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Prove a reading of the text, not just a fact

Grade 11 Reading Worksheet

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Circle the best answer.

  1. Read this first

    The Interpreter (story)

    [1] Marisol Arden had interpreted at the housing court for nine years, long enough to know that the job was supposed to be invisible, like a pane of glass. [2] On Tuesday the clerk handed her a file that identified a tenant, Mr. Duarte, and a landlord's attorney, Ms. Pell, who spoke quickly and evidently enjoyed being quick. [3] Ms. Pell opened by saying that Mr. Duarte had "ignored four notices," and Marisol rendered the sentence into Portuguese exactly, including the number.

    [4] Mr. Duarte answered at length, with his hands, and Marisol listened to the whole of it before beginning, as was her habit. [5] He said that he had received the first notice, mistaken it for a utility bill and put it in a drawer; the second and third had gone to his old address; and the fourth he had found on the hallway floor after the lock was changed. [6] Marisol carried the whole of it into English, keeping the order of his sentences and even the places where he stopped to search for a word.

    [7] Ms. Pell frowned at the bench and said, with the patience of a person addressing a slow child, "So he admits he read not one of them." [8] Marisol hesitated for a quarter of a second, the length of a breath, and then rendered the sentence into Portuguese word for word, including the phrase "not one." [9] Mr. Duarte's shoulders dropped, and he said something short and quiet to the table in front of him. [10] The judge looked up from the file, over the rim of her glasses, and waited. [11] "Interpreter?" [12] "He says," Marisol told the court, "that he read the first one the way a person reads a menu in a language that he has not studied." [13] The judge nodded slowly, wrote a line in the file and asked Ms. Pell to submit documentary proof that any of the four notices had actually been delivered to the correct door. [14] At the midmorning break, Marisol rinsed her hands at the sink in the corridor and studied them for a long moment, as though checking whether they were still entirely her own.

  2. Kira is proving how something changes. Claim: “Over the hearing, Marisol moves from the invisible conduit her job requires to someone visibly affected by it.” Every set is true. Which set proves every part of this reading?

    • [1] Marisol Arden had interpreted at the housing court for nine years, long enough to know that the job was supposed to be invisible, like a pane of glass. [8] Marisol hesitated for a quarter of a second, the length of a breath, and then rendered the sentence into Portuguese word for word, including the phrase "not one." [14] At the midmorning break, Marisol rinsed her hands at the sink in the corridor and studied them for a long moment, as though checking whether they were still entirely her own.
    • [5] He said that he had received the first notice, mistaken it for a utility bill and put it in a drawer; the second and third had gone to his old address; and the fourth he had found on the hallway floor after the lock was changed. [9] Mr. Duarte's shoulders dropped, and he said something short and quiet to the table in front of him. [13] The judge nodded slowly, wrote a line in the file and asked Ms. Pell to submit documentary proof that any of the four notices had actually been delivered to the correct door.
    • [10] The judge looked up from the file, over the rim of her glasses, and waited. [11] "Interpreter?" [12] "He says," Marisol told the court, "that he read the first one the way a person reads a menu in a language that he has not studied."
    • [1] Marisol Arden had interpreted at the housing court for nine years, long enough to know that the job was supposed to be invisible, like a pane of glass. [3] Ms. Pell opened by saying that Mr. Duarte had "ignored four notices," and Marisol rendered the sentence into Portuguese exactly, including the number. [6] Marisol carried the whole of it into English, keeping the order of his sentences and even the places where he stopped to search for a word.

  3. Luz is proving how people or ideas relate. Claim: “Marisol renders both speakers with equal precision, yet she reserves one small act of help for Mr. Duarte.” Every set is true. Which set proves every part of this reading?

    • [6] Marisol carried the whole of it into English, keeping the order of his sentences and even the places where he stopped to search for a word. [8] Marisol hesitated for a quarter of a second, the length of a breath, and then rendered the sentence into Portuguese word for word, including the phrase "not one." [12] "He says," Marisol told the court, "that he read the first one the way a person reads a menu in a language that he has not studied."
    • [3] Ms. Pell opened by saying that Mr. Duarte had "ignored four notices," and Marisol rendered the sentence into Portuguese exactly, including the number. [6] Marisol carried the whole of it into English, keeping the order of his sentences and even the places where he stopped to search for a word. [8] Marisol hesitated for a quarter of a second, the length of a breath, and then rendered the sentence into Portuguese word for word, including the phrase "not one."
    • [2] On Tuesday the clerk handed her a file that identified a tenant, Mr. Duarte, and a landlord's attorney, Ms. Pell, who spoke quickly and evidently enjoyed being quick. [7] Ms. Pell frowned at the bench and said, with the patience of a person addressing a slow child, "So he admits he read not one of them." [13] The judge nodded slowly, wrote a line in the file and asked Ms. Pell to submit documentary proof that any of the four notices had actually been delivered to the correct door.
    • [4] Mr. Duarte answered at length, with his hands, and Marisol listened to the whole of it before beginning, as was her habit. [5] He said that he had received the first notice, mistaken it for a utility bill and put it in a drawer; the second and third had gone to his old address; and the fourth he had found on the hallway floor after the lock was changed. [9] Mr. Duarte's shoulders dropped, and he said something short and quiet to the table in front of him.

  4. Milo is proving what the whole text suggests. Claim: “The story suggests that faithful translation depends on hearing a whole account before rendering any part of it.” Every set is true. Which set proves every part of this reading?

