ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension Practice Test 136656 Results

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Six years ago, lawyer-banker-scholar Charles Morris wrote a prophetic book - 'Two-Trillion-Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High-Rollers and the Great Credit Crunch' - that foresaw the 2008 Great Recession before it clobbered America and the world. Now Morris has reversed course and sees good times ahead. His forthcoming book, 'Comeback,' predicts that surging U.S. energy independence will bring a buoyant rise in American manufacturing and jobs.

This passage implies that you should pay attention to Charles Morris because:

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	The U.S. is becoming more energy independent.
	His first book was a best seller.
	His predictions have come true once already.
	He's a published author.

Solution

This passage implies that because Charles Morris foresaw the 2008 Great Recession that his opinions about future economic events are credible and should be paid attention to.

The Marion County Board of Supervisors has appointed a newly established Workforce Investment Board (WIB) , which will implement the Workforce Investment Act of 1998. WIB’s mandate is to provide key policy decisions affecting the local workforce development system, and to identify and certify the areas within Marion County where WorkSource Texas Centers are located to be designated as Workforce Investment Areas.

According to this passage:

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	The Workforce Investment Act will put into practice the Workforce Investment Board.
	WorkSource Texas Centers are unique to areas within Marion County.
	WIB is chiefly responsible for providing decisions related to policy.
	County Board of Supervisors passed the Workforce Investment Act.

Solution

The passage states that the WIB is mandated to "provide key policy decisions".

Volunteer hosts went to the airport, picked up assigned students, fed them dinner, took them to the opening lecture at the Clay Center, put them in spare bedrooms for the night, then fed them breakfast this morning and will deliver the outstanding teens to buses that convey them to the mountain retreat where they undergo a month of intensive science training and outdoor fun.

Luckily, this year, enough local families volunteered to host all the brilliant youths. In the past, the number of guest homes sometimes fell short, and some of the visitors slept on cots and sleeping bags at local churches. They're adventurous teens and don't mind this makeshift camp-in but it's better if friendly hosts give them a more personal welcome for their stay.

Which of the following topics would the next paragraph in this passage most likely cover?

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	Instructions for how local families can enroll their children in a similar program.
	Instructions for how local families can volunteer to become hosts.
	An overview of what the student's science training will cover.
	The story of a time when one of the students stole from his host family.

Solution

The author of this passage is painting a positive picture of the students and outlining their need for local host families. Although the next paragraph could be about the student's training, history of crime, or how local children can attend camps overseas the most likely next topic would be instructions for how local families can volunteer to become hosts.

In linguistics, the comparative method is a technique for studying the development of languages by performing a feature-by-feature comparison of two or more languages with common descent from a shared ancestor, as opposed to the method of internal reconstruction, which analyzes the internal development of a single language over time.

Which of the following would be the most useful for someone using the comparative method in linguistics when studying a particular language?

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	Old folk songs that have been passed down among generations of speakers of the language.
	Two editions of the same text written one-hundred years apart.
	An ancient text written in the language.
	The same text written in two different dialects of the language.

Solution

The wrong answers all provide insight into how a single language has changed over time while the text written in two different dialects offers an opportunity to compare languages that share a common ancestor.

The Mayan languages form a language family spoken in Mesoamerica and northern Central America. Mayan languages are spoken by at least 6 million indigenous Maya, primarily in Guatemala, Mexico, Belize and Honduras. In 1996, Guatemala formally recognized 21 Mayan languages by name, and Mexico recognizes eight more. The Mayan language family is one of the best documented and most studied in the Americas. Modern Mayan languages descend from Proto-Mayan, a language thought to have been spoken at least 5,000 years ago.

Based on this passage, which of the following statements is true?

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	Mayan languages are mainly spoken in South America.
	The Mayan language family is well documented.
	Not much is known about the Mayan language family.
	Proto-Mayan is a modern variation of Mayan.