Reading Test65 MINUTES, 52 QUESTIONSTurn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.
DIRECTIONSEach passage or pair of passages below is followed by a number ofquestions. After reading each passage or pair, choose the best answerto each question based on what is stated or implied in the passage orpassages and in any accompanying graphics (such as a table or graph).
Questions 1-10 are based on the followingpassage.This passage is an excerpt from Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit451.IT WAS A PLEASURE TO BURNIT was a special pleasure to see things eaten,to see things blackened and changed. With thebrass nozzle in his fists, with this great pythonspitting its venomous kerosene upon the world,5)the blood pounded in his head, and his handswere the hands of some amazing conductorplaying all the symphonies of blazing andburning to bring down the tatters and charcoalruins of history. With his symbolic helmet10)numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyesall orange flame with the thought of what camenext, he flicked the igniter and the house jumpedup in a gorging fire that burned the evening skyred and yellow and black. He strode in a swarm15)of fireflies. He wanted above all, like the old joke,to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace,while the flapping pigeon-winged books died onthe porch and lawn of the house.
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