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Police Officer Exam: Reading Practice Test 3
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Before you solve these reading comprehension questions, some essential tips that may help you: - Read the questions and underline key words.     - Skim the selection to get a general idea of the subject matter, the point that is being made, and the organization of the material.     - Reread the selection, giving attention to details and point of view. Underscore key words and phrases.     - If the author has quoted material from another source, be sure that you understand the purpose of the quote. Does the author agree or disagree?     - Carefully read each question or incomplete... Show more
Police Officer Exam: Reading Practice Test 3
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1. “Law must be stable and yet it cannot stand still” means most nearly that
2. “The safeguard of democracy is education. The education of youth during a limited period of more or less compulsory attendance at school does not suffice. The educative process is a lifelong one.” Which of the following statements is most consistent with this quotation?
3. “As a rule, police officers, through service and experience, are familiar with the duties and the methods and means required to perform them. Yet, left to themselves, their aggregate effort would disintegrate and the vital work of preserving the peace would never be accomplished.” According to this statement, which of the following conclusions is most accurate?
4. “The force reconciling and coordinating all human conflicts and directing people in the harmonious accomplishment of their work is the supervisor. To deal with people successfully, the first one a supervisor must learn to work with is him-or herself.” According to the quotation, which of the following conclusions is most accurate?
5. “On the other hand, the treatment of prisoners on a basis of direct reform is foredoomed to failure. Neither honest persons nor criminals will tolerate a bald proposition from anyone to alter their characters or habits, least of all if we attempt to gain such a change by a system of coercion.” According to this quotation, criminals
6. “The police officer’s art consists in applying and enforcing a multitude of laws and ordinances in such degree or proportion and in such manner that the greatest degree of social protection will be secured. The degree of enforcement and the method of application will vary with each neighborhood and community.” According to this statement,
7. “He who by command, counsel, or assistance procures another to commit a crime is, in morals and in law, as culpable as the visible actor himself, for the reason that the criminal act, whichever it may be, is imputable to the person who conceived it and set the forces in motion for its actual accomplishment.” Of the following, the most accurate inference from this statement is that
8. “While much thought has been devoted to the question of how to build walls high enough to keep persons temporarily in prison, we have devoted very little attention to the treatment necessary to enable them to come out permanently cured, inclined to be friends rather than enemies of their law-abiding fellow citizens.” According to this quotation, much thought has been devoted to the problem of prisons as
9. A statute states: “A person who steals an article worth less than $100 where no aggravating circumstances accompany the act is guilty of petit larceny. If the article is worth $100 or more, it may be larceny second degree.” If all you know is that Edward Smith stole an article worth $100, it may reasonably be said that
10. “The treatment to be given the offender cannot alter the fact of the offense; but we can take measures to reduce the chance of similar acts occurring in the future. We should banish the criminal, not in order to exact revenge nor directly to encourage reform, but to deter that person and others from further illegal attacks on society.” According to the quotation, prisoners should be punished in order to
11. “Community organization most often includes persons whose behavior is unconventional in relation to generally accepted social definition, if such persons wield substantial influence with the residents.” The inference one can most validly draw from this statement is that
12. A police department rule reads as follows: “A Deputy Commissioner acting as Police Commissioner shall carry out the orders of the Police Commissioner, previously given, and such orders shall not, except in cases of extreme emergency, be countermanded.” This means most nearly that, except in cases of extreme emergency,
13. “In examining the scene of a homicide, one should not only look for the usual, standard traces—fingerprints, footprints, and so on—but should also have eyes open for details that at first glance may not seem to have any connection with the crime.” The most logical inference to be drawn from this statement is that
14. “A ‘felony’ is a crime punishable by death or imprisonment in a state prison, and any other crime is a ‘misdemeanor.’ ” According to this quotation, the decisive distinction between “felony” and “misdemeanor” is the
15. “A ‘crime’ is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law either forbidding or commanding it.” This statement implies most nearly that

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