Reading Practice Test 1

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. Which word/phrase in the sentence below is redundant and can be removed without changing the meaning of the sentence?After a traumatic event, children often revert back to behaviors they exhibited as babies.
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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?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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3. Which word/phrase in the sentence below is redundant and can be removed without changing the meaning of the sentence?As you prepare the newspaper, please ensure that the captions are aligned in a straight line underneath each photo.
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4. 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.

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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 high school asked female students to submit pictures of the dresses they planned to wear to prom to ensure no students had the same identical dresses.
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6. Choose the main idea sentence in the paragraph below.For centuries, people have had different ways of trying to cure their hiccups. Many people drink water to get rid of their hiccups. Other people hold their breath until their hiccups go away. Some people even have their friends or their family spook them to scare away the hiccups. What are some ways that you know of to rid of your hiccups?
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7. 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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8. Read the following text and answer the following question.There are many different ways to prepare hot chocolate. One way is to heat water until it starts boiling. Be careful so you do not burn your hand. Add the cocoa to your water and stir until it mixes. Then you can add a splash of milk for taste and to help cool it down a little. `Adding marshmallows gives it a creamy taste and it is fun to drink the half melted ones. Marshmallows melt quickly, so be sure to add a few extra. The hot chocolate treat is delicious.

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9. 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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10. Read the following text and answer the following question.Jonathon was born with a gift and creativity for art. As a little boy, he would draw and color for hours. He tried to teach his older sisters how to see the shapes within objects to help them with their sketches. Even now as an adult, Jonathon always carries a sketch pad with him everywhere he goes.

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