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Each passage is followed by several questions. After reading a passage, choose the best answer to each question and fill in the corresponding oval on your answer document. You may refer to the passages as often as necessary.  \n3  \nPassage I  \nPROSE FICTION: This passage is adapted from the title story of Only the Little Bone, a collection of short stories by David Huddle (©1986 by David Huddle) .  \nMy grandfather has made crutches for me. These are sturdy crutches, just the right size. I am delighted with them and launch myself around the house on them.  \nAnd take a fall immediately. And continue falling  \n5 several times a day, great splatting, knocking-into-furniture-and-breaking-things falls that cause everyone in the family to come running. My grandfather has forgotten to put rubber tips on the ends of my crutches. When we figure this out and buy the rubber tips and put  \n10 them on the crutches, I stop falling. But by then the bone-set that was coming along nicely has slipped, and the doctor has ordered me back to the wheelchair.  \nThe missing crutch-tips are the first clue I have to  \nthis peculiar family trait, one that for lack of any better 15 term I must call “flawed competence.” We Bryants area family of able and clever people, industrious, intelligent, determined, and of good will. We are careful in our work. After all, my grandfather measured me on  \ntwo occasions before he made the crutches. But we usu- 20 ally do something wrong.  \nFour years later I become increasingly aware of“flawed competence” when I develop a plan for converting our old grown-over tennis court into a basket  \nball court. My grandfather is always interested in plans, 25 and in this planning session, we decide that he will make the hoops, and he will help me make the backboards. Clearing the ground and smoothing the surface will be my tasks. So I rip out honeysuckle and hatchet  \ndown a few little scrub cedars. We Bryants are known 30 for setting our minds to things.  \nThen my grandfather delivers the hoops. They are beautifully designed and constructed, metalwork of a high order for such amateurs as my grandfather and his  \nmen. But the hoops are twice as big around as ordinary 35 basketball hoops.  \nI say, simply, that they are too big. I am not ungrateful, not trying to be hateful, not in my opinion being overly fastidious. I am simply describing a char-  \nacteristic of the hoops. But my grandfather’s feelings  \n40 are damaged. No, they can’t be made smaller, and no, he’s not interested in helping me with the backboards now or with any other part of my plan. He’s sorry he got involved in the first place. This, too, is a corollary of “flawed competence.” We are sensitive, especially  \n45 about our work, especially about the flawed part of our work.  \nAt the place where I work twenty-eight years after the basketball hoops, I am given a new office, one with a view of the lake. There’s a string attached, though, 50 and that is that I have to build my own bookcases. I commence planning with enthusiasm. That’s another, less harmful family trait, that attraction to making plans. I measure, I look at other people’s shelves, I get someone to help me attach brackets to my office walls.  \n55 It is while I am cutting a notch in one of the uprights to allow access to the light-switch that I suddenly think of my grandfather and those basketball hoops. I feel a light sweat break out on my forehead. A pattern of genetic fate reveals itself to me: I’m going to  \n60 mess up these bookshelves just as my grandfather before me would have messed them up. No doubt I’msawing the notch in the wrong place.  \nThe whole time I work I wait to see where the screw-up is going to come . I imagine what my col-  \n65 leagues will be saying about me in the hallways. Did you know that Bryant built his shelves so they tilt? Did you know that Bryant’s books rejected the color he paint","cbCaic6fJsKLU6yj","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaic6fJsKLU6yj","pdf",73615,"English","# Reading Test\n## Directions\n## Passage I: Prose Fiction","[{\"question\":\"How is the “flawed competence” trait introduced in the passage?\",\"answer\":\"It is introduced through early incidents, starting with crutches made without rubber tips, which lead to repeated accidents.\"},{\"question\":\"From whose point of view is the passage told?\",\"answer\":\"The narrator speaks from his own perspective as he grows older, connecting childhood experiences to later realizations about the family trait.\"},{\"question\":\"What question types does this reading test use after each passage?\",\"answer\":\"Each passage is followed by multiple questions, and readers choose the best answer and record it on the answer document.\"}]","READING TEST - Section 3 - Prose Fiction | PDF",1790693141]