"I'm home!" Earl shouted as he walked in the door. His wife Gail came bounding down the stairs. She hadn't seen him since he had left to go on his silly fishing trip two weeks ago. "I missed you, Husband. Did you catch anything?" Gail reluctantly asked, knowing that Earl was not a very good fisherman. Earl scratched his head and responded, "You're not going to believe what I'm bringing home." Earl unzipped a cooler and pulled out several perfectly filleted salmon steaks. "Wow, Earl, I didn't know that you could fillet a fish like that." Earl looked around the room a little bit and scratched his head, "Uh, yeah, Jeff taught me how." Gail looked at him suspiciously. "Well, let me help you unpack." As Gail was helping Earl unpack his truck, she found a receipt from the grocery store. It was dated from that morning. What she saw was both disappointing and unsurprising.
4. What did Gail find on the receipt? ____________________________________________________
How do you know this?
5. Why was Gail disappointed and unsurprised with what she saw? ____________________________
How do you know this?
5. Gail found a receipt from the grocery store on which she saw that Earl had purchased the pre-filleted salmon steaks.
I know this because the receipt was found while Gail was helping Earl unpack his truck, and the passage mentions that Gail found the receipt and saw something disappointing and unsurprising on it.
Step 4: Gail found something disappointing and unsurprising on the receipt.
Step 5: Gail was disappointed and unsurprised with what she saw on the receipt because it indicated that Earl had actually bought the salmon steaks from the grocery store instead of catching them himself. I know this because the prompt mentioned that Earl was not a very good fisherman and Gail had doubted his claim of filleting the fish. Additionally, the receipt being dated from that morning suggests that Earl had bought the salmon steaks instead of catching them while he was on his fishing trip.
To find out what Gail found on the receipt, we can analyze the context and information given in the story. The receipt was found in Earl's truck while Gail was helping him unpack. Since the story mentions that Earl pulled out perfectly filleted salmon steaks from his cooler, it suggests that Gail might have found something related to the salmon on the receipt.
To determine why Gail was disappointed and unsurprised, we can consider the fact that Earl is not a very good fisherman, which is mentioned earlier in the story. Additionally, when Gail asked if Earl caught anything, he responded by saying, "You're not going to believe what I'm bringing home." This implies that the fish Earl brought home may not have been caught by him.
Based on these clues, it can be inferred that Gail found a purchase of salmon on the receipt, indicating that Earl had bought the filleted salmon from a grocery store instead of catching it himself. Gail is likely disappointed because she was expecting Earl to have actually caught the fish, given his history as a not-so-good fisherman. She is unsurprised because this aligns with her suspicions about Earl's claim of filleting the fish himself, especially since Earl mentioned that someone named Jeff taught him how to do it.