New York City SHSAT 2017

This short passage discusses how children learn vocabulary. The question asks when children are most receptive to learning new w ...

Practice Exercise ...

GREEK POETRY PASSAGE Now it’s time to put some of this together. Take about three minutes to read the following passage. Then ta ...

( 35 )In the heroic age, poets became singers of tales who performed long poems about the fates of warriors and kings. One need ...

(F) community life (G) individuals (H) religious beliefs (J) the value of work (K) common people The passage suggests that, comp ...

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The Questions As you already know, Reading points come from answering the questions, not simply reading the passages. This doesn ...

ALWAYS FIND THE POINT—THE “SO WHAT?” OF THE PASSAGE Use your inference skills to figure out what the author’s point is—the answe ...

during the 1820s in the Hudson River Valley and surrounding locations. Heavily influenced by European Romanticism, these painter ...

We hope you caught that this passage was about why the Hudson River School became so successful. You should have also noted that ...

Four of the five answer choices are mentioned explicitly in the passage. (F) is mentioned in lines 19–21. (G) appears in line 32 ...

A WORD ABOUT SCIENCE PASSAGES You can expect to see at least one passage in the Reading section that deals with a science or tec ...

A REMINDER ABOUT TIMING Plan to spend approximately three minutes reading the passage and roughly a minute to a minute and a hal ...

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Practice Set ...

O’KEEFFE PASSAGE Now it’s time to practice some Reading passages and questions. Make sure you mark up the passage and note the B ...

considered “semi-abstract” because even though they ( 35 )depict recognizable images and objects, the paintings don’t present th ...

(F) a photographer’s relationship with a model (G) a writer’s relationship with a publisher (H) a student’s relationship with a ...

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Explanations to Exercises ...