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TSI Reading: Going to the Dogs: Determining the Main Idea
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Dogs have the ability to "read" human emotions. For example, dogs have been shown to discriminate between humans who approach in a friendly manner...

TSI Reading: Hey, What's the Big Idea?
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Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician and the founder of homeopathy, began as a village doctor and quickly became dissatisfied with how medicine was...

TSI Reading: Identifying the Main Idea of a Passage
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Jefferson Davis was an unusual man. During a long and frequently tragic life, his favorite job, according to his wife Varina, was serving as a U.S....

TSI Reading: Selecting the Strongest Supporting Detail
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Stephen Mitchell suffered from allergies. A thirty-five-year-old professor at Syracuse University, he found sanctuary in the temperature-controlled...

TSI Reading: Recognizing the Main Idea of a Short Passage
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The Landsat Program provides the longest continuous space-based record of Earth's land in existence. Since 1972, Landsat satellites have collected...

TSI Reading: Identifying the Main Idea of an Informational Passage
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Peer-to-peer lending, or social lending, is a new process of connecting an individual borrower with lenders without using traditional banks to obta...

TSI Reading: Selecting an Appropriate Title for a Passage
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The United States destroyed its six-ton stock of confiscated elephant ivory, sending a clear message that the nation will not tolerate the wildlife...

TSI Reading: Which Idea Gets Top Billing?
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Born into a theatrical family in 1778, Joe Grimaldi was a theater superstar who rose to national prominence in 1806 playing a clown in the pantomim...

TSI Reading: Dream a Little Dream of Main Ideas
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A good night's sleep consists of four to five sleep cycles. Each cycle includes periods of both deep sleep and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. As t...

TSI Reading: Recognizing the Implicit Main Idea of a Paragraph
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The Bernoulli family, with eight world-famous mathematicians spanning three generations, has left a permanent mark on the fields of math and physic...