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100 Hardest Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions

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While most people agree that the Golden Age of comic books began with

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Until recently, many anthropologists assumed that the environment of

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Was Felix Mendelssohn (1809—1847) a great composer? On its face, the q

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Few areas of neuron behavioral research seemed more promising is the e

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The struggle to obtain legal recognition of aboriginal rights is a

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02 Aug 2021, 03:58

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13 Dec 2021, 10:28

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Classical physics defines the vacuum as a state of absence: a vacuum

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12 Jan 2019, 08:28

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30 Apr 2024, 00:38

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In Manhattan, the beauty of the night sky is only a faded metaphor, th

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22 Oct 2018, 08:33

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06 May 2024, 10:39

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Unmaintained areas of contiguous stands of forest are particularly

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03 Dec 2022, 06:01

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The myth persists that in 1492 the Western Hemisphere was an untamed

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04 Jan 2024, 02:55

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It comes as no surprise that there is little consensus among economist

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09 Jan 2023, 22:03

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Existentialism is a term applied to the work of certain late 19th- and

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02 Nov 2017, 20:26

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Although much has been written about the theological conflicts with

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Although, recent years have seen substantial reductions in noxious

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It has long been a tenet of business theory that the best decisions ar

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Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of

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04 Jul 2019, 17:07

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After being formed deep within the earth, hydrocarbons migrate upwards

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22 Feb 2018, 04:34

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20 Aug 2022, 04:13

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Neurodegenerative diseases were once considered disorders of the mind

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10 Sep 2018, 20:18

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The black experience, one might automatically assume, is known to ever

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28 Feb 2021, 23:30

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22 Nov 2021, 22:59

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DNA degrades quickly after an animal dies, so researchers once believe

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15 Oct 2018, 08:09

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09 May 2020, 06:29

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Many political economists believe that the soundest indicator of the

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

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Most studies of recent Southeast Asian immigrants to the United States

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Researchers are finding that in many ways an individual bacterium is m

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“A writer’s job is to tell the truth,” said Hemingway in 1942. No othe

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Historically, the first company to commercialize a new technology

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05 Nov 2015, 00:13

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12 Dec 2021, 21:05

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The Florida panther, known for its distinctive characteristics, includ

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09 Mar 2022, 07:00

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22 Jul 2023, 03:40

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The great white shark is considered to be an apex predator,

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Many legal theorists have argued that the only morally legitimate goal

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19 Aug 2021, 21:00

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The whole biosphere, like the individual organisms that live inside it

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Your self-esteem is closely related to your self-concept. Through your

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One recent example of industrial hyper growth has taken place in the r

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There is a dangerous tendency in superficial analyses of Virgil’s Aene

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We can distinguish three different realms of matter, three levels on t

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You cant chop vegetables, slice meat, or whip up a cake batter if you

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The fact that a superior product can generate a competitive advantage

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While historians once propagated the myth that Africans who were

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22 Dec 2020, 06:42

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Climatic conditions are delicately adjusted to the composition of the

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01 Mar 2021, 23:30

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How to spot pattern of my RC errors?

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27 Nov 2013, 08:47

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The past decade has seen a statistically significant uptick in reports

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Insect behavior generally appears to be explicable in terms of unconsc

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As university researchers working in a “gift economy” dedicated to

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Should the soft spring breath of kindly appreciation warm the current

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

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25 Sep 2023, 00:48

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Agricultural progress provided the stimulus necessary to set off

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Like our political society, the university is under severe attack toda

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Information asymmetry refers to any situation in which information abo

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The tale of Piltdown Man, the most infamous forgery in the contentious

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03 Feb 2017, 05:57

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06 May 2020, 09:18

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Many objects in daily use have clearly been influenced by science, but

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Most students arrive at [college] using “discrete, concrete, and absol

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The spatial distribution of the seismic activity at Nurek is less stra

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