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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

Please write the correct answer a, b, c or d.
PASSAGE 2C

Steve Courtney wrote historical novels. Not, he was quick to explain, over - colourful love stories of the kind that made so much money for so many women writers, but novels set, and correctly set, in historical periods. Whatever difference he saw in his own books, his readers did not seem to notice it, and his readers were nearly all women. He had studied at university, but he had not been a particularly good student, and he had never afterwards let any academic knowledge he had gained interfere with his writing.
 

Helen, his wife, who did not have a very high opinion of her husband's ability as a novelist, had been careful to say when she married him that she was not historically minded. Steve had accepted this, perhaps even welcomed it, and had not expected her to read all his books, still less to talk to him about them. He had not married her for that. She had, therefore, never been in danger of revealing her views by accident. All the same she knew that she had to be careful, especially when relaxing at parties, in case she gave away what she really thought about Steve' s writing. She found it was easier to deal with the women on these occasions because, although they were all very attracted to Steve, they mostly saw that they could not compete with Helen in attractiveness, so she could easily be nice to them. Up till now she had not let these problems worry her, but she was beginning to feel that the situation might not always be without its difficulties.
 

Above all, Helen was doubtful whether her relationship with Steve would work at all in the village of Stretton, to which they had just moved. It was Steve who had wanted to move to the country, and she had been glad of the change, in principle, whatever doubts she was now having about Stretton as a choice. But she wondered whether Steve would not, before very long, want to live in London again, and what she would do if he did. The Stretton house was not a weekend cottage. They had moved into it and given up the London flat altogether, partly at least, she suspected, because that was Steve's idea of what a successful author ought to do. However, she thought he was not going to feel like a successful author half as much in Stretton as he had in London. On the other hand she supposed he might just start dashing up to London for the day to see his agent or have lunch with his publisher, leaving her behind in Stretton, and she thought on the whole she would like that.
 

Their house, when properly furnished was going to be lovely; and, in limited doses, she could enjoy the heavy peace of the place much more on her own than with Steve behaving like a successful author in his study upstairs.
The move had been made very quickly. Steve had money and when he wanted anything, he got it fast. It was, of course, true that the things he wanted, or at least admitted he wanted, were always things he was capable of getting. Like many self - centred men, he had an exact awareness of his own limitations.


15 What was Steve's attitude towards women who wrote love stories?

A He would have liked to earn as much money as they did.
B He was afraid of being compared unfavourably with them.
C He did not think he could write about the same subjects.
D He had a low opinion of the kind of books they wrote.

16 What did Helen find it difficult to hide?

A Her lack of interest in history.
B her low opinion of her husband's writing.
C Her dislike of her husband's admirers.
D Her inability to understand his books.

17 What problem did Helen find she had at parties?

A Women would not talk to her.
B Men paid her too much attention.
C Steve talked so much more that she did.
D She was tempted to say too much.

18 What were Helen's feelings about the move from London to Stretton?

A She wanted to remain in the country.
B She had been unwilling to leave London.
C She thought it was time to return to London.
D She would have preferred a weekend house in the country.

19 Helen thought Steve might not be content in Stretton because

A he would not be able to write so well in the country.
B he would be lonely without all his London friends.
C his relationship with Helen was changing.
D he would not feel so important in Stretton.

20 The passage as a whole suggests that Steve' s novels were

A popular but unimportant.
B serious works of literature.
C admired for their historical truth.
D written with women readers in mind.


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