The Reading Comprehension section tests your ability to read and comprehend both academic and non-academic texts.After you read each passage, read the questions that follow it and the four possible answers. Choose the best answer by filling in the space — see sample answer below — that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen.Print the to respond to the numbered sample questions below. If you do not have access to a printer, you can use a sheet of blank paper to write down your answers.
A link to the answer key is included at the end of the sample questions. Sample: Reading Comprehension Questions Questions 1–4 are about the following announcement.
Student Volunteers Needed!On Saturday, December 12th, from 10 A.M. Until 4 P.M., Carverton Middle School will be holding a music festival in the school gymnasium. The special event will feature a variety of professional musicians and singers. TaskTimeDateMake posters1 P.M.–4 P.M.December 5thSet up gym11 A.M.–4 P.M.December 11thHelp performers9 A.M.–4 P.M.December 12thWelcome guests10 A.M.–2 P.M.December 12thClean up gym4 P.M.–7 P.M.December 12thInterested students should speak with Ms. Braxton, the music teacher. Students who would like to help at the festival must have written permission from a parent or guardian. What time will the festival begin?.
10 A.M. 11 A.M. 1 P.M. 2 P.M. In line 3, the word feature is closest in meaning to.
look. keep. include. entertain. What job will be done the day before the festival begins?. Making posters. Setting up the gym.
Cleaning up the gym. Helping the performers. Who is told to talk to Ms. Braxton?. Parents. Students.
Teachers. PerformersQuestions 5–11 refer to the following story.
'Did you see that?' Joe said to his friend Bill. 'You're a great shooter!' .
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Bill caught the basketball and bounced it before. throwing it again.
The ball flew into the net. 'Bill, you never miss!' Joe said admiringly. 'Unless I'm in a real game,' Bill complained. 'Then I miss all the time.' . Joe knew that Bill was right.
Bill performed much. better when he was having fun with Joe in the school.
yard than he did when he was playing for the school. team in front of a large crowd.
'Maybe you just need to practice more,' Joe suggested. 'But I practice all the time with you!'
Bill objected. He shook his head. 'I just can't play well when people are.
watching me.' . 'You play well when I'm watching,' Joe pointed out.
'That's because I've known you since we were five. years old,' Bill said with a smile. 'I'm just not. comfortable playing when other people are around.' . Joe nodded and understood, but he also had an idea. The next day Joe and Bill met in the school yard again.
to practice. After a few minutes, Joe excused himself. 'Practice without me,' Joe said to his friend. 'I'll be. back in a minute.'
. Joe hurried through the school building, gathering. together whomever he could find—two students, a math. teacher, two secretaries, and a janitor. When Joe explained. why he needed them, everyone was happy to help. Joe reminded the group to stay quiet as they all went.
toward the school's basketball court. As Joe had hoped,. Bill was still practicing basketball. He made five. baskets in a row without noticing the silent people. standing behind him. 'Hey, Bill!'
Joe called out finally. Bill turned. A look of surprise came over his face. 'I just wanted to show you that you could play well. with people watching you,' Joe said. 'Now you'll have. nothing to worry about for the next game!'
. When another old cave is discovered in the south of. France, it is not usually news.
Rather, it. is an ordinary event. Such discoveries are so frequent. these days that hardly anybody pays heed to them.
However, when the Lascaux cave complex was. discovered in 1940, the world was amazed.
Painted. directly on its walls were hundreds of scenes showing. how people lived thousands of years ago. The scenes. show people hunting animals, such as bison or wild.
cats. Other images depict birds and, most noticeably,.
horses, which appear in more than 300 wall images,. by far outnumbering all other animals. Early artists drawing these animals accomplished. a monumental and difficult task. They did not limit. themselves to the easily accessible walls but carried.
their painting materials to spaces that required climbing. steep walls or crawling into narrow passages in the. Lascaux complex. Unfortunately, the paintings have. been exposed to the destructive action of water and. temperature changes, which easily wear the images.
away. Because the Lascaux caves have many. entrances, air movement has also damaged the. images inside. Although they are not out in the. open air, where natural light would have destroyed.
them long ago, many of the images have deteriorated. and are barely recognizable. To prevent further.
damage, the site was closed to tourists in 1963,. 23 years after it was discovered.