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College Board and the acorn logo are registered trademarks ofthe College Board. The corporate“Lamp of Learning” logo is a federally registered service mark of National Merit Scholarship Corporation.  \nPSAT/NMSQT is a registered trademark of the College Board and National Merit Scholarship Corporation. 5LPT01  \n| \u003Cbr> 1 | 1  |\n| --- | --- |\n| Reading Test\u003Cbr>60 MINUTES, 47 QUESTIONS\u003Cbr>Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section. |  |\n| \u003Cbr>Each passage or pair of passages below is followed by a number of questions. After reading each passage or pair, choose the best answer to each question based on what is stated or implied in the passage or passages and in any accompanying graphics (such as a table or graph) . |  |\n\nQuestions 1-9 are based on the following passage.  \nThis passage is adapted from Mark Slouka, Brewster: A Novel.©2013 by Mark Slouka.  \nThis was a time trial, he said—a one-mile time trial, four laps—not a race. It was meant to give an idea ofwhere we stood, no more.  \nLine We’d gathered around the middle of the long side  \n5 of the track, just ten or twelve of us, including three others who seemed new like me, jogging back and forth in the wind, loosening up. The rest had walked over to the other side of the field.  \nFalvo took me aside.“Warmed up? How’re the 10 shoes?”  \n“Fine.” In the distance I could see kids walking toward the parking lot. The sun stabbed out from under the clouds, glancing off the windshields.  \nHe raised his voice over the wind.“All right, I 15 want you all to stay contained, stay smooth. I don’t  \nwant to see anybody draining the well today—that means you, Mr. McCann.” A tall, tough-looking kid with red hair and a tight face smiled like a gunslinger. He turned to me.“I don’t want you doing  \n20 anything stupid, Mosher. Some of these boys have been at it for a while. Don’t think about them, think about yourself.”  \nI shrugged.  \n“Pace yourself. Let them do what they do. They’ll 25 be about thirty yards ahead after the first lap. Don’t  \nworry about them. Go out slow, feel your way, then bring it home as best you can. OK?”  \n“Sure,” I said.  \n“Remember, it’s a time trial. Not a race.”  \n.......................................................................................................................................................................................................  \nUnauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal. 7  \n30 There was no starting gun. We lined up in the gusty wind, Falvo standing in the soggy infield in his dress shoes holding his clipboard like a small high table against his chest with his left hand and his  \nstopwatch in his right and then he barked,“Runners 35   marks? Go!”  \nThey didn’t run, they flowed—the kid in the headband, the red-headed kid, and two or three others in particular—with a quiet, aggressive, sustained power that looked like nothing but felt  \n40 like murder and I was with them and then halfway through the third turn they were moving away smooth as water and I could hear them talking among themselves, and I was slowing, burning, leaning back like there was a rope around my neck.  \n45 “Too fast, Mosher, too fast,” I heard Falvo yelling, and his ax-sharp face came out of nowhere looking almost frantic and then it was gone and there was just the sound of my breathing and the crunch of my sneakers slapping the dirt. The group, still in a tight  \n50 cluster, wasn’t all that far ahead of me.  \nBy the end of the second lap I heard someone faraway yelling “Stop, Mosher, that’s enough,” and then at some point someone el","cbCaicPuDIwfLjqx","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicPuDIwfLjqx","pdf",612419,"English","# Reading Test\n## Section 1 Instructions\n## Passage-Based Questions","[{\"question\":\"How should students approach the Reading Test questions in Practice Test #2?\",\"answer\":\"Students should turn to Section 1 of the answer sheet and choose the best answer based on what the passage states or implies and any accompanying graphics.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the time trial described in the provided passage?\",\"answer\":\"The time trial is meant to give an idea of where the runner stands, not to act like a race.\"},{\"question\":\"When should scoring be completed after taking the practice test?\",\"answer\":\"Scoring should be done right away using the collegeboard.org PSAT scoring site.\"}]","Fall 2016 Reading/Writing and Language Tests - Practice Test 2 | PDF",1790717883,101]