    • [7] Ms. Pell frowned at the bench and said, with the patience of a person addressing a slow child, "So he admits he read not one of them." [10] The judge looked up from the file, over the rim of her glasses, and waited. [11] "Interpreter?"
    • [4] Mr. Duarte answered at length, with his hands, and Marisol listened to the whole of it before beginning, as was her habit. [6] Marisol carried the whole of it into English, keeping the order of his sentences and even the places where he stopped to search for a word. [13] The judge nodded slowly, wrote a line in the file and asked Ms. Pell to submit documentary proof that any of the four notices had actually been delivered to the correct door.
    • [8] Marisol hesitated for a quarter of a second, the length of a breath, and then rendered the sentence into Portuguese word for word, including the phrase "not one." [9] Mr. Duarte's shoulders dropped, and he said something short and quiet to the table in front of him. [14] At the midmorning break, Marisol rinsed her hands at the sink in the corridor and studied them for a long moment, as though checking whether they were still entirely her own.
    • [1] Marisol Arden had interpreted at the housing court for nine years, long enough to know that the job was supposed to be invisible, like a pane of glass. [2] On Tuesday the clerk handed her a file that identified a tenant, Mr. Duarte, and a landlord's attorney, Ms. Pell, who spoke quickly and evidently enjoyed being quick. [3] Ms. Pell opened by saying that Mr. Duarte had "ignored four notices," and Marisol rendered the sentence into Portuguese exactly, including the number.

  5. The Roof (story)

    [1] I am not a man who requires credit for his generosity, and I say so to anyone who will listen, which at the Elks lodge means nearly the whole room. [2] When my neighbor Ferris lost his job at the cannery, I was the first to offer him work on my roof, at a rate I will not embarrass him by repeating. [3] I supplied the ladder, the shingles and the advice, and he supplied the labor, which seemed to me a perfectly fair division of the burdens involved.

    [4] Ferris was slow at first, as men invariably are who have spent several months sitting at a kitchen table. [5] I corrected his grip on the hammer twice before noon and told him, kindly, that the chalk line was a suggestion he might want to take more seriously. [6] By Thursday I had stopped bringing out the second thermos, since he plainly preferred to work without distractions, and I took my coffee on the porch, where I could watch the angles. [7] On Friday he asked whether Saturday could be a half day, because his daughter had a recital, and I told him that roofs, like opportunities, do not keep a schedule.

    [8] He came on Saturday as arranged, and he finished the last course of shingles at six in the evening. [9] I paid him in cash, counted twice, and shook his hand, which he returned with an enthusiasm I attributed to relief. [10] That night my wife remarked that Ferris had not looked up once as he left, but she is a woman who notices what does not matter. [11] The roof, I should add, is a very good roof, and I have been told so by two separate inspectors. [12] Last week Ferris moved to his sister's town, and I was the one man on the street who did not need to be told why.

    [13] I mention this simply because certain people at the lodge have suggested that I was less than generous. [14] I have been generous throughout my life, and I intend to go on being generous, as soon as someone gives me the chance.

  6. Noah is proving how something changes. Claim: “Ferris moves from apparent relief to silent resentment, though Walter never sees it.” Every set is true. Which set proves every part of this reading?

    • [9] I paid him in cash, counted twice, and shook his hand, which he returned with an enthusiasm I attributed to relief. [10] That night my wife remarked that Ferris had not looked up once as he left, but she is a woman who notices what does not matter. [12] Last week Ferris moved to his sister's town, and I was the one man on the street who did not need to be told why.
    • [7] On Friday he asked whether Saturday could be a half day, because his daughter had a recital, and I told him that roofs, like opportunities, do not keep a schedule. [8] He came on Saturday as arranged, and he finished the last course of shingles at six in the evening. [11] The roof, I should add, is a very good roof, and I have been told so by two separate inspectors.
    • [4] Ferris was slow at first, as men invariably are who have spent several months sitting at a kitchen table. [5] I corrected his grip on the hammer twice before noon and told him, kindly, that the chalk line was a suggestion he might want to take more seriously. [6] By Thursday I had stopped bringing out the second thermos, since he plainly preferred to work without distractions, and I took my coffee on the porch, where I could watch the angles.
    • [2] When my neighbor Ferris lost his job at the cannery, I was the first to offer him work on my roof, at a rate I will not embarrass him by repeating. [3] I supplied the ladder, the shingles and the advice, and he supplied the labor, which seemed to me a perfectly fair division of the burdens involved. [4] Ferris was slow at first, as men invariably are who have spent several months sitting at a kitchen table.

  7. Pia is proving how people or ideas relate. Claim: “Walter's account of his help is contradicted by the details he himself reports.” Every set is true. Which set proves every part of this reading?

    • [1] I am not a man who requires credit for his generosity, and I say so to anyone who will listen, which at the Elks lodge means nearly the whole room. [2] When my neighbor Ferris lost his job at the cannery, I was the first to offer him work on my roof, at a rate I will not embarrass him by repeating. [13] I mention this simply because certain people at the lodge have suggested that I was less than generous.
    • [3] I supplied the ladder, the shingles and the advice, and he supplied the labor, which seemed to me a perfectly fair division of the burdens involved. [5] I corrected his grip on the hammer twice before noon and told him, kindly, that the chalk line was a suggestion he might want to take more seriously. [7] On Friday he asked whether Saturday could be a half day, because his daughter had a recital, and I told him that roofs, like opportunities, do not keep a schedule.
    • [6] By Thursday I had stopped bringing out the second thermos, since he plainly preferred to work without distractions, and I took my coffee on the porch, where I could watch the angles. [8] He came on Saturday as arranged, and he finished the last course of shingles at six in the evening. [9] I paid him in cash, counted twice, and shook his hand, which he returned with an enthusiasm I attributed to relief.
    • [10] That night my wife remarked that Ferris had not looked up once as he left, but she is a woman who notices what does not matter. [11] The roof, I should add, is a very good roof, and I have been told so by two separate inspectors. [12] Last week Ferris moved to his sister's town, and I was the one man on the street who did not need to be told why.

