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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 Akira was waiting in the entry. He was in his early
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Questions 1-10 are based on the following passage. she had traveled extensively in the Near East and Africa
passage. twenties, slim and serious, wearing the black
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This passage is adapted from Mary Helen Stefaniak, The with a friend of her grandmother’s, one Janet Miller,
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place in Africa. I believe her remark irritated some and Education. Professor Dewey
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people gathered totowelcome
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on the burnedshe by then, Miss
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received with
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grass alongside the tracks. When folks are sweating at
was feeling too cozy. She and Naomi were reading of a position. I’ve an opportunity to go to America,she
students after a lecture—especially female students, as
a low table
through setshorts,
their atop athey
charcoal brazier.
don’t like A thick
to hear quilt
that this 45 added—sometimes over coffee, and see in their eyes
dentist for Seattle’s Japanese community.”
spread over the sides of the table so their
is nothing compared to someplace else. Irritated or legs were the“Congratulations,”
fire his words couldChie kindle.
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the arrival of the new hour,
“Who is it at this in this weather?”
schoolteacher in a positiveChie
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45 involved?”
questioned as she picked the name card
Hard times were still upon us in 1938, but, like my off the years
Even later,
notingshe told a cheery
Naomi’s blue-suited
breathless woman
reaction from
to the
maid’s lacquer
momma said, “Wetray.
weren’t no poorer than we’d ever
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name card, Chie had no idea. Akira’s message,
been,” and the citizensKobe
“Shinoda, Akira. Dental College,”
of Threestep were in the she read.
mood educationlike
delivered to the poorest,
a formal darkest,
speech, most
filled herremote
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for a little excitement. the name. Chie heard a soft forgotten corner of America.
maternal amusement. You know how children speak
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hurriedly, Georgia. about
so endearingly
Miss Spivey looked like just the right person to
“I think you should go,” said Naomi. thingsMissthat have paused
Spivey no importance
there for in an adult’s
questions, mind?my
avoiding
give it to them. She was, by almost anyone’s standards,
a woman of the world. She’d gone to boarding schools 55 That’s
brother how she viewed
Ralphord’s eye. him, as a child.
since she was six years old; she’d studied French in What we really wanted to know about—all twenty-
25 Paris and drama in London; and during what she six of us across seven grade levels in the one room—
called a “fruitful intermission” in her formal education, was the pearly white button hanging on a string in front
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of the blackboard behind the teacher’s desk up front.
That button on a string was something new. When
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In the passage, Threestep is mainly presented as a
Mavis Davis (the only 60 bona MINUTES, 47 QUESTIONS
fide seventh grader, at age
thirteen) asked what it was for, Miss Spivey gave the A) summer retreat for vacationers.
string a tug, and to our astonishment, the whole world B) small rural town.
Turn to
—or at least a wrinkled Section
map 1 of yourbefore
of it—unfolded answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.
C) town that is home to a prominent university.
65 our eyes. Her predecessor, Miss Chandler, had never
D) comfortable suburb.
once made use of that map, which was older than our
fathers, and until thatDIRECTIONS
moment, not a one of us knew
it was there.
Each passage or pair of passages below is followed 3 by a number of questions. After reading
Miss Spivey showed us on the map how she and
each passage or pair, choose
70 Dr. Janet Miller had sailed across the Atlantic Ocean
the best answer to each question
It can basedbeoninferred
reasonably what isfrom
stated
theorpassage that
and past the Rockimplied in theinto
of Gibraltar passage or passages and in any accompanying
the Mediterranean some of thegraphics
people at(such as a table
the train stationorregard Miss
graph).
Sea. Using the end of a ruler, she gently tapped such Spivey’s comment about the Georgia heat with
places as Morocco and Tunis and Algiers to mark their A) sympathy, because they assume that she is
route along the top of Africa. They spent twenty hours experiencing intense heat for the first time.
75 on the train to Baghdad, she said, swathed in veils
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friend, very fond of both daughters, but particularly friend. Mr. Weston was a man of unexceptionable
of Emma. Between them it was more the intimacy of Miss Spivey uses the phrase “fruitful
character, easy(line
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generous
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A) one of Miss Spivey’s former students.
long passed away, they had been living together as The want
startof Miss Taylor
medical school.would be felt every hour of
B) Miss
friend andSpivey’s
friend predecessor.
very mutually attached, and Emma 55 every
C) day. She recalled
her early her past school
years at boarding kindness—the
resulted in
C) anjust
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what shemember liked; highlyof theesteeming
community. kindness, the affection of sixteen years—how she had
unanticipated rewards.
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Miss Spivey
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The interaction between Miss Spivey and Ralphord According to the passage, Miss Spivey ended up in
serves mainly to 60 MINUTES, 47 QUESTIONS Threestep as a direct result of
A) suggest that Miss Spivey has an exaggerated view A) her friendship with Janet Miller.
Turn toshould
of what information Sectionbe 1considered
of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.
B) attending college in New York City.
common knowledge. C) talking with a woman at the WPA.
B) establish a friendly dynamic between the D) Miss Chandler’s retirement from teaching.
DIRECTIONS
charming schoolchildren and their indulgent
and doting new instructor.
C) introduce Ralphord as a precocious young
each passage or pair, choose the best answer to each
9 question based on what is stated or
student and Miss Spivey as a dismissive and
implied in the passage or passages and in any accompanying graphics
In the passage, when(such
Missas a table
Spivey or
announces that she
disinterested teacher.
graph). had seen camels, the students’ reaction suggests that
D) demonstrate that the children want to amuse
Miss Spivey with their questions. they are
A) delighted.
Questions 1-9 are based on the following passage. B)Thefascinated.
real evils indeed of Emma’s situation were the
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anxious to start teaching and be in charge her
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placeown
hadclassroom.
been supplied by an excellent woman as prospect of a third to cheer a long evening. Her
governess, who had fallen little short of a mother in
D) Miss Spivey’s initial encounter with Dewey’s father composed himself to sleep after dinner, as
affection.
ideas was somewhat accidental but ultimately 45 usual, and she had then only to sit and think of what
15 Sixteen years had Miss Taylor been in
motivated her to decisive action. she had lost.
Mr. Woodhouse’s family, less as a governess than a The event had every promise of happiness for her
of Emma. Between them it was more the intimacy of character, easy fortune, suitable age and pleasant
20 the nominal office of governess, the mildness of her considering with what self-denying, generous
temper had hardly allowed her to impose any friendship she had always wished and promoted the
restraint; and the shadow of authority being now match; but it was a black morning’s work for her.
long passed away, they had been living together as The want of Miss Taylor would be felt every hour of
friend and friend very mutually attached, and Emma 55 every day. She recalled her past kindness—the
25 doing just what she liked; highly esteeming kindness, the affection of sixteen years—how she had
Miss Taylor’s judgment, but directed chiefly by taught and how she had played with her from five
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Reading Test
Questions 11-21 are based on the following passage
and supplementary material.
metastasize. It’s the history of suburban expansion.
Traffic congestion isn’t an environmental problem;
60 MINUTES,
This passage is adapted from David Owen, “Traffic Congestion 47 QUESTIONS traffic is. Relieving congestion without doing anything
Is Not an Environmental Problem” from The Conundrum. to reduce the total volume of cars can only make the
©2011 by David Owen. Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer 50 real problem worse. Highway engineers have known
the questions in this section.
for a long time that building new car lanes reduces
Building good transit isn’t a bad idea, but it can
congestion only temporarily, because the new lanes
actually backfire if the new trains and buses merely clear foster additional driving—a phenomenon called
space on highway lanes DIRECTIONS
for those who would prefer to induced traffic. Widening roads makes traffic move
Line drive—a group that, historically, has included almost 55 faster in the short term, but the improved conditions
5 everyone with access Each to passage
a car. To or have pair of passages below is followed by a number of questions. After reading
environmental eventually attract additional drivers and entice current
value, new transit has eachtopassage
replace and or pair, choosedriving
eliminate the best answer to each question based on what is stated or
drivers to drive more, and congestion reappears, but
on a scale sufficientimplied in the passage
to cut energy consumption or passages
overall. and in any accompanying graphics (such as a table or
with more cars—and that gets people thinking about
That means that a graph).new transit system has to be backed
widening roads again. Moving drivers out of cars and
up by something that impels complementary reductions 60 into other forms of transportation can have the same
10 in car use—say, the physical elimination of traffic lanes effect, if existing traffic lanes are kept in service: road
or the conversion of existing roadways into bike or bus
space begets road use.
Questions
lanes, ideally1-9 are based onwith
in combination thehigher
following passage.
fuel taxes, The real evils indeed of Emma’s situation were the
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the arguments
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parking fees, and tolls. Needless to say, those ideas are
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not popular. But they’re necessary, because you can’t disposition to think a little too well of herself; these
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place had been
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so, discourages theas prospect of a third to cheer a long evening. Her
governess, who
proliferation hadmore
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affection.
unless we made the congestion go away. If, in a mis- 45 usual, and she had then only to sit and think of what
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guided effortyears
to dohad Miss Taylor
something been in
of environmental value, she had lost.
Mr. Woodhouse’s family, less as a
municipalities take steps that make long-distance cargoverness than a The event had every promise of happiness for her
friend, very fond of both daughters,
commuting faster or more convenient—by adding lanes, but particularly friend. Mr. Weston was a man of unexceptionable
of Emma. Between them it was more
building bypasses, employing traffic-control measures the intimacy of character, easy fortune, suitable age and pleasant
sisters. Even before Miss Taylor had
that make it possible for existing roads to accommodate ceased to hold 50 manners; and there was some satisfaction in
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the nominal office of governess, the
more cars with fewer delays, replacing tollbooths with mildness of her considering with what self-denying, generous
temper had systems
radio-based hardly allowed
that don’t her to impose
require driversanyeven to friendship she had always wished and promoted the
restraint;
slow down—weand the shadow
actually make of authority
the sprawlbeing problemnow match; but it was a black morning’s work for her.
worse, by indirectly encouraging people to live stillas
long passed away, they had been living together The want of Miss Taylor would be felt every hour of
friend and
farther fromfriend very stores,
their jobs, mutually attached,
schools, and Emma
and doctors’ 55 every day. She recalled her past kindness—the
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doing just
offices, and what she liked;
by forcing highly esteeming
municipalities to further extend kindness, the affection of sixteen years—how she had
Miss Taylor’s judgment,
road networks, power grids, water but directed
lines,chiefly by civic
and other taught and how she had played with her from five
her own.
infrastructure. If you cut commuting time by 10%, years old—how she had devoted all her powers to
people who now drive fifty miles each way to work can attach and amuse her in health—and how nursed her
justify moving five miles farther out, because their travel 60 through the various illnesses of childhood. A large
45 time won’t change. This is how metropolitan areas

