Question 1

Choose the best synonyn for the italicized word in the following sentence. "Es muy complicado pilotar mi avión."

Accepted Answer

The word complicado means complicated. In the context of the sentence, it refers to something that is hard to do. Hence, response B, difícil ("difficult"), is the best synonym. Response A, fácil ("easy"), is opposite in meaning to complicado. Response C, divertido, has the same beginning syllable ("di-") as the correct answer, but its meaning ("amusing") is completely different. The basic meanings of responses D and E ("compiled" and "compared," respectively) are completely different from the meaning of complicado, although both compilado and comparado are phonetically similar to it.

Question 2

Choose the best synonyn for the italicized word in the following sentence. "Es fácil comprender lo que el agente está diciendo."

Accepted Answer

The word comprender means to understand something after watching, listening to, or reading it. Hence, response C, entender ("to understand"), is the best synonym. Response E, desentender, is the exact opposite of the correct answer; in fact, it is entender, but with a negative prefix added to it, thus giving it the meaning of "to misunderstand." Responses A, B, and D ("to respond," "to verify," and "to pretend") are completely unrelated to the meaning of comprender.

Question 3

Choose the best synonyn for the italicized word in the following sentence. "Hay que esclarecer todo el proceso."

Accepted Answer

The word esclarecer means to clarify. Hence, response C, aclarar ("to clarify"), is the best synonym. Responses A, B, D, and E ("to find," "to concentrate," "to worsen," and "to crush") are completely unrelated to the meaning of esclarecer.

Question 4

Choose the best synonyn for the italicized word in the following sentence. "Hemos otorgado concesiones especiales a los países en vías de desarrollo."

Accepted Answer

The word concesiones means concessions, rights or privileges that have been granted. Hence, response A, privilegios ("privileges") is the best synonym. Responses B, C, D, and E ("determinations," "stipends," "courtesies," and "offerings") are completely unrelated to the meaning of concesiones.

Question 5

Fill in the blanks to the following sentence. "Me gusta entrar _______ la puerta que está _______ de la oficina."

Accepted Answer

The correct answer is response E, por, detrás. Responses A, B, C, and D all use incorrect prepositions.

Question 6

Fill in the blanks to the following sentence. "La agente me _______ la correspondencia cuando yo no _______ en casa."

Accepted Answer

The correct answer is response C, trajo, estaba, because both verbs represent the correct past tense in the indicative mood (preterite indefinite trajo and preterite imperfect estaba). In responses A, B, D, and E, the wrong forms of the verb have been used.

Question 7

Fill in the blanks to the following sentence. "Los oficiales _______ usan la sala de reuniones para discutir asuntos ______ ."

Accepted Answer

Choice C is the correct answer. The adverb normalmente ("normally") correctly modifies the verb usan ("[they] use"), and the plural, masculine adjective diversos ("diverse") agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies ("asuntos"). In responses A, D, and E, there is no agreement in number between adjective and noun. In response B, there is no agreement in gender between adjective and noun.

Question 8

Fill in the blanks to the following sentence. " ________ a los detenidos y ________ al tanto de los resultados."

Accepted Answer

Response A is the correct answer. The two imperative verb forms [tú] visita and [tú] pónlos are the correct choices. In responses B, C, D, and E, there is no agreement between the two main verbs.

Question 9

Read each sentence carefully. Select the one sentence that is correct.

Accepted Answer

The correct answer to this item is response C because it has the proper sentence structure (subject, verb, direct object) and contains no errors. Responses A, B, and D contain various errors, including incorrect prepositions, illogical structures, or incorrect verb forms; hence, none of them can be the correct answer.

Question 10

Choose the best way to improve the italicized word in the following sentence. "Los agentes detectaron el contrabando antes de abrir la maleta."

Accepted Answer

The correct answer to this item is response E because the infinitive form of the verb, abrir, must be used after the preposition de. Incorrect forms of the verb have been used in the other responses; namely, response A (gerund), response B (future imperfect), response C (future imperfect), and response D (preterite indefinite).

Question 11

Choose the best way to improve the italicized words in the following sentence. "Es necesario tener todo las documentos de identificación en regla."

