Accuplacer Reading Comprehension Reviewed Exam Set Questions With Revised Correct Answers
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Accuplacer Reading Comprehension
Reviewed Exam Set Questions With
Revised Correct Answers
The Romance languages, which include Spanish, Portuguese,
French, Italian, and Romanian, can all be traced back to Vulgar
Latin, which was spoken by the soldiers, merchants, and settlers
of the Rom...
Accuplacer Reading Comprehension
Reviewed Exam Set Questions With
Revised Correct Answers
The Romance languages, which include Spanish, Portuguese,
French, Italian, and Romanian, can all be traced back to Vulgar
Latin, which was spoken by the soldiers, merchants, and settlers
of the Roman Empire. With few exceptions, Romance languages
have lost the declension system of Latin and, as a result, have
subject-verb-object sentence structure and make extensive use
of prepositions. This common origin explains many of the
similarities in vocabulary, grammar, and sentence structure
found among these languages.
From this passage we can conclude that...
(A.) all Spanish speakers can fully understand French.
(B.) Latin is no longer spoken.
(C.) verb endings are not important in the Romance languages.
(D). all of the Romance languages had their origins in Vulgar
Latin. - ANSWER From this passage we can conclude that...
(D.) all of the Romance languages had their origins in Vulgar
Latin.
, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, commonly known
as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter,
architect, poet, and engineer. His works include the David and
Pieta statues, which are among the world's most well-known
sculptures. He painted the ceiling of Rome's Sistine Chapel.
Michelangelo was the architect who designed the Laurentian
Library in Florence and St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
The primary purpose of this passage is to...
(A.) enumerate the most well-known works of Michelangelo.
(B.) identify the painter of the Sistine Chapel.
(C.) list Michelangelo's works which are located in Rome.
(D.) state the correct, full name of Michelangelo. - ANSWER
The primary purpose of this passage is to...
(A.) enumerate the most well-known works of Michelangelo.
An international team of researchers has sequenced the
genome of the bonobo for the first time, confirming that it
shares the same percentage of its DNA, approximately 99%,
with us as chimps do. According to these scientists, these two
African apes, chimpanzees and bonobos, are the closest
relatives to man in the animal kingdom. The researchers now
believe that the ancestor of humans split with the common
, ancestor of bonobos and chimps between 4 million and 7
million years ago in Africa.
From this passage, we can conclude that...
(A.) mankind definitely evolved from the apes.
(B.) mankind is more like chimpanzees than bonobos.
(C.) there is strong DNA evidence supporting the theory that
mankind evolved from the apes.
(D.) the first men could not have originated in Africa. - ANSWER
From this passage, we can conclude that...
(C.) there is strong DNA evidence supporting the theory that
mankind evolved from the apes.
Marie Curie, born Maria Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw,
Poland, in 1867. She is famous for her ground-breaking work
with radioactive materials, including the discovery of the
element polonium, which was named after her homeland. She
was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 and the Nobel
Prize for Chemistry in 1911 in recognition of the importance of
her work in radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a
Nobel Prize, the only woman to win in two fields, and the only
person to win in multiple sciences. Throughout her life, Mme.
Curie promoted the use of radium for therapeutic purposes to
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