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Effect of Route Capacity Reduction in Selected Regions
Turn to Section
Vehicles1 per
of your
day onanswer sheet to Vehicles
altered road answerpertheday
questions in this
on surrounding section.
roads
Region Change in traffic*
Before alteration After alteration Before alteration After alteration
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Rathausplatz,
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each passage5,316
Southhampton or pair, choose the best answer to each
3,081 26,522question based on what is stated
24,101 or
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city center
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The main purpose of the passage is to Based on the passage, how would the author most
60 MINUTES, 47 QUESTIONS likely characterize many attempts to improve traffic?
A) provide support for the claim that efforts to
reduce traffic actually increase traffic. A) They are doomed to fail because most people like
Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the driving questions in thistosection.
too much change their habits.
B) dispute the widely held belief that building and
improving mass transit systems is good for the B) They overestimate how tolerant people are of
environment. long commutes.
DIRECTIONS
C) discuss the negative environmental consequences C) They are well intentioned but ultimately lead to
of car-focusedEach
development
passage or and suburban
pair sprawl.
of passages environmental
below is followed by a number harm. After reading
of questions.
D) argue that oneeach
way passage
to reduceorthe negative D) They will only work
pair, choose the best answer to each question based on what if they makeordriving more
is stated
environmental effects of traffic is to make driving economical and productive.
less agreeable.
graph).
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prospect of a third to cheer
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government funding than it previously did.
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recommendations are
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restraint; and the
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supported. match; but it was a black morning’s work for her.
long passed away,
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experts. The want of Miss Taylor would be felt every hour of
D) environmentally harmful in the short term.