  8. Ada Lovelace's Notes (article)

    [1] In 1842 an Italian engineer named Luigi Menabrea published an article in French describing the Analytical Engine, a calculating machine that the English mathematician Charles Babbage had designed but not built. [2] The next year Ada Lovelace, a mathematician who had corresponded with Babbage for years, translated the article into English for a British scientific journal. [3] At Babbage's suggestion she added a series of notes, labeled A through G, which ran to roughly three times the length of the article itself. [4] Menabrea had described the engine chiefly as a machine for doing arithmetic and algebra faster and more reliably than people working by hand.

    [5] Lovelace's notes went further, arguing that the machine could act on any symbols whose relationships could be stated exactly, beyond numbers. [6] As an example, she suggested that if the relations of musical sounds could be expressed in this way, the engine might compose elaborate pieces of music. [7] She also wrote that the engine wove algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom, which used punched cards to control its threads, wove flowers and leaves. [8] In the final note she laid out, step by step, how the engine could calculate a series known as the Bernoulli numbers. [9] That table is often called the first published computer program.

    [10] Babbage later wrote that he had offered to work out the algebra for that example himself, and that Lovelace had sent it back after finding a serious mistake in it. [11] The two exchanged dozens of letters while she wrote, arguing over wording, examples and the order of the notes. [12] At the same time, Lovelace warned readers that the engine could not originate anything and could do just what people knew how to order it to perform. [13] She added that the machine had no power of anticipating any truths on its own, and she signed the notes with her initials, A.A.L.

    [14] For about a century the notes drew little attention, partly because no Analytical Engine was ever completed. [15] In 1950 the computer scientist Alan Turing discussed her warning about originality, and in 1980 the United States Department of Defense named a programming language Ada in her honor.

  9. Tala is proving how something changes. Claim: “Lovelace's role grows from translator to author as her notes outgrow the article.” Every set is true. Which set proves every part of this reading?

    • [1] In 1842 an Italian engineer named Luigi Menabrea published an article in French describing the Analytical Engine, a calculating machine that the English mathematician Charles Babbage had designed but not built. [2] The next year Ada Lovelace, a mathematician who had corresponded with Babbage for years, translated the article into English for a British scientific journal. [4] Menabrea had described the engine chiefly as a machine for doing arithmetic and algebra faster and more reliably than people working by hand.
    • [2] The next year Ada Lovelace, a mathematician who had corresponded with Babbage for years, translated the article into English for a British scientific journal. [3] At Babbage's suggestion she added a series of notes, labeled A through G, which ran to roughly three times the length of the article itself. [5] Lovelace's notes went further, arguing that the machine could act on any symbols whose relationships could be stated exactly, beyond numbers.
    • [8] In the final note she laid out, step by step, how the engine could calculate a series known as the Bernoulli numbers. [14] For about a century the notes drew little attention, partly because no Analytical Engine was ever completed. [15] In 1950 the computer scientist Alan Turing discussed her warning about originality, and in 1980 the United States Department of Defense named a programming language Ada in her honor.
    • [10] Babbage later wrote that he had offered to work out the algebra for that example himself, and that Lovelace had sent it back after finding a serious mistake in it. [11] The two exchanged dozens of letters while she wrote, arguing over wording, examples and the order of the notes. [13] She added that the machine had no power of anticipating any truths on its own, and she signed the notes with her initials, A.A.L.

  10. Zee is proving how people or ideas relate. Claim: “Lovelace and Babbage worked as collaborators who checked each other, not as teacher and student.” Every set is true. Which set proves every part of this reading?

    • [12] At the same time, Lovelace warned readers that the engine could not originate anything and could do just what people knew how to order it to perform. [13] She added that the machine had no power of anticipating any truths on its own, and she signed the notes with her initials, A.A.L. [15] In 1950 the computer scientist Alan Turing discussed her warning about originality, and in 1980 the United States Department of Defense named a programming language Ada in her honor.
    • [3] At Babbage's suggestion she added a series of notes, labeled A through G, which ran to roughly three times the length of the article itself. [10] Babbage later wrote that he had offered to work out the algebra for that example himself, and that Lovelace had sent it back after finding a serious mistake in it. [11] The two exchanged dozens of letters while she wrote, arguing over wording, examples and the order of the notes.
    • [5] Lovelace's notes went further, arguing that the machine could act on any symbols whose relationships could be stated exactly, beyond numbers. [6] As an example, she suggested that if the relations of musical sounds could be expressed in this way, the engine might compose elaborate pieces of music. [7] She also wrote that the engine wove algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom, which used punched cards to control its threads, wove flowers and leaves.
    • [1] In 1842 an Italian engineer named Luigi Menabrea published an article in French describing the Analytical Engine, a calculating machine that the English mathematician Charles Babbage had designed but not built. [2] The next year Ada Lovelace, a mathematician who had corresponded with Babbage for years, translated the article into English for a British scientific journal. [4] Menabrea had described the engine chiefly as a machine for doing arithmetic and algebra faster and more reliably than people working by hand.

  11. Ari is proving what the whole text suggests. Claim: “The article suggests that Lovelace saw the engine's reach as wide but its originality as nil.” Every set is true. Which set proves every part of this reading?

