40. Third grade student Stephanie Wink goes to the school nurse’s office, where her temperature is found to be 98 degrees Fahrenheit. What is her temperature in degrees Celsius? C = ᎏ 5 9 ᎏ (F − 32) a. 35.8 b. 36.7 c. 37.6 d. 31.1 e. 22.4 41. Three high schools can serve a town of 105,000 people. How many people could be served by 4 high schools? a. 130,000 b. 135,000 c. 140,000 d. 145,000 e. 150,000 42. A recipe serves four people and calls for 1 ᎏ 1 2 ᎏ cups of broth. If you want to serve six people, how much broth do you need? a. 2 cups b. 2 ᎏ 1 4 ᎏ cups c. 2 ᎏ 1 3 ᎏ cups d. 2 ᎏ 1 2 ᎏ cups e. 2 ᎏ 3 4 ᎏ cups 43. Plattville is 80 miles west and 60 miles north of Quincy. How long is a direct route from Plattville to Quincy? a. 100 miles b. 110 miles c. 120 miles d. 140 miles e. 160 miles 44. Which of the following brands is the least expensive? Brand W X Y Z Price 0.21 0.48 0.56 0.96 Weight in ounces 6 15 20 32 a. W b. X c. Y d. Z e. They are equal in price. 45. A salesman drives 2,052 miles in 6 days, stopping at 2 towns each day. How many miles does he average between stops? a. 171 b. 342 c. 513 d. 684 e. 1,026 46. A school cafeteria manager spends $540 on sil- verware. If a place setting includes 1 knife, 1 fork, and 2 spoons, how many place settings did the manager buy? a. 90 b. 108 c. 135 d. 180 e. There is not enough information to solve this problem. 47. An office uses 2 dozen pencils and 3 ᎏ 1 2 ᎏ reams of paper each week. If pencils cost 5 cents each and a ream of paper costs $7.50, how much does it cost to supply the office for a week? a. $7.55 b. $12.20 c. $26.25 d. $27.45 e. $38.25 –CBEST PRACTICE EXAM 1– 178 48. What is the estimated product when 157 and 817 are rounded to the nearest hundred and multiplied? a. 160,000 b. 180,000 c. 16,000 d. 80,000 e. 123,000 Use the following information to answer question 49. Mr. James Rossen is just beginning a computer con- sulting firm and has purchased the following equip- ment: ■ 3 telephone sets, each costing $125 ■ 2 computers, each costing $1,300 ■ 2 computer monitors, each costing $950 ■ 1 printer costing $600 ■ 1 answering machine costing $50 49. Mr. Rossen is reviewing his finances. What should he write as the total value of the equip- ment he has purchased so far? a. $3,025 b. $3,275 c. $5,400 d. $5,525 e. $6,525 50. Body mass index (BMI) is equal to weight in kilograms/(height in meters) 2 . A man who weighs 64.8 kilograms has a BMI of 20. How tall is he? a. 1.8 meters b. 0.9 meters c. 2.16 meters d. 3.24 meters e. 1.62 meters Section 3: Essay Writing Carefully read the two essay-writing topics that fol- low. Plan and write two essays, one on each topic. Be sure to address all points in the topic. Allow about 30 minutes for each essay. Topic 1 In his play, The Admirable Crighton,J.M.Barrie wrote, “Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.” Write an essay about a time in your life when you had the courage to do something or face something difficult, or when you feel you fell short. What did you learn from the experience? Topic 2 Recently American students are said to have fallen behind in the sciences, and some educators believe it is because American teachers are conducting science classes ineffectively. Write an essay in which you suggest ways science classes could be conducted so as to more effectively challenge high school and college students. –CBEST PRACTICE EXAM 1– 179 Section 1: Reading Comprehension 1. a. The first paragraph speaks of Hansberry’s being raised as the daughter of political activists. Choices b, d, and e are related to her beliefs but are not depicted as the origin of those beliefs. The passage does not say that Hansberry herself ever lived in Southside Chicago (choice c). 2. a. The passage begins and ends with praise of Hansberry’s works and influence. Hansberry’s works are summarized (choice b) but this is not the main purpose of the passage. Choice c is not necessarily true and is not in the passage. Lorraine Hansberry may have had a difficult struggle (choice d), but the struggle is not shown in the passage. The author tells about Hansberry’s plays, but does not try to persuade students to read them (choice e). 3. c. 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 father’s being either a banker (choice b) or an artist (choice d). 4. b. This correct answer is clearly stated in the sec- ond sentence of paragraph 3. There is no support for the other choices. 5. d. Both paragraphs focus on how much Hans- berry’s work continued to be an influence even after she died. In paragraph 4: Her influence con- tinued to be felt, and in paragraph 5, Even after her death, her dramatic works have helped gain an audience for Choices a and e may be true, but this is not the main purpose of the paragraphs. There is no support for choices b or c. 6. c. See the second sentence of the first paragraph. She was the fifth woman to win the award, which means there were four women before her. 7. a. Choice a is the most logical choice, given the context of the sentence. It is illogical to describe personality types and aspirations as a gathering, arrangement, decoration, or feature (choices b, c, d, and e). 8. d. See paragraph 4, which describes To Be Young, Gifted, and Black as a dramatic adaptation of an autobiography. Choices a and e are wrong because there is no support for the idea that Raisin is Hansberry’s family. Les Blancs is set in Africa, which rules out choice b. The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window is about a man, which rules out choice c. 9. d. 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. 10. e. This is stated in the last paragraph: . . . first aid measures should be directed at cooling the body quickly. The other responses—except for choice c, which does not appear in the passage—are first aid treatments for heat exhaustion victims. 