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18 Reading Test 20
As used in line 66, “promotes” most nearly means Do the data in figure 1 support or weaken the
60 MINUTES, 47 QUESTIONS argument of the author of the passage, and why?
A) upgrades.
B) serves. A) Support, because the data show that merely
Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the moving
questions in this
drivers outsection.
of cars can induce traffic.
C) advocates.
D) develops. B) Support, because the data show that reducing
road capacity can lead to a net reduction in
DIRECTIONS traffic.
Each passage or pair of passages below is followed by C) a number
Weaken,of because the data
questions. show
After that in some
reading
19
cases road alterations lead to greater traffic on
According to figureeach passage
1, how manyor pair, choose
vehicles theonbest answer to each question based on what is stated or
traveled surrounding roads.
the altered road through the Southampton city center and in any accompanying
implied in the passage or passages graphics (such as a table or
D) Weaken, because the data show that traffic
graph).
per day before the route was altered? reductions due to road alterations tend to be
A) 3,081 brief.
B) 5,316
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Questions 22-32 are based on the following passage. sensory nerves, CT fibers could be found only in hairy
human skin—such as the forearm and thigh. No amount
This passage is adapted from Sabrina Richards’ article,
60 MINUTES,
“Pleasant to the Touch,” which was originally published in 47 QUESTIONS 45 of gentle stroking of hairless skin, such as the palms and
September 2012 by The Scientist magazine. ©2012 by Sabrina soles of the feet, prompted similar activity signatures.
Richards and The Scientist. Olausson and his colleagues decided that these fibers
must be conveying a different dimension of sensory
In the early 1990s, textbooks acknowledged that information than fast-conducting fibers.
humans had slow-conducting nerves, but asserted that 50 Although microneurography can give information
DIRECTIONS
those nerves only responded to two types of stimuli: about how a single nerve responds to gentle brushing
Line pain and temperature. Sensations of pressure and
Eachto passage or pair of passages below is followed andby pressure,
a number it cannot tease out
of questions. whatreading
After aspect of sensation
5 vibration were believed travel only along myelinated, that fiber relays, says Olausson. He wanted to know if that
fast-signaling nerveeach passage
fibers, which or pair,
also givechoose the best answer to each question based on what is stated or
information same slow nerve can distinguish where the brush touches
implied inblocking
about location. Experiments the passagenerveorfibers
passages and in any55accompanying graphics (such as a table or
the arm, and whether it can discern a difference between
supported this notion. Preventing fast fibers from firing
graph). a goat-hair brush and a feather. Most importantly, could
(either by clamping the relevant nerve or by injecting
that same fiber convey a pleasant sensation?
10 the local anesthetic lidocaine) seemed to eliminate the
sensation of pressure altogether, but blocking slow fibers To address the question, Olausson’s group sought out
Questions a patient
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only seemed 1-9 are based
to reduce on the
sensitivity tofollowing
warmth orpassage.
a small real evils indeed Emma’s situation were the
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indistinct remembrance of her caresses,
explains, means that the signal from a gentle touch on and her the researchers tried brushing her palm,
father and herself were left to dine together, with where CT fibers
no
place had been supplied by an excellent woman as are not found, she felt nothing.
prospect of a third to cheer a long evening. Her
the forearm will reach the brain about a half second later.
governess,
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she hadtolost.
activate CT fibers. In normal subjects, both
inMr. Woodhouse’s
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fibers, the somatosensory
The event hadand everyinsular
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of happiness for her
friend, very fond of both daughters,
already known to respond to touch, signal at a rate but particularly but only
friend. the
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man processes
of emotion,
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of Emma. Between
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character, researchers
easy fortune, brushed
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and This solidified
pleasant
sisters. Even before Miss Taylor had ceased to hold 50the notion that
manners; andCT fibers
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Then, in 1999, the group looked more closely at the
20 the nominal office of governess, the mildness of her quality of
consideringtouch, rather
with what than the conscious
self-denying, aspect
generous that
35 characteristics of the slow fibers. They named these
temper had hardly allowed her to impose any helps us describe
friendship she what
had we
always are sensing.
wished CT
and fibers,
promoted it the
“low-threshold” nerves “C-tactile,” or CT fibers, said
restraint; and the shadow of authority being now seemed,
match; specifically
but it was provide
a black pleasurablework
morning’s sensations.
for her.
Olausson, because of their “exquisite sensitivity” to slow,
gentle tactile stimulation, but unresponsiveness to
noxious stimuli like pinpricks.
40 ButTaylor’s
Miss why exactly humansbut
judgment, might have such
directed chieflyfibers,
by taught and how she had played with her from five
which respond only to a narrow range of rather subtle
stimuli, was initially mystifying. Unlike other types of

