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100 Hardest Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions

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Homing pigeons can be taken from their lofts and transported hundreds

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

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Recently some scientists have concluded that meteorites found on Earth

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An organism is considered to have an infection when a disease-causing

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A one-child policy was implemented in China in 1979, and for nearly 40

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The two construction periods at Aztec, New Mexico as indicated by the

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Timelines are one of the most commonplace classroom tools used to

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11 Nov 2019, 07:32

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24 Dec 2022, 04:19

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In the 1980s, neuroscientists studying the brain processes underlying

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22 Jul 2022, 07:30

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Given the increasing popularity of online brokerage firms, the fact th

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01 Feb 2023, 13:24

In August 1348 the bubonic plague, or Black Death, suddenly appeared

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In a recent study, David Cressy examines two central questions concern

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22 Oct 2019, 10:54

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For two decades, Wynton Marsalis complemented his extraordinary gifts

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For far too long, the United States has been without a long-range

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In the 1980s there was a proliferation of poetry collections, short st

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The Japanese system of kanban (just-in-time inventory control), credit

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Given the amount of time and effort that curators, collectors, dealers

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As of the late 1980’s, neither theorists nor large-scale computer clim

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02 Oct 2020, 13:24

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

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The US Constitution established both gold and silver as the basis of U

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Until recently, Ascaris azure, known as the Diaz blueworm, and Ascaris

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Feminism is an essentially pluralist movement. Early historians of the

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The common belief of some linguists that each language is a perfect

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It is still an open question precisely how Hobbes conceptualized the

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

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The hypothesis of an expanding Earth has never attracted notable suppo

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

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Chief Executive Officers are often driven more by their short-term per

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Literary critics are fond of referring to a work as a "musical novel"

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One of the principal themes of Walzer’s critique of liberal capitalism

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Most recent work on the history of leisure in Europe has been based on

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06 Nov 2019, 08:52

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Vietnam was once touted as the last great investment frontier.

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In The Dynamics of Apocalypse, John Lowe attempts to solve the mystery

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal was hotly debated at the time it

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During adolescence, the development of political ideology

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

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Although ballet originated in lavish Italian court dances, the art for

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For once, the whys are turning out to be more important than the

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Archaeological discoveries frequently undermine accepted ideas, giving

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02 Sep 2019, 09:59

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

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In the year of his death, Augustus Caesar completed an account of his

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Individual studies and experiments the world over have shown that a st

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Let us consider whether women as a group have unique, politically rele

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Research concerning happiness and wealth reveals a paradox at any one

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02 Feb 2023, 21:00

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Despite radical differences in what limbs do and what they look like,

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02 Jul 2018, 11:25

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04 Dec 2023, 08:18

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The Economist Reading Comprehension Challenge #4

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19 Jul 2013, 15:11

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03 Jul 2020, 00:30

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The extent to which analysis of social phenomena is compatible with th

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23 Oct 2018, 09:59

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Given the scarcity of quality professional service providers in most e

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Before plans can be finalized for a space station that maintains a lo

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

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It is almost a year since the prime minister of Ethiopia, launched a

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