Test: ACCUPLACER Reading Comprehension

For questions 1-5, two underlined sentences are followed by a question or statement. Read the two sentences and then choose the best answer to the question.

4.

Students who use social media too often always struggle with their grades.

The professor awarded the top grade in the class to a student who claimed to have been using social media every night she studied.

What does the second sentence do?

It restates the idea found in the first.

It proposes a solution.

It explains what is stated in the first.

It contradicts the first.

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