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22 Reading Test 26
Based on the passage, textbook authors in the early Which conclusion is best supported by the findings of
1990s would most60 likelyMINUTES,
have expected which 47 QUESTIONS Olausson’s 1993 experiment?
condition to result from the blocking of fast fibers?
A) Stimulation at bodily extremities can be sensed
Turnother
A) The rate at which to Section 1 of your
nerve fibers fired answer
would sheet to answer the as
questions
rapidly asinstimulation
this section.
closer to the brain.
increase. B) The presence of hairs in human skin lessens the
B) The test subject would perceive gentle stimuli as speed with which nerves conduct signals.
painful. DIRECTIONS
C) Gentle pressure is sensed not only by fast fibers
C) The body wouldEachcompensate
passage orbypair
using slow fibersbelow is followed by a number
of passages but also by
of slow fibers. After reading
questions.
sense pressure. D) The speed at which a nerve fires or
is dependent on
each passage or pair, choose the best answer to each question based on what is stated
D) The ability toimplied
perceiveinvibrations
the passage or passages and in any accompanying graphics (such as a table or the nerve.
would be the strength of pressure applied to
impaired.
graph).
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prospect a solution
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to cheer encountered
long evening. Her by
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governess, Olausson.
father composed himself to sleep after dinner, as
affection. C) anticipate
45 usual, and she had a potential
then onlycriticism of Olausson
to sit and think of by
what
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reader.
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eventa problem
had every from the perspective
promise of for her
of happiness
friend, very fond of both daughters, but particularly friend.Olausson’s
Mr. Weston team.
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sisters. Even before Miss Taylor had ceased to hold
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B) seize.
C) record.
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29 Reading Test 31
It can reasonably be inferred that one of the intended According to the passage, G.L. differed from
60 MINUTES,
goals of the 1999 experiment 47theQUESTIONS Olausson’s other test subjects in terms of the
was to determine
A) precise nature of sensations that CT fibers can A) number of cortices activated in the brain during
convey. Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the gentle
questions in this section.
brushing.
B) relationship between body hair and CT fiber B) physical dimensions of the somatosensory
function. cortex.
DIRECTIONS
C) role played by CT fibers in the perception of pain. C) intensity of nerve signals required to activate the
D) effect of microneurography
Each passage on CT fiber
or pair insular cortex.
of passages below is followed by a number of questions. After reading
signaling. each passage or pair, choose the best answer to each D)question
effect ofbased
MRI scanning onstated
on what is the basic
or function of
brain cortices.
graph).
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54-63) is to According to the passage, humans experience an
Questions 1-9 are based on the following passage. The real aspect
emotional evils indeed of when
of touch Emma’s situation were the
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A) identify those of G.L.’s neurological conditions power of having rather too much her own way, and a
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CO NTI N U E
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Reading Test
Questions 33-42 are based on the following passages. Passage 2
Passage 1 is an excerpt from Albert J. Beveridge’s Senate If it is right for the United States to hold the Philippine
60 ofMINUTES,
campaign speech, “March 4716QUESTIONS
the Flag,” on September th, 1898.
Islands permanently and imitate European empires in
Passage 2 is adapted from William Jennings Bryan’s speech, 40 the government of colonies, the Republican party ought
“The Paralyzing Influence of Imperialism,” which he delivered
Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer to state
the its position in
questions andthis
defend it, but it must expect the
section.
to attendees of the Democratic National Convention in Kansas subject races to protest against such a policy and to resist
City, Missouri, on August 8th, 1900. Beveridge’s speech helped
him win the election and become a Senator for Indiana, which to the extent of their ability.
ultimately made him one of the leading advocates of American
DIRECTIONS The Filipinos do not need any encouragement from
expansion. 45 Americans now living. Our whole history has been an
Each passage or pair of passages below is followed by a number not
encouragement of questions.
only to theAfter reading
Filipinos, but to all who
Passage 1 each passage or pair, choose the best answer to each are denied
question a voice
based in their
on what ownisgovernment.
stated or If the
Fellow-Citizens:implied in the
It is a noble passage
land or passages
that God has Republicans are
and in any accompanying prepared
graphics (suchto censure
as a table all or
who have used
graph).
given us; a land that can feed and clothe the world; a language calculated to make the Filipinos hate foreign
50 domination, let them condemn the speech of Patrick
land whose coast lines would enclose half the countries
Line of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two Henry. When he uttered that passionate appeal, “Give
5 imperial oceans of the globe; a greater England with a me liberty or give me death,” he exprest a sentiment
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human heartlost.the love of liberty. He never made a race of
Think of the thousands of Americans who will pour
Mr. Woodhouse’s family, less as a governess than a people so low inhad
The event the every
scale of promise of happiness
civilization for her
or intelligence
25 into Hawaii and Porto Rico when the Republic’s laws
friend, very fond of both daughters, but particularly friend. Mr. Weston was
that it would welcome a foreign master. a man of unexceptionable
cover those islands with justice and safety! Think of the
of Emma. Between them it was more the intimacy of character, easy fortune,
tens of thousands of Americans who will invade… the Those who would have suitable
this Nation ageenter
and pleasant
upon a
Philippines when a liberal government… shall establish 75 career of empire must consider, not only the effect of
order and equity there! Think of the hundreds of imperialism on the Filipinos, but they must also calculate
temper had hardly allowed her to impose any
30 thousands of Americans who will build a… civilization itsfriendship
effects upon sheour hadown always wished
nation. and promoted
We cannot repudiatethe the
restraint; and the shadow of authority being now match; but it was a black morning’s work forwithout
her.
of energy and industry in Cuba, when a government of principle of self-government in the Philippines
long passed away, they had been living together as The want that of Miss Taylor would be felt every hour of
law replaces the double reign of anarchy and tyranny!— weakening principle here.
think of the prosperous millions that Empress of Islands
will support when, obedient to the law of political
35 gravitation, her people ask for the highest honor liberty
can bestow, the sacred Order of the Stars and Stripes,
the citizenship of the Great Republic! attach and amuse her in health—and how nursed her