    • [11] The two exchanged dozens of letters while she wrote, arguing over wording, examples and the order of the notes. [14] For about a century the notes drew little attention, partly because no Analytical Engine was ever completed. [15] In 1950 the computer scientist Alan Turing discussed her warning about originality, and in 1980 the United States Department of Defense named a programming language Ada in her honor.
    • [1] In 1842 an Italian engineer named Luigi Menabrea published an article in French describing the Analytical Engine, a calculating machine that the English mathematician Charles Babbage had designed but not built. [4] Menabrea had described the engine chiefly as a machine for doing arithmetic and algebra faster and more reliably than people working by hand. [8] In the final note she laid out, step by step, how the engine could calculate a series known as the Bernoulli numbers.
    • [8] In the final note she laid out, step by step, how the engine could calculate a series known as the Bernoulli numbers. [9] That table is often called the first published computer program. [10] Babbage later wrote that he had offered to work out the algebra for that example himself, and that Lovelace had sent it back after finding a serious mistake in it.
    • [5] Lovelace's notes went further, arguing that the machine could act on any symbols whose relationships could be stated exactly, beyond numbers. [6] As an example, she suggested that if the relations of musical sounds could be expressed in this way, the engine might compose elaborate pieces of music. [12] At the same time, Lovelace warned readers that the engine could not originate anything and could do just what people knew how to order it to perform.

  12. The Man on the Green (feature story about an invented town)

    [1] The statue of Josiah Pell has stood on the green in Pellham since 1911, facing the courthouse with one hand raised, as though he were about to correct someone. [2] The plaque calls him "founder and benefactor," and until this spring no one in Pellham thought to ask what he had founded or whom he had benefited.

    [3] The question came from a seventh-grade class that had been assigned to research a local landmark and chose the statue because it stood closest to the school. [4] The students learned that Pell had given the land for the green in 1870, and they also found, in the county archive, a deed showing that he had sold the same land to the town for four thousand dollars the year before. [5] They found a fund-raising letter from 1908 in which the statue committee wrote that "no memorial is too large for a man who has done so much for the village," and they noted that the committee's treasurer was Pell's grandson.

    [6] The students presented their findings at the March council meeting, in a binder with colored tabs. [7] The council thanked them, and then spent forty minutes arguing about whether the statue should come down, move to the library lawn or stay where it was with a second plaque. [8] A retired history teacher, Mrs. Ostrander, rose to say that a statue is a record of what a town once wished to believe about itself. [9] A man at the back said that this was exactly why it ought to stay.

    [10] In June the council voted to leave the statue on the green and to add a second plaque, its text to be decided. [11] The students' binder now sits on a shelf in the library, and the statue's raised hand, the school paper observed, still looks like the beginning of an answer.

  13. Bo is proving how something changes. Claim: “Pellham's relation to its statue shifts from unexamined pride to a deliberate, unfinished reckoning.” Every set is true. Which set proves every part of this reading?

    • [2] The plaque calls him "founder and benefactor," and until this spring no one in Pellham thought to ask what he had founded or whom he had benefited. [7] The council thanked them, and then spent forty minutes arguing about whether the statue should come down, move to the library lawn or stay where it was with a second plaque. [10] In June the council voted to leave the statue on the green and to add a second plaque, its text to be decided.
    • [1] The statue of Josiah Pell has stood on the green in Pellham since 1911, facing the courthouse with one hand raised, as though he were about to correct someone. [5] They found a fund-raising letter from 1908 in which the statue committee wrote that "no memorial is too large for a man who has done so much for the village," and they noted that the committee's treasurer was Pell's grandson. [9] A man at the back said that this was exactly why it ought to stay.
    • [4] The students learned that Pell had given the land for the green in 1870, and they also found, in the county archive, a deed showing that he had sold the same land to the town for four thousand dollars the year before. [5] They found a fund-raising letter from 1908 in which the statue committee wrote that "no memorial is too large for a man who has done so much for the village," and they noted that the committee's treasurer was Pell's grandson. [8] A retired history teacher, Mrs. Ostrander, rose to say that a statue is a record of what a town once wished to believe about itself.
    • [3] The question came from a seventh-grade class that had been assigned to research a local landmark and chose the statue because it stood closest to the school. [4] The students learned that Pell had given the land for the green in 1870, and they also found, in the county archive, a deed showing that he had sold the same land to the town for four thousand dollars the year before. [6] The students presented their findings at the March council meeting, in a binder with colored tabs.

  14. Jun is proving what the whole text suggests. Claim: “The article suggests that a monument says as much about the people who raise and keep it as about the person it honors.” Every set is true. Which set proves every part of this reading?

    • [6] The students presented their findings at the March council meeting, in a binder with colored tabs. [10] In June the council voted to leave the statue on the green and to add a second plaque, its text to be decided. [11] The students' binder now sits on a shelf in the library, and the statue's raised hand, the school paper observed, still looks like the beginning of an answer.
    • [1] The statue of Josiah Pell has stood on the green in Pellham since 1911, facing the courthouse with one hand raised, as though he were about to correct someone. [2] The plaque calls him "founder and benefactor," and until this spring no one in Pellham thought to ask what he had founded or whom he had benefited. [3] The question came from a seventh-grade class that had been assigned to research a local landmark and chose the statue because it stood closest to the school.
    • [4] The students learned that Pell had given the land for the green in 1870, and they also found, in the county archive, a deed showing that he had sold the same land to the town for four thousand dollars the year before. [6] The students presented their findings at the March council meeting, in a binder with colored tabs. [7] The council thanked them, and then spent forty minutes arguing about whether the statue should come down, move to the library lawn or stay where it was with a second plaque.
    • [5] They found a fund-raising letter from 1908 in which the statue committee wrote that "no memorial is too large for a man who has done so much for the village," and they noted that the committee's treasurer was Pell's grandson. [8] A retired history teacher, Mrs. Ostrander, rose to say that a statue is a record of what a town once wished to believe about itself. [9] A man at the back said that this was exactly why it ought to stay.
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  1. Read this first

    The Interpreter (story)

    [1] Marisol Arden had interpreted at the housing court for nine years, long enough to know that the job was supposed to be invisible, like a pane of glass. [2] On Tuesday the clerk handed her a file that identified a tenant, Mr. Duarte, and a landlord's attorney, Ms. Pell, who spoke quickly and evidently enjoyed being quick. [3] Ms. Pell opened by saying that Mr. Duarte had "ignored four notices," and Marisol rendered the sentence into Portuguese exactly, including the number.

