Test Prep CBEST-SECTION-2 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

Test Prep CBEST-SECTION-2 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 81:

  On the basis of above table please answer the following question

  

  The largest number of men in the Baidya caste of Madaripur are involved in which field?

  A. education
  B. agriculture
  C. government
  D. publishing
  E. trade
  A. education

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  Explanation/Reference:

  The question asks for what field the most men are involved instead of employed. The answer would include students, who are not necessarily salaried workers. Therefore, combining the number of students and teachers gives the largest number involved in education.

• Question 82:

  Ratatouille is a dish that has grown in popularity worldwide over the last few years. Essentially, ratatouille is a vegetable stew, which usually features eggplant, zucchini, tomato, peppers, and garlic, chopped, mixed together, sauteed briefly,

  and finally, cooked slowly over low heat. As the vegetables cook slowly, they make their own broth, which may be extended with a little tomato paste. The name ratatouille comes from the French word touiller, meaning to stir or mix together.

  On the basis of above passage please answer the following question

  According to the information presented in the passage, what should one do immediately after chopping the vegetables?

  A. saute them
  B. mix them together
  C. cook them slowly over low heat
  D. add tomato paste
  E. add garlic
  B. mix them together

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  Explanation/Reference:

  The actions in choices a, c, and d, come after chopping the vegetables, but not immediately. Choice e is actually mentioned before the direction to chop the vegetables.

• Question 83:

  It has been more than twenty-five years since the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) last sent a craft to land on the moon. The Lunar Prospector took off in January of 1998, in the first moon shot since astronauts last walked on the moon in 1972. This time, the moon-traveller is only a low-cost robot, who will spend a year on the surface of the moon, collecting minerals and ice. Unlike the moon shots of the 1960s and 1970s, Lunar Prospector does not carry a camera, so the American public will not get to see new pictures of the moons surface. ______________________________. Scientists are anxious for the results of one exploration in particularthat done by the neutron spectrometer. Using this instrument, Prospector will examine the moons poles, searching for signs of water ice. There has long been speculation that frozen water from comets may have accumulated in craters at one of the moons poles and may still be there, as this pole is permanently shielded from the sun. The neutron spectrometer seeks out the hydrogen atoms in water and can detect the presence of as little as one cup of water in a cubic yard of soil. On the basis of above passage please answer the following question Which of the following kinds of publications would most likely contain this passage?

  A. an astrophysics text book
  B. a history text book
  C. a collection of personal essays
  D. a general circulation magazine
  E. an internal NASA memo
  D. a general circulation magazine

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  Explanation/Reference:

  This passage is written in a style directed to a general audience; therefore, choices a, b, and e are not correct, as they are aimed toward specialized audiences.

  Nor is this passage in the style of a personal essay (choice c), which would contain impressions and conclusions. The articles in general circulation magazines are aimed toward wide audiences, as is this passage.

• Question 84:

  (1)

  Produced in 1959, Lorraine Hansberrys play, A Raisin in the Sun, was a quietly revolutionary work that depicted African-American life in a fresh, new, and realistic way. The play made her the youngest American, the first African-American,

  and the fifth woman to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best

  Play of the Year. In 1961, it was produced as a film starring Sydney Poitier and has since become a classic, providing inspiration for an entire generation of

  African-American writers.

  (2)

  Hansberry was not only an artist but also a political activist and the daughter of activists. Born in Chicago in 1930, she was a member of a prominent family devoted to civil rights.Her father was a successful real-estate broker, who won an

  anti-segregation case before the Illinois Supreme Court in the mid-1930s, and her uncle was a Harvard professor. In her home, Hansberry was privileged to meet many influential cultural and intellectual leaders. Among them were artists and

  activists such as Paul Robeson, W.E.B. DuBois, and Langston Hughes.

  (3)

  The success of A Raisin in the Sun helped gain an audience for her passionate views on social justice. It mirrors one of Hansberrys central artistic efforts, that of freeing many people from the smothering effects of stereotyping by depicting

  the wide array of personality types and aspirations that exist within one Southside

  Chicago family. A Raisin in the Sun was followed by another play, produced in 1964, The Sign in Sidney Brusteins Window. This play is about an intellectual in

  Greenwich Village, New York City, a man who is open-minded and generous of spirit who, as Hansberry wrote, "cares about it all. It takes too much energy not to care."

