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100 Hardest Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions

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Although epidemics are often triggered by bacteria and viruses that ha

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Analysis of the motions of stars in the vicinity of the Sun indicates

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Wine connoisseurs expect their beverage to be bottled in glass and sea

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Isolated from the rest of the world by circumpolar currents and ice

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The fact that reducing price can generate a competitive advantage for

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Did music and human language originate separately or together? Both

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Mary Barton, particularly in its early chapters, is a moving response

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To unravel the extent to which Shakespeare is accorded cultural capita

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Governments of developing countries occasionally enter into economic

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Currently the Internet is a non-discriminatory space, where each site

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English language scholars generally agree that the modern English lang

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There are over one hundred small white rabbits here in the laboratory

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The rich analyses of Fernand Braudel and his fellow Annales historians

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In 1887 the Dawes Act legislated wide-scale private ownership of reser

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Until recently astronomers have been puzzled by the fate of red giant

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Rent control is the legislation of below-market rent increases. City

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According to the "technocentric" approach-the model that shaped the

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In Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, J. W. Bin

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James Joyce revolutionized the novel, the short story, and modern lite

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The determination of the sources of copper ore used in the manufacture

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When discussing Civil War-era narratives, critics almost invariably re

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Farming practices in the United States have changed since the days of

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Many philosophers disagree over the definition of morality, but most d

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The fairness of the judicial process depends on the objective presenta

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The diversity of species in bacterial communities is often studied by

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Wherever the crime novels of P. D. James are discussed by critics, the

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Immediately after the execution of Socrates, Plato and his companions

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“Dissociative identity disorder,” or multiple personality disorder, is

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M31, M32, and M33 are members of the Local Group, an assemblage of mor

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Sometimes there is no more effective means of controlling an

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To meet the specific needs of a small, localized program like that of

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Recently, a new school of economics called steady state economics has

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New research by Paul Fildes and K. Whitaker challenges the theory that

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It is so uncommon for a rarified academic term to make the leap.

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There are two major systems of criminal procedure in the modern world

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The Economist Reading Comprehension Challenge #3

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A monopoly exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only

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There are a great many symbiotic relationships in the marine

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For an online retailer, inventory represents a major source of cost. E

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One of the first indications of a distinctive American character came

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After the end of World War II, a pervasive, but unfortunately fallacio

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Because it impinges upon so much—from bilingual education, po

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In the early 1980s, East Coast fishermen dangerously overfished their

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28 Jan 2021, 23:30

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While courts have long allowed custom-made medical illustrations

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Methods for typing blood were developed around the turn of the century

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A common misconception is that color refers only to a

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The extinction of the dinosaurs – thought to be caused by an asteroid

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The two claws of the mature American lobster are decidedly different f

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Millions of people worldwide play multiplayer online games. They each

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