    [4] Mr. Duarte answered at length, with his hands, and Marisol listened to the whole of it before beginning, as was her habit. [5] He said that he had received the first notice, mistaken it for a utility bill and put it in a drawer; the second and third had gone to his old address; and the fourth he had found on the hallway floor after the lock was changed. [6] Marisol carried the whole of it into English, keeping the order of his sentences and even the places where he stopped to search for a word.

    [7] Ms. Pell frowned at the bench and said, with the patience of a person addressing a slow child, "So he admits he read not one of them." [8] Marisol hesitated for a quarter of a second, the length of a breath, and then rendered the sentence into Portuguese word for word, including the phrase "not one." [9] Mr. Duarte's shoulders dropped, and he said something short and quiet to the table in front of him. [10] The judge looked up from the file, over the rim of her glasses, and waited. [11] "Interpreter?" [12] "He says," Marisol told the court, "that he read the first one the way a person reads a menu in a language that he has not studied." [13] The judge nodded slowly, wrote a line in the file and asked Ms. Pell to submit documentary proof that any of the four notices had actually been delivered to the correct door. [14] At the midmorning break, Marisol rinsed her hands at the sink in the corridor and studied them for a long moment, as though checking whether they were still entirely her own.

  2. Kira is proving how something changes. Claim: “Over the hearing, Marisol moves from the invisible conduit her job requires to someone visibly affected by it.” Every set is true. Which set proves every part of this reading?

    • [1] Marisol Arden had interpreted at the housing court for nine years, long enough to know that the job was supposed to be invisible, like a pane of glass. [8] Marisol hesitated for a quarter of a second, the length of a breath, and then rendered the sentence into Portuguese word for word, including the phrase "not one." [14] At the midmorning break, Marisol rinsed her hands at the sink in the corridor and studied them for a long moment, as though checking whether they were still entirely her own.
    • [5] He said that he had received the first notice, mistaken it for a utility bill and put it in a drawer; the second and third had gone to his old address; and the fourth he had found on the hallway floor after the lock was changed. [9] Mr. Duarte's shoulders dropped, and he said something short and quiet to the table in front of him. [13] The judge nodded slowly, wrote a line in the file and asked Ms. Pell to submit documentary proof that any of the four notices had actually been delivered to the correct door.
    • [10] The judge looked up from the file, over the rim of her glasses, and waited. [11] "Interpreter?" [12] "He says," Marisol told the court, "that he read the first one the way a person reads a menu in a language that he has not studied."
    • [1] Marisol Arden had interpreted at the housing court for nine years, long enough to know that the job was supposed to be invisible, like a pane of glass. [3] Ms. Pell opened by saying that Mr. Duarte had "ignored four notices," and Marisol rendered the sentence into Portuguese exactly, including the number. [6] Marisol carried the whole of it into English, keeping the order of his sentences and even the places where he stopped to search for a word.

  3. Luz is proving how people or ideas relate. Claim: “Marisol renders both speakers with equal precision, yet she reserves one small act of help for Mr. Duarte.” Every set is true. Which set proves every part of this reading?

    • [6] Marisol carried the whole of it into English, keeping the order of his sentences and even the places where he stopped to search for a word. [8] Marisol hesitated for a quarter of a second, the length of a breath, and then rendered the sentence into Portuguese word for word, including the phrase "not one." [12] "He says," Marisol told the court, "that he read the first one the way a person reads a menu in a language that he has not studied."
    • [3] Ms. Pell opened by saying that Mr. Duarte had "ignored four notices," and Marisol rendered the sentence into Portuguese exactly, including the number. [6] Marisol carried the whole of it into English, keeping the order of his sentences and even the places where he stopped to search for a word. [8] Marisol hesitated for a quarter of a second, the length of a breath, and then rendered the sentence into Portuguese word for word, including the phrase "not one."
    • [2] On Tuesday the clerk handed her a file that identified a tenant, Mr. Duarte, and a landlord's attorney, Ms. Pell, who spoke quickly and evidently enjoyed being quick. [7] Ms. Pell frowned at the bench and said, with the patience of a person addressing a slow child, "So he admits he read not one of them." [13] The judge nodded slowly, wrote a line in the file and asked Ms. Pell to submit documentary proof that any of the four notices had actually been delivered to the correct door.
    • [4] Mr. Duarte answered at length, with his hands, and Marisol listened to the whole of it before beginning, as was her habit. [5] He said that he had received the first notice, mistaken it for a utility bill and put it in a drawer; the second and third had gone to his old address; and the fourth he had found on the hallway floor after the lock was changed. [9] Mr. Duarte's shoulders dropped, and he said something short and quiet to the table in front of him.

  4. Milo is proving what the whole text suggests. Claim: “The story suggests that faithful translation depends on hearing a whole account before rendering any part of it.” Every set is true. Which set proves every part of this reading?

