NEXT-GENERATIONReadingSample QuestionsThe College BoardThe College Board is a mission-driven not-for-profit organization that connects students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900, the College Board was created to expand access to higher education. Today, the membership association is made up of over 6,000 of the world’s leading education institutions and is dedicated to promoting excellence and equity in education. Each year, the College Board helps more than seven million students prepare for a successful transition to college through programs and services in college readiness and college success—including the SAT® and the Advanced Placement Program®. The organization also serves the education community through research and advocacy on behalf of students, educators, and schools. Show For further information, visit collegeboard. ACCUPLACER Reading Sample QuestionsThe Next-Generation Reading test is a broad-spectrum computer adaptive assessment of test-takers’ developed ability to derive meaning from a range of prose texts and to determine the meaning of words and phrases in short and extended contexts. Passages on the test cover a range of content areas (including literature and literary nonfiction, careers/history/social studies, humanities, and science), writing modes (informative/ explanatory, argument, and narrative), and complexities (relatively easy to very challenging). Both single and paired passages are included. The test pool includes both authentic texts (previously published passages excerpted or minimally adapted from their published form) and commissioned texts (written specifically for the test). Questions are multiple choice in format and appear as both discrete (stand-alone) questions and as parts of sets of questions built around a common passage or passages. Four broad knowledge and skill categories are assessed: Information and Ideas (reading closely, determining central ideas and themes, summarizing, understanding relationships) Rhetoric (analyzing word choice rhetorically, analyzing text structure, analyzing point of view, analyzing purpose, analyzing arguments) Synthesis (analyzing multiple texts) Vocabulary © 2017 The College Board. College Board, ACCUPLACER, and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board. 00716- 019 Passage 1 Green Bank, West Virginia, is a tech-savvy teenager’s nightmare. In this tiny town in Pocahontas County— population 143—wireless signals are illegal. No cell phones. No WiFi. No radio. No Bluetooth. No electronic transmitters at all. You’re not even allowed to cozy up to an electric blanket. Te remote town is smack in the center of the National Radio Quiet Zone, a 13,000 square mile stretch of land designated by the Federal Communications Commission to protect two government radio telescopes from human-made interference. Te rules are most strict in Green Bank. So strict that a police ofcer roves the streets listening for forbidden wireless signals. It’s necessary, though. Te town is home to the Green Bank Telescope, the largest steerable radio telescope in the world—and arguably our most powerful link to the cosmos. Scientists there listen to radio energy that has journeyed light years, unlocking secrets about how the stars and galaxies formed. A rogue radio signal could prevent potential discoveries, discoveries that could answer big questions about how the universe ticks. Adapted from Lucas Reilly, “Te West Virginia Town Where Wireless Signals Are Illegal.” ©2013 by Mental Floss, Inc. Passage 2 Lawn mowers seem to have little in common with astronomy, but they are keeping astronomers at the National Radio Astronomical Observatory up at night. A new type of robotic lawn mower has been proposed that uses beacons to train the lawn mower to stay within property lines. Te beacons, placed around the yard, transmit at the same wavelength as interstellar molecules astronomers study to understand how stars form. Humans wouldn’t notice the tiny amount of energy given of by the beacons, but the Green Bank Telescope—the size of a football stadium—is so sensitive it can detect the energy given of by a snowfake as it melts. By simply mowing the lawn, a homeowner runs the risk of interfering with one of our greatest tools for studying the universe. Te manufacturer of one “lawnbot” requested a waiver to operate within the National Radio Quiet Zone. Astronomers countered with the suggestion that the beacons be reprogrammed to transmit at another wavelength not emitted by interstellar molecules. Alternately, astronomers want global positioning system (GPS) devices added to each lawnbot to prevent them from operating within the Quiet Zone.
As soon as I saw the Manhattan map, I wanted to draw it. I should be able to draw the place where I lived. So I asked Mom for tracing paper and she got it for me and I brought it into my fort and I pointed the light right down on the frst map in the Hagstrom Atlas—downtown, where Wall Street was and the stock market worked. Te streets were crazy down there; they didn’t have any kind of streets and avenues; they just had names and they looked like a game of Pick-Up Sticks. But before I could even worry about the streets, I had to get the land right. Manhattan was actually built on land. Sometimes when they were digging up the streets you saw it down there—real dirt! And the land had a certain curve to it at the bottom of the island, like a dinosaur head, bumpy on the right and straight on the lef, a swooping majestic bottom. From Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story. ©2006 by Ned Vizzini.
