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College Board, ACCUPLACER, WritePlacer and the acorn logo are registered trademarks ofthe College Board. All other products and services may be trademarks oftheir respective owners. Visit the College Board on [the Web: www.collegeboard.org](the Web: www.collegeboard.org).  \nACCUPLACER ESL Reading Skills Test  \nThe ESL Reading Skills test measures your ability to read English. Specifically, it assesses your comprehension of short passages. It contains brief passages of 50 words or less and moderate length passages of 50 to 90 words. Half of this test contains straightforward comprehension items (paraphrase, locating information, vocabulary on a phrase level, and pronoun reference) . The other half assesses inference skills (main idea, fact versus opinion, cause/effect logic, identifying irrelevant information, author’s point of view and applying the author’s logic to another situation) .  \nSample Questions  \n1. Television has been introduced to almost every country in the world, reaching a large number of viewers on every continent. About 600 million people saw the first person walk on the moon, and a billion people watched the twentieth Olympic Games. Television has in many ways promoted understanding and cooperation among people. It does this by showing educational and cultural programs. From this passage, a reader can conclude that the author believes that  \nA. people spend too much time watching television  \nB. not every country needs to have television  \nC. television can unify people from around the world  \nD. television is as important as schools  \n2. Janet’s parents bought her a new sports car as a birthday present. It was blue. Janet sold her 7-year-old blue pickup truck to a high school student. The truck could not go very fast, but the student was happy with it.  \nFrom the passage, which of these statements can the reader assume?  \nA. Janet prefers trucks to cars.  \nB. 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