Read the passage.Ellen Ochoa began her career with NASA in 1988. Her first assignment was as a research engineer at the Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. She became the first Hispanic woman to travel to space when she served as mission specialist on a flight of the space shuttle Discovery in April 1993.Read Reyhan’s paraphrase of the excerpt.In 1988, Ellen Ochoa joined NASA as a research engineer at the Ames Research Center in California. In 1993, she served as a mission specialist on the space shuttle Discovery. On that flight, she became the first woman to go to space.
Answer
A
She changes the meaning of the information in the original text.
B
She includes wording that is too close to the original text.
C
She includes her personal opinion of ideas in the original text.
D
She adds information that is not found in the original text.
Explanation
The original passage says Ochoa became the first Hispanic woman to travel to space. Reyhan’s paraphrase says she became the first woman to go to space, which changes the claim by leaving out “Hispanic” and suggesting no woman had gone to space before her. Therefore, the paraphrase changes the meaning of the original information.
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