    • [7] Ms. Pell frowned at the bench and said, with the patience of a person addressing a slow child, "So he admits he read not one of them." [10] The judge looked up from the file, over the rim of her glasses, and waited. [11] "Interpreter?"
    • [4] Mr. Duarte answered at length, with his hands, and Marisol listened to the whole of it before beginning, as was her habit. [6] Marisol carried the whole of it into English, keeping the order of his sentences and even the places where he stopped to search for a word. [13] The judge nodded slowly, wrote a line in the file and asked Ms. Pell to submit documentary proof that any of the four notices had actually been delivered to the correct door.
    • [8] Marisol hesitated for a quarter of a second, the length of a breath, and then rendered the sentence into Portuguese word for word, including the phrase "not one." [9] Mr. Duarte's shoulders dropped, and he said something short and quiet to the table in front of him. [14] At the midmorning break, Marisol rinsed her hands at the sink in the corridor and studied them for a long moment, as though checking whether they were still entirely her own.
    • [1] Marisol Arden had interpreted at the housing court for nine years, long enough to know that the job was supposed to be invisible, like a pane of glass. [2] On Tuesday the clerk handed her a file that identified a tenant, Mr. Duarte, and a landlord's attorney, Ms. Pell, who spoke quickly and evidently enjoyed being quick. [3] Ms. Pell opened by saying that Mr. Duarte had "ignored four notices," and Marisol rendered the sentence into Portuguese exactly, including the number.

  5. The Roof (story)

    [1] I am not a man who requires credit for his generosity, and I say so to anyone who will listen, which at the Elks lodge means nearly the whole room. [2] When my neighbor Ferris lost his job at the cannery, I was the first to offer him work on my roof, at a rate I will not embarrass him by repeating. [3] I supplied the ladder, the shingles and the advice, and he supplied the labor, which seemed to me a perfectly fair division of the burdens involved.

    [4] Ferris was slow at first, as men invariably are who have spent several months sitting at a kitchen table. [5] I corrected his grip on the hammer twice before noon and told him, kindly, that the chalk line was a suggestion he might want to take more seriously. [6] By Thursday I had stopped bringing out the second thermos, since he plainly preferred to work without distractions, and I took my coffee on the porch, where I could watch the angles. [7] On Friday he asked whether Saturday could be a half day, because his daughter had a recital, and I told him that roofs, like opportunities, do not keep a schedule.

    [8] He came on Saturday as arranged, and he finished the last course of shingles at six in the evening. [9] I paid him in cash, counted twice, and shook his hand, which he returned with an enthusiasm I attributed to relief. [10] That night my wife remarked that Ferris had not looked up once as he left, but she is a woman who notices what does not matter. [11] The roof, I should add, is a very good roof, and I have been told so by two separate inspectors. [12] Last week Ferris moved to his sister's town, and I was the one man on the street who did not need to be told why.

    [13] I mention this simply because certain people at the lodge have suggested that I was less than generous. [14] I have been generous throughout my life, and I intend to go on being generous, as soon as someone gives me the chance.

  6. Noah is proving how something changes. Claim: “Ferris moves from apparent relief to silent resentment, though Walter never sees it.” Every set is true. Which set proves every part of this reading?

    • [9] I paid him in cash, counted twice, and shook his hand, which he returned with an enthusiasm I attributed to relief. [10] That night my wife remarked that Ferris had not looked up once as he left, but she is a woman who notices what does not matter. [12] Last week Ferris moved to his sister's town, and I was the one man on the street who did not need to be told why.
    • [7] On Friday he asked whether Saturday could be a half day, because his daughter had a recital, and I told him that roofs, like opportunities, do not keep a schedule. [8] He came on Saturday as arranged, and he finished the last course of shingles at six in the evening. [11] The roof, I should add, is a very good roof, and I have been told so by two separate inspectors.
    • [4] Ferris was slow at first, as men invariably are who have spent several months sitting at a kitchen table. [5] I corrected his grip on the hammer twice before noon and told him, kindly, that the chalk line was a suggestion he might want to take more seriously. [6] By Thursday I had stopped bringing out the second thermos, since he plainly preferred to work without distractions, and I took my coffee on the porch, where I could watch the angles.
    • [2] When my neighbor Ferris lost his job at the cannery, I was the first to offer him work on my roof, at a rate I will not embarrass him by repeating. [3] I supplied the ladder, the shingles and the advice, and he supplied the labor, which seemed to me a perfectly fair division of the burdens involved. [4] Ferris was slow at first, as men invariably are who have spent several months sitting at a kitchen table.

  7. Pia is proving how people or ideas relate. Claim: “Walter's account of his help is contradicted by the details he himself reports.” Every set is true. Which set proves every part of this reading?

    • [1] I am not a man who requires credit for his generosity, and I say so to anyone who will listen, which at the Elks lodge means nearly the whole room. [2] When my neighbor Ferris lost his job at the cannery, I was the first to offer him work on my roof, at a rate I will not embarrass him by repeating. [13] I mention this simply because certain people at the lodge have suggested that I was less than generous.
    • [3] I supplied the ladder, the shingles and the advice, and he supplied the labor, which seemed to me a perfectly fair division of the burdens involved. [5] I corrected his grip on the hammer twice before noon and told him, kindly, that the chalk line was a suggestion he might want to take more seriously. [7] On Friday he asked whether Saturday could be a half day, because his daughter had a recital, and I told him that roofs, like opportunities, do not keep a schedule.
    • [6] By Thursday I had stopped bringing out the second thermos, since he plainly preferred to work without distractions, and I took my coffee on the porch, where I could watch the angles. [8] He came on Saturday as arranged, and he finished the last course of shingles at six in the evening. [9] I paid him in cash, counted twice, and shook his hand, which he returned with an enthusiasm I attributed to relief.
    • [10] That night my wife remarked that Ferris had not looked up once as he left, but she is a woman who notices what does not matter. [11] The roof, I should add, is a very good roof, and I have been told so by two separate inspectors. [12] Last week Ferris moved to his sister's town, and I was the one man on the street who did not need to be told why.

