What is the author’s purpose in this excerpt?
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Read the following passage and answer the questions.
Jade sighed and clicked the mouse again. It still wasn't working. Then suddenly the screen went black. "Oh no!" wailed Jade. "It's all gone! I don't have time to start again!"
What was Jade trying to get to work? How do you know?
The computer. It was probably frozen, and would not respond.
How did Jade feel when the screen went black?
She was upset, because the computer stopped working and she was probably doing an assignment, and it had not saved when the computer stopped responding.
How long do you think Jade had been sitting there?
Probably long time, because most likely she had been waiting for the computer to work again, so that she could finish what she was trying to do.
What might Jade have been doing before this happened?
As stated in the previous answers, Jade was most likely doing an assignment, and she was trying to save her progress when the computer suddenly stopped responding.
How do you know?
We can infer the above from her reaction at the computer screen going black. She is distraught at the computer's refusal to work, and her statement at the end: “<em>Oh no! It's all gone! I don't have time to start again!</em>” leads us to believe that whatever she was doing was <em>extremely</em> important and urgent.
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