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100 Hardest Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions

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Reading Comprehension Question Directory Topic Difficulty

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GMAT Club RC mega thread - 2024 Edition

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25 Jun 2023, 06:21

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03 Oct 2024, 13:14

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Through years of excavations and careful analysis of her finds around

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13 Mar 2023, 06:00

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03 Dec 2024, 16:28

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The path a historical novelist has to tread is clearly beset by danger

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20 Mar 2023, 20:30

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03 Dec 2024, 14:33

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Companies that sell soap, perfume, candy bars, and other consumer

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02 Jan 2024, 12:43

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03 Dec 2024, 11:43

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For bird species in which females are the sole incubators, a male can

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10 Mar 2024, 05:41

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03 Dec 2024, 10:16

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The issue of women, art, and feminism has been most urgently raised by

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Sajjad1994

07 Feb 2022, 23:00

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by: einstein801

03 Dec 2024, 02:16

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According to government data, more than 50 percent of adults in the US

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22 Mar 2022, 07:30

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03 Dec 2024, 01:59

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Comparable worth, as a standard applied to eliminate inequities in pay

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17 May 2012, 00:25

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02 Dec 2024, 23:20

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Animal signals, such as the complex songs of birds, tend to be costly.

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06 Jul 2022, 22:33

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02 Dec 2024, 11:57

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Chinese is a language of many distinct dialects that are often mutual

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06 Mar 2023, 21:00

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02 Dec 2024, 01:13

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In exploring the role of women during colonial times, historiographers

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12 May 2015, 21:35

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02 Dec 2024, 00:21

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Competition to make computer chips smaller and, consequently, faster a

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23 Mar 2023, 07:00

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01 Dec 2024, 22:59

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Authors (particularly sensitive poets) have been at all times the spor

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20 Mar 2014, 05:49

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01 Dec 2024, 17:10

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Most management theorists have long told marketers that the marketing

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08 Jun 2024, 18:31

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01 Dec 2024, 14:17

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Global strategies to control infectious disease have historically incl

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13 Jul 2019, 09:02

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01 Dec 2024, 09:00

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Economists coined the term vertical specialization in 2001 to describe

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04 Jul 2024, 04:02

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01 Dec 2024, 08:01

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Cromwell, as the military leader of the Commonwealth Boers, is, at

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04 Jul 2019, 16:19

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01 Dec 2024, 07:30

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While the best sixteenth-century Renaissance scholars mastered the

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20 Jan 2020, 00:07

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01 Dec 2024, 05:35

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Native Hawaiian temples on the island of Maui may have been built much

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guddo

09 Mar 2024, 12:01

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01 Dec 2024, 03:55

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According to Susan Reverby's Ordered to Care, the most salient fact

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17 Sep 2023, 10:45

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01 Dec 2024, 02:32

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Notwithstanding the early twentieth-century writings of Calvin Dill Wi

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24 Aug 2024, 07:25

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01 Dec 2024, 01:18

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Creativity is a frequent element in the mythology, philosophy, or

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03 Aug 2023, 20:00

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30 Nov 2024, 23:14

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The human eye makes tiny, rapid, almost constant motions called

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20 Sep 2023, 10:15

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30 Nov 2024, 21:34

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Comedians are not amused when their jokes are stolen, and for that rea

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07 Mar 2023, 21:00

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30 Nov 2024, 14:34

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Scientists have discovered a remarkable undersea field of hot springs

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19 Aug 2024, 04:25

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30 Nov 2024, 14:30

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In her 1996 history of plagiarism in English Renaissance drama, Laura

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27 Mar 2023, 07:00

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30 Nov 2024, 14:09

In the ancien régimepre-Revolutionary France's rigidly hierarchical

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31 Aug 2024, 07:28

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30 Nov 2024, 04:58

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Although Leiden was not a large commercial center, the first used-book

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08 Mar 2024, 12:08

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30 Nov 2024, 03:48

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Recent scholarship has argued that the formation and expansion of stat

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03 Mar 2023, 08:00

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30 Nov 2024, 01:07

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Frederick Snyder proposed the idea that rapid eye movement (REM) sleep

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06 Jan 2024, 06:15

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30 Nov 2024, 00:10

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In contemporary autobiographical works by Black Americans experiments

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05 Sep 2023, 08:00

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29 Nov 2024, 15:25

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Evolutionary psychology takes as its starting point the controversial

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04 Feb 2017, 04:12

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29 Nov 2024, 07:39

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New York stood at the center of the momentous processes that recast Am

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07 Aug 2023, 07:00

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29 Nov 2024, 05:29

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Let us consider whether women as a group have unique, politically rele

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31 Jan 2018, 13:29

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29 Nov 2024, 02:44

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Matisse and Picasso; Picasso and Matisse. Throughout the twentieth

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08 Nov 2019, 11:58

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28 Nov 2024, 21:04

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It was once assumed that all living things could be divided into two

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27 Jun 2008, 10:58

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28 Nov 2024, 08:51

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Traditional sources of evidence about ancient history are archaeologic

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07 Aug 2022, 21:00

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27 Nov 2024, 13:51

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Without entering now into the why, let me observe that the printer may

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23 Oct 2018, 12:03

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27 Nov 2024, 08:19

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Native American women of the Greater American Southwest understood

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10 Oct 2024, 06:11

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27 Nov 2024, 06:33

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Scholars generally agree that the Maesta, the high altarpiece painted

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03 Mar 2022, 08:00

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27 Nov 2024, 06:32

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In 1971 researchers hoping to predict earthquakes in the short term by

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29 Jul 2016, 03:13

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27 Nov 2024, 06:11

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Colorectal cancer occurs in the colon or rectum. It is more common amo

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23 Feb 2022, 07:00

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27 Nov 2024, 03:38

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Recently, linguists have begun to focus on differences evident in many

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22 Jun 2024, 05:02

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26 Nov 2024, 21:13

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Is it possible to decrease inflation without causing a recession and i

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03 Jan 2011, 01:50

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26 Nov 2024, 20:05

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Colonial historian David Allen's intensive study of five communities i

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12 Aug 2014, 03:47

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26 Nov 2024, 19:55

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The effects of climate change are coming into sharper focus: because o

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07 May 2024, 10:12

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26 Nov 2024, 15:59

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Whereas United States economic productivity grew at an annual rate of

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03 Jul 2015, 03:34

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26 Nov 2024, 15:02

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Most scholars of Mexican American history mark César Chávezs unionizi

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14 Aug 2022, 21:00

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26 Nov 2024, 14:02

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Firms traditionally claim that they downsize (i.e., make permanent per

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02 Jun 2016, 11:27

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26 Nov 2024, 09:28

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One proposal for preserving rain forests is to promote the adoption of

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30 Mar 2013, 06:14

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