Te life of Edith Wharton is not an inspiriting rags- to-riches saga, nor is it a cautionary tale of riches to rags—riches to riches, rather. Born Edith Newbold Jones, in January of 1862, into one of the leading families of New York, the author maintained multiple establishments and travelled in the highest style, with a host of servants, augmenting her several inheritances by writing best-selling fction. In the Depression year of 1936, when two thousand dollars was a good annual income, her writing earned her a hundred and thirty thousand, much of it from plays adapted from her works. Yet her well-padded, auspiciously sponsored life was not an easy one. Te aristocratic social set into which she was born expected its women to be ornamental, well-sheltered, intellectually idle agents of their interwoven clans, whereas Edith was an awkward, red-haired bookworm and dreamer, teased by her two older brothers about her big hands and feet and out of sympathy with her intensely conventional mother, née Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander—a mother-daughter disharmony that rankled in Edith’s fction to the end. Adapted from John Updike, “Te Changeling,” a review of the biography Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee. ©2007 by Condé Nast.
Bones found in South America reveal a bizarre new dinosaur. Based on an ancestry that links it to Tyrannosaurus rex, this reptile should have been a meat eater. Instead, it preferred plants. Researchers described the new species in Nature. Its genus name—Chilesaurus—refects that it was found in what’s now Chile. Te team that discovered the fossils gave it a species name of diegosuarezi to honor Diego Suarez. While just 7 years old, Diego found the frst dinosaur bones in the same general area of Chile. It’s a place known as the Toqui Formation. C. diegosuarezi roamed South America 150 million years ago. It measured about 3 meters (roughly 10 feet) from head to tail. Its sturdy back legs, thin body and short, stout arms made it look a bit like T. re x. But it also had a long neck, small head and a mouth full of leaf-shaped teeth. Tose gave it a Brontosaurus-like appearance. And like the Brontosaurus, it would have eaten plants, making it an herbivore. Adapted from Ashley Yeager, “‘Frankenstein’ Dino Showed a Mashup of Traits.” ©2015 by Society for Science & the Public.
In this passage, “serialization” refers to the publication of installments, or parts, of an ongoing story in a newspaper or magazine. Te Pickwick Papers (1836-7) wasn’t the original serialized novel—the format had existed for at least a century prior—but it was the work that truly popularized the form. Te frst installment had a print order of 1,000 copies; by the time the fnal entry was published, circulation had reached 40,000. Buoyed by the success of Pickwick, Charles Dickens serialized his work for the rest of his career, and scores of other notable Victorian novelists joined the publishing craze. William Makepeace Tackeray’s Va n i t y Fair, Wilkie Collins’s Te Woman in White and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories all emerged as serials. Old and new magazines, such as Blackwood’s and Household Words, competed for established and emerging voices. Te constant infux of unresolved plots and elliptical section breaks stoked a fervor for fction in Victorian England. It wasn’t until book production became cheap and easy, and new mediums such as radio arose to fll leisure time, that serialization slowly shriveled away. Adapted from Hillary Kelly, “Bring Back the Serialized Novel.” ©2015 by the Washington Post.
Te neighborhood of Harlem in the twenties ofered up a cultural richness that made everything seem possible. Jervis Anderson, writing in the Ne w Yo rk e r in 1981, noted, “Harlem has never been more high-spirited and engaging than it was during the nineteen-twenties. Blacks from all over America and the Caribbean were pouring in, reviving the migration that had abated toward the end of the war—word having reached them about the ‘city,’ in the heart of Manhattan, that blacks were making their own.” Adapted from Hilton Als, “Te Sojourner.” ©2015 by Condé Nast.
Certainly, scholars are driven toward a “regression to the safe,” as science historian Alice Dreger puts it, though that is not, as she implies, particularly new in the Internet age. Since Galileo’s time, thinkers have relied on the patronage of others to fund their work, and that patronage—be it from government, business interests or individuals— generally extracts a price. In Galileo’s case, that meant sofening his position on the Copernican theory under pressure from the pope. In the case of science today, despite Dreger’s argument, that pressure comes less as a consequence of political correctness than of economic forces that have shifed academic and scientifc institutions to a corporate model not designed to prioritize public interests. In the academy, it is money far more than ideology that rules the day. Adapted from Ellen Ruppel Shell, “In Science, Has Evidence Given Way to Ideology?” ©2015 by the Washington Post.
