Reading Comprehension
PrepTest 115 Section 1
Explore each passage, then find the explanation for your question.
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Passage 1
By the year 2030, the Earth's population is expected to increase to 10 billion; ideally, all would enjoy standards of …
Industrial Ecosystem
We can’t keep wasting and consuming natural resources at the rate we do now. The system will fail.
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Passage 2
Thurgood Marshall's litigation of Brown v. Board of Education in 1952—the landmark case, decided in 1954, that made segregation illegal …
Thurgood Marshall
Claim: Thurgood Marshall’s early Supreme Court cases allowed him to win *Brown v. Board of Education. *
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Passage 3
Donna Haraway's Primate Visions is the most ambitious book on the history of science yet written from a feminist perspective, …
Primatology
Primate Visions is a feminist science history book. It questions our unconscious assumptions.
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Passage 4
Some of the philosophers find the traditional, subjective approach to studying the mind outdated and ineffectual. For them, the attempt …
Philosophy
Certain philosophers think that traditional philosophical questions about the mind should be answered by science.
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