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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 an excerpt from Henry James’s short story “The Pupil.”

In this section, Pemberton, the young British tutor, describes some of the hasty

trips around Europe during which he came to know his pupil, Morgan Moreen,

and Morgan’s family.

A year after he had come to live with

them Mr. and Mrs. Moreen suddenly gave

up the villa at Nice. Pemberton had got used

lineto suddenness, having seen it practiced on

(5)a considerable scale during two jerky little

tours—one in Switzerland the first summer,

and the other late in the winter, when they

all ran down to Florence and then, at the

end of ten days, liking it much less than they

(10)had intended, straggled back in mysterious

depression. They had returned to Nice “for

ever,” as they said; but this didn’t prevent

their squeezing, one rainy muggy May night,

into a second-class railway-carriage—you

(15)could never tell by which class they would

travel—where Pemberton helped them to

stow away a wonderful collection of bundles

and bags. The explanation of this maneuver

was that they had determined to spend the

(20)summer “in some bracing place”; but in

Paris they dropped into a small furnished

apartment—a fourth floor in a third-rate

avenue, where there was a smell on the