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Accuplacer Reading Comprehension Sample Questions : Sentence Relationship

Two sentences are followed by a question or a statement about them. Read each pair of sentences and then choose the best answer to the question or the best completion of the statement.

1. 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?

   1. It restates the idea found in the first.
   2. It states an effect.
   3. It gives an example.
   4. It analyzes the statement made in the first.

   Answer :B

2. The rain froze as it touched the ground.
   Roads were slippery and dangerous.

   How are the two sentences related?

   1. The second sentence contradicts the first.
   2. The two sentences set up a comparison.
   3. The second sentence shows a direct result of the first.
   4. The second sentence states what dangerous means.

   Answer :C

3. The American prison system functions primarily to extract retribution.
   In Japan, the courts are less concerned with sending people to jail than they are with rehabilitating them.

   What does the second sentence do?

   1. It supports an idea found in the first sentence.
   2. It analyzes an idea stated in the first sentence.
   3. It states a contrast to the statement in the first sentence.
   4. It exemplifies an idea found in the first sentence.

   Answer :C