Read the paragraph from "The Day the Gulls Went Crazy."

By 1978, observations of these marked gulls were just beginning to yield some interesting information. Some of the birds banded in the early 1970s returned to nest—revealing that western gulls start nesting at age four or five. Larry discovered that his banded gulls eventually nested quite close to the site where they had hatched. Larry felt particularly excited when he began to learn a bit about the wandering winter lives of the Farallon Island gulls.

Question 1
Part A

Which inference can be drawn from the paragraph from "The Day the Gulls Went Crazy"?

A. The lives of western gulls largely remain a mystery.

B. Research sometimes takes time to show results.

C. Most gulls tend to stay in one geographic area.

D. Western gulls forget exactly where they hatched.


Part B

Which textual evidence best supports the answer to Part A?


A. "By 1978, observations of these marked gulls were just beginning to yield some interesting information."

B. "Larry discovered that his banded gulls eventually nested quite close to the site where they had hatched."

C. "Larry felt particularly excited when he began to learn a bit about the wandering winter lives of the Farallon Island gulls."

D. "Some of the birds banded in the early 1970s returned to nest—revealing that western gulls start nesting at age four or five."