Reading Practice Test 3

Each question has a few answer choices. Choose the best answer for each question. At the end of the quiz, you will see your results.

1. DIRECTIONS: Read each passage and identify how the information is being organized.A butterfly is an insect with two pairs of large wings. The wings are covered with tiny scales, which usually have bright colors. When a butterfly is at rest, these wings are usually pressed together and held straight up from the butterfly’s back. Butterflies only fly during the day. They have antennae, and they use a long tube called a proboscis to drink nectar from flowers.
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2. Which word/phrase in the sentence below is redundant and can be removed without changing the meaning of the sentence?If you want to become better at calculus, you should start by reviewing the basic fundamentals of mathematics.
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3. DIRECTIONS: Identify the structure of each passage. After laying only a single egg, the female penguin heads out to sea and stays there until it is almost time for the egg to hatch. The male penguin incubates the egg, carrying it between his legs and under his feathers to keep it warm. Just before it is time for the egg to hatch, the female returns to land.
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4. DIRECTIONS: Read each passage and identify how the information is being organized.If you feel tired all the time, have trouble concentrating, or just feel depressed, it may be because you’re not getting enough or the proper nutrients. Making positive changes in your diet can give you energy, help you focus, and put you in a better mood.

 

 
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5. Which word/phrase in the sentence below is redundant and can be removed without changing the meaning of the sentence?The couple's abrupt decision to elope was sudden and surprised their families.
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6. Read the text and answer the question.In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than in mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe.
Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation" - a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.
Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort?
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shank from this responsibility - I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it -- and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.

How does JFK craft his approach to make it appeal to all citizens?
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7. DIRECTIONS: Read each passage and identify how the information is being organized.Whole foods are foods the way that they are found in nature. Processed foods are foods that man has changed to make them more convenient. When foods are processed, nutrients and fiber are lost. So are healthy fats. In their place, bad fats, bad carbohydrates, and lots of sugars are added, making the foods unhealthy.

 

 
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8. Which word/phrase in the sentence below is redundant and can be removed without changing the meaning of the sentence?After receiving two different results, the students decided to repeat the experiment again to hopefully find some consistency among them.
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9. Which word/phrase in the sentence below is redundant and can be removed without changing the meaning of the sentence?The restaurant's accountants determined that there might have possibly been a breach of security involving the restaurant's payment portal.
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10. Occasional drug use during the teenage years causes problems in the adult years. Many adults who responded that they used drugs occasionally as teenagers also noted a lapse in short-term memory.                    , the same adults noted that the lapse in short-term memory did not start during their teen years.

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