Year 9 Reading: Advanced_inference

The writer says trust was 'once assumed to be stable and self-renewing.' What does this phrase imply about how trust in science was thought to work before the decline?

The detail about a lion's territory spanning 'hundreds of square kilometres' is included mainly to:

The detail that Tomás closed the notebook and then reopened it three days later is significant because it suggests he:

The passage says the notebook entries 'grew more cryptic as she aged.' What might this suggest about the relationship between the grandmother's experience and her capacity to communicate it?

The audience response — 'a pause, then scattered applause, then silence' — is identical each time. What does this repetition imply about the audiences' reception of the apology?

The opening sentence — 'places that did not want to be mapped' — is immediately qualified by 'Not literally.' What does this qualification reveal about Asha's perspective?

The final sentence — 'She had begun to think that this was not so different from what she did in a classroom five days a week' — implies that Mei sees her teaching as:

The lawyer's glance carried 'something that might have been gratitude or might have been alarm.' This ambiguity most strongly suggests: