Civil Service Reading Comprehension Practice Test Results

Question 1
63% answer correctly

The Urnero (Leptodactylus latinasus) is a species of frog in the Leptodactylidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, pastureland, rural gardens, and ponds.


What can you conclude about the Urnero?

It prefers a habitat with high altitude.
It prefers an urban habitat.
It`s found primarily in Central America.
It prefers a wet habitat.
Question 2
32% answer correctly

On Monday, after a long quarter-century, West Virginians said goodbye to their state`s 6 percent food tax. Now to see what, if any, business we`ve been missing.

In 1989, retailers warned that sales in West Virginia would go down if legislators imposed a 6 percent tax on food. "Whatever they put on would be passed on to the consumer," Charles Forth, who owned supermarkets in both West Virginia and Ohio, told the newspaper in February 1989. "Six percent is $6 on $100. That will make a difference when people are already hurting and trying to make ends meet."

It`s a lot easier to drive customers away than to win them back, a fact legislators should bear in mind when it comes to taxation.


The author is _______________ that eliminating the 6 percent food tax will bring customers back to West Virginia stores.

Skeptical
Guaranteeing
Confident
Hopeful
Question 3
63% answer correctly

Warren Wilfred Freer (27 December 1920 - 29 March 2013), was a New Zealand politician and member of the Labour Party. Freer represented the Mount Albert electorate in Parliament from 1947 to 1981, when he retired.

He was only 26 when he entered Parliament in a by-election for the Mount Albert seat following the death of Arthur Richards, and he held the seat for 34 years until he was succeeded by Helen Clark and then David Shearer.

He was a cabinet minister in the Third Labour Government of 1972-1975, holding the portfolios of Trade and Industry and of Energy Resources and was a candidate for the deputy leadership of the New Zealand Labour Party in 1974, dropping out in the third ballot.

In 1955 he was the first Western politician to visit China.


According to this passage:

Freer entered Parliament through a public vote.
Freer retired in 1974.
Arthur Richards replaced Freer as representative of the Mount Albert Seat.
Freer was the first Western politician to visit China