  8. Ada Lovelace's Notes (article)

    [1] In 1842 an Italian engineer named Luigi Menabrea published an article in French describing the Analytical Engine, a calculating machine that the English mathematician Charles Babbage had designed but not built. [2] The next year Ada Lovelace, a mathematician who had corresponded with Babbage for years, translated the article into English for a British scientific journal. [3] At Babbage's suggestion she added a series of notes, labeled A through G, which ran to roughly three times the length of the article itself. [4] Menabrea had described the engine chiefly as a machine for doing arithmetic and algebra faster and more reliably than people working by hand.

    [5] Lovelace's notes went further, arguing that the machine could act on any symbols whose relationships could be stated exactly, beyond numbers. [6] As an example, she suggested that if the relations of musical sounds could be expressed in this way, the engine might compose elaborate pieces of music. [7] She also wrote that the engine wove algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom, which used punched cards to control its threads, wove flowers and leaves. [8] In the final note she laid out, step by step, how the engine could calculate a series known as the Bernoulli numbers. [9] That table is often called the first published computer program.

    [10] Babbage later wrote that he had offered to work out the algebra for that example himself, and that Lovelace had sent it back after finding a serious mistake in it. [11] The two exchanged dozens of letters while she wrote, arguing over wording, examples and the order of the notes. [12] At the same time, Lovelace warned readers that the engine could not originate anything and could do just what people knew how to order it to perform. [13] She added that the machine had no power of anticipating any truths on its own, and she signed the notes with her initials, A.A.L.

    [14] For about a century the notes drew little attention, partly because no Analytical Engine was ever completed. [15] In 1950 the computer scientist Alan Turing discussed her warning about originality, and in 1980 the United States Department of Defense named a programming language Ada in her honor.

  9. Tala is proving how something changes. Claim: “Lovelace's role grows from translator to author as her notes outgrow the article.” Every set is true. Which set proves every part of this reading?

    • [1] In 1842 an Italian engineer named Luigi Menabrea published an article in French describing the Analytical Engine, a calculating machine that the English mathematician Charles Babbage had designed but not built. [2] The next year Ada Lovelace, a mathematician who had corresponded with Babbage for years, translated the article into English for a British scientific journal. [4] Menabrea had described the engine chiefly as a machine for doing arithmetic and algebra faster and more reliably than people working by hand.
    • [2] The next year Ada Lovelace, a mathematician who had corresponded with Babbage for years, translated the article into English for a British scientific journal. [3] At Babbage's suggestion she added a series of notes, labeled A through G, which ran to roughly three times the length of the article itself. [5] Lovelace's notes went further, arguing that the machine could act on any symbols whose relationships could be stated exactly, beyond numbers.
    • [8] In the final note she laid out, step by step, how the engine could calculate a series known as the Bernoulli numbers. [14] For about a century the notes drew little attention, partly because no Analytical Engine was ever completed. [15] In 1950 the computer scientist Alan Turing discussed her warning about originality, and in 1980 the United States Department of Defense named a programming language Ada in her honor.
    • [10] Babbage later wrote that he had offered to work out the algebra for that example himself, and that Lovelace had sent it back after finding a serious mistake in it. [11] The two exchanged dozens of letters while she wrote, arguing over wording, examples and the order of the notes. [13] She added that the machine had no power of anticipating any truths on its own, and she signed the notes with her initials, A.A.L.

  10. Zee is proving how people or ideas relate. Claim: “Lovelace and Babbage worked as collaborators who checked each other, not as teacher and student.” Every set is true. Which set proves every part of this reading?

    • [12] At the same time, Lovelace warned readers that the engine could not originate anything and could do just what people knew how to order it to perform. [13] She added that the machine had no power of anticipating any truths on its own, and she signed the notes with her initials, A.A.L. [15] In 1950 the computer scientist Alan Turing discussed her warning about originality, and in 1980 the United States Department of Defense named a programming language Ada in her honor.
    • [3] At Babbage's suggestion she added a series of notes, labeled A through G, which ran to roughly three times the length of the article itself. [10] Babbage later wrote that he had offered to work out the algebra for that example himself, and that Lovelace had sent it back after finding a serious mistake in it. [11] The two exchanged dozens of letters while she wrote, arguing over wording, examples and the order of the notes.
    • [5] Lovelace's notes went further, arguing that the machine could act on any symbols whose relationships could be stated exactly, beyond numbers. [6] As an example, she suggested that if the relations of musical sounds could be expressed in this way, the engine might compose elaborate pieces of music. [7] She also wrote that the engine wove algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom, which used punched cards to control its threads, wove flowers and leaves.
    • [1] In 1842 an Italian engineer named Luigi Menabrea published an article in French describing the Analytical Engine, a calculating machine that the English mathematician Charles Babbage had designed but not built. [2] The next year Ada Lovelace, a mathematician who had corresponded with Babbage for years, translated the article into English for a British scientific journal. [4] Menabrea had described the engine chiefly as a machine for doing arithmetic and algebra faster and more reliably than people working by hand.

  11. Ari is proving what the whole text suggests. Claim: “The article suggests that Lovelace saw the engine's reach as wide but its originality as nil.” Every set is true. Which set proves every part of this reading?

