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Reading Test
65 MINUTES, 52 QUESTIONSDirections: Each passage or pair of passages below is followed by a number of questions. After reading
each passage or pair, choose the best answer to each question based on what is stated or
implied in the passage or passages and in any accompanying graphics (such as a table or
graph).
1. Over the course of the passage, the main focus shifts from a
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2. The main purpose of lines 1-10 (“Even… awaited me”) is to
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3. With which of the following statements about his father would the narrator most likely agree?
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4. Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?
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5. It can reasonably be inferred from the passage that the main reason that the narrator considers Great Expectations to be the best gift he ever received is because
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6. Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?
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7. The narrator indicates that he pays Sempere
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8. As used in line 44, “weight” most nearly means
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9. The word “friend” is used twice in lines 57-58 to
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10. Which statement best characterizes the relationship between Sempere and Charles Dickens?
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11. The passage primarily serves to
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12. As used in line 21, “allows” most nearly means
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13. As used in line 43, “strength” most nearly means
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14. The passage indicates that a problem with failing to document null results is that
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15. Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?
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16. Based on the passage, to which of the following hypothetical situations would Malhotra most strongly object?
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17. Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?
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18. The last paragraph serves mainly to
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19. According to the graph, social science studies yielding strong results were
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20. Which of the following statements is supported by the graph?
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21. Which statement from the passage is most directly reflected by the data presented in the graph?
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22. One central idea of the passage is that
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23. Which choice best describes the overall structure of the passage?
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24. Which choice provides the best evidence for the claim that Moore’s group was surprised to observe salt stretching?
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25. As used in line 20, “rule” most nearly means
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26. According to the passage, researchers have identified which mechanism as potentially responsible for the initial attraction between the microscope tip and the salt?
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27. As used in line 42, “lead to” most nearly means
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28. Based on the passage, which choice best describes the relationship between salt behavior in the nanoworld and in the macroworld?
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29. Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?
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30. According to the information in the graph, when the microscope tip is moving away from the salt surface and is 15 nanometers from the surface, what is the approximate force on the microscope tip, in micronewtons?
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31. Based on the passage and the graph, which label on the graph indicates the point at which a salt nanowire breaks?
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32. In the first paragraph of Passage 1, the main purpose of Douglas’s discussion of the growth of the territory and population of the United States is to
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33. What does Passage 1 suggest about the US government’s provisions for the institution of slavery, as framed in the Constitution?
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34. Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?
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35. As used in line 67, “element” most nearly means
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36. Based on Passage 2, Lincoln would be most likely to agree with which claim about the controversy over slavery?
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37. Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?
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38. As used in line 84, “nature” most nearly means
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39. Which choice identifies a central tension between the two passages?
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40. Both passages discuss the issue of slavery in relationship to
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41. In the context of each passage as a whole, the questions in lines 25-27 of Passage 1 and lines 67-69 of Passage 2 primarily function to help each speaker
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42. The primary purpose of the passage is to
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43. Based on the passage, a significant advantage of the Venus flytrap’s requirement for multiple triggers is that it
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44. Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?
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45. The use of the phrases “dawdling insect” (line 6), “happily meanders” (line 27), and “unassuming bug’s encounter” (lines 28-29) in the first two paragraphs establishes a tone that is
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46. In the second paragraph (lines 15-31), the discussion of short-term memory primarily functions to
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47. According to the passage, which statement best explains why the Venus flytrap requires a second trigger hair to be touched within a short amount of time in order for its trap to close?
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48. Which choice describes a scenario in which Hodick and Sievers’s model predicts that a Venus flytrap will NOT close around an insect?
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49. As used in line 67, “demonstrated” most nearly means
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50. Based on the passage, what potential criticism might be made of Volkov’s testing of Hodick and Sievers’s model?
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51. Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?
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52. Based on the passage, in studying the Venus flytrap, Volkov and his colleagues made the most extensive use of which type of evidence?
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