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100 Hardest Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions

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The recent news that local hospitals have had to reroute seriously ill

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No one is eager to touch off the kind of hysteria that preceded the go

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Few ideas are more deeply entrenched in our political culture than tha

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Although the century between the War of 1812 and the First World War

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Common sense suggests that we know our own thoughts directly, but that

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In February 1848 the people of Paris rose in revolt against the consti

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The study of cetacean intelligence has added to our understanding of d

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To understand John Rawls's theory of justice, one first needs to grasp

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Supernovas are among the most energetic events in the universe and res

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It has become something of a truism in folklore studies that until rec

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Prior to the fall of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), M

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Innovations in language are never completely new. When the words used

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One clear advantage of selling goods online is that smaller markets ca

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Monogamy is not natural — hardly any species practice it, except for b

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"I want to criticize the social system, and to show it at work, at its

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In the history of nineteenth-century landscape painting in the United

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Juror anonymity was unknown to American common law and jurisprudence

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Since the Hawaiian Islands have never been connected to other land mas

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The rate at which pollen settles is dictated principally by the size a

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30 May 2017, 02:35

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The study of the analog position of mental representation has many fas

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01 Feb 2018, 13:17

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If early twentieth-century geologists and geo- physicists had heeded

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The human species came into being at the time of the greatest biologic

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As to when the first people populated the American subcontinent is hot

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The poetic expressiveness and creativity of Japanese women poets of

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A conventional view of nineteenth-century Britain holds that iron manu

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For the poet Phillis Wheatley, who was brought to colonial New England

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Feminist literary criticism is literary criticism informed by feminist

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In exploring the role of women during colonial times, historiographers

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Even as the number of females processed through juvenile courts climbs

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Certain theorists believe that some time after the Big Bang, fluctuati

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Coca-Cola, which sold 10 billion cases of soft drinks in 1992, now

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What causes a helix in nature to appear with either a dextral (right

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A more comprehensive definition of "sea level," one useful to

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Oil companies need offshore platforms primarily because the oil or nat

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I submit that impact of solid bodies is the most fundamental of all in

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In the mid-1970s, Walter Alvarez, a geologist, was studying Earths

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Since the late 1970’s, in the face of a severe loss of market share in

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The origins of tea as a beverage can be traced back more than 5,000 ye

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The transfer of heat and water vapor from the ocean to the air

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The origin of the place name “Mendocino,” which today belongs to a cou

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In Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry does not reject integration

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The Pan-American land bridge, or isthmus, connecting North and South

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The cougar (Puma concolor), also known as the mountain lion, puma, pan

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In recent years the early music movement, which advocates performing a

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Roger Rosenblatt’s book Black Fiction, in attempting to apply literary

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During the past fifteen years, historians of Mexican- American, or Chi

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The classical realist theory of international relations has long domin

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In the United States the per capita costs of schooling have risen almo

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What it means to “explain” something in science often comes down to

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In 1964 the United States federal government began attempts to elimina

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