    • [11] The two exchanged dozens of letters while she wrote, arguing over wording, examples and the order of the notes. [14] For about a century the notes drew little attention, partly because no Analytical Engine was ever completed. [15] In 1950 the computer scientist Alan Turing discussed her warning about originality, and in 1980 the United States Department of Defense named a programming language Ada in her honor.
    • [1] In 1842 an Italian engineer named Luigi Menabrea published an article in French describing the Analytical Engine, a calculating machine that the English mathematician Charles Babbage had designed but not built. [4] Menabrea had described the engine chiefly as a machine for doing arithmetic and algebra faster and more reliably than people working by hand. [8] In the final note she laid out, step by step, how the engine could calculate a series known as the Bernoulli numbers.
    • [8] In the final note she laid out, step by step, how the engine could calculate a series known as the Bernoulli numbers. [9] That table is often called the first published computer program. [10] Babbage later wrote that he had offered to work out the algebra for that example himself, and that Lovelace had sent it back after finding a serious mistake in it.
    • [5] Lovelace's notes went further, arguing that the machine could act on any symbols whose relationships could be stated exactly, beyond numbers. [6] As an example, she suggested that if the relations of musical sounds could be expressed in this way, the engine might compose elaborate pieces of music. [12] At the same time, Lovelace warned readers that the engine could not originate anything and could do just what people knew how to order it to perform.

  12. The Man on the Green (feature story about an invented town)

    [1] The statue of Josiah Pell has stood on the green in Pellham since 1911, facing the courthouse with one hand raised, as though he were about to correct someone. [2] The plaque calls him "founder and benefactor," and until this spring no one in Pellham thought to ask what he had founded or whom he had benefited.

    [3] The question came from a seventh-grade class that had been assigned to research a local landmark and chose the statue because it stood closest to the school. [4] The students learned that Pell had given the land for the green in 1870, and they also found, in the county archive, a deed showing that he had sold the same land to the town for four thousand dollars the year before. [5] They found a fund-raising letter from 1908 in which the statue committee wrote that "no memorial is too large for a man who has done so much for the village," and they noted that the committee's treasurer was Pell's grandson.

    [6] The students presented their findings at the March council meeting, in a binder with colored tabs. [7] The council thanked them, and then spent forty minutes arguing about whether the statue should come down, move to the library lawn or stay where it was with a second plaque. [8] A retired history teacher, Mrs. Ostrander, rose to say that a statue is a record of what a town once wished to believe about itself. [9] A man at the back said that this was exactly why it ought to stay.

    [10] In June the council voted to leave the statue on the green and to add a second plaque, its text to be decided. [11] The students' binder now sits on a shelf in the library, and the statue's raised hand, the school paper observed, still looks like the beginning of an answer.

  13. Bo is proving how something changes. Claim: “Pellham's relation to its statue shifts from unexamined pride to a deliberate, unfinished reckoning.” Every set is true. Which set proves every part of this reading?

    • [2] The plaque calls him "founder and benefactor," and until this spring no one in Pellham thought to ask what he had founded or whom he had benefited. [7] The council thanked them, and then spent forty minutes arguing about whether the statue should come down, move to the library lawn or stay where it was with a second plaque. [10] In June the council voted to leave the statue on the green and to add a second plaque, its text to be decided.
    • [1] The statue of Josiah Pell has stood on the green in Pellham since 1911, facing the courthouse with one hand raised, as though he were about to correct someone. [5] They found a fund-raising letter from 1908 in which the statue committee wrote that "no memorial is too large for a man who has done so much for the village," and they noted that the committee's treasurer was Pell's grandson. [9] A man at the back said that this was exactly why it ought to stay.
    • [4] The students learned that Pell had given the land for the green in 1870, and they also found, in the county archive, a deed showing that he had sold the same land to the town for four thousand dollars the year before. [5] They found a fund-raising letter from 1908 in which the statue committee wrote that "no memorial is too large for a man who has done so much for the village," and they noted that the committee's treasurer was Pell's grandson. [8] A retired history teacher, Mrs. Ostrander, rose to say that a statue is a record of what a town once wished to believe about itself.
    • [3] The question came from a seventh-grade class that had been assigned to research a local landmark and chose the statue because it stood closest to the school. [4] The students learned that Pell had given the land for the green in 1870, and they also found, in the county archive, a deed showing that he had sold the same land to the town for four thousand dollars the year before. [6] The students presented their findings at the March council meeting, in a binder with colored tabs.

  14. Jun is proving what the whole text suggests. Claim: “The article suggests that a monument says as much about the people who raise and keep it as about the person it honors.” Every set is true. Which set proves every part of this reading?

    • [6] The students presented their findings at the March council meeting, in a binder with colored tabs. [10] In June the council voted to leave the statue on the green and to add a second plaque, its text to be decided. [11] The students' binder now sits on a shelf in the library, and the statue's raised hand, the school paper observed, still looks like the beginning of an answer.
    • [1] The statue of Josiah Pell has stood on the green in Pellham since 1911, facing the courthouse with one hand raised, as though he were about to correct someone. [2] The plaque calls him "founder and benefactor," and until this spring no one in Pellham thought to ask what he had founded or whom he had benefited. [3] The question came from a seventh-grade class that had been assigned to research a local landmark and chose the statue because it stood closest to the school.
    • [4] The students learned that Pell had given the land for the green in 1870, and they also found, in the county archive, a deed showing that he had sold the same land to the town for four thousand dollars the year before. [6] The students presented their findings at the March council meeting, in a binder with colored tabs. [7] The council thanked them, and then spent forty minutes arguing about whether the statue should come down, move to the library lawn or stay where it was with a second plaque.
    • [5] They found a fund-raising letter from 1908 in which the statue committee wrote that "no memorial is too large for a man who has done so much for the village," and they noted that the committee's treasurer was Pell's grandson. [8] A retired history teacher, Mrs. Ostrander, rose to say that a statue is a record of what a town once wished to believe about itself. [9] A man at the back said that this was exactly why it ought to stay.