11. b. This is clearly stated in the first sentence of the second paragraph. Choices a, c, and e are symp- toms of heat stroke. Choice d is not mentioned. 12. c. Heat stroke victims have a blocked sweating mechanism, as stated in the third paragraph. Choice a is a symptom of heat exhaustion. Choices b, d, and e are not in the passage. 13. c. The second paragraph states that for the symptoms of heat exhaustion—which include nausea and dizziness—first aid treatment includes giving the victim sips of salt water. The other choices relate to heat stroke. –CBEST PRACTICE EXAM 1– 180 Answers and Explanations 14.a. According to the passage, Blake believed that, through art (that is, through the reordering of sense impression by the creative imagination) true reli- gion is revealed. Artistic inspiration (choice c) might be involved, but the words religion and moment of vision point towards a mystical experi- ence, 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 Blake’s moment of vision as a false percep- tion (hallucinatory experience, choice d). 15.a. The passage’s tone and word choice (true reli- gion and eternity revealed through art) indicate that the world at the moment of vision is reality. There is no hint in the passage that nature repre- sents a state of innocence for Blake (choice b)— the contrary is implied. The idea that nature is made up of base and corrupt material or that it will perish (choices c and d) are not in the passage. There is no evidence that Blake thought of the world of the artist as fantasy (choice e). 16. d. The passage contains objective information about accounting such as one might find in a text- book. There is nothing new or newsworthy in it (choice a). The passage does not contain the sig- nificant amount of personal opinion one would expect to find in an essay (choice b). It does not deal with matters that might involve litigation (choice c). It is not brief enough for a business machine catalog and does not contain language suitable to advertising (choice e). 17. e. The final sentence emphasizes the importance of correct interpretation of financial accounting. Choice a is wrong, because something so impor- tant would not be discretionary (optional). Choice b may be true, but it is not as important for guidelines to be convenient as it is for them to rigorous. Instruction is another word for guide- lines; therefore, choice c is redundant. Choice d is wrong because the word austere connotes stern- ness; people may be stern, but inanimate entities, such as guidelines, cannot be. 18. c. Choices a, b, and d are all listed in the passage as functions of accounting. In addition, the pas- sage notes that accounting can benefit entities outside the company, such as those mentioned in e. On the other hand, the second sentence of the passage speaks of a marketing department,sepa- rate from the accounting department. 19. e. The passage says of the people who live in “the Bottom” that they are apt to go awry,to break from their natural boundaries. A person who is eccentric is quirky or odd. Nowhere in the passage is it implied that the people are cowardly, artistic, unkempt,or arrogant (choices a, b, c, and d). 20. d. A scapegoat is one who is forced to bear the blame for others or upon which the sins of a com- munity are heaped. Choices b and c are wrong because nowhere in the passage is it implied that Sula is a hero or leader, or even that “the Bottom” has such a personage. Sula may be a victim (choice a), or an outcast (choice e) but a community does not necessarily project evil onto a victim or an outcast the way they do onto a scapegoat. 21. b. The first side of the debate says that evil is an active force so the opposing side would see evil as just the opposite, something passive. Choice a is reflected in the first sentence: human beings are puzzled (therefore perplexed) by evil, but their being puzzled is not one of the two concepts of evil discussed in the passage. Choices c, d, and e are not reflected in the passage. 22. c. 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. –CBEST PRACTICE EXAM 1– 181 23. d. The fourth sentence states that the “Shadow” side of the personality is something the individual may deny. The other choices are not in the passage. 24. b. The eagle, who watches from his mountain walls and falls like a thunderbolt, is depicted as too alert and dynamic to be dying (choice a). There is really no joy depicted in the poem nor any sense that this is a baby eagle (choice c), and there is no mention of baby birds he might be watching over (choice d). There is no other eagle mentioned in the poem (choice e). Saying that the eagle watches and then falls like a thunderbolt implies alertness and striking, so the most logical choice is that the eagle is hunting. 25. b. The word azure means blue and is often used to describe the sky. Neither a forest nor cliffs are azure (choices a and c), and neither God nor nature is mentioned as an entity in the poem (choices d and e). 26.a. It is the wrinkled sea that crawls in the first line of the second stanza of the poem. 27. e. Page 89 (choice a) deals with peasant resist- ance; page 55 (choice b) with fire protection; page 107 (choice c) with villagers; page 48 (choice d) with slash-and-burn farming. All might pertain somewhat to the question, but the index lists page 51 (choice e) under the topics of both pasture and arson (which is illegal burning), so it is the best choice. 28.a. Although there are more entries in the index having to do with fire, arson, and fire protection, the greatest number of pages listed under the topic of forest destruction is industrialization—18 pages. 