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receives a score. The Reading section has 30 questions, and the Writing section has 30 questions. Test results are valid for two years. The test is untimed. The test is taken on a computer and is adaptive.
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There are probably fewer poor people in the United States than the number reported in the U.S. census. There are fewer poor people in New York City than in Arkansas. More poor people live in the United States than the census indicates.
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Which sentence best expresses the main idea of the passage? A. The amount of money needed for food and shelter varies greatly from place to place in the United States. The census is likely to underestimate the number of transients in the country. Because it is difficult to determine the exact number of poor people in the United States, the proportion of the poor is underestimated. There are various reasons for poverty throughout our country.
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A. The weary explorers trudged across miles of frozen tundra. Each man desperately wishing he had never left his warm fireside. B. Whenever we go to the annual club picnic, we liked to play beach volleyball and to eat barbeque.
C. If you have already completed the lab work, you should have recorded your results in your chemistry notebook.
A. The weary explorers trudged across miles of frozen tundra. Each man desperately wishing he had never left his warm fireside.
B. Whenever we go to the annual club picnic, we liked to play beach volleyball and to eat barbeque. C. If you have already completed the lab work, you should have recorded your results in your chemistry notebook.
B. I just got a brand new camera! Doesnt anybody want his/her picture taken?
C. After the thunder storm, we walked out in the yard and stood there in the peaceful evening. It was so quiet, you could almost hear the grass growing.
A. Everybody in the astronomy class is making their own backyard telescope from a kit. B. I just got a brand new camera! Doesnt anybody want his/her picture taken? C. After the thunder storm, we walked out in the yard and stood there in the peaceful evening. It was so quiet, you could almost hear the grass growing.
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