Directions for questions 19- Sherry Turkle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been writing about human- technology interactions for the past three decades. She has become increasingly wary of the capacity of online spaces to fulfll us in the ways we seem to want them to. According to Turkle, part of the problem with the internet is that it encourages self-invention. “At the screen,” she writes in Alone Together (2011), “you have a chance to write yourself into the person you want to be and to imagine others as you wish them to be, constructing them for your purposes. It’s a seductive but dangerous habit of mind.” Te following sentence has a blank indicating that something has been lef out. Beneath the sentence are four words or phrases. Choose the word or phrase that, when inserted in the sentence, best fts the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
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A. evaluate conficting assessments B. present a sharp critique A. lavish C. propose a necessary remedy B. culpable D. provide background details C. antagonistic D. benign Rationales1. Choice B is the best answer. Sentence 1 notes that in the “landscape,” “only a few very old, weathered houses seemed to belong”; by contrast, the Players’ houses seemed “weightless,” “impermanent,” and “misplaced,” like “bright new toys.” Sentence 2 establishes that the Players’ automobiles “didn’t look right either,” that they appeared “unnecessarily wide and gleaming in the colors of candy and ice cream,” that they seemed “to wince at each splatter of mud,” and that they “crawled apologetically down the broken roads.” Choice A is incorrect because the Players’ homes and automobiles are neither old nor neglected; in fact, the passage indicates that the homes and automobiles are modern in relation to the “landscape” and “roads” (sentences 1-2) and that the automobiles are “gleaming” (sentence 2). Choice C is incorrect because the Players’ homes and automobiles are not small; for one thing, the automobiles are “unnecessarily wide” (sentence 2). Choice D is incorrect because there is no evidence in the passage that the Players’ homes and automobiles are unappreciated. 2. Choice A is the best answer. Sentence 9 establishes, in contrast to what is stated in sentence 8, that “there wasn’t plenty of time” and that the Players “all knew it.” Despite knowing better, the Players use the claim as part of the strategy described in sentence 8 to lighten the tense mood (“disarm each other,” “forgiving laughter”). Choice B is incorrect because the passage suggests that the source of the claim was the Players themselves, not the director. Choice C is incorrect because no outside observers are mentioned in the passage. Choice D is incorrect because the passage suggests that the source of the claim was the Players themselves, not the director, and because the claim is false, not realistic. 3. Choice D is the best answer. The descriptive language of sentence 10—notably, “static,” “shapeless,” “inhumanly heavy weight,” “promise of failure,” “apologetic nods and smiles,” “spastic haste,” “less explicit promises of failure”—serves primarily to convey a persistent mood of despair on the part of the Players toward the play. Choice A is incorrect because there is no evidence in the passage that the Players blame the director for the problems with the play. Choice B is incorrect because the passage indicates that the Players have relatively recently undertaken “a doubling and redoubling of their rehearsal schedule” (sentence 9). Choice C is incorrect because there is no evidence in the passage that the Players blame one another for the problems with the play; instead, they share a generalized sense of failure. 4. Choice D is the best answer. Sentence 10 indicates that the play “remained a static, shapeless, inhumanly heavy weight” even after numerous rehearsals. “With twenty-four hours to go,” however, the Players “had somehow managed to bring it off” (sentence 11). The narrator goes on to suggest that something about the break in routine near the very end of the rehearsal period was responsible. Feeling “giddy in the unfamiliar feel of make-up and costumes,” the Players “had forgotten to be afraid”; instead, “they had let the movement of the play come and carry them and break like a wave” and “had all put their hearts into their work” (sentence 12). Choice A is incorrect because the passage does mention that the transformative last rehearsal took place “tonight” (sentence 11) but does not clearly indicate the time of day during which prior rehearsals were held, and it seems likely, given the intensifying schedule (“doubling and redoubling,” sentence 9), that at least some prior rehearsals had taken place at night. Choice B is incorrect because sentence 9 asserts that the “doubling and redoubling” of the rehearsal schedule “seemed only to make matters worse.” Choice C is incorrect because there is no evidence in the passage that the director changed his or her style. 