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15. This question has two parts. First, answer Part A. Then, answer part B.
Part A
What does the word ravenous mean as it is used in paragraph 5 of
Passage 1?
very angry
extremely hungry
highly unsatisfied
completely exhausted
Part B
Fill in the bubble before the sentence from paragraph 4 or 5 of the
passage that contains the strongest context clue for the answer to Part A.
Connie, 10, gets a ride straight from school to piano lessons once a
week
. "My
mom has a snack for me in the car when she picks me
up from school.
It could be fruit, a piece of cheese, or some
peanut-butter pretzels.
"
To learn more about after-school snacking, I checked in with a
sixth
-grade class that
has an early lunch-time (11:30 a.m.). Some
of these kids are ravenous after
school! I asked them to list three
of the foods they eat
most often when they get home. First-place
answer? Fruit! Students
listed apples, oranges, bananas, and
pears. Second-place? Candy
. (It was early November when I
surveyed them, shortly after
a certain candy-filled holiday.) Milk and
cookies tied for third.