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Officer Candidate Tests Practice Test: Reading Comprehension Passage 1
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Questions below are based on the passage shown below.     Arsonists are persons who set fires deliberately. They don’t look like criminals, but they cost the nation millions of dollars in property loss and sometimes loss of life. Arsonists set fires for many different reasons. Sometimes a shopkeeper sees no way out of losing his business and sets fire to it to collect the insurance. Another type of arsonist is one who wants revenge and sets fire to the home or shop of someone he feels has treated him unfairly. Some arsonists just like the excitement of seeing the fire burn and watching the... Show more
Officer Candidate Tests Practice Test: Reading Comprehension Passage 1
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1. A good or service has value only because people want it. Value is an extrinsic quality wholly created in the minds of people and is not intrinsic in the property itself. According to this passage, it is correct to say that an object will be valuable if it is
2. There are only two grooves on a record—one on each side. The groove is cut in a spiral on the surface of the record. For stereophonic sound, a different sound is recorded in each wall of the groove. The pickup produces two signals, one of which goes to the left-hand speaker and one to the right-hand speaker. Stereophonic sound is produced by
3. You can tell a frog from a toad by its skin. In general, a frog’s skin is moist, smooth, and shiny, while a toad’s skin is dry, dull, and rough or covered with warts. Frogs are also better at jumping than toads are. You can recognize a toad by its
4. Most solids, like most liquids, expand when heated and contract when cooled. To allow for this, roads, sidewalks, and railroad tracks are constructed with spacings between sections so that they can expand during the hot weather. If roads, sidewalks, and railroad tracks were not constructed with spacings between sections,
5. You can tell a frog from a toad by its skin. In general, a frog’s skin is moist, smooth, and shiny, while a toad’s skin is dry, dull, and rough or covered with warts. Frogs are also better at jumping than toads are. You can recognize a toad by its
6. According to the passage above, we may conclude that arsonists
7. There are only two grooves on a record—one on each side. The groove is cut in a spiral on the surface of the record. For stereophonic sound, a different sound is recorded in each wall of the groove. The pickup produces two signals, one of which goes to the left-hand speaker and one to the right-hand speaker. Stereophonic sound is produced by
8. According to the passage above, an arsonist is a person who
9. The lead-acid storage battery is used for storing energy in its chemical form. The battery does not actually store electricity but converts an electrical charge into chemical energy that is stored until the battery terminals are connected to a closed external circuit. When the circuit is closed, the battery’s chemical energy is transformed back into electrical energy, and as a result, current flows through the circuit. According to this passage, a lead-acid battery stores
10. Most solids, like most liquids, expand when heated and contract when cooled. To allow for this, roads, sidewalks, and railroad tracks are constructed with spacings between sections so that they can expand during the hot weather. If roads, sidewalks, and railroad tracks were not constructed with spacings between sections,
11. Arsonists have been known to help fight fires because they
12. Iron is used in making our bridges and skyscrapers, subways and steamships, railroads and automobiles, and nearly all kinds of machinery—besides millions of small articles, from the farmer’s scythe to the tailor’s needle. The paragraph best supports the statement that iron
13. It is a common assumption that city directories are prepared and published by the cities concerned. However, the directory business is as much a private business as is the publishing of dictionaries and encyclopedias. The companies financing the publication make their profits through the sales of the directories themselves and through the advertising in them. The paragraph best supports the statement that

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