Accuplacer Practice Test - Reading Comprehension

 

1. Narrative Question: Read the statement or passage and then choose the best answer to the question. Answer the question on the basis of what is stated or implied in the statement or passage.

There are two types of pottery that I do. There is production pottery-mugs, tableware, the kinds of things that sell easily. These pay for my time to do the other work, which is more creative and satisfies my needs as an artist.

The author of this passage implies that:

    artists have a tendency to waste valuable time

    creativity and mass-production are incompatible

    most people do not appreciate good art

    pottery is not produced by creative artists

 

2. Sentence Relationships Question: Two BOLD sentences are followed by a question or statement about them. Read each pair of sentences and then choose the best answer to the question or the best completion of the statement.

The Midwest is experiencing its worst drought in fifteen years.

Corn and soybean prices are expected to be very high this year.

    It restates the idea found in the first.

    It gives an example.

    It states an effect

    It analyzes the statement made in the first.

 

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