Read the following excerpt from Holes. Stanley and his parents didn't believe in curses, of course,
but whenever anything went wrong, it felt good to be able
to blame someone
Things went wrong a lot. They always seemed to be in the
wrong place at the wrong time.
He looked out the window at the vast emptiness. He
watched the rise and fall of a telephone wire. In his mind he
could hear his father's gruff voice softly singing to him.
Which sentence from the excerpt contains a stated
physical trait?
Stanley and his parents didn't believe in curses, of
course, but whenever anything went wrong, it felt good
to be able to blame someone.
They always seemed to be in the wrong place at the
wrong time.
O He watched the rise and fall of a telephone wire.
O In his mind he could hear his father's gruff voice softly
singing to him

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.