Question

In the story, pet owners are too scared of crocodile to bring their sick pets to Dr. Doolittle. When sweet T read this, he made the inference that Dr. Doolittle was losing money because of the crocodile. What background knowledge BEST supports SweetT's inference?

Answer 1

The background knowledge that when he was treating humans and kept pets, people stopped coming to him for treatment and he became poor.

Step-by-step explanation:

While reading the story, Sweet T must have read of the time when Doctor Dolittle was treating humans and kept a lot of pets. People did not like the animals and they soon stopped coming to him for treatments. He began losing money and soon became very poor.

This background knowledge would help Sweet T make the inference that since pet owners were scared of bringing their sick pets to Dr. Dolittle, he would be losing money and would soon become poor again.