ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension practice test

Dehydration degrades performance long before a person feels thirsty. By the time thirst registers, the body may already be down a quart of fluid, and judgment, coordination and endurance all suffer. For this reason, experienced instructors enforce scheduled drinking rather than waiting for recruits to ask for water.

What is the main point of the passage?

A lensatic compass has three main parts: the cover, which protects the face and holds the sighting wire; the base, which contains the floating dial; and the lens bracket, used to read the dial while sighting an object. The floating dial is marked in both degrees and mils.

According to the passage, which part holds the sighting wire?

After World War II, the GI Bill paid tuition and living expenses for returning veterans. Colleges that had struggled to fill classrooms during the war years suddenly overflowed; by 1947, veterans made up half of all college admissions in the United States.

What can be concluded from the passage?

To heat an MRE with a flameless ration heater, first slide the entrée pouch into the heater bag. Next, add water to the fill line. Fold the top of the bag and lean it against a rock or your pack with the opening slightly elevated. After about twelve minutes, the entrée is ready to eat.

What should be done immediately after adding water?

Automated beacons have replaced keepers at every working lighthouse in the country, and most of the towers themselves now serve as museums. Yet something is lost when no one climbs the stairs each evening. The keeper was a promise that someone was watching the water, and no sensor, however reliable, makes a promise.

The author's purpose is mainly to:

Combat medics are taught that a tourniquet, once applied, should be tightened until the bleeding stops, and the time of application must be written down and passed to anyone who takes over care. A tourniquet should never be loosened to 'give the limb a break'; only medical personnel at a treatment facility should remove it.

According to the passage, who may remove a tourniquet?

Aluminum is endlessly recyclable: a can melted down today can be back on a shelf as a new can within sixty days, using about five percent of the energy required to smelt new metal from ore. No other common packaging material comes close to that efficiency.

Which title best fits the passage?

The patrol leader shot an azimuth to the radio tower, then had his compass man shoot a back azimuth to confirm the reading before the unit moved out.

As used in the passage, an azimuth is most likely:

In a study of marksmanship, soldiers who slept less than five hours scored twenty percent worse than their rested counterparts, and their scores kept falling with each additional night of short sleep. Coffee improved alertness for an hour or two but did nothing for accuracy.

The passage suggests that:

The bowline forms a fixed loop that will not slip under load, which makes it the knot of choice for rescue lines. The square knot joins two ropes of equal thickness, while the clove hitch secures a rope to a post but can work loose if the pull is intermittent.

According to the passage, which knot is preferred for rescue lines?