NAPLAN Reading Year 9 2011

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1. New York 28. Dogs can read body language better than
2. to encourage readers to feel admiration humans think they can.
for Joseph Davies 29. deliberately understating his skills.
3. He wants to provide opportunities for 30. It supports an opinion presented by the
Indigenous athletes. Ranger.
4. one stage in a larger plan. 31. They suggest that the Ranger knows the
5. determined. answer he wants.
6. New York is known as The Big Apple. 32. defensive.
7. an underwater eruption had been filmed 33. 2. limited
at close range. 4. pervasive
3. common
8. an interest in investigating the results of 1. denied
their water samples
34. giving away information.
9. black rock.
35. offences that may arise from abuses of
10. the pressure of the water above it. GPS.
11. how underwater volcanoes develop. 36. a possible application of GPS
12. the scientists were able to witness a capabilities.
submarine eruption close-up 37. people are entitled to privacy.
13. A teacher is not happy with his 38. GPS is common.
behaviour.
39. They think they are doing something
14. learn from a negative experience. unique and adventurous.
15. to suggest that Michaels feelings may be 40. diversity.
influencing his behaviour
41. presents the tourists as intrusive and
16. uncertain. slightly predatory.
17. charm her. 42. presents her as instinctive and robotic.
18. what he thinks to himself. 43. the world is fiercer and less picturesque
19. may have been averted had the right than many like to think.
knowledge been available. 44. enthralled.
20. play a vital role in preventing the 45. an ongoing discussion of ideas.
watertable from rising.
46. It is good in theory but could not be put
21. numerous aspects of society and the into practice.
environment.
47. qualify an assertion.
22. give a real-world example of the high
costs associated with salinity. 48. Daylight savings may effect some
workers, but we should not worry too
23. needs to act now if salinity is to be much about the minority of people at the
prevented in the future. expense of the majority.
24. a stable environment. 49. It can be changed by good, rational
25. irrigation. arguments.
26. do not know much about salinity. 50. He points out errors in their arguments.
27. He is the motivation for it.

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