5. Choice B is the best answer. The first two paragraphs of Passage 1 describe what might seem like extremely harsh restrictions on wireless transmissions: “no electronic transmitters at all,” “you’re not even allowed to cozy up to an electric blanket,” “a police officer roves the streets listening for forbidden wireless signals.” The last paragraph of Passage 1 serves mainly to offer justification: the restrictions are “necessary” because “the town is home to the Green Bank Telescope,” and “a rogue radio signal could prevent potential discoveries.” Choice A is incorrect because the last paragraph of Passage 1 does not take a critical tone toward the electronics restrictions in Green Bank, instead describing them as “necessary.” Choices C and D are incorrect because no example is being given nor is a comparison being made; the whole passage is about Green Bank and its electronics restrictions. 6. Choice D is the best answer. Passage 2 indicates that the manufacturer of one “lawnbot” had “requested a waiver to operate within the National Radio Quiet Zone” and that astronomers had “countered with the suggestion that the beacons be reprogrammed” or that “global positioning system (GPS) devices” be “added to each lawnbot.” However, Passage 2 offers no evidence that the two sides have come to any resolution. Choice A is incorrect because while the manufacturer of one “lawnbot” had “requested a waiver to operate within the National Radio Quiet Zone,” there is no evidence in Passage 2 that the manufacturer received such a waiver. Choice B is incorrect because while astronomers had “countered with the suggestion that the beacons be reprogrammed to transmit at another wavelength,” there is no evidence in Passage 2 that the manufacturer reprogrammed the lawnbots. Choice C is incorrect because while astronomers had suggested that “global positioning system (GPS) devices” be “added to each lawnbot,” there is no evidence in Passage 2 that GPS devices have been installed. 7. Choice A is the best answer. Passage 1 mainly focuses on describing the National Radio Quiet Zone in general terms: “no electronic transmitters at all,” “a 13,000 square mile stretch of land” intended to “protect two government radio telescopes from human-made interference,” “a rogue radio signal could prevent potential discoveries.” Passage 2 mainly focuses on describing one particular threat to the zone’s integrity: the “lawnbot” that “transmit[s] at the same wavelength as interstellar molecules astronomers study to understand how stars form.” Choice B is incorrect because Passage 1 is only incidentally about Green Bank (as it just happens to be “smack in the center of the National Radio Quiet Zone”) and because describing the National Radio Quiet Zone in general terms is better considered the main focus of Passage 1, not Passage 2. Choice C is incorrect because the drawbacks of the National Radio Quiet Zone are not the main focus of Passage 1 (the author refers to the restriction as “necessary,” for example) and because the benefits of the zone are not the main focus of Passage 2. Choice D is incorrect because neither passage focuses mainly on either praising or criticizing astronomers. 8. Choice B is the best answer. Passage 1 notes that the Green Bank Telescope is vulnerable to “human-made interference” and that even “a rogue radio signal could prevent potential discoveries.” Passage 2 describes the telescope as “so sensitive it can detect the energy given off by a snowflake as it melts.” Choice A is incorrect because only Passage 1 mentions the Green Bank Telescope being able to “detect the energy given off by a snowflake as it melts,” and that passage does not suggest that such measurement would be a proper role for the telescope, which is instead designed to help astronomers “understand how stars form.” Choices C and D are incorrect because there is no evidence in either passage that increased sales of robotic lawn mowers may require the creation of more radio quiet zones or that people have been moving away from Pocahontas County. 14. Choice A is the best answer. The main focus of the passage is on the variety of the responsibilities of a construction manager, who must “learn a construction project from the planning stage... to the budgeting stage... to the production stage” and must “obtain work permits, hire contractors, troubleshoot emergencies, schedule walkthroughs and keep clients informed on work timetables and progress.” Choices B and D are incorrect because there is no information in the passage about the educational background required of a construction manager or about the amount of stress the construction manager career inflicts. Choice C is incorrect because there is no information in the passage about the kind of person for whom a construction manager career would be suitable beyond the broad claim that it is “ideal for someone who has a general interest in building a design.” 15. Choice A is the best answer. The author asserts that The Pickwick Papers “truly popularized” the form of the serialized novel, noting that the first installment had a print order of 1,000 copies and that circulation had climbed to 40,000 “by the time the final entry was published.” Choice B is incorrect because the passage indicates that unresolved plots and elliptical section breaks were merely features of serialized novels, ones that helped promote serialization’s success but were not themselves evidence of the success of serialization. Choices C and D are incorrect because the passage cites the decrease in cost of book production and the development of new mediums, such as radio, as causes of the decline of serialization (“slowly shriveled away”). 