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100 Hardest Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions

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In economics, the concept of “propensity to consume” refers to the pro

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Two trends emerge from the demographic data gathered throughout the ei

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Excess inventory, a massive problem for many businesses, has several

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In many bilingual communities of Puerto Rican Americans living in the

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The discoveries of the white dwarf, the neutron star, and the black

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Mechanisms for recognizing kin are found throughout the plant and anim

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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (18531926) a Dutch physicist discovered superc

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Many of the most popular diets today, including the so-called “Paleo

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Bernard Bailyn has recently reinterpreted the early history of the

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Around 1960, mathematician Edward Lorenz found unexpected behavior in

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Utilitarian models of the state, subordinating individual rights to a

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Until recently most astronomers believed that the space between the

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A major tenet of the neurosciences has been that all neurons (nerve ce

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Despite views that globalization has reached its peak, a period beginn

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Diseases associated with aging in women are difficult to correlate exp

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The view has prevailed for the better part of the twentieth century th

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Io and Europa, the inner two of Jupiter's four largest moons, are

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08 Aug 2012, 17:00

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Almost everyone knows that the seeds of the Second World War were sown

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In contrast to traditional analyses of minority business, the sociolog

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Dogs are widely employed by the police as biological detection systems

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One strain of historical thought that achieved popularity in the 1950s

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At last count in the year 2004, it was estimated that there were over

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The recruitment and development of talent is a growing priority for

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During Dostoyevskys time there were two significant and opposing dire

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The recent change to all-volunteer armed forces in the United States w

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Donna Haraway’s Primate Visions is the most ambitious book on the

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Tribal communities in North America believe that their traditional

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When the object designated 1992 QB1 was discovered, news reports

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Music and literature, rivals among the arts, have not coexisted withou

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One of the first attempts to peer into the living human brain was carr

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From the time they were first proposed, the 1962 Amendments to the Foo

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

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One of the most important tasks of ethical analysis is to deliver us

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The labor force is often organized as if workers had no family respons

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

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Economist Reading Comprehension Challenge #5

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The conventional spark-ignition (Otto) automobile engine

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Many of the dams in the eastern U.S. were originally built for water d

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By measuring tiny amounts of radioactive elements in coral, scientists

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There is an intriguing note to the current call upon civil rights law

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Often it was believed that super intelligence leads to financial

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In spite of early doubts, it is now well established that large reserv

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In Forces of Production, David Noble examines the transformation of th

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Late nineteenth-century books about the French artist Watteau (1684-17

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08 Jun 2015, 10:39

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Earth’s surface consists of rigid plates that are constantly shifting

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02 May 2015, 09:22

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Despite an ongoing effort to increase worldwide public awareness of

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03 Apr 2020, 09:33

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Transportation developments have greatly influenced the pace and cours

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27 Nov 2023, 09:16

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During the twelfth century, the Indian author Bhaskara published a

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Henry Varnum Poor, editor of American Railroad Journal, drew the impor

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The evolution of intelligence among early large mammals of the grassl

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