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Intermediate Reading Comprehension – Informational Passages

Directions: Read the passage. Then answer questions about the passage below.

A PG-13 rating is an advisory issued by the Ratings Board to parents to determine whether children

under age 13 should view the motion picture, as some material might not be suitable for them. A PG-13 motion
picture may go beyond the PG rating in theme, violence, nudity,

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elements, but does not reach the restricted R category. The theme of the motion picture by itself will not result
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s of activities related to a mature theme may result in a

restricted rating for the motion picture. Any drug use will initially require at least a PG-13 rating. More than
brief nudity will require at least a PG-13 rating, but such nudity in a PG-13 rated motion picture generally will
not be sexually

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d. There may be depictions of violence in a PG-13 movie, but generally not both realistic

and extreme or persistent violence. A motion picture’s single use of one of the harsher sexually-

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though only as an expletive, initially requires at least a PG-13 rating. More than one such usage requires an R
rating. Nevertheless, the Ratings Board may rate such a motion picture PG-13 if, based on a special vote by a
two-thirds majority, the Raters feel that most American parents would believe that a PG-13 rating is appropriate
because of the context or manner in which the words are used or because the use of those words in the motion
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To explain the PG-13 movie rating.

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