16. Choice B is the best answer. Harlem is identified in the passage as a “neighborhood” and “in the heart of Manhattan,” not an actual city, indicating that Anderson’s use of “city” is nonliteral. The passage most strongly suggests that Harlem is a “city” in the sense that it was a place that “blacks were making their own.” Choices A, C, and D are incorrect because there is no evidence in the passage that Anderson intended to introduce irony into his writing, was citing another author, or quoting dialogue. 17. Choice D is the best answer. The author contends that patronage of science “generally extracts a price” and that “in the case of science today... that pressure comes less as a consequence of political correctness than of economic forces that have shifted academic and scientific institutions to a corporate model not designed to prioritize public interests” and hence potentially hostile to the common good. The author concludes that “it is money far more than ideology that rules the day” in contemporary science. Choice A is incorrect because the author depicts the academic institutions with which scientists are affiliated as subject to larger “economic forces” that have shifted these institutions to “a corporate model.” Choice B is incorrect because there is no evidence in the passage that the author considers the overabundance of information available to scientists in the Internet age as the chief impairment of scientific research today or even that she sees information as overabundant. Choice C is incorrect because the idea that pressure on scientists to make their outcomes socially acceptable (“political correctness,” “ideology”) is the chief impairment of scientific research today is attributed to Alice Dreger, not to the author herself, who argues a different position “despite Dreger’s argument.” 18. Choice B is the best answer. The passage focuses mainly on presenting the critique of the Internet offered by Sherry Turkle, who “has become increasingly wary of the capacity of online spaces to fulfill us in the ways we seem to want them to” and feels that the Internet encourages “a seductive but dangerous habit of mind.” Choice A is incorrect because only Sherry Turkle’s assessment is presented in the passage. Choice C is incorrect because the passage does not propose a remedy; it only presents Turkle’s assessment of a problem. Choice D is incorrect because while the passage does present some details that might be considered background (e., that Turkle works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology), the passage focuses mainly on Turkle’s critique of the Internet’s ability to support self-invention. 19. Choice C is the best answer. “Worthy of” means deserving respect or praise, which is consistent with the idea in the sentence that the film committee began looking for new candidates for the award when the original nominees proved unsatisfactory. Choices A, B, and D are incorrect because it makes no sense in context to describe unsatisfactory nominees for an award as being “known for” or “pleased with” the award (since none of them has received it) or “interested in” the award (since the nominees’ interest is irrelevant to their qualifications). 20. Choice D is the best answer. One definition of “benign” is “having no significant effect: harmless,” which is consistent with how “benign” is used in the sentence to refer to a technology that operates “with essentially no emissions.” Choices A, B, and C are incorrect because it makes no sense in context to refer to a technology that operates “with essentially no emissions” as “lavish” (abundant, profuse, excessive), “culpable” (deserving blame), or “antagonistic” (showing dislike or opposition). How do I pass the Accuplacer reading comprehension?Strategies for taking the Accuplacer Reading Comprehension Test. Read the Question Before You Read the Passage. ... . Note the Key Word in the Question. ... . Read the Passage and Take Notes. ... . Use Your Own Words to Answer the Question. ... . Read All of the Answer Choices. ... . Learn to Spot Incorrect Answers. ... . Use the Process of Elimination.. How many questions are on the accuplacer reading test?Each Accuplacer test section has a designated number of questions: Reading Comprehension (20 questions), Sentence Skills (20 questions), Elementary Algebra (12 questions), Arithmetic (17 questions), College Algebra (20 questions).
How hard is the accuplacer reading test?The ACCUPLACER Reading Comprehension practice test has a relatively low difficulty rating. On average, people complete it in about 15 minutes. All of the concepts included in the practice are featured on the real test.
What is NextThe Next-Generation Reading test is a broad-spectrum computer adaptive assessment. of test-takers' developed ability to derive meaning from a range of prose texts and to. determine the meaning of words and phrases in short and extended contexts.
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Which conclusion can reasonably be drawn about the status of the Lawnbot issue at the time of the writing of this passage?
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