All 3 Uses

passage
in
A Hologram for the King
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Still, he sent Alan pages, with passages highlighted.
p. 6.6 *

passages = short parts of longer written works
She would read him passages from the diary of some distant relative, a woman living in the woods of what was now western Massachusetts.
p. 286.6

Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:

The growth was too close to his spinal cord, and had altered the passage of signals from his brain to the rest of him.†
p. 187.3 *

Definitions:

(1) (passage as in: In lines 1-9 of the passage...)
a short part of a longer written work

This meaning of passage is commonly seen on standardized tests like the SAT and ACT.
(2) (meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus)
More frequently, passage refers to a passageway for travel or to the act of traveling. It can also refer to the passing of time or of a law. See a comprehensive dictionary for the many meanings of passage, but for comfort taking standardized tests like the SAT and ACT, be very familiar with passage being used to refer to a short excerpt from a longer written work.