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4 real paragraphs, Test 11 Passage 1 — 9 headings offered for 7 paragraphs
Matching Headings gives you more headings than paragraphs, on purpose — so you’re matching the main idea of each paragraph, not just spotting a repeated word. Here are 4 real paragraphs from Test 11’s Aral Sea passage.
Paragraph A — Q1
“Once the fourth-largest inland body of water on Earth, the Aral Sea… supported a thriving fishing industry and a string of bustling port towns through much of the twentieth century.”
Heading 7: “A lake that once sustained a thriving regional economy” — matches the paragraph’s overall point (what the sea provided), not just one detail in it.
Answer: 7
Paragraph B — Q2
“Soviet central planners decided to dramatically expand cotton cultivation… viewing the crop as a strategically valuable export capable of generating substantial revenue.”
Heading 3: “The economic logic behind the original diversion” — the paragraph explains why planners diverted the rivers, not just that they did.
Answer: 3
Paragraph C — Q3
“Some Soviet scientists raised concerns about the sea’s trajectory as early as the 1960s… but these warnings were largely set aside by planners.”
Heading 1: “An early warning largely went unheeded” — “early” and “unheeded” both map directly onto “as early as the 1960s” and “largely set aside.”
Answer: 1
Paragraph D — Q4
“By the early twenty-first century, the Aral Sea had shrunk to a small fraction of its former surface area, splitting into several smaller, separate bodies of water.”
Heading 5: “A lake reduced to a fraction of its original size” — a near word-for-word match with “shrunk to a small fraction of its former surface area.”
Answer: 5
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4 paragraphs from Test 11’s Aral Sea passage