Question
The Big Race
The racers all showed up that Sunday morning like clockwork. Drivers and crews, cars and trucks, fans and sportscasters. Dawn broke over the speedway, and the sky burned like white-hot copper. Soon, the temperature would rise above 96 degrees Fahrenheit.
The tar on the raceway had softened in the heat, and the convection currents, the bleary-eyed mirages, fluttered like curtains over the black streets. As the crowd began to settle, the drivers brought the cars onto the tracks and ran them through their paces. Lap after lap, the cars performed beautifully, gleaming like rainbow-colored candies in the daylight.
adapted from "The Big Race" by Erin Dalehart
3
Read this sentence from the passage.
"Dawn broke over the speedway, and the sky burned like white-hot copper."
What does this image suggest?
A.
factory smokestacks
B.
white, cloudy skies
C.
a forest fire
D.
a hot, sunny day
The racers all showed up that Sunday morning like clockwork. Drivers and crews, cars and trucks, fans and sportscasters. Dawn broke over the speedway, and the sky burned like white-hot copper. Soon, the temperature would rise above 96 degrees Fahrenheit.
The tar on the raceway had softened in the heat, and the convection currents, the bleary-eyed mirages, fluttered like curtains over the black streets. As the crowd began to settle, the drivers brought the cars onto the tracks and ran them through their paces. Lap after lap, the cars performed beautifully, gleaming like rainbow-colored candies in the daylight.
adapted from "The Big Race" by Erin Dalehart
3
Read this sentence from the passage.
"Dawn broke over the speedway, and the sky burned like white-hot copper."
What does this image suggest?
A.
factory smokestacks
B.
white, cloudy skies
C.
a forest fire
D.
a hot, sunny day
Answers
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GPT-4o mini
The image suggested by the sentence "Dawn broke over the speedway, and the sky burned like white-hot copper" aligns best with option D: **a hot, sunny day**. The description of the sky burning like white-hot copper evokes a sense of intense heat and brightness typical of a sunny day.