Answers to Sample Accuplacer Questions: Reading Comprehension

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.

1.   Myths are stories, the products of fertile imagination, sometimes simple, often containing profound truths. They are not meant to be taken too literally.  Details may sometimes appear childish, but most myths express a culture's most serious beliefs about human beings, eternity, and God.

The main idea of this passage is that myths
       A. are created primarily to entertain young children
       B. are purposely written for the reader who lacks imagination
       C. provide the reader with a means of escape from reality
       D. illustrate the values that are considered important to a society

2.  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 the passage implies that:
        A. artists have a tendency to waste valuable time.
        B. creativity and mass-production are incompatible.
        C. most people do not appreciate good art.
        D. pottery is not produced by creative artists.

The following two bolded sentences are followed by a question or statement about them. Read the 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.

What does the second sentence do?
       A.  It restates the idea found in the first.
       B.  It states an effect.
       C.  It gives an example.
       D.  It analyzes the statement made in the first.

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