  (4)

  Lorraine Hansberry died on the final day of the plays run on Broadway. Her early death, at the age of 34, was unfortunate, as it cut short a brilliant and promising career, one that, even in its short span, changed the face of American

  theater. After her death, however, her influence continued to be felt. A dramatic adaptation of her autobiography, To Be Young, Gifted, and Black, consisted of vignettes based on Hansberrys plays, poems, and other writings. It was produced

  Off-Broadway in 1969 and appeared in book form the following year.Her play, Les Blancs, a drama set in Africa, was produced in 1970; and A Raisin in the Sun was adapted as a musical, Raisin, and won a Tony award in 1973.

  (5)

  Even after her death, her dramatic works have helped gain an audience for her essays and speeches on wide-ranging topics, from world peace to the evils of the mistreatment of minorities, no matter what their race, and especially for her

  works on the civil-rights struggle and on the effort by Africans to be free of colonial rule. She was a woman,much like the characters in her best-known play, who was determined to be free of racial, cultural, or genderbased constraints.

  On the basis of above passage please answer the following question.

  Hansberrys father earned his living as

  A. a civil-rights worker.
  B. a banker.
  C. a real-estate broker.
  D. an artist and activist.
  E. an attorney.
  C. a real-estate broker.

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  Explanation/Reference:

  See the third sentence of paragraph 2. Her father definitely worked in the cause of civil rights (choice a), but he did not earn his living that way (choice e). There was no mention of her fathers being either a banker (choice b) or an artist (choice d).

• Question 85:

  Poet William Blake believed that true religion is revealed through art, not through nature. For Blake, it is through art also that eternity is revealed. One does not have to die to reach eternity; eternity is the moment of vision. It is only through the

  reordering of sense impressions by the creative imagination that we are able, as Blake says in his "Auguries of Innocence," "To see the World in a Grain of Sand / . . .And Eternity in an hour."

  On the basis of above passage please answer the following question.

  Which of the following would best describe what Blake meant by the words "To see the World in a Grain of Sand / . . . And Eternity in an hour?"

  A. a moment of mystical enlightenment
  B. conversion to Christianity
  C. a moment of artistic inspiration
  D. an hallucinatory experience
  E. a return to a state of being without sin
  A. a moment of mystical enlightenment

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  Explanation/Reference:

  According to the passage, Blake believed that, through art (that is, through the reordering of sense impression by the creative imagination) true religion is revealed. Artistic inspiration (choice c) might be involved, but the words religion and moment of vision point towards a mystical experience, rather than a primarily artistic one. There is no mention in the passage of Christianity or sin (choices b and e) and no hint that the author views Blakes moment of vision as a false perception (hallucinatory experience, choice d).

• Question 86:

  Off-site disposal of regulated medical wastes remains a viable option for smaller hospitals (those with less than 150 beds). However, some preliminary on-site processing, such as compaction or hydropulping, may be necessary prior to sending the wastes off-site. Compaction reduces the total volume of solid wastes, often reducing transportation and disposal costs, but does not change the hazardous characteristics of the waste. However, compaction may not be economical if transportation and disposal costs are based on weight rather than volume. Hydropulping involves grinding the waste in the presence of an oxidizing fluid, such as hypochlorite solution. One advantage of hydropulping is that waste can be rendered innocuous and reduced in size within the same system. Disadvantages are the added operating burden, difficulty of controlling fugitive emission, and the difficulty of conducting microbiological tests to determine whether all organic matters and infectious organisms from the waste have been destroyed. On-site disposal is a feasible alternative for hospitals generating two tons per day or more total of solid waste. Common treatment techniques include steam sterilization and incineration. Although other options are available, incineration is currently the preferred method for on-site treatment of hospital waste. A properly designed, maintained, and operated incinerator achieves a relatively high level of organism destruction. Incineration reduces the weight and volume of the waste as much as 95 percent and is especially appropriate for pathological wastes. On the basis of above passage please answer the following question The process that transforms waste from hazardous to harmless AND diminishes waste volume is

  A. sterilization.
  B. hydropulping.
  C. oxidizing.
  D. processing.
  E. compacting.
  B. hydropulping.

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  Explanation/Reference:

  See sentence four of the second paragraph. The effects of sterilization of waste (choice a) is not included in the passage. Oxidizing (choice c) is simply a part of the process of hydropulping. Processing (choice d) is the general category that includes all the methods of disposing of medical wastes. While compacting (choice e) does change the volume of the waste, it is not appropriate for eliminating hazardous materials.