29. d. The titles in choices b, c, and e all imply that the passage will provide information which it does not. Choice a is not logical given the content of the passage; choice d is the most accurate choice because the passage deals mainly with remembering the fair. 30.a. Sentence 1 (choice a) contains the phrase should have been a colossal failure, which is an opinion of the author. The other choices are sen- tences that provide factual information about Woodstock. 31.a. The sentence preceding and leading into sen- tence 3 speaks of the very brief time—a month— that the organizers of the fair had to find a new site and get information out. Choices b, d, and e are incorrect because they could not have been known about at the time the fair was moved. Choice c is incorrect because there is no indica- tion in the passage that New York officials tried to stop the fair’s moving or information getting out. 32. e. Choice e sums up the first paragraph, which is essentially a list of the cuttlefish’s characteristics, by declaring which is the most interesting char- acteristic, and the sentence introduces the subject of the second paragraph—the ability of the cut- tlefish to change color. Choice a adds information not in keeping with the tone or focus of the pas- sage. Choice b basically repeats information in the first paragraph but does not introduce the next one. Choice c uses but does not explain scientific language, which is out of keeping with the general informational style of the passage. Choice d adds to the list of characteristics in the first paragraph without summing it up. 33. b. The passage describes the cuttlefish’s use of a water jet to move. Choice a is incorrect because the passage only describes cuttlefish as resembling squid. Choice c is a true characteristic, but is not mentioned in the passage. Choice d is incorrect because the passage never describes cuttlefish as the most intelligent cephalopod. Choice e is not true, based on the information in the passage. –CBEST PRACTICE EXAM 1– 182 34. e. Choice e covers the most important ideas in the two paragraphs. All the other choices choose more minor details from the paragraphs as the main subjects. 35. e. Choice e includes both the informational con- tent and light tone of the passage. Choices a and b describe too scientific an aim for the content and tone. Choice c does not include the informa- tional content of the passage. Choice d assumes a particular audience for the passage which is nei- ther named nor implied in any of the passage’s content. 36. c. Any of the choices may be a definition of back- ground; however, the context of the passage indi- cates that the word refers to the education and training of the proposed author—that is, the author’s ability to write the book. 37. d. See the second sentence of the second para- graph. Compaction may well reduce transporta- tion costs (choice a) according to the first sentence of the second paragraph. That it reduces the volume of waste (choice b) is an advantage, not a disadvantage. Compaction is not designed to eliminate organic matter, so confirming that it has been eliminated (choice c) is not an issue. Compaction is done on-site (refuting choice e), as asserted in the first paragraph. 38. b. See sentence four of the second paragraph. The effects of sterilization of waste (choice a) is not included in the passage. Oxydizing (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. 39.a. See the last sentence of the third paragraph, which states that incineration is the preferred method for on-site treatment. The other choices take place off-site. 40.a. The first sentence states that off-site disposal is appropriate for hospitals with less than 150 beds, which implies fewer patients. Choices b, c, and d are mentioned with regard to both off-site and on-site disposal. The first sentence of the passage indicates that all the waste discussed in the pas- sage is regulated (choice e). 41.a. To depict the Sami, the author uses words that point to their gentleness, which is an admirable quality: They move quietly, display courtesy to the spirits of the wilderness, and were known as peaceful retreaters. There is nothing pitying, con- temptuous, or patronizing in the language, and nothing in the passage indicates that the author is perplexed—the description of the Sami is clear and to the point. 42. d. The correct answer is implied by the statement in the third sentence that carefully managed e- mail results in effective communication. Choice a is wrong because the opposite is true. Choice b is wrong because even though e-mail is more wide- spread, it has not necessarily changed considerably. Choices c and e are not indicated in the paragraph. 43. b. This choice is correct because the third sen- tence states that telecommuters produce 20% more than their on-location counterparts. Choice a is not mentioned in the paragraph. Choice c is wrong because more productivity does not nec- essarily mean better quality. Choices d is not men- tioned, and choice e is refuted in the final sentence. 44. d. The last two sentences point to the need for precautions when sending a fax. There is no indi- cation in the paragraph that choice a is true. Choice b is incorrect because the paragraph indi- cates that, with caution, confidential faxes can be –CBEST PRACTICE EXAM 1– 183 . 1.8 meters b. 0 .9 meters c. 2.16 meters d. 3.24 meters e. 1.62 meters Section 3: Essay Writing Carefully read the two essay- writing topics that fol- low. Plan and write two essays, one on each. computers, each costing $1,300 ■ 2 computer monitors, each costing $95 0 ■ 1 printer costing $600 ■ 1 answering machine costing $50 49. Mr. Rossen is reviewing his finances. What should he write as. the school nurse’s office, where her temperature is found to be 98 degrees Fahrenheit. What is her temperature in degrees Celsius? C = ᎏ 5 9 ᎏ (F − 32) a. 35.8 b. 36.7 c. 37.6 d. 31.1 e. 22.4 41. Three