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Tastes and Preferences

Making Inferences

Read the passage again. What can you infer from each paragraph? Decide if each statement is implied in the reading. If so, in the box, write the phrase or phrases that supports your answer. If it is not implied, write an X in the box.



1

Thin women are beautiful.
2

Not everybody thinks that thin is beautiful.
3

In the Stone Age, obesity was rare.
4

Experts agree that the Venus of Willendorf represents a goddess.
5

In seventeenth-century Europe, big women were considered attractive.
6

Other painters depicted large women as well.
7

Irving Penn found big women to be sexy and erotic.
8

Thin is considered beautiful in Western society today.








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