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33 Reading Test 37
In Passage 1, Beveridge asserts that the resources and Which choice provides the best evidence for the
60 MINUTES,
immensity of the United States constitute a47 QUESTIONS answer to the previous question?
A) safeguard against foreign invasion. A) Lines 47-51 (“If the… Henry”)
B) replication of conditions in Europe. B) Lines 65-66 (“It goes… influence”)
C) divine gift to the American people. C) Lines 71-73 (“He never… master”)
D) source of envyDIRECTIONS
for people in other countries. D) Lines 74-77 (“Those… nation”)
34 each passage or pair, choose the best answer to 38 each question based on what is stated or
implied in the passage or passages
In the second paragraph of Passage 1 (lines 24-37), and in any accompanying
As used in graphics (such as amost
line 76, “calculate” tablenearly
or means
graph).
the commands given by Beveridge mainly serve to
A) evaluate.
A) remind the audience of its civic responsibilities. B) design.
B) anticipate the benefits of a proposed policy. C) assume.
Questions
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the urgency of the following
a national passage.
problem. D)Themultiply.
real evils indeed of Emma’s situation were the
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governess, who hadinferred fromshort
fallen little Passage
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that in
Bryan considers the preference for national
father composed himself to sleep after dinner, as
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Sixteen years had Miss ruleTaylor
to be abeen in
she had lost.
Mr.
A) Woodhouse’s
reaction to the family,
excessesless as a governess
of imperial than a
governments The event had every promise of happiness for her
friend, verymodern
in the fond ofera.both daughters, but particularly friend. Mr. Weston was a man of unexceptionable
of
B) Emma. Between
sign that them
the belief in it was more
human the is
equality intimacy of character, easy fortune, suitable age and pleasant
sisters. Even before Miss Taylor had ceased to hold
widespread. 50 manners; and there was some satisfaction in
C) testament to the effects of the foreign policy of
temper
the had hardly
United allowed her to impose any
States. friendship she had always wished and promoted the
D) manifestation of an innate drive in humans
toward self-rule.

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40 Reading Test 41
Which choice describes a central difference between It can most reasonably be inferred from Passage 2
60 MINUTES,
how Beveridge (Passage 1) and Bryan (Passage 472)QUESTIONS that Bryan would criticize the vision of American
view the concept of liberty as it is realized in the governance of island territories that Beveridge
United States? Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answerpresents in Passage
the questions 1 forsection.
in this being
A) Beveridge presents it as the direct inheritance of A) unrealistic, since most Americans would be
European colonization, whereas Bryan presents unwilling to relocate to distant islands.
DIRECTIONS
it as a sharp break from earlier governments in B) deceptive, since economic domination would be
Europe. the true goal of the American government.
B) Beveridge considers it so exemplary as to justify C) impractical, since the islanders would insist
eachregions,
conquest of other passagewhereas
or pair, Bryan
choosewarns
the best answer to each question based on what is stated or
upon an equal distribution of resources.
implied
that its exemplary in the
quality passage
would or passages and in any accompanying graphics (such as a table or
be undermined D) naive, since the islanders would object to being
graph).
by imperial expansion. governed by Americans.
C) Beveridge argues that it arose organically as the
United States matured, whereas Bryan argues
that it was present from the country’s beginnings.
Questions 1-9 are based on the following passage. 42 The real evils indeed of Emma’s situation were the
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D) Beveridge regards it as a model that should be power

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and supplementary material.
Reading Test
Questions 43-52 are based on the following passage Hartmann says that he was very skeptical when he
first came up with this idea because he assumed that such
45
This passage is an excerpt60 from MINUTES,

