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Section I Reading

Practice Test 3

30. Which of the following is implied by

the passage?

A. The Russians should never have

exiled Chagall to France.

B. Chagall’s paintings are now more

popular and valuable than ever

before.

C. Chagall’s brilliant and enduring

paintings will live long after his

death.

D. Artists, like Chagall, should paint

only the uplifting experiences of

life.

E. Chagall’s dreamlike paintings have

never received a popular

acceptance.

31. According to the passage, Chagall’s

self-portrait suggests that Chagall

A. had only one hand.

B. was a bearded peddler.

C. also played the violin.

D. once lived in France.

E. could paint only Jewish themes.

32. The phrase don’t hang crepe in the

passage is used to

A. urge others not to attend Chagall’s

funeral.

B. remind mourners that flowers were

requested by the family.

C. emphasize Chagall’s focus on life,

not death.

D. commemorate the death of a great

painter.

E. admonish those who caused a great

painter to suffer.

Use the graph below to answer the question

that follows.

ATTENDANCE: SELECTED MAJOR LEAGUE BALL PARKS

Highest Annual, 1948-1985

Pittsburgh

Day

Games Games

Night

Cleveland

San Frrancisco

Oakland

Baltimore

Chicago

St. Louis

Detroit

Selected Major League Cities

33. According to the graph, which of the

following cities had the highest nightgame

attendance as compared with its

day-game attendance?

A. Los Angeles

B. New York

C. Cleveland

D. Chicago

E. Boston

Seattle

Boston

Philadelphia

San Diego

New York

Anaheim

Los Angeles

250

225

200

175

150

125

100

75

50

25

0

Read the passage below and answer the

question that follows.

We all know life originated in the ocean.

Science tells us so. Perhaps a bolt of lightning

struck through the ammonia and

methane gases of a volcanic planet, igniting

some form of life in the primordial soup of

the storm-tormented sea. But no scientific

theory is sacrosanct. And now a group of scientists

says we have it all wrong: Life originated

in clay.

Attendance in Hundred Thousands

339

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