ManontheMoon:TheTruthaboutPianos:

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Newallegationshavecomeup,
concerningthevalidityoftheApollo
moonlandings.Loadsofpeoplehave
believedinthepastthatthephotos
werestaged,buttherewasnosolid
proof to go by. That was the task
given
7. toateamofyoungscientistswhohad
8. graduatedfromthenotableCollegeof
9. Agriculture.
Manhad,asitturnedout,
10. fakedoneofitsgreatestaccomplish
11. ments.
12. Lackofevidencewastheirbig
13. gestproblemgoingforwardinthe
14. investigation.Thatwasfixedbythe
15. turnup
ofsomesuperconfidential
16. governmentdocuments,discoveredin
17. ahiddenbackstreetofD.C.
Flush
to
18. arestaurantfrequentedbymanyhigh
19. figures, the documents credibility is
not
20. tobequestioned.Ratbitemarkswere
21. scatteredthroughoutmostofthe
22. report,butthepartsthatcouldbe
23. salvagedclearlyindicatedthatthe
24. wholelaunchwasaplannedhoax.
25. Pileafterpileofdocumentswere
26. found,explainingexactlyhowthe
27. wholeoperationwasexecuted.Well
28. formedplanswereoutlined,including
29. asketchofthefakedmoonandouter
30. spacescenery.Daytime,aswellas
31. nighttimesetswererequired,andthe
32. fakesunwascreatedbyharnessing
33. theactualsunsrays,whichwere
34. reflectedbyamultitudeofmirrors.
35. Talkaboutconspiracytheorieswill
36. alwaysbepopular,butfromnowonit
37. shouldbenotedthatthemanonthe
38. moontheoryshouldnotputamong
39. themanymore.Farfetchedthoughit
40. mayseem,therecentlyuncovered
41. articlesclearlyshowthatourgovern
42. menthasbeenlyingtousthiswhole
43. time.Fullofthemselves,ourownkind
44. has tried to trick us, but no more!

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WhenIfirstpickedupplayingthe
piano,IneverthoughtthatIdlearn
thebiggestsecretofwhichtheworld
didnthaveahint.Anytimepeopleask
mehowIhavecomesofar,Iamtorn
upbymyreluctancetotellthetruth.
Doestheworldwanttofindthetruth,
andisitreadytobeopenminded?
EverytimeIamreadytotalk
something
10. holdsmebackfromspeaking.

There
is
11. noregretsnow,asIrevealthewhole
12. conspiracyhere:
13. Everypianohasamidgetinsideit,
14. playingthenotes,makingitseemlike
15. theperformerhasaleveloftalent,
16. whenthewholethingisafarce.Only
17. themidgetknowshowtoplaythe
song
18. whilethestudentlearnshowtostring
19. togethersequencestomimicplaying,
20. andtherelationshipbetweenthetwo
is
21. purely
xenial
.
22. Soknowingthisknowledge,how
23. canwesimplymoveonwithourlives
24. again?Youcantforgetsucha
startling
25. factoncelearned,Oneday,everyone
26. discoverthisfactoflife.Howwillit
end
27. upaffectingus,actually?Therecan
28. onlybespeculationandhope.
29. Eventually,whenthisfactiswell
30. established,allthemidgetscanfinally
31. beacknowledgedandacceptedinto
32. ouryearlypianofestivals.Becauseit
is
33. theirskill,andnotours,human
pianists
34. willbediscredited,andthemidgets
will
35. beappreciated.Ratherthanhavingto
36. hide,theycanfinallycomeoutinthe
37. open,completelychangingtheirview

Head
45. overto
conspiracy.net
formoreinfo!

38. oftheworld,whichforeveryculture
39. tobloom,iskey.
40. Hopefully,peoplewontjudgeus
41. tooharshlyforkeepingthesecretfor
42. about300yearseven.Luckily,wecan
43. lookforwardtoawholenewworldto
44. protect.Maybewecanfinallygain
true
45. totalspeciesequality.

ManontheMoonReadingComprehensionQuestions:

1) Inthesentencethatstartsatline911,whichvariantrectifiesit?
a) NoChange
b) Mandid,asitturnedout,fakeoneofitsgreatestaccomplishments.
c) Asitturnedout,manhadfakedoneofitsgreatestaccomplishments.
d) Asitturnedout,manhadfakedoneofitsgreatestaccomplishments.
e) Mandidfakeoneofitsgreatestaccomplishments,asitturnedout.
2) Whichword/sbestreplacetheunderlinedphraseinline15forbettercomprehension?
a) NoChange
b) Reveal
c) Discovery
d) Finding
e) Realization
3) Whatword/sistheclosestantithesistothewordunderlinedinline17?
a) Drawnlevel
b) Oppositethestreet
c) Sidebyside
d) Directlybehind
e) Thefrontside
4) Whatwordbestdescribesthetoneofthearticle?
a) Incredulous
b) Fallacious
c) Caustic
d) Banal
e) Emphatic
5) Basedonthearticle,whatwordbestdescribestheevidence?
a) Lurid
b) Eclectic
c) Prevalent
d) Fastidious
e) Incorrigible

TheTruthaboutPianosReadingComprehensionQuestions:

1) Inthesentencethatstartsonline910,whatmodificationassuagesthesentence?
a) NoChange
b) EverytimeIamreadytotalk,somethingholdsmeback.
c) EverytimeIamreadytotalk,somethingholdsmebackfromspeaking.
d) EverytimeIamreadytotalk,somethingholdsmeback.
e) EverytimeIamreadytotalksomethingholdsmebackfromspeaking.
2) Inthesentencethatstartedonline1012,whatchangebestfitsthesentence?
a) NoChange
b) ThereisnoregretsnowasIrevealthewholeconspiracyhere.
c) Therearenoregretnow,asIrevealthewholeconspiracy.
d) Thereisnoregretsnow,whilerevealingthewholeconspiracy.
e) Therearenoregretsnow,whenrevealingtheconspiracy.
3) Thewordunderlinedinline21almostnearlymeans:
a) Asbetweenahostandguest
b) Asbetweenenemies
c) Asbetweenoldfriends
d) Asbetweentwostrangers
e) Asbetweentwocompetitors.
4) What,inparticular,isthemotiveoftheauthorforrevealingthesecret?
a) Everyonewasinagreementtoexposethetruth
b) Theywantedthefamebehindthegreatexpos
c) Theyhatedkeepingsecrets
d) Theywanttopromoteequalityamongallhumans,includingmidgets
e) Theyfeelcompelledtotellthetruth
5) Whichsentencebestgivesevidencefortheabovequestion?
a) Sentence46
b) Sentence78
c) Sentence1012
d) Sentence2932
e) Sentence4445

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