Reading Comprehension
PrepTest 159 Section 2
Explore each passage, then find the explanation for your question.
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Passage 1
The 1937-1938 comic strip Torchy Brown, in "Dixie to Harlem" by Jackie Ormes would have been distinctive if only for …
Torchy Brown
Torchy Brown was the first comic strip written and drawn by an African American woman (Ormes). It follows Torchy's move from the rural South to a career at the Cotton Club in …
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Passage 2 · Comparative
There have been two notable efforts to supply credit to self-employed poor people in developing countries …
Microfinance Organizations
There's been two attempts to give credit to self-employed poor people in developing countries: (1) state banks, a disaster; (2) organizations that give uncollateralized loans, much more successful. Grameen Bank in Bangladesh …
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Passage 3
Since 1929, cosmologists have known that the universe is expanding. Until recently, they assumed that the expansion is slowing as …
Dark Energy
Astronomers expected the universe's expansion to be slowing due to gravity, but 1990s observations of supernovas showed they were farther away than predicted. This revealed that the universe's expansion is actually accelerating.
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Passage 4
For most of the past century, scholars in the Anglo-American legal tradition have been skeptical of the view that legal …
Ownership Theories
Traditional scholars see ownership as a flexible bundle of rights, while newer critics argue for a boundary theory that treats ownership as the basic right to exclude others.
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