文档介绍：Practice Test #8
Make time to take the practice test. It’s one of the best ways to get ready for the SAT.
Afhat as soon as I was ten he would
15 send me off to work and that I’d better get rid of all my scatterbrained ideas if I didn’t want to end up a
the other children. He was convinced that I spent them on licorice sticks, sunflower seeds, or sweets, but I would keep them in a coffee tin under the bed,
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30 and when I’d collected four or five reales I’d secretly rush out to buy myself a book.
My favorite place in the whole city was the Sempere & Sons bookshop on Calle Santa Ana. It smelled of old paper and dust and it was my
35 sanctuary, my refuge. The bookseller would let me sit on a chair in a corner and read any book I liked to my heart’s content. He hardly ever allowed me to pay for the books he placed in my hands, but when he wasn’t looking I’d leave the coins I’d managed to
40 collect on the counter before I left. It was only small change—if I’d had to buy a book with that pittance, I would probably have been able to afford only a booklet of cigarette papers. When it was time for me to leave, I would do so dragging my feet, a weight on
45 my soul. If it had been up to me, I would have stayed there forever.
One Christmas Sempere gave me the best gift I have ever received. It was an old volume, read and
experienced to the full.
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loser, a nobody. I used to hide my books under the mattress and wait for him to go out or fall asleep so that I could read. Once he caught me reading at night
20 and flew into a rage. He tore the book from my hands and flung it