1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
madreJ [45]
3 years ago
15

Those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “Even though Tom was ______, Mary

thought he was _____.” And the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “Even though Tom was foolish, Mary thought he was ridiculous.” Well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what Tom could have been and what Mary might have thought of him. So I never did well on tests like that. What can be inferred from the excerpt?Tan believes that achievement tests should include a wider variety of fill-in-the-blank questions.
Tan believes that achievement tests should be constructed by published authors of fiction.
Tan believes that achievement tests give inadequate measurements of language ability.
Tan believes that achievement tests give inflated measurements of language ability.
English
2 answers:
Dominik [7]3 years ago
5 0

In this excerpt the narrator is complaining about the way achievement test are and how up to that they measure someone’s knowledge. He uses the word bland to describe the right answer of this kind of tests which it means „lacking a strong or particular flavor; not interesting”, in this context can be used describing it as non-sense or not obvious answers. He also complains about how bad he is in this because he cannot find the logic in the answers. With this explained, we can infer that the right answer is D Tan believes that achievement tests give inflated measurements of language ability, because he kind of argues that the answers are not "valid" to measure it.

Veronika [31]3 years ago
5 0

Answer:

It can be inferred from the text that Tan believes that achievement tests give inadequate measurements of language ability.

Explanation:

In this excerpt Tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests and even says how her mother's teaching in life has made her think or see things differently from the one needed for that kind of exams, she uses this information to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability.

You might be interested in
Read the following Shakespearean sonnet.
oksian1 [2.3K]
Hyperbole is used when Shakespeare is speaking about his mistress. He is actually over exaggerating how ugly and repulsive his mistress is. He is saying that she doesn't have a lovely blush to her face when he says "But no such roses see I in her cheeks." He is also saying that her breath is awful when he contrasts her breath to nice perfume and says "than in the breath that from my mistress reeks."
5 0
3 years ago
Who makes me a poem on this subject please ……….
Marina CMI [18]

Answer:

fiuducjcjc

Explanation:

d7et5qq43yg

hdihocit

yzusidgpgicjcjc

jgiuy

6 0
3 years ago
In Mark Twain's account of a "campaign that failed," his satire is aimed at the _______ of making an adventure appear more glori
Anna35 [415]
The correct answer is C, hypocrisy. This work of Mark Twain's is actually a fictionalized version of his own wartime experiences. He is trying to tell us that there is nothing glorious about war, that there is only death and suffering. It cannot be glorious when you have to kill somebody, or somebody will kill you. That's the irony and hypocrisy that Twain was trying to convey in this work.
3 0
3 years ago
Anne franks diary how does the setting of scene 5 complete the structure of the play? what sentences show that some time has pas
mario62 [17]
Hey we just read that too! How Mr. Frank says "no more" because he can't bare to remember his horrid past by reading his diary. In the first scene, he finds the diary and starts reading it. In scene 5, Mr. Frank finishes the book.

3 0
3 years ago
Does Anyone Know The Answers To 2.03 Quiz: The Secret Garden 1<br><br> it is 5 questions
lawyer [7]

1. What was Mary's home life like?

Father was always gone, Mother didn't want her, She was spoiled.

2. What did Mary call her mother?

Mem Sahib.

3. What happened to Ayah, her mother, and her father? They died from cholera.

4. What was Mary's stay with the English Minister like? The kids teased her. They did not like her.

5. What was the name of the house owned by Mr. Craven? Misslethwaite Manor.

—————————————————————-

are these the questions you meant? cuz these were the ones i had to do.

7 0
3 years ago
Other questions:
  • Books are a way for children to reach out lessons
    10·1 answer
  • What does it mean when someone would not allow them to maintain someone lifestyle?
    13·1 answer
  • Read this excerpt from "Paul Revere's Ride" Meanwhile, his friend, through alley and street Wanders and watches with eager ears,
    11·2 answers
  • I ............(go) to the beach many times.​
    6·2 answers
  • What does Benjamin figure out that the other animals do not?
    9·1 answer
  • How are you facing the pandemic in this generation ? explain in details pls
    11·1 answer
  • Find 5 laws that you think is outrageous in Florida . Create an argumentative response on whether or not you think this should b
    9·2 answers
  • “Scary Tales” Turn &amp; Talk Questions Lines 13–18: What words describe the style of this essay? Which words or phrases in thes
    9·1 answer
  • What values were typical of the Victorian era when Robert Louis Stevenson was alive ?
    8·2 answers
  • NO LINKS!!!
    5·2 answers
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!