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Reading Test
65 MINUTES, 52 QUESTIONS
Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.
DIRECTIONS
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).
Questions 1-10 are based on the following amid gilded surroundings. Such bon-mots are ever
passage. enticing to those who have all their days longed for
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This passage is adapted from Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie. such material surroundings and have never had them
Originally published in 1900. gratified. They have the charm of showing suffering
under ideal conditions. Who would not grieve upon
It was not often that she came to the play stirred a gilded chair? Who would not suffer amid perfumed
to her heart’s core by actualities. To-day a low song tapestries, cushioned furniture, and liveried servants?
of longing had been set singing in her heart by the 35 Grief under such circumstances becomes an enticing
Line finery, the merriment, the beauty she had seen. Oh, thing. Carrie longed to be of it. She wanted to take
5 these women who had passed her by, hundreds and her sufferings, whatever they were, in such a world,
hundreds strong, who were they? Whence came the or failing that, at least to simulate them under such
rich, elegant d