Question

The Friday Everything Changed

Anne Hart
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softball.
If you
were a boy it was
started dreaming about in Grade I, even
Nou were
said
The trouble started right away as soon as we got into the school yard, because all the boys knew,
their power to stop it. [...]
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So they went right for Alma as soon as she came out of school and that was when another funny
..] It was a long, hard week. [...] The boys picked on us whenever they got the chance. I guess they
figured that if they made things bad enough for us, sooner or later we'd go to Miss Ralston and ask her to
forget the whole thing. But all their picking on and bullying did was to keep us together.
[...Maybe Alma's hardest moment [...] was when her cousin Arnold came over to see her Wednesday
after school and asked her to drop the whole idea of girls going for the water. [...]
Alma," said Arnold earnestly, "the other guys would kill me if they ever found out I told you this
but sometimes carrying the water isn't that much fun. On cold days it's real hard work. You're better off
in the warm school."
decide it's time to challenge the rule. [...]
Tradition. In Miss Ralston's class the boys have always carried the water bucket. Until one day, the
The water for our school came from a pump at the railway station, which was about a quarter of a
he made available to the school. For a while there had been some talk of digging a well but in the end we
mile away. One day long ago a health inspector had come around and had announced that water must
got a big. shiny, galvanized water bucket and permission to use the railway station pump. And from that
for all the boys - the most important thing that happened at school, even more important than
has who would get to carry the water.
the remotest chance it could ever happen to you before at least Grade 5. and only then if the teacher thought
big and strong enough. You dreamed about it partly because carrying the water meant you were
one of the big guys, and carrying the water meant you could get away from school for maybe half an hour at
time. But mostly you dreamed about it because carrying the water was something real [...).
And that's the way it had always been until one extraordinary afternoon when, right out of the blue,
...] my seatmate, Alma Niles, put up her hand and said: "Why can't girls go for the water, too?"
dropped a bomb, we all couldn't have been more surprised. A silence fell over the room and in that
If one of those German planes, like in the war movies, had suddenly appeared over the school and
silence everyone looked at the teacher. [...]
And Miss Ralston, instead of saying, "Whoever heard of girls going for the water?" or, "Are you
very hard at Alma, who had gone quite white with the shock of dropping such a bombshell.
trying to be saucy, Alma?" like any other teacher would, said nothing at all for a moment but just looked
After a long moment, [...] Miss Ralston [...] threw a bombshell of her own: "I'll think about that," she
1- as if, you know, she would - "and I'll let you know next Friday."
from the moment Miss Ralston had spoken, that something of theirs was being threatened and that, as
long as there was the remotest chance that any girl might get to carry the water, they had to do everything
thing happened. Instead of just standing back and watching Alma get beaten up, as we usually did when
the boys were after someone, the girls rushed right in to try and help her. [...]

12)Which sentence from the text corresponds to the complication, that is, the moment when the conflict is introduced in the plot?

A)"In miss Ralston's class the boys have always carried the water bucket."

B)"[...] in the end we got a big, shiny, galvanized water bucker and permission to use the railway station pump."

C)"[...] one extraordinary afternoon [...], right out of the blue, [...] my seatmate, Alma Niles, put up her hand and said: 'Whay can't girls go for the water, too?"

13)How did the students express their surprise at Alma's idea?

A)They fell silent.

B)That told Alma to be silent.​

Answer 1

Resposta:

acho que e a 12=A 13=c

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