Reading Comprehension
PrepTest 136 Section 1
Explore each passage, then find the explanation for your question.
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Passage 1
The Internet makes possible the instantaneous transmission and retrieval of digital text. It is widely assumed that this capacity will …
Digital Publishing
Printed books will continue, with instant printing of electronic book files, even in small quantities.
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Passage 2 · Comparative
In this appeal of his criminal conviction, the defendant challenges the fingerprint evidence used against him at trial, claiming that …
Fingerprints
The defendant says fingerprint analysis is flawed.
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Passage 3
Music and literature, rivals among the arts, have not coexisted without intruding on each other's terrain. Ever since what we …
Jazz Novel
Writing has often aspired to be musical, especially in the African-American community. Toni Morrison’s *Jazz* was the first novel to use a musical genre as a structuring principle.
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Passage 4
Advances in scientific understanding often do not build directly or smoothly in response to the data that are amassed, and …
Nuclear Fission
Scientific discoveries often look easy in retrospect. Nuclear fission is one example. Uranium bombardment experiments produced evidence that we could do fission, but scientists took a while to realize what they had …
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