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Critical Reading SAT Practice Questions Questions 1-3 are based on the following passage. In 1939 at the New York World 's Fair, the most popularly visited exhibit, entitled "Futurama," depicted the future as a world shaped by the automobile. In this version of the future, fourteen-lane superhighways intersected 5 cities, citizens walked along sidewalks built above roads and parking lots, and parks rested atop skyscrapers, far from the bustle and the noise of the streets below. Many city planners saw this integration of the automobile with everyday life as an essential mark of progress. 10 By the end of the 1950s, that fantasy of the future had become, in many ways, a reality. Eighty percent of American families owned at least one car, and fourteen percent owned two or more. Additionally, the highways that connected the nation 's cities to its suburbs crisscrossed every state in the union and transported millions of people and billions of dollars in consumer goods. 1. The word “integration” (line 8), most nearly means a. achievement b. continuity c. exclusion d. combination e. interruption 2. According to the passage, the “fantasy of the future” (line 10) had become a reality through all of the following developments EXCEPT a. the integration of the automobile into everyday life b. shifts in the work force c. increased numbers of highways and interstates d. new transport for consumer goods e. some families having two cars 3. Which of the

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