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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: Following each of the passages (or pairs of passages) below are questions about the

passage (or passages). Read each passage carefully. Then, select the best answer for each question

based on what is stated in the passage (or passages) and in any graphics that may accompany the

passage.

Questions 1–11 are based on the following passage.

The following passage is taken from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. In

it, the hero, Pip, recollects a dismal period in his youth during which he for a

time lost hope of ever bettering his fortunes.

It is a most miserable thing to feel

ashamed of home. There may be black

ingratitude in the thing, and the punishment

Linemay be retributive and well deserved; but,

(5)that it is a miserable thing, I can testify.

Home had never been a very pleasant place

to me, because of my sister’s temper. But Joe

had sanctified it and I believed in it. I had

believed in the best parlor as a most elegant

(10)salon; I had believed in the front door as

a mysterious portal of the Temple of State

whose solemn opening was attended with a

sacrifice of roast fowls; I had believed in the

kitchen as a chaste though not magnificent

(15)apartment; I had believed in the forge as the

glowing road to manhood. Now, it was all

coarse and common, and I would not have

had Miss Havisham and Estella see it on any

account.

Once, it had seemed to me that when I

(20)should at last roll up my shirt sleeves and

go into the forge, Joe’s ‘prentice’ I should be

distinguished and happy. Now the reality

was in my hold, I only felt that I was dusty

(25)with the dust of small coal, and th