READING EXAM 2024/2025
Which of the following would be most similar to the
examples the author provides in the passage? - CORRECT ANSWER C. A person's
unfiltered first reaction to a major event becomes widely known because that person
posts it online.
The passage most strongly emphasizes which aspect of the job of construction
management? - CORRECT ANSWER A. The variety of its responsibilities
Which of the following does the author offer as evidence to support the point that, for a
time, serialization was highly successful? - CORRECT ANSWER A. The change in
circulation for The Pickwick Papers
Based on the passage, Anderson puts "city" in quotation marks most likely to -
CORRECT ANSWER B. signal a nonliteral usage
It can reasonably be concluded from the passage that in
the author's opinion, scientific research today is chiefly impaired by the - CORRECT
ANSWER D. operation of economic forces potentially hostile to
the common good
The main purpose of the passage is to - CORRECT ANSWER B. present a sharp
critique
Deciding that none of the nominees was ______________
the award, the film committee began reviewing a new group of candidates with better
qualifications. - CORRECT ANSWER C. worthy of
Nuclear engineer Meena Mutyala argues that nuclear
power is an environmentally ______________ technology, operating with essentially no
emissions. - CORRECT ANSWER D. benign
The contrasts the narrator draws in sentences 1 and 2 between the Players' homes and
the houses in the "landscape" and between the Players' automobiles and the "roads"
are most likely meant to suggest that the
Players' homes and automobiles are - CORRECT ANSWER B. modern and alien
Based on the passage, which of the following most accurately characterizes the claim
that "there was plenty
of time to smooth the thing out" (sentence 8)? - CORRECT ANSWER A. A comforting
falsehood that the Players know to be
untrue