What does it mean if you only receive 24 questions on the TSI Reading test?

True or False: You won't know your score until two weeks after the exam.

Which questions are the most critical to your overall success?

You can use the dictionary while taking the TSI.

You can use scratch paper while taking the TSI.

The person in the image is...

If you talk down to someone you ___________ to him. 

A person who feels contemptuous feels...

All of the following terms are synonyms for cynical EXCEPT...

Samantha was __________ when she learned the carnival was cancelled; she'd looked forward to it all week. 

The boy in the picture is...

Before leaving the house I locked the dog in its crate. I was _________ when I returned home, and the dog was in the front yard!

To the find the main idea ask yourself which question? 

Human beings have always polluted their environment, but in the past it was easier for them to move on and live somewhere else. They knew that given time, the environment would take care of pollution they left behind and they relied on the "out of sight, out of mind" philosophy. Today, an increasing human population, which uses an increasing amount of energy sources, no longer has the luxury to ignore pollution. The human population is approximately 7 billion. Our overall energy consumption has gone up by a hundredfold from 2,000 per/person/day to 230,000 per/person/day in modern industrial nations like the United States.This high energy consumption allows us to mass produce many useful and economically affordable organic products that pollute the atmosphere and groundwater damage forests and lakes causing global warming, and even deplete the ozone layer.
The main idea of this passage is that--

In 2010, talk show host Oprah Winfrey and novelist Jonathan Franzen kissed and made up after a nine-year feud. In 2001, Franzen was disinvited from appearing on Winfrey's TV show to pitch his novel The Connections after he made it clear that he was unhappy about the book's being chosen for the Oprah Book Club. Describing his work as "in the high-art literary tradition," Franzen said he didn't want to be associated with the Club, which he accused of occasionally choosing "schmaltzy, one-dimensional" novels. But Winfrey is apparently able to forgive and forget: she chose Franzen's next novel, Freedom, for her book club and said of it, "Now you haven't heard me say this word often, but this book is a masterpiece."
The passage implies that Franzen's criticism of the Oprah Book Club was motivated primarily by

Plywood, while not the most pleasing wood to look at, has become an incredibly important building material in house construction. It is flexible, inexpensive, and strong. Its strength is due to layers of thin wood glued on top of each other with the grain of each layer making a right angle with the grain of the layer below it. This way of layering the sheets of wood makes plywood difficult to break. 
According to the passage, the arrangement of the layers of thin wood explains plywood's:

The 1922 German Expressionist film Nosferatu, directed by F. W. Murnau, is considered one of the most influential films in cinematic history—while also being a classic vampire movie. The film is closely based on Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula; however, the villain in the film is called "Count Orlok" rather than "Count Dracula." The reason is that the small studio that produced the film, Prana Film, was unable to secure the rights to Stoker's novel. In fact, shortly after finishing Nosferatu, its one and only film, Prana went bankrupt in order to dodge copyright lawsuits from Stoker's widow. 
Why does the author say that the vampire in Nosferatu is named "Count Orlok" and not "Count Dracula"?

Before clocks were made, people kept track of time by other means. In ancient Egypt, people used a water clock. Water dripped slowly from one clay pot into another. People measured time according to how long it took one pot to empty and the other one to fill. Candle clocks were common during the Middle Ages. As such, when a candle burned, marks on its side showed about how much time had passed. A final ancient way to measure time was the sundial, which used the movement of the sun across the sky. The shadows moving across the face of the sundial showed the current time.What is the main idea?

In the words of Thomas De Quincey, “It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it.” If, like most people, you have trouble recalling the names of those you have just met, try this: The next time you are introduced, plan to remember the names. Say to yourself, “I’ll listen carefully; I’ll repeat each person’s name to be sure I’ve got it, and I will remember.” You’ll discover how effective this technique is and probably recall those names for the rest of your life.
The quotation from De Quincey indicates that the memory--

In the words of Thomas De Quincey, “It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it.” If, like most people, you have trouble recalling the names of those you have just met, try this: The next time you are introduced, plan to remember the names. Say to yourself, “I’ll listen carefully; I’ll repeat each person’s name to be sure I have it, and I will remember.” You’ll discover how effective this technique is and probably recall those names for the rest of your life.
The passage suggests that people remember names best when they--

With varying success, many women around the world today struggle for equal rights. Historically, women have achieved greater equality with men during periods of social adversity. The following factors initiated the greatest number of improvements for women: violent revolution, world war, and the rigors of pioneering in an undeveloped land. In all three cases, the essential element that improved the status of women was a shortage of men, which required women to perform many of society’s vital tasks.
We can conclude from the information in this passage that--

All water molecules form six-sided structures as they freeze and become snow crystals. The shape of a snow crystal is determined by temperature, vapor, and wind conditions in the upper atmosphere. A snow crystal is always symmetrical because these conditions affect all six of its sides simultaneously.
The purpose of the passage is to present --