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Reading Skill: Making Inferences                                                                                                 Making inferences requires readers to read
                                                                                                                                       a passage and then to understand what the
                                                                                                                                       author is implying in the text. Therefore,
                                                                                                                                       the students must understand the unstated
      Complete the table with the correct phrases.                                                                                     information in the passage that the author
                                                                                                                                       only hints at.

                Statements                                                                                                                                           Inferences



             Danny picks up a ball and
     1                                                                                                  He            exerts a force                        on the ball.
             throws it.



             Jenny kicks a ball far while                                                               Jenny uses                    a stronger force                          when
     2
             Tommy kicks it a short distance.                                                           kicking the ball.



             Two people are pulling a rope at
                                                                                                              Balanced forces
                                                                                                                                                      are acting on the
     3       either end. However, it does not                                                           rope  in opposite directions                                  .

             move at all.



             Sam and his friend are pushing                                                               Two combined forces                              are acting on

     4
             a sofa to the left together.                                                               the sofa  in the same direction                                   .



                      in the same direction                   in opposite directions                   exerts a force


                      balanced forces                           two combined forces                    a stronger force


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