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Questions1-10arebasedonthefollowingpassage.ThispassageisfromLydiaMinatoya,TheStrangenessofBeauty.©1999byLydiaMinatoya.ThesettingisJapanin1920.ChieandherdaughterNaomiaremembersoftheHouseofFuji,anoblefamily.Akiracamedirectly,breakingalltradition.Wasthatit?Hadhefollowedform—hadheaskedhismothertospe...

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,Test begins on the next page.

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Reading Test
65 M I NU TES, 5 2 QUESTIONS

Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.


DIRECTIONS

Each passage or pair of passages below is followed by a number of questions. After reading
each passage or pair, choose the best answer to each question based on what is stated or
implied in the passage or passages and in any accompanying graphics (such as a table or
graph).



Questions 1-10 are based on the following Akira was waiting in the entry. He was in his early
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passage. twenties, slim and serious, wearing the black
This passage is from Lydia Minatoya, The Strangeness of
25 military-style uniform of a student. As he
Beauty. ©1999 by Lydia Minatoya. The setting is Japan in bowed—his hands hanging straight down, a
1920. Chie and her daughter Naomi are members of the black cap in one, a yellow oil-paper umbrella in the
House of Fuji, a noble family. other—Chie glanced beyond him. In the glistening
surface of the courtyard’s rain-drenched paving
Akira came directly, breaking all tradition. Was 30 stones, she saw his reflection like a dark double.
that it? Had he followed form—had he asked his “Madame,” said Akira, “forgive my disruption,
mother to speak to his father to approach a but I come with a matter of urgency.”
Line go-between—would Chie have been more receptive? His voice was soft, refined. He straightened and
5 He came on a winter’s eve. He pounded on the stole a deferential peek at her face.
door while a cold rain beat on the shuttered veranda, 35 In the dim light his eyes shone with sincerity.
so at first Chie thought him only the wind. The maid Chie felt herself starting to like him.
knew better. Chie heard her soft scuttling footsteps, “Come inside, get out of this nasty night. Surely
the creak of the door. Then the maid brought a your business can wait for a moment or two.”
10 calling card to the drawing room, for Chie. “I don’t want to trouble you. Normally I would
Chie was reluctant to go to her guest; perhaps she 40 approach you more properly but I’ve received word
was feeling too cozy. She and Naomi were reading at of a position. I’ve an opportunity to go to America, as
a low table set atop a charcoal brazier. A thick quilt dentist for Seattle’s Japanese community.”
spread over the sides of the table so their legs were “Congratulations,” Chie said with amusement.
15 tucked inside with the heat. “That is an opportunity, I’m sure. But how am I
“Who is it at this hour, in this weather?” Chie 45 involved?”
questioned as she picked the name card off the Even noting Naomi’s breathless reaction to the
maid’s lacquer tray. name card, Chie had no idea. Akira’s message,
“Shinoda, Akira. Kobe Dental College,” she read. delivered like a formal speech, filled her with
20 Naomi recognized the name. Chie heard a soft maternal amusement. You know how children speak
intake of air. 50 so earnestly, so hurriedly, so endearingly about
“I think you should go,” said Naomi. things that have no importance in an adult’s mind?
That’s how she viewed him, as a child.




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