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```markdown # Shardae Thomas ## Reading Test **Directions:** There are several passages in this test. Each passage is accompanied by several questions. After reading a passage, choose the best answer to each question and fill in corresponding oval on your answer document. You may refer to the pass...

```markdown # Shardae Thomas ## Reading Test **Directions:** There are several passages in this test. Each passage is accompanied by several questions. After reading a passage, choose the best answer to each question and fill in corresponding oval on your answer document. You may refer to the passages as often as necessary. ### Passage 1 LITERARY NARRATIVE * Passage A is adapted from The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thad Carhart.* * Passage B is adapted from the article "A Violin" by Arnold Steinhardt. #### Passage A by Thad Carhart 1. Even when Luc was busy and could not talk, he always made time to introduce me to the owners who arrived, and knew just what they needed. Our home was always the meeting place for manufacturers, and the owners all seemed perfectly intimate. 2. Sometimes, however, when the pianos had just arrived. Our mental beliefs could indicate the manufacturer and age. 3. Sometimes the owners knew it all, and knew it was not their day to play the piano, but only to read. 4. Sometimes a group of people, or some friends, would come to meet me. 5. I am very happy if I could have read more, even if the same old thing you can possibly do to piano. 6. His attitude about how people treated their pianos and strings, he regarded them as tolerable because the piano was "au sein de la famile" ("at the heart of the family"). 7. Those who preserved their piano as an altar upon which the art of music was to be worshipped irritated. #### Passage B by Arnold Steinhardt 1. I began playing violin when I was six years old, and I loved something new. 2. My love for the violin became a way of life, almost the only one I knew. 3. I was a stranger to the instrument and could not make it sing. * Marc did it alone. He just did it. * Marc didn't want to keep it if for no reason than as a reminder of the magnificent two of them had made together. * When I finally sell the violin to you. 4. I began playing violin when I was six years old. 5. I begin with words, but when I ask the instrument can respond with an astonishing range of substance and emotion. 6. There are other moments, however, when the violin stubbornly refuses to do my bidding, when it reluctantly plays in tune, or make the sound I that delivers the music's essence for which I strive. 7. I obtain playing violin on the floor. 8. I only want the greatest love which is my very close friend ```