an essay by Peter47 QUESTIONSa simple method of weed control as plowing at nighttime
A. Ensminger,
“Control of Weeds by Plowing at Night,” from his collection of must be ineffective or it would have been discovered long
essays Life Under The TurnSun. ©2001 by Peter A. Ensminger and
to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer
ago. But the subsequent experiments, first presented at a
the questions in this section.
Yale University Press. 50 1989 scientific meeting in Freiburg, Germany, clearly
demonstrated that the method can be effective.
Many millennia before the invention of herbicides, Hartmann tested his idea by plowing two agricultural
farmers simply plowed DIRECTIONS
their fields to control weeds. Even strips near Altershausen, Germany. The farmer Karl
today, plowing can constitute a valuable part of an integrated Seydel
Line weed-management Each program.passage or pairplowing
Although of passages
kills below is followed by acultivated
number of one strip, repeated
questions. threefold, at around
After reading
55 midday and the other strip at night. No crops were
5 standing weeds, farmers each passage
have longorknown pair, choose the best answer to each question based on what is stated or
that it often planted in these pilot experiments, to avoid possible
leads to the emergence of new weed seedlings in a few and in any accompanying
implied in the passage or passages graphics (such as a table or
competition with the emerging weeds. The results were
weeks. graph). dramatic. More than 80 percent of the surface of the field
Ecologists have shown that a farmer’s field can have plowed in daylight was covered by weeds, whereas only
50,000 or more weed seeds per square meter buried 60 about 2 percent of the field plowed at night was covered
10 beneath the soil surface. Plant physiologists have shown by weeds.
Questions 1-9 are based
than on theonefollowing passage. The real evils indeed of Emma’s situation were the
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that seeds buried more about centimeter below This method of rather
weed control is currently
the soil surface do not receive enough light to germinate. power of having too much her ownbeingway,usedand a
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greenhouse. For
The wedding over and theNumber bride-people gone,
of emerged her
seedlings
indistinct of nine of the tenand
her caresses, pairs
herof soil father and herself were left to dine
in together,
soil disturbed with
in no
25 samples, weed growth was greater in the samples stirred
up in light. They
governess, whoconcluded
had fallenthat littlesoil disturbance
short of a mother givesin Sample Source ofhimself
soil light after dinner, darkness
weed seeds a “light break, ” and this stimulates their
father composed to sleep as
affection. 45 usual,
A and she
deciduous had then
woods only to
4 sit and think 0of what
15
germination.
Sixteen years had Miss Taylor been in she had lost.
Mr.More recently, Karl
Woodhouse’s Hartmann
family, less asofa Erlangen
governessUniversity
than a B deciduous woods
The event had every promise 2
of happiness1 for her
30 infriend,
Germany reasoned that when farmers
very fond of both daughters, but particularly plowed their friend.
C Mr. Weston
deciduous was a man6 of unexceptionable
woods 2
fields duringBetween
of Emma. the day, the
them buried
it wasweedmore seeds
the are brieflyof
intimacy character, easy fortune, suitable age and pleasant
exposed
sisters. to
Even sunlight
beforeasMiss
the soil is turned
Taylor over, and
had ceased to that
hold D conifer plantation 8 3
50 manners; and there was some satisfaction in
this stimulates their germination. Although
20 the nominal office of governess, the mildness of her the light E conifer plantation 2 1
considering with what self-denying, generous
exposures
temper had from plowing
hardly may be
allowed herless
to than
impose oneanymillisecond,
friendship
F she had always
tall-grass prairie wished 5 and promoted
1 the
35 that can be and
restraint; enough
the to induceofseed
shadow germination.
authority being now Thus the
match; but it was a black morning’s work for her.
germination
long passedofaway, weedthey
seedshad would
beenbeliving
minimized
togetherif farmers
as G want of oldMiss
pasture 0 be felt every 2hour of
The Taylor would
simply
friendplowed
and friendtheirvery
fieldsmutually
during the night, when
attached, and Emmathe
55 every
H day. She recalled her past
old pasture 2 kindness—the 1
25photon
doing fluence
just what rate (the
she rate highly
liked; at which photons hit the
esteeming kindness, the affection of sixteen years—how she had
surface) is belowjudgment,
1015 photons but per square meterby per I
Miss Taylor’s directed chiefly taught and muck
how she field had played 14 with her from 2 five
40 second. Although even under these conditions hundreds
her own. years
J old—how muck she fieldhad devoted 5 all her powers 3 to
of millions of photons strike each square millimeter of
ground each second, this illumination is below the
threshold needed to stimulate the germination of most
seeds.

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43 Reading Test 47
According to the passage, exposure to light allows The passage suggests that if Seydel had planted wheat
seeds to 60 MINUTES, 47 QUESTIONS or corn on the two agricultural strips in Hartmann’s
experiment, the percentage of the surface of each
A) begin to develop.
Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answerstrip covered with
the questions inweeds would likely have been
this section.
B) absorb necessary nutrients.
C) withstand extreme temperatures. A) lower than the percentage that Hartmann found.
D) achieve maximum growth. B) higher than the percentage that Hartmann had
DIRECTIONS predicted.
C) a number
Each passage or pair of passages below is followed by nearly impossible for Hartmann
of questions. to determine.
After reading
44 each passage or pair, choose the best answer to each question based on what is stated or projection.
D) comparable to Hartmann’s original
The question in theimplied

secondinparagraph
the passage or13-16)
(lines passages and in any accompanying graphics (such as a table or
primarily serves tograph).
48
A) emphasize the provisional nature of the findings
Which choice provides the best evidence for the
discussed in the passage.
answer to the previous question?
B) introduce
Questions 1-9the
arespecific
basedresearch topic addressed
on the following passage. The real evils indeed of Emma’s situation were the
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in the passage. A) Lines

power 52-55rather
of having (“Hartmann…
too muchnight”)
her own way, and a
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B) Lines 55-57
30 disposition (“No
to think crops…
a little too weeds”)
well of herself; these
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D)
placestimulated.
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15
Which
friend, choice bestof
very fond supports the idea that
both daughters, butseeds
particularly
present in the fields plowed at night are exposed to of
friend. Mr. Weston was a man of unexceptionable
of Emma. Between them it was more the intimacy character, easy fortune, suitable age and pleasant
some amount of light?
the nominal
20 A) Lines 29-33office of governess,
(“More… the mildness of her
germination”) considering with what self-denying, generous
temper
B) Lineshad hardly
33-35 allowed her
(“Although… to impose any
germination”) friendship she had always wished and promoted the
restraint;
C) Lines and
40-44 the(“Although…
shadow of authority
seeds”) being now match; but it was a black morning’s work for her.
D) Lines 45-49 (“Hartmann… ago”)

