My dad and I lived in a dark brown house with a gently sloping roof, a wood-slat exterior, and windows that opened out like little doors instead of sliding up and down the way windows were supposed to. It was built in a flatter, more sprawling style than most of the other houses in town. I didn't like it. It was the only house on a dead-end street in the middle of a giant field. There were no other kids nearby. There were never any people walking on the sidewalk or playing ball out in the field. When I went outside, all I heard was wind. The street ended a block past our house, where a heavy galvanized steel chain was stretched across the road between two metal posts. The posts were made of thick metal pipes that had been driven into the ground and filled with concrete. They were painted bright yellow, and the chain was locked in place with a bulky rubber coated padlock. The blacktop road ended at the chain. Beyond that, it was a dirt road, covered with gravel, that went toward a large, low building in the distance. I spent a lot of time contemplating the mystery of the posts and the chain. Someone had gone to a great deal of trouble to put them there, but they seemed like a poor solution to a problem that didn't really exist. If someone really wanted to go on the dirt road, all they had to do was drive into the field and go around the posts. And yet I never saw it happen

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Question at position 1

What does the word galvanized mean as it is used in the passage?

A a gate made of metal that can be opened

B thin and long sheets of metal made of copper

C coat (iron or steel) with a protective layer of zinc

D large metal (steel) fence to keep things out

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Question at position 2

What does the word contemplating mean as it is used in the passage

A worry about unfamiliar things

B when something is unknown

C try to figure out a mystery

D think about for a long time

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Question at position 1: What does the word galvanized mean as it is used in the passage?

C coat (iron or steel) with a protective layer of zinc

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Question at position 2: What does the word contemplating mean as it is used in the passage?

D think about for a long time