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Excerpt from Gary Soto’s novel Summer on Wheels. Bentley sat at the kitchen table running an ice cube back and forth across the knot on his forehead. The knot was like a speed bump. The ice cube glided across smooth skin before it jumped up and over the knot. Bentley whimpered like the puppy he was. He had flown over the handlebars and not only hurt his head but also scraped his elbows and chin. And the air left his lungs when he belly-flopped. It took a full minute before he could get enough air back into his system to complain, “Golly, that smarted. Bentley feels hurt and upset after falling off his bike. Which of the following sentences from the passage best supports this statement?

Bentley sat at the kitchen table running an ice cube back and forth across the knot on his forehead. The ice cube glided across smooth skin before it jumped up and over the knot. Bentley whimpered like the puppy he was. And the air left his lungs when he belly-flopped.

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Bentley whimpered like the puppy he was.

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