Accepted Answer

The correct answer is response D because todos los is plural in number and masculine in gender, and is thus in agreement with documentos. Responses A, B, and C have either the wrong gender or the wrong number.

Question 12

Choose the best way to improve the italicized words in the following sentence. "Los manuales hemos abarcado un sinnúmero de posibilidades y hemos abreviado el tiempo que se necesita para completar los trámites."

Accepted Answer

Response D is the correct answer because the two verbs in the third person plural [abarcan ("cover") and abrevian ("shorten")] agree with the masculine plural subject manuales ("manuals").
Responses A and B use incorrect verb forms (gerund and participle). In responses C and E, there is no agreement between verbs and subject.

Question 13

Choose the best way to improve the italicized word in the following sentence. "Los que abastecen las cocinas de las unidades de rescate anoche trajeron magníficas provisiones."

Accepted Answer

Response E is the correct answer because the present indicative verb abastecen ("[they] supply") agrees with the preterite indefinite trajeron ("[they] brought") after the correctly selected adverb anoche ("last night").

Question 14

Agent Smith is in charge of all of the canine teams in his sector. Fifteen canine teams are stationed in his sector. Most of the canine teams are located at stations along the border. Several canine teams are located away from the border in large urban areas. All of the teams must be available to travel to any duty station within the sector.

Accepted Answer

This question is about the canine teams in Agent Smith's sector. According to the last sentence in the paragraph, all of the canine teams must be available to travel to any duty station within the sector. This is equivalent to saying that none of the teams are exempt from traveling to any duty location within the sector, Response D. Responses B and C contradict the information in the last sentence.
The third sentence in the paragraph informs us that most teams are stationed along the border. Responses A and E contradict this information.

Question 15

The Chief of Police strives to provide quality service to the community while using resources efficiently. Accordingly, the Chief must take into account several factors when allocating resources. For example, if it is a holiday weekend, additional staff are assigned to duty. However, if additional staff are assigned to duty, special funding is needed from the city council.

Accepted Answer

Combining the information in the last two sentences we know that if it is a holiday weekend, then special funding is needed from the city council (due to assigning additional staff to duty). Accordingly, if special funding is not needed, then it must not be a holiday weekend; otherwise, special funding would be needed.
Responses A and E are false because they contradict the information in the paragraph. Responses B and D might be true, but they are not fully supported by the paragraph.

Question 16

Several different means of smuggling, such as cross-border tunnels, are used to bring narcotics, individuals, and contraband into the United States. Cross-border tunnels can be found all along the land border of the United States. They vary significantly in size and complexity of construction, although most are crudely constructed. Further, most crossborder tunnels are used for smuggling narcotics, although illegal aliens and other contraband have also been smuggled using tunnels.

Accepted Answer

This is an example of a test question with a negative lead statement. It asks for the conclusion that is NOT supported by the paragraph. That means that four of the statements are valid conclusions based on the paragraph while one is not. In this case, Response B is invalid. The paragraph says that "most" cross border tunnels are used for smuggling narcotics, but Response B says that "all" cross border tunnels are used for smuggling narcotics.
Responses C and D are based on the information that most cross border tunnels are crudely constructed. Response C is based on the information that most cross border tunnels are used to smuggle narcotics. Finally, Response E combines all information about the tunnels being crudely constructed and used for smuggling narcotics.

Question 17

Naturalized U.S. citizens can lose their U.S. citizenship if and only if they expatriate or are denaturalized. Misrepresentation on a legal permanent residence application, certain crimes, and leaving the United States within one year of naturalization to establish permanent residence elsewhere are all grounds for denaturalization. P.C. is a naturalized U.S. citizen.

Accepted Answer

This question concerns a situation where there are two ways for naturalized U.S. citizens to lose U.S. citizenship, either by expatriation or denaturalization. In Response A, the situation is considered in which P.C. has lost her U.S. citizenship without being denaturalized. Expatriation is the only option remaining to explain the loss of U.S. citizenship.
Responses B and E are invalid because they fail to consider that there is more than one way for P.C. to lose U.S. citizenship. Responses C and D are about situations in which P.C. may or may not be denaturalized. These two responses are invalid because they fail to consider that there are several possible reasons for denaturalization.

