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 \n## Resources\n\nContact us for a FREE consultation if you're..  \n·Looking for a great online tutor.  \n·Interested in test prep via Skype.We see students across the USand worldwide.  \n·Needing help with getting extended time or otheraccommodations on the SAT or ACT  \n·Letting your test anxiety get out of control.  \nContact us here.Hope to hear from you soon!  \nReading Test  \n60 MINUTES,47 QUESTIONS  \nDIRECTIONS  \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 timetrial,four laps—not a race.It was meant to give anidea of where we stood,no more.  \nLine We'd gathered around the middle of the long side5 of the track,just ten or twelve of us,including threeothers who seemed new like me,jogging back andforth in the wind,loosening up.The rest had walkedover to the other side of the field.  \nFalvo took me aside.\"Warmed up?How're the10 shoes?”  \n“Fine.”In the distance I could see kids walkingtoward the parking lot.The sun stabbed out fromunder the clouds,glancing off the windshields.  \nHe raised his voice over the wind.“All right,I15 want you all to stay contained,stay smooth.I don'twant to see anybody draining the well today—thatmeans you,Mr.McCann.\"A tall,tough-looking kidwith red hair and a tight face smiled like a gunslinger.  \nHe turned to me.\"I don't want you doing20 anything stupid,Mosher.Some of these boys havebeen at it for a while.Don't think about them,thinkabout yourself.”  \nI shrugged.  \n“Pace yourself.Let them do what they do.They'll25 be about thirty yards ahead after the first lap.Don'tworry about them.Go out slow,feel your way,thenbring it home as best you can.OK?”  \n\"Sure,\"I said.  \n\"Remember,it's a time trial.Not a race.\"  \nTurn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.  \nEach passage or pair of passages below is followed by a number of questions.After readingeach passage or pair,choose the best answer to each question based on what is stated orimplied in the passage or passages and in any accompanying graphics(such as a table orgraph).  \n30 There was no starting gun.We lined up in thegusty wind,Falvo standing in the soggy infield in hisdress shoes holding his clipboard like a small hightable against his chest with his left hand and hisstopwatch in his right and then he barked,\"Runners  \n35...marks?Go!”  \nThey didn't run,they flowed—the kid in the  \nheadband,the red-headed kid,and two or three  \nothers in particular—with a quiet,aggressive,  \nsustained power that looked like nothing but felt  \n40 like murder and I was with them and then halfwaythrough the third turn they were moving awaysmooth as water and I could hear them talkingamong 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 lookingalmost frantic and then it was gone and there wasjust the sound of my breathing and the crunch of mysneakers slapping the dirt.The group,still in a tight50 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 thenat some point someone else calling \"Comingthrough—inside,\"and they passed me like a single  \n55 mass,all business now,and I remember staggeringafter them,gasping,drowning,my chest,my legs,mythroat filling with lead and looking up through a fogof pain just in time to see the kid with the headband,halfway down the backstretch,accelerating into a  \n60 sustained,powerful sprint.  \nCONTINUE  \nI don't know why.I can't explain it.By the end ofthe third lap I was barely moving,clawing at the air,oblivious to everything except the dirt unfoldingendlessly in front of me.\"Let him go,\"I heard65 somebody say.They'd all finished by then,re","cbCainn7QFUhE1F9","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainn7QFUhE1F9","pdf",13161065,114,"English","# Reading Test\n## Directions\n## Passage and Questions\n## Continued Sections","[{\"question\":\"How are the questions in the Reading Test answered?\",\"answer\":\"Each passage (or pair of passages) is followed by a number of questions. 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