• Question 87:

  Moscow has a history of chaotic periods of war that ended with the destruction of a once largely wooden city and the building of a "new" city on top of the rubble of the old. The result is a layered city, with each tier holding information about a part of Russias past. In some areas of the city, archaeologists have reached the layer from 1147, the year of Moscows founding. Among the findings from the various periods of Moscows history are carved bones, metal tools, pottery, glass,

  jewelry, and crosses.

  On the basis of above passage please answer the following question.

  From the passage, the reader can infer that

  A. the people of Moscow are more interested in modernization than in preservation.
  B. the Soviet government destroyed many of the historic buildings in Russia.
  C. Moscow is the oldest large city in Russia, founded in 1147.
  D. Moscow has a history of invasions, with each new conqueror razing past structures.
  E. Moscow has endured many periods of uprising and revolution.
  D. Moscow has a history of invasions, with each new conqueror razing past structures.

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  Explanation/Reference:

  Answer d is the most accurate conclusion because the first sentence speaks of periods of war. The other choices, whether true or false, are not addressed in the selection.

• Question 88:

  It has been more than twenty-five years since the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) last sent a craft to land on the moon. The Lunar Prospector took off in January of 1998, in the first moon shot since astronauts last walked on the moon in 1972. This time, the moon-traveller is only a low-cost robot, who will spend a year on the surface of the moon, collecting minerals and ice. Unlike the moon shots of the 1960s and 1970s, Lunar Prospector does not carry a camera, so the American public will not get to see new pictures of the moons surface. ______________________________. Scientists are anxious for the results of one exploration in particularthat done by the neutron spectrometer. Using this instrument, Prospector will examine the moons poles, searching for signs of water ice. There has long been speculation that frozen water from comets may have accumulated in craters at one of the moons poles and may still be there, as this pole is permanently shielded from the sun. The neutron spectrometer seeks out the hydrogen atoms in water and can detect the presence of as little as one cup of water in a cubic yard of soil. On the basis of above passage please answer the following question Which of the following is the best meaning of the word "speculation" as it is used in the second paragraph of the passage?

  A. a theory
  B. an investment
  C. a vision
  D. an image
  E. a process
  A. a theory

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  Explanation/Reference:

  Either a or b are possible definitions of speculation, however, the passage suggests that in this case the author is referring to a theory choice a. The other choices are vaguely similar, but are not accurate, based on the passage as a whole.

• Question 89:

  Rhesus monkeys use facial expressions to communicate with each other and to enforce social order. For example, the "fear grimace," although it looks ferocious, is actually given by a __________ monkey who is intimidated by a __________

  member of the group.

  On the basis of above passage please answer the following question

  Which pair of words or phrases, if inserted into the blanks in sequence, makes the most sense in the writers context?

  A. calm . . . aggressive
  B. dominant . . . subordinate
  C. confident . . . fearless
  D. subordinate . . . dominant
  E. high-ranking . . . low-ranking
  D. subordinate . . . dominant

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  Explanation/Reference:

  Answers a and c do not include the sense of hierarchy conveyed in the phrase to enforce social order. Answers b and e do convey a sense of hierarchy but reverse the proper order of meanings in the context.

• Question 90:

  Ever since human beings began their conscious sojourn on this planet, they have puzzled over the riddle of evil and debated its source. Two concepts have predominated in the debate. The first of these holds that evil is an active force, a force of darkness as substantial and powerful as that of light. In terms of the individual human being, this force might be seen as the "Shadow" side of the personality, the feared side that the individual may deny but that is still a real and integral part of her or him. The second of the two concepts holds that evil is essentially ___________, the absence of good, that darkness is not a thing in itself but rather the absence of light. In terms of the individual human being, this doctrine says that evil arises from a lack, a deprivation, from what John A. Sanford calls "a mutilation of the soul." On the basis of above passage please answer the following question. Which of the following phrases would best fit into the blank in the third sentence of the passage?

  A. perplexing
  B. passive
  C. capricious
  D. ephemeral
  E. artificial
  C. capricious

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  Explanation/Reference:

  The whole passage is a description of the debate between two concepts of evil. Choice a is mentioned in the passage but only by way of introduction to the description of the debate. Choices b, d, and e are not in the passage.