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princeton review act reading prep reading practice test 1 explanations passage i 1. d this reasoning question asks what the narrator thinks about air travel. look for the lead words air travel to find the window for the question. in line 2, the author describes air travel as bittersweet magic. in lines 20–21, he says that it is cheating space and cheating time. with these descriptions, the author implies that air travel is unnatural. look for an answer that matches this idea. eliminate (a) because no comparison with other modes of travel is made, and because the author mentions some uncomfortable aspects of his flight. eliminate (b) since the author describes air travel as magic. eliminate (c) because, while the author does mention uncomfortable aspects of flying, he is still taking the flight for the convenience of getting from the west coast to the east coast quickly. keep (d) because …

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ause this is a general question, it should be done after all the specific questions. look for the golden thread. the passage describes the experiences of someone who has moved out of his parents’ house, returns to visit them, and muses about the changes that take place as time passes. choice (a) is incorrect since the passage never mentions a vacation, and in line 35, the narrator states that he moved away. eliminate (a). keep (b) because it matches the passage. although a coma is mentioned in lines 65–67, it is in reference to a physicist in an in-flight movie, not the narrator. eliminate (c). choice (d) is incorrect—the narrator’s new home is in southern california. eliminate (d). the correct answer is (b). 4. f this reference question asks which thing is relatively new to the narrator’s parents’ house. work backward and use lead words from the answers to find …

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answer is (d). 6. g this reference question asks which habit of his parents the narrator finds most upsetting. look for the lead words my parents to find the window for the question. in line 57, the narrator introduces the mundane routines of his parents. in lines 63–64, the narrator uses the phrase most depressingly to describe the way his parents often fall asleep in front of the television, mouths gaping. the phrase most depressingly suggests that the narrator finds the way his parents fall asleep to be their most upsetting habit. look for an answer that matches this idea. although the narrator mentions in line 32 that his father now drives a different car, no habit of buying new cars is ever described. eliminate (f). keep (g) because it matches the text from the passage. although the narrator describes the television they watch at night as uninspired in lines …

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this reference question asks which answer is not part of the present in the narrator’s hometown. when a question asks what is not mentioned in the passage, eliminate answers that are mentioned. in lines 46–47, the narrator notes that the old dance studio…seems to have finally closed. eliminate (f). the narrator observes, in lines 42–45, that the performance stage…is now up-and-running, according to the marquee listing its upcoming shows. eliminate (g). in lines 45–46, the narrator remarks that the olde towne tavern is apparently now called summit station. eliminate (h). the narrator explains, in lines 48–50, that a cluster of shops…famously burned to the ground in the past but presently has open doors and cars gliding in and out of the parking lot. keep (j). the correct answer is (j). 9. c this reasoning question asks about a characteristic of the narrator’s hometown that is suggested by the details in …

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he physicist is unable to comprehend the scientific advances. choices (h) and (j) can be eliminated since both refer to the time he spent in a coma, not before. the correct answer is (f). passage ii 11. a this reasoning question asks what the author is trying to emphasize about the mayan men with the statement the men of the village were deeply suspicious. read a window around the line reference. the paragraph says that when the representatives…first reached out to the women…the men…were deeply suspicious and the women were extremely shy, avoiding almost all eye contact with the strangers. the text goes on to say that ultimately the women agreed to the idea and later delivered their orders with great pride. remember, the question asks about the men, not the women, so the correct answer should indicate that the men were uncomfortable with the idea of the team employing …

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princeton review act reading prep reading practice test 1 explanations passage i 1. d this reasoning question asks what the narrator thinks about air travel. look for the lead words air travel to find the window for the question. in line 2, the author describes air travel as bittersweet magic. in lines 20–21, he says that it is cheating space and cheating time. with these descriptions, the author implies that air travel is unnatural. look for an answer that matches this idea. eliminate (a) because no comparison with other modes of travel is made, and because the author mentions some uncomfortable aspects of his flight. eliminate (b) since the author describes air travel as magic. eliminate (c) because, while the …

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