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50 Reading Test 52
According to the table, in which soil sample disturbed The data presented in the table most directly support
46 in darkness did the60 MINUTES,
fewest number of seedlings47 QUESTIONS 47 which claim from the passage?
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emerge?
How would the authors of Passage 2 most likely A) Lines
Which choice1-2 (“Many…
would weeds”) the claim that the
best support
A) Sample A Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.
respond to the “prospect” referred to in line 21, B) Lines
authors 8-10 (“Ecologists…
of Passage 2 recognize that surface”)
the “imagination
B) Sample
Passage 1? B soars”
C) (line
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(“Plant… response to
C) With
A) Sample C
approval, because it illustrates how useful de-extinction technology?
D) Lines 35-40 (“Thus… second”)
DIRECTIONS
D) de-extinction
Sample D could be in addressing widespread A) Lines 28-30 (“The . . . news”)
environmentalEachconcerns.
passage or pair of passages below is followed B)byLines
a number
30-33of(“Yet
questions. After reading
. . . crisis”)
eachbecause
B) With resignation, passagethe or gradual
pair, choose the best answer to each
extinction question based on what is stated or
C) Lines 58-59 (“That . . . altogether”)
51 of many livingimplied
speciesinis the
inevitable.
passage or passages and in any accompanying graphics (such as a table or
D) Lines 61-63 (“For . . . diversity”)
As presented
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in the table, which
because sample
it implies anproduced
easy the
most seedlings
solution to awhen the soil
difficult was disturbed in light?
problem.
D)
A) With
Sampledisdain,
G because it shows that people have
little understanding
B) Sample1-9
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thethe
importance ofpassage.
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diversity. power of having rather too much her own way, and a
C) passage
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STOP
kindness, the affection of sixteen years—how she had
If you finish before time is called, you may check your
attach workher
and amuse oninthis section
health—and howonly.
nursed her
Do not turn to any other section.

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Writing and Language Test
DIRECTIONS
Each passage below is accompanied by a number of questions. For some questions, you
will consider how the passage might be revised to improve the expression of ideas. For
other questions, you will consider how the passage might be edited to correct errors in
sentence structure, usage, or punctuation. A passage or a question may be accompanied by
one or more graphics (such as a table or graph) that you will consider as you make revising
and editing decisions.
Some questions will direct you to an underlined portion of a passage. Other questions will
direct you to a location in a passage or ask you to think about the passage as a whole.
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30 Having four feet, quadrupedal marsupials in the
Which choice provides the best transition from the
study did not show a strong preference for the use of one B)previous
main things leading up to
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forelimb. For instance, gray short-tailed opossums and sugar C)A) huge
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Like most ofmammals,
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among quadrupedal
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employees who sleep on the job are
C)Which
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choice presents a main claim of the passage?
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workplace has been shown to improve workers’ efficiency B) For the marsupials in the study, then, handedness
to the extent that humans do. As the researchers noted, the
seems to be associated with bipedalism.
quadrupeds typically live in trees and employ all four limbs C) There are many things scientists do not
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32 whom handedness may confer an evolutionary A) NO CHANGE
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minority of humans who are left handed.
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Questions 34-44 are based on the following passage.
Which choice provides the most effective transition
An Employee Benefit That Benefits Employers B)from
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sentence
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provide tuition assistance to employees pursuing an
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undergraduate degree, and 50 percent do so for employees 35C) spends
working toward a graduate degree. 34 Despite these findings, D)Which choice most effectively establishes the main
are spent
workplace has been shown to improve workers’ efficiency idea of the passage?
more companies should consider helping employees pay for A) NO CHANGE
and quality of life. [5] As long as companies continue to 4 B) solve the problem of rising tuition costs
education because doing so helps 35 increase customer
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business community concur. Explaining his company’s
A) NO CHANGE
decision to expand its tuition-assistance program, John Fox, B)B) main things leading up to
sleep deprivation in a demanding work environment, stressed
the director of dealer training at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles C)C) huge things about
stressing
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in the United States, 37 who stressed the importance of
drawing skilled employees to Fiat Chrysler's car dealerships:
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38 employees. Retaining employees is important not only
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40 (UTC) is a significant success story for her company's B)B) main things leading up to
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workers can study. Even with these methods, tuition
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46 deprivation in a demanding work environment,
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of many living species is inevitable. C) spends
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If you finish before time is called, you may check your work on this section only.

3 3
Math Test – No Calculator
For questions 1-15, solve each problem, choose the best answer from the choices
provided, and fill in the corresponding circle on your answer sheet. For questions 16-20,
solve the problem and enter your answer in the grid on the answer sheet. Please refer to
the directions before question 16 on how to enter your answers in the grid. You may use
any available space in your test booklet for scratch work.
1. The use of a calculator is not permitted.