Question 18

Following the Vietnam War, many people from Southeast Asia were paroled into the United States with an indefinite immigration status. In 2003, a new rule was developed to allow for adjustment of immigration status for some of these people. According to the new rule, all nationals of Vietnam (and some others, for example, nationals of Cambodia) who were paroled into the United States through the Orderly Departure Program were eligible to apply for permanent resident status.

Accepted Answer

This paragraph is mainly about the group of Vietnamese Nationals who were paroled into the United States under the Orderly Departure Program with indefinite immigration status. In 2003, a new rule made everyone in this group of Vietnamese Nationals (and others) eligible to apply for permanent resident status. Accordingly, anyone who is not eligible to apply for permanent resident status must not be part of this group of Vietnamese Nationals, which is equivalent to Response B.
Responses A and C fail to recognize that others, such as nationals of Cambodia, were also eligible to apply for permanent resident status. Responses D and E contradict the information that everyone in the group of Vietnamese Nationals who were paroled into the United States under the Orderly Departure Program was eligible to apply for permanent resident status.

Question 19

An employer is permitted to hire a new employee only if the employer is able to verify that the applicant's employment documentation establishes both of the following: 1) the applicant is authorized to work in the United States and 2) the applicant who presents the employment authorization document is the person to whom the documentation was issued. An employer cannot request that an applicant provide more or different documents than required. If the documentation appears false or unrelated, employers must refuse acceptance and ask for other documentation from the Government's list of acceptable documents.

Accepted Answer

This question asks for the response option that CANNOT be validly concluded from the information in the paragraph. The only response option that cannot be validly concluded is Response C. Response C is invalid because the paragraph does not say that employers must refuse acceptance of documentation that appears to be true and relevant.
Responses B and E are valid based on the information in the first sentence. Response A is valid based on the information in the second sentence that employers cannot change documentation requirements. Response D is valid based on the information in the last sentence stating that employers may request different documentation when they believe the documentation submitted appears to be altered.

Question 20

Although the owner of a certain farm said that all her Central American (for example, Salvadoran and Honduran) workers were working legally, Border Patrol Agents discovered that many of the farm's employees were not authorized to work in the United States. After checking the employees' documentation, Border Patrol Agents discovered that all of the female employees were working in the United States legally and none of the illegal workers were from Honduras.

Accepted Answer

The correct answer is A. The last sentence of the paragraph states that none of the illegal workers were from Honduras, which is equivalent to saying that none of the employees from Honduras were working illegally. Given that none were working illegally, it must be the case that all were working legally.
From the information in the paragraph, we know that all of the female employees were working legally and that all of the employees from Honduras were working legally. However, there is insufficient information to determine how many of the female employees were from Honduras. Therefore, Responses C, D, and E cannot be validly concluded. Response B contradicts the information that all of the female employees were working legally.

Quiz 1: Border Patrol

Choose the best synonyn for the italicized word in the following sentence. "Es muy complicado pilotar mi avión."

Choose the best synonyn for the italicized word in the following sentence. "Es fácil comprender lo que el agente está diciendo."

Choose the best synonyn for the italicized word in the following sentence. "Hay que esclarecer todo el proceso."

Choose the best synonyn for the italicized word in the following sentence. "Hemos otorgado concesiones especiales a los países en vías de desarrollo."

Fill in the blanks to the following sentence. "Me gusta entrar _ la puerta que está _ de la oficina."

Fill in the blanks to the following sentence. "La agente me _ la correspondencia cuando yo no _ en casa."

Fill in the blanks to the following sentence. "Los oficiales _ usan la sala de reuniones para discutir asuntos ."

Fill in the blanks to the following sentence. " a los detenidos y al tanto de los resultados."

Read each sentence carefully. Select the one sentence that is correct.

Choose the best way to improve the italicized word in the following sentence. "Los agentes detectaron el contrabando antes de abrir la maleta."

Choose the best way to improve the italicized words in the following sentence. "Es necesario tener todo las documentos de identificación en regla."

Choose the best way to improve the italicized words in the following sentence. "Los manuales hemos abarcado un sinnúmero de posibilidades y hemos abreviado el tiempo que se necesita para completar los trámites."

Choose the best way to improve the italicized word in the following sentence. "Los que abastecen las cocinas de las unidades de rescate anoche trajeron magníficas provisiones."