Reading Comprehension Quiz

Example Questions From the Test

• 1Passage: To serve residents who commute, the town library will open at 7 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays for a six-week trial. Saturday hours will remain unchanged. Staff will record attendance before deciding whether to keep the new schedule. What is the main purpose of the passage?
  • To announce that the library is permanently expanding all of its hours
  • To describe a trial of earlier weekday openings and how it will be evaluated
  • To explain why Saturday attendance has recently declined
  • To compare the town library's schedule with those of nearby libraries
• 2Passage: A café placed reminder signs beside its reusable cups, and cup use increased the following week. During that same week, the café also began offering a discount to customers who selected reusable cups. Which additional finding would best support the claim that the signs themselves increased reusable-cup use?
  • Customers reported that they generally approved of reducing disposable waste
  • At comparable cafés without discounts, cup use rose where the same signs appeared but stayed stable where they did not
  • The café purchased more reusable cups before introducing either change
  • Disposable cups remained available throughout the week
• 3Passage: A sensor in the rooftop garden showed that the upper two centimeters of soil were dry, although moisture remained deeper down. With a hot afternoon forecast, the gardeners added a small amount of water at dawn to reduce evaporation without saturating the roots. Why did the gardeners use only a small amount of
  • They wanted to wash dust from the leaves without watering the soil
  • They believed roots could absorb water only before sunrise
  • They expected all existing moisture to evaporate before noon
  • They knew moisture remained below the surface and wanted to avoid excessive watering