ACCUPLACER Reading
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1. The contrasts the narrator draws in sentences 1 and modern and alien
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
2. Based on the passage, which of the following most ac- A comforting falsehood
curately characterizes the claim that "there was plenty that the Players know to be
of time to smooth the thing out" (sentence 8)? untrue
Clumping their heavy galoshes around the stage, blot-
ting at their noses with Kleenex and frowning at the
unsteady print of their scripts, they would disarm each
other at last with peals of forgiving laughter, and they
would agree, over and over, that there was plenty of
time to smooth the thing out.
3. The descriptive language in sentence 10 is mainly in- persistent mood of de-
tended to reinforce the passage's depiction of the Play- spair regarding the play
ers'
Long after the time had come for what the director
called "really getting this thing off the ground; really
making it happen," it remained a static, shapeless,
inhumanly heavy weight; time and time again they
read the promise of failure in each other's eyes, in the
apologetic nods and smiles of their parting and the
spastic haste with which they broke for their cars and
drove home to whatever older, less explicit promises of
failure might lie in wait for them there
4. The narrator most strongly suggests that which of the
following resulted in the transformation described in
, ACCUPLACER Reading
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the last paragraph The break in routine oc-
curring the day before the
And now tonight, with twenty-four hours to go, they first performance
had somehow managed to bring it off. Giddy in the
unfamiliar feel of make-up and costumes on this first
warm evening of the year, they had forgotten to be
afraid: they had let the movement of the play come
and carry them and break like a wave; and maybe it
sounded corny (and what if it did?) but they had all put
their hearts into their work. Could anyone ever ask for
more than that?
5. The main purpose of the last paragraph of Passage 1 justification
is to offer
It's necessary, though. Te town is home to the Green
Bank Telescope, the largest steerable radio telescope
in the world—and arguably our most powerful link to
the cosmos. Scientists there listen to radio energy that
has journeyed light years, unlocking secrets about how
the stars and galaxies formed. A rogue radio signal
could prevent potential discoveries, discoveries that
could answer big questions about how the universe
ticks.
6. Which conclusion can reasonably be drawn about the Te manufacturer and as-
status of the "lawnbot" issue at the time of the writing tronomers have yet to re-
of Passage 2? solve their conflict.
Lawn mowers seem to have little in common with
astronomy, but they are keeping astronomers at the
National Radio Astronomical Observatory up at night.
A new type of robotic lawn mower has been proposed
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1. The contrasts the narrator draws in sentences 1 and modern and alien
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
2. Based on the passage, which of the following most ac- A comforting falsehood
curately characterizes the claim that "there was plenty that the Players know to be
of time to smooth the thing out" (sentence 8)? untrue
Clumping their heavy galoshes around the stage, blot-
ting at their noses with Kleenex and frowning at the
unsteady print of their scripts, they would disarm each
other at last with peals of forgiving laughter, and they
would agree, over and over, that there was plenty of
time to smooth the thing out.
3. The descriptive language in sentence 10 is mainly in- persistent mood of de-
tended to reinforce the passage's depiction of the Play- spair regarding the play
ers'
Long after the time had come for what the director
called "really getting this thing off the ground; really
making it happen," it remained a static, shapeless,
inhumanly heavy weight; time and time again they
read the promise of failure in each other's eyes, in the
apologetic nods and smiles of their parting and the
spastic haste with which they broke for their cars and
drove home to whatever older, less explicit promises of
failure might lie in wait for them there
4. The narrator most strongly suggests that which of the
following resulted in the transformation described in
, ACCUPLACER Reading
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the last paragraph The break in routine oc-
curring the day before the
And now tonight, with twenty-four hours to go, they first performance
had somehow managed to bring it off. Giddy in the
unfamiliar feel of make-up and costumes on this first
warm evening of the year, they had forgotten to be
afraid: they had let the movement of the play come
and carry them and break like a wave; and maybe it
sounded corny (and what if it did?) but they had all put
their hearts into their work. Could anyone ever ask for
more than that?
5. The main purpose of the last paragraph of Passage 1 justification
is to offer
It's necessary, though. Te town is home to the Green
Bank Telescope, the largest steerable radio telescope
in the world—and arguably our most powerful link to
the cosmos. Scientists there listen to radio energy that
has journeyed light years, unlocking secrets about how
the stars and galaxies formed. A rogue radio signal
could prevent potential discoveries, discoveries that
could answer big questions about how the universe
ticks.
6. Which conclusion can reasonably be drawn about the Te manufacturer and as-
status of the "lawnbot" issue at the time of the writing tronomers have yet to re-
of Passage 2? solve their conflict.
Lawn mowers seem to have little in common with
astronomy, but they are keeping astronomers at the
National Radio Astronomical Observatory up at night.
A new type of robotic lawn mower has been proposed
