Dominic was balancing on the fence. No matter how many times he fell off or got hurt, he never learned his lesson. Last
spring, he'd sprained his left ankle. Last fall, he'd fractured his right wrist. One summer, he'd spent six weeks with a cast on his
leg. He just never learned
His older sister, Sophia, was watching from the porch. She knew that Mom would come out any second and say, "Dominic
Salvatore Mazzello, you come in this house immediately."
"Hey, Sophia, watch what I can do!" Dominic yelled from the fence,
He got up on his toes like a gymnast on a balance beam and stretched toward the sky
"You're going to falll" Sophia shouted back
"Oh, I am not! You're just jealous because I can do this and you can't."
Dominic reached higher and higher. Suddenly, his right foot slipped. Then, his left foot slipped. Sophia saw her brother falling,
falling, falling
As Dominic neared the ground, Sophia leaped from the porch, dashed to the fence, and caught her little brother in her arms.
"Nice catch, Wonder Woman," Mom called from the front porch. Sophia and Dominic both smiled. But Dominic stopped
smiling as soon as Mom said, "Dominic Salvatore Mazzello, you come in this house immediately."
Why does Mom call Sophia "Wonder Woman"?
O A. because Sophia resembles Wonder Woman
OB. because Dominic reads old comic books
C. because Sophia performs a heroic act
O
OD. because Dominic is always getting rescued