Reading Comprehension
PrepTest 153 Section 4
Explore each passage, then find the explanation for your question.
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Passage 1
Forests are among the world's most valuable resources, both in a narrowly economic sense and in a broader, ecological sense …
Forests
Forests are valuable for the economy and also the environment. But there are two specific environmental claims we should focus on: the claim that forests renew oxygen, and the claim the forests …
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Passage 2
Of the 300 indigenous languages spoken when European explorers reached what is now the United States, fewer than 150 survive …
Indigenous Languages
The number of indigenous languages in North American has shrunk, and many surviving languages face extinction. Bad U.S. policy forced Native Americans to speak English. But, languages are undergoing a revival. In …
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Passage 3 · Comparative
Some legal theorists reject the notion that judges must believe what they say in their opinions. They argue that an …
Judicial Candor
Some critics say we shouldn’t require judges to believe what they write. Judges have a lot of conflicting demands in their work, and requiring honesty may be too much, critics say.
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Passage 4
Social historians have noted that European social and political thought of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was marked by …
Grand Theories
19th century Europe had lots of grand intellectual theories such as Freudianism or Marxism. Freudianism believed all human social interaction, culture and politics is explained by universal psychological factors. Marxists thought universal …
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