Given that Carla has already knowledge of the example from the Ecology textbook, then her reading will increase. It is called a prereading, it is a technique in which the reader will skim the text before reading it thoroughly.
Carla already has an idea on what she will be ready since she has come across the example before reading the text carefully.
A backboard could mean:
a board placed at or forming the back of something, such as a collage or piece of electronic equipment.<span>
an upright board behind the basket, off which the ball may rebound.
a board used to support or straighten a person's back, especially after an accident.
It depends on the context of the word.
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He lied to him because he knew that the Cyclops would call his brothers, when blinded, so he said his name was "nobody" so as to have the Cyclops yell out: "Nobody has blinded me". This in turn caused his brothers to not react at all, because they thought that gods had blinded his brother, therefore he is yelling that Nobody blinded him. Let's say then that the third sentence is the only one that can fit the story.
Pairs of words with the same meaning
