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Reading Comprehension
In this section you are given short reading passages. You are then asked to answer questions based on your
reading of the passage.
Querido tío y venerable maestro: Hace cuatro días que llegué con toda felicidad a este lugar de mi
nacimiento, donde he hallado bien de salud a mi padre, al señor vicario y a los amigos y parientes.
El contento de verlos y hablar con ellos, después de tantos años de ausencia, me ha embargado el
ánimo y me ha robado el tiempo, de suerte que hasta ahora no he podido escribir a usted.
EXAMPLES:
3. ¿Que pasó al narrador?
(A) Fue a una fábrica en la ciudad.
(B) Fue al teatro en Barcelona.
(C) Visitó el campo con su tío.
(D) Volvió a su pueblo natal.
4. ¿Por qué el narrador no pudo escribir a su tío?
(A) No tenía tiempo.
(B) Estaba enfermo.
(C) No tuvo lápiz.
(D) No sabía donde vivía su tío.
The passage is a letter from the narrator to his uncle. It says: “Dear uncle and esteemed teacher.
It has been four days since I arrived happily at the place of my birth where I found my father,
the vicar, friends, and relatives in good health. The joy of seeing them and speaking with them
after so many years of absence has captured my soul and robbed me of time, so that I haven’t
been able to write to you.”
3. What happened to the narrator?
(A) He went to a factory in the city.
(B) He went to the theater in Barcelona.
(C) He visited the country with his uncle.
(D) He returned to his native village.
4. Why wasn’t the narrator able to write to his uncle?
(A) He didn’t have time.
(B) He was sick.
(C) He didn’t have a pen.
(D) He didn’t know where his uncle lived.
So the correct choices are (D) and (A).

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