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34 CO NTI N U E
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A babysitter earns $8 an hour for babysitting 1 1
2z + 1= z$3 tip when both
2 children and an additional x − yCharges
Shipping = 10
2 4
children are put to bed on time. If the babysitter gets 1 1
What value of z satisfies the equation above? x − yShipping
Merchandise weight = 19 charge
the children to bed on time, what expression could
be (pounds) 8 8 ($)
A) used
–2 to determine how much the babysitter
earned? Which ordered5pair (x, y ) satisfies the system of
16.94
B) –1 equations above?
A) 8x + 3, where x is the number of hours 10 21.89
1
C) 3x + 8, where x is the number of hours
B) 20 31.79
2 A) (−112, −264)
40 51.59
D) x(8
C) 1 + 2) + 3, where x is the number of children
D) 3x + (8 + 2), where x is the number of children
B)The(64,
table
88)above shows shipping charges for an online
retailer that sells sporting goods. There is a linear
relationship
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 the shipping charge and the
C)weight 
 of, the merchandise. Which function can be
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2 children and an additional $3 tip when both x − 2 y = 10
2 9x4
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x − y =is19equivalent to the
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B) 3x2
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relationship between the height h(x), in feet, and the
base diameter x, in feet, for cylindrical Doric columns
 232 224 
in ancient Greek architecture. How much greater is C)  , 
 3 3 
the height of a Doric column that has a base diameter
of 5 feet than the height of a Doric column that has
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the children to bed on time, what expression could x− y = 19
8 8
equations above?
B) 3x + 8, where x is the number of hours A) (−112, −264)
C) x(8 + 2)
The graph of +
y =3,f where x is the
(x) is shown number
in the of children
xy-plane. What
is the3xvalue
D) + (8 of
+ 2) , where x is the number of children
f (0)?
B) (64, 88)
A) 0
B) 2  232 224 
C)  , 
C) 3
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2 children and an additional $3 tip when both x− y = 10
2 4
the children to bed on time, what expression could x− y = 19
8 8
equations above?
B) 3x + 8, where x is the number of hours A) (−112, −264)
C) x(8 + 2) + 3, where x is the number of children
2
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children
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of k?
 232 224 
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the xy-plane,
2Inchildren theadditional
and an graph of the
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children 2 are put to bed on time. If the babysitter gets
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In 2015 the
charges populations
a monthly fee ofof$5.00
City Xand
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per hour for Survey Results
time
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2015, the games.
populationWhich of the
of City X 6
following functions Answer Percent
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dollars, for a 5
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increased by the population Y
month in which she spends x hours playing Never 31.3%
decreased by 10%. If the population of City X was 4
premium games?
120,000 in 2010, what was the population of City Y 3 Rarely 24.3%
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content for free. Based on the table, which of the
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answered “Always,
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The maximum
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$0.25 per hour for The first year Eleanor organized a fund-raising event,
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26 6
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following functions gives Tyra’s cost, in
96dollars,
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positive integers is created by including invited
original data set. Which of the following measures the previous
4 year. If f(n) is the number of people
premium games?
must be 12 greater for the new data set than for the invited
3 to the fund-raiser n years after Eleanor began
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Month
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charges a monthly fee of $5.00 and $0.25 per hour for
x y 6
time spent playing premium games. Which of the
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a Tyra’s
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premium games?
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D) C(x ) = 5 + 25x
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relationship?
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of $5.00 2
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following functions gives Tyra’s cost, in dollars, for a 5 on the equation above, what is the value of
Rainfall (inches)
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xy-plane. What
premium games? is the x-coordinate of the intersection 3x – 42?
point (x, y) of the system? 3
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charges a monthly = (xof+$5.00
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following f is defined
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5
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integer, which of the following could represent the height H, in inches, of an adult male based on the
4
premium
graph of y games?
= f (x) in the xy-plane? length L, in inches, of his femur. What is the meaning
3 in this context?
of 1.88
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1
man with a height of 32.01 inches.
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Apr May increase
Jun inJula man’s
Aug femur
Sep Oct
D) C(x ) = 5 + 25x length, in inches, for each increase of 32.01
Month
inches in his height.
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length, in above
inches,shows theone-inch
for each monthlyincrease
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his height.
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charges
Lynne has a monthly fee of on
$8.00 to spend $5.00 andand
apples $0.25 per hour for
oranges. 700, 1200, 1600, 2000, x
Apples cost $0.65 each, and oranges cost $0.75 each. If
following functions gives Tyra’s cost, in dollars, for a If the5 mean of the five numbers above is 1600, what is
Rainfall (inches)
there is in
month nowhich
tax onshe
thisspends
purchasex and sheplaying
hours buys 5 apples,
the value
4 of x?
what is thegames?
premium maximum number of whole oranges she
can buy? 3
A) C(x ) = 5.25x
2
B) C(x ) = 5x + 0.25 1
C) C(x ) = 5 + 0.25x 0
D) C(x ) = 5 + 25x
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charges a monthlya(xfee
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4
premium games?
the value of b? what is the value of c?
3
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formaximum old or a 15 year old to NOT have a
14 through 17 in the United States was conducted of
time spent playing premium games. Which to the half a6 mileheight
to catch toprey,
the nearest
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This passage is from Lydia Minatoya, The Strangeness of

who was a medical doctor from Nashville, Tennessee.

Beauty. ©1999 by Lydia Minatoya. The setting is Japan in

black cap in one, a yellow oil-paper umbrella in the

1920. Chie and her daughter Naomi are members of the

other—Chie glanced beyond him. In the glistening

House of Fuji, a noble family.

surface of the courtyard’s rain-drenched paving

When my little brother Ralphord asked what did she

study at Barnyard College, Miss Spivey explained that

that it? Had he followed form—had he asked his

mother to speak tobootshis father tofor

pair of thick-soled suitable but I come with a matter of urgency.”

sister school of Columbia University, of which, she

go-between—would Chie have been morethereceptive?

blue dress, and a little white tam that rode waves

He came on a winter’s eve. He pounded on was

55 stole a deferential peek at her face.

of her red hair at a gravity-defying angle. August

door while a cold rain beat on the shuttered veranda, InItthe

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This “And canisyou

Miss Spivey asked. We could not. “Camels!” she said.

were theis superior to them.which threatened alloy to her

“We saw a whole caravanhandsome,

Emma Woodhouse, and rich,

D) resentment, they feel

80 around the room, waiting for us to be amazed and

with a comfortable home and happy disposition,

present so unperceived, that they did not by any

minimizing their discomfort.

seemed some of the best blessings of

means rank as misfortunes with her.

Sorrow came—a gentle sorrow—but not at

Mavis Davis spoke

5 the world with little to distress or vex her.

all in the shape of any disagreeable

consciousness.—Miss Taylor married. It was

Miss Taylor’s first brought grief.

the wedding-day beloved friend that Emma

his house from amade

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This passage is adapted from Jane Austen, Emma, originally

In the third paragraph, what is the narrator most 30 D) worried.

were the disadvantages which threatened alloy to her

likely suggesting by describing Miss Spivey as having

“wandered” (line 39) in one situation and

with a comfortable home and happy disposition,

present so unperceived, that they did not by any

“marched” (line 47) in another situation?

seemed to unite some of the best blessings of

means rank as misfortunes with her.

Line Sorrow came—a gentle

5 shape of any disagreeable

most affectionate, indulgent

B) Lines 82-83 (“We all… up”)

his house from amost

the poorest, of America. 40 first in mournful thought of any continuance.

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65 relieving automobile congestion, will improve the lives

of those who continue Thetodanger,

transit scheme by arguing that it would make traveling