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100 Hardest Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions

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Reading Comprehension Question Directory Topic Difficulty

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Exactly when in the early modern era Native Americans began exchanging

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13 May 2024, 08:41

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Hurricane forecasters have difficulty determining maximum sustained

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21 Feb 2024, 03:32

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13 May 2024, 09:31

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A recent ball-catching experiment conducted in space by astronauts on

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02 Jun 2013, 17:46

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13 May 2024, 16:51

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Like many other industries, the travel industry is under increasing pr

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03 Aug 2012, 07:32

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In all industrial countries, the seventies were a time of slowdown

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05 Aug 2017, 22:09

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African American painter Sam Gilliam (b. 1933) is internationally reco

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05 Feb 2023, 21:00

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14 May 2024, 06:36

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Latino literature of the United States is best known as a twentieth

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03 Feb 2024, 15:27

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14 May 2024, 06:45

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Volcanic rock that forms as fluid lava chills rapidly is called pillow

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09 Mar 2019, 03:29

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14 May 2024, 09:00

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Revelations made by journalist Vance Packard in his “The Naked Society

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20 May 2020, 03:03

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Let us take the terms subjective and objective and see if we can m

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22 Apr 2022, 07:30

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15 May 2024, 04:54

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Historians consider General Andrew Jacksons victory over the British

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05 Feb 2022, 02:29

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15 May 2024, 14:43

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Researchers studying how genes control animal behavior have

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23 Apr 2012, 23:47

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The first mention of slavery in the statutes of the English colonies o

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19 Jun 2019, 12:02

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16 May 2024, 09:26

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JIT stands for Just-In-Time. More than a standardized methodology or

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10 Mar 2020, 08:19

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16 May 2024, 09:59

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At the turn of the 21st century, some philosophers justifiably wondere

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10 Nov 2021, 21:00

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17 May 2024, 00:45

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Both Alexander Gerschenkron and Jerry Hough view the former Soviet Uni

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20 Oct 2018, 03:36

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17 May 2024, 04:59

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During the final decades of the nineteenth century, America

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29 Sep 2018, 23:29

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17 May 2024, 05:05

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Recent investigations into the psychology of decision making have spar

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17 Jun 2021, 20:30

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17 May 2024, 06:32

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The historical basis for the King Arthur legend has long been debated

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06 Apr 2015, 05:50

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17 May 2024, 07:38

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Measuring more than five feet tall and ten feet long, the Ja

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08 Nov 2012, 06:57

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The fall of the Berlin Wall represented a political victory of the fre

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07 Jun 2013, 17:01

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17 May 2024, 15:05

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The years that saw the founding of Cornell and Stanford Universities

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Freud is considered an early expert on the subject of grief. In his

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01 Aug 2017, 07:14

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17 May 2024, 22:34

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The Western Jackdaw (Corvus monedula), sometimes known as the Eurasian

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04 Dec 2014, 10:48

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18 May 2024, 00:29

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The nearly circular orbits of planets in our solar system led scientis

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24 Jul 2022, 21:00

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18 May 2024, 00:33

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A number of natural disasters in recent years such as earthquakes, ma

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11 Aug 2021, 21:00

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18 May 2024, 07:06

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A single short story can suggest a desired response from the reader. I

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A major focus of modern evolutionary ecology is the study of

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19 May 2024, 02:09

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According to ancient and medieval science, aether is the material that

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Forests are the planet's biggest terrestrial carbon sinks, absorbing a

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The city of Avignon in southeastern France claims a unique place in Eu

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Proponents of the tangible-object theory of copyright argue that copyr

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20 May 2024, 14:46

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The golden toad of Costa Rica, whose beauty and rarity inspired an unu

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20 May 2024, 17:19

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When interviewing witnesses to a crime, police interviewers seek to ma

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09 Mar 2023, 07:00

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20 May 2024, 18:54

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Insider-trading law makes it a crime to make stock transactions, or he

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20 May 2024, 20:38

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03 Sep 2013, 18:04

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The majority of successful senior managers do not closely

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27 Aug 2011, 10:09

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21 May 2024, 01:37

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Two divergent definitions have dominated sociologists' discussions of

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21 May 2024, 07:46

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The Black Death, a severe epidemic that ravaged fourteenth century Eur

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

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Much of the research on hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD has focused

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06 May 2021, 20:00

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21 May 2024, 11:31

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In a typical Hollywood action movie, the hero skirts death to complete

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07 Mar 2023, 07:00

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21 May 2024, 13:28

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Perceiving, for all its nicety of functioning in the dark room under

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01 May 2013, 11:01

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Among the speculative questions which arise in connection with the stu

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06 Apr 2022, 07:30

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22 May 2024, 02:58

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The Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause of the First Ame

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27 Nov 2018, 03:33

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22 May 2024, 08:19

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Most people acknowledge that not all governments have a moral right to

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13 Mar 2013, 23:40

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22 May 2024, 10:02

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The Romans, having conquered almost the whole of Britain in the first

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To maximize profits, an employer should control his or her environment

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The literary development of Kate Chopin, author of The Awakening (1899

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09 Oct 2019, 04:55

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22 May 2024, 15:45

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As one of the most pervasive and influential popular arts, the movies

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