PARAGRAPH COMPREHENSION - ASVAB EXAM QUESTIONS

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PARAGRAPH COMPREHENSION - ASVAB EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: There is a tremendous difference between " seeing " and orienting yourself.Mostly we orient ourselves. We walk through a door without noticing it. We enter a room and know where we are without being conscious of the color or texture of the walls. But it is consciousnesses of visual detail that constitutes

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She was surprised at they shiny black shell and old limbs of the beetle Question 2: An allergy is a hypersensitivity to substances that are essentially harmless. For as yet poorly understood reasons, the immune system malfunctions and marshals up an army of antibodies to fight these substances. For many allergies, this malfunction causes a large amount of histamine to flood into the bloodstream. It is overabundance of histamine that causes allergic symptoms such as headaches, rashes, and sneezing.The passage states all of the following about allergies EXCEPT

A: Allergic reaction is the result of a false alarm in the body immune system.

B: An allergic reaction is the result of a false alarm in the bodys immmune system C: Medical science does not fully understand why the body has an allergic reaction to the certain substances D: The body reacts to histamine in the bloodstream by producing antibodies to fight it

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B: an allergic reaction is the result of a false alarm in the body's immune system

Question 3: Roosevelt made a conscious use of the media from the moment he into the White House his press conference is served to educate news paper writers and through the nation about the complex novel measures he was advocating.

A: Improved the quality of journalism in the United States

B: Educated the nation about the press.

C: Did not use the media to influence public opinion

D: Was a president who recognized the power of press.

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was a president who recognized the power of press Question 4: and analysis of the mandatory oil quota program shows a separate folders were established for crude oil and for petroleum products trillion products were divided into light products mostly gasoline get fuel and desolate and heavy or fuel or products crude oil imports was it at approximately 10% of crude oil consumption of the passage of bars which of the following about oil quarter program

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The quota for residual fuel oil products was the same for crude oil .Question 5: Riding the Mill plain is a low budget way to visit America's largest national park wrangell st. Elias 13,000,000 acres of scenic beauty. Copper First you prospect used to this part of Alaska from 1991 to 1938 the Kennicott mine abandoned to thee ghost when the copper ran out According to the passage which of the following illustrates the correct sequence of events ?

A: Copper drew prospectors, copper ran out , town abandoned, tourist attraction

B: Copper drew prospectors , tourist attraction, copper ran out, town abandoned

C: Copper drew prospectors , copper ran out, tourist attraction, town abandoned

D: Copper drew prospectors, copper ran out, tourist attraction, copper ran out

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A: Copper drew prospectors , copper ran out , town abandoned , tourist attraction Question 6: according to Mark Twain, October is a particularly dangerous month to speculate in stocks. Others include July , January , September , April , November , May , March, June , December , August , and February.

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speculating in stocks is not a safe investment for your money.

Question 7: Physicists seek out those features of nature that are simple and universal. The secret of their success is not so much a matter of finding answers as it is asking the right questions. The trick is keeping the questions simple and sticking to universal phenomena.Simple questions can be answered unambiguously by careful observation of repeated experiments and by logical thinking.Which of the following questions is most clearly an example of the kind discussed in the paragraph

A: How can the destruction of the environment be prevented ?

B: What can people do to live happier lives ?

C: How fast do a stone of a particular size fall

D: How large was the meteorite that was observed last night?

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how fast do stones of a particular size fall ?Question 8: Weather radar is a great help to Palace in detecting thunderstorms however palace must be aware that radar does not reliably to take hell. Radar operates by transmitting a pulse of radio energy and receiving the pulse again after it is reflected by a target.according to the paragraph weather radar does not reliably detect hail because of

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Family pulse transmission by the radar Question 9: A period of time is usually measured by comparing it with another period of time what example a year on mercury is equal to 88 earth days. A year on Uranus is approximately 348 Mercury years.According to the passage, the way time is usually measures shows that time is

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Relative Question 10: From texas to Southern California , low water maintenance landscaping And the popularity of dessert things have me cactus very valuable considering the fact that cactus have extremely slow growth and reproduction rate Lesters it is a pate significance facets of the shallow rooted succulent removing kept this from state owned land however is a felony and if state lines are crossed that the 1900 Lacey at makes the same crown a federal offense.from the passage determine the sequence of events

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Cactus popularity, Transport of stolen cactus, cactus theft