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Reading Skill: Making Inferences                                                                                                   Making inferences requires the readers to
                                                                                                                                         read a passage and then to understand what
                                                                                                                                         the author is implying in the text. So they
                                                                                                                                         must understand the unstated information at
                                                                                                                                         the passage that the author only hints at.
      Match the sentences with their possible inferences based on the passage.



         1. Some adults kept Breanna’s                                                                                Some students may save


               heart beating until an                                                                         ⓐ       people’s lives in the future.

               ambulance arrived.





         2. Breanna had surgery to fix                                                                        ⓑ       Breanna had a serious


               her heart at a hospital.                                                                               medical condition.






         3. Breanna felt grateful to be                                                                       ⓒ       Breanna would have died


               alive.                                                                                                 without the adults’ help.





         4. A new law requires high

               school students in Maryland                                                                    ⓓ       Breanna appreciated the


               to know CPR.                                                                                           help everyone gave her.



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