Grade 7 FAST Reading practice

Read the complete passage before selecting an answer. Ask which words support the choice, and compare them with the explanation.

These original questions target selected grade-level skills. They are independent practice and do not predict an official FAST score.

A Place in the Photograph [1] Jada's photograph had won a place in the town exhibition. It showed a neighbor lifting a folding table while afternoon light crossed the empty market square. Jada had titled it “The Last Vendor.” She liked the suggestion of a place vanishing before anyone noticed. [2] At the print shop, the neighbor recognized himself. “That was before the night market,” he said. “We were clearing room for the musicians.” Jada remembered the silence when she had pressed the shutter. She had left before the lamps came on. In her picture, there were no musicians and no sign of a crowd. [3] The exhibition label was due that evening. Her first impulse was to keep the title. It described what she had felt, and the judges had already selected the image. Yet the neighbor's words followed her home. The photograph had recorded a moment accurately; her title had supplied a story the moment did not establish. [4] She tried “Before the Music,” but that seemed to borrow the neighbor's memory rather than acknowledge her own mistake. Finally, she wrote a short caption: she had photographed an apparently deserted square, then learned it was being prepared for an evening event. The caption did not tell viewers what emotion to feel. [5] At the exhibition, one visitor called the picture lonely. Another noticed the direction of the neighbor's movement and described it as expectant. Jada did not correct either response. Both visitors had access to the same account of the occasion, even though they saw different possibilities in the light and space. [6] On her next walk, she carried the camera and a small notebook. She still wanted photographs that asked questions. Now she wanted her captions to stop pretending the questions had already been answered.

How does the print-shop encounter affect the conflict?

1. It proves that photographs cannot communicate emotion.
2. It exposes a difference between what the image shows and what Jada's title claims.
3. It reveals that Jada photographed a different town by mistake.
4. It forces the judges to remove the photograph from the exhibition.

Intended benchmark: ELA.7.R.1.1. A single example does not establish mastery or complete benchmark coverage.

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