 3
3.

Which quotation shows the narrator's father's personality as humorous?

Question 4
4.

What connotation does apprehensive have in paragraph 14 of the passage?

Question 5
5.

Part A
Why does the author mention the horror movie Jaws and a nature show about sea creatures?

Question 6
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Part B
Select the detail from the passage that supports the answer to Part A.

Question 7
7.

Part A
Which is the central idea of the passage?

Question 8
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Part B
Which detail from the passage supports the central idea?

A. Cassie encourages her to hurry, and that eases the narrator's fears.
B. Cassie expresses her feeling that the ocean is beautiful, and the narrator realizes she is right.
C. The narrator's father encourages her to go beyond her comfort zone, and at the end she does.
D. Going to the ocean with her family as a child makes the narrator feel assured about exploring new places.
D. The emotion in the phrase illustrates that the narrator expects her father to say something else.
C. "'Hey,' my father used to gently mock, 'save some for the fish!'"
C. "I had recently seen a nature show about the kinds of fish - if you could even call them fish - that inhabited the greatest depths of the oceans: grotesque, insect-like things with translucent bodies, huge eyes, and feelers that sprouted from their heads like some kind of alien appendages."
D. "I put on my mask and adjusted the snorkel along the side of my head as carefully as I could, knowing that I'd probably suck vast quantities of sea water through it just the same."