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Michigan lower-ecce Reading passages exam practice.
Time allowed 15 minutes, You must finish the test within 15 minutes.
To pass the test successfully you must finish the test within the time limit and get at least 80% correct answers,
otherwise repeat the test until you get 80% or over.
Please write the correct answer a, b, c or d.

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question 1

Read TEST1 Passage 1A
Please write the correct answer a, b, c or d.

I believe I could still take that walk with my eyes closed. First of all I used to go up the extension of Avonrnore Road, past two lamp-posts, thinking that the newer odd numbers looked more interesting houses than the stiff line of even numbers where we lived. However, none of the odd numbers was anything like as interesting as the house of Hope-Pinker, who was an artist in stone, and if the door to his workroom was open
I would be able to catch sight of that great marble lion. Then came a quick look at the sorting-office, always a scene of great activity, it seemed, with postmen hurrying in and emptying bags of letters and with rows of clerks stamping those letters with postmarks. By the sorting-office, Avonmore Road made a sudden right-angled turn past a broken-down tarred fence. Through gaps in this fence could be seen a large shadowy garden, covered with pale green under trees with trunks as black as coal. Beyond the garden was a large decayed house with big bare windows showing here and there among the creeper which covered it. After this Avonmore Road continued on the right in the same direction as the extension. The houses were smaller now, and the bricks of which they were built were a deeper red than those of 54 Avonmore Road and its neighbours, They had no rooms below ground level and one could see into their dining-rooms, so close were they to the pavement. Opposite were the odd number houses, also without rooms below ground level.


After 2 Avonmore Road there was a narrow stretch of waste ground in which was a tall advertisement-board, the pictures on which were sometimes of great interest. On the other side of the road was the back of a large council school. Beyond the school were Avonmore Mansions, seeming tall and splendid with their yellowish bricks. I knew that these were fiats and I had heard them spoken of in our kitchen as an up-to-date but unnatural way of living. However, I thought that the doorkeeper, sitting on a chair in the entrance hall, must be a great protection against thieves; I used to wish that we lived in the safety of a fiat.


Then, to the right, there came about half a dozen shops, one of them a tobacconist's, one a second hand bookshop, one an ice-cream shop with a barber's at the back, and one an umbrella shop which showed in the window a row of thick heavy sticks called Night Companions. They were priced at a shilling each. I longed for one of these Night Companions to sleep beside me, and to my joy one afternoon Nanny, having stayed out longer than usual on her walk, arrived with two of these Night Companions, one of which she presented to me and the other to my brother Frank, who was not yet four years old. Frank's Night Companion looked much fiercer than mine its club-head was more knotted and it was stained a darker shade than the stem. My Night Companion looked mild and clean-shaven beside it. When Nanny bought the sticks I was stupid enough to show my preference for the fiercer-looking one, and that of course ruined my chances of being given it as my protector.

1 The writer shows that he was familiar with Avonmore Road by mentioning that he
A used to dream about walking up it.
B has no longer any need to walk up it.
C would not need to look where he was going.
D used to walk up it with his eyes shut.

2 As he went past Hope-Pinker's house he liked to try to look at
A the artist himself.
B the house itself.
C the open door of the artist's workroom.
D something in the artist's workroom.

3 At the sorting-office, you could see postmen
A hurrying in and out with bags of letters.
B carrying in empty post-bags for the letters.
C bringing in letters to be postmarked.
D putting stamps on all the letters.

4 It looked as if the big house beyond the garden was empty, because
A its windows were completely hidden by creeper.
B it was not taken care of.
C its windows had bars.
D it had a large shadowy garden.

5 One could see into the dining-rooms of the smaller houses because
A they had no rooms below ground level.
B they had larger windows.
C they were opposite to similar houses.
D their fronts were near to where one was walking.

6 What does the writer tell us about the piece of waste land?
A Number 2 Avonmore Road was built on it.
B It had a sign-board saying it was Number 2.
C There was a board with posters showing things for sale.
D There was a notice-board on it with interesting photographs.

7 The flats called Avonmore Mansions were
A on the same side as No.2 but further along.
B at the back of the council school.
C next to the piece of waste land.
D past the council school.

8 What opinion about living in flats had the writer heard?
A It was a recent development which was not favoured.
B There was nothing at all to be said in favour of it.
C People should not set such a bad example.
D At least it was better than living in a kitchen.

9 He wanted a night companion because
A it would help him to feel safe during the night
B it would make a good present for Nanny to give him
C his brother had a fiercer-looking one
D he wanted to protect his younger brother

10 Nanny gave Frank the fiercer-looking stick because
A he was less than four years old
B he showed a preference for a darker one
C she did not believe in letting the writer have everything he wanted
D she thought the writer was too stupid to be trusted with it

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