Behind the disk stands a granite wall bearing their inscription:"...UNTIL JUSTICE ROLLS DOWN LIKE WATERS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS LIKE A MIGHTY STREAM." Lin selected these words from a Dr. Martin Luther.King Jr. speech, and in the monument, water flows down the wall, over Dr. King's words, and out from the center of the disk.
(A)NO CHANGE
(B) which
(C) this
(D) it’s
This question asks about the preceding passage as a whole. Upon reviewing the essay and realizing that some key information has been left out, the writer composes the following sentence incorporating that information: Soon enough, I showed up for my first day at the hospital. This sentence would most logically be placed before the first sentence in Paragraph:
(F) 1(G) 2(H) 3(J) 4
Correct Answer: H
Early in the semester, I opened the bag of battered negatives and began to examine them.
(A)NO CHANGE (B) had began (C) begun (D) begin
Correct Answer: A
Nearby, a younger geyser is replaced, a new offering from the boiling springs that bring the gift of heat to a land of ice.
(A)NO CHANGE (B) has replaced it, (C) lies in replacement, (D) OMITthe underlined portion.
Correct Answer: B
More ACT English Exam Questions
- 1And each day brought a new lesson about the power of words. Imperceptibly, postal clerks would joke about my having been "stuck babysitting."
- 2The most widely acclaimed comic strip of all time is probably George Herriman's "Krazy Kat" and Herriman was a staff artist for William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.
- 3Sometimes the only sound in the kitchen would be the fan, rotating on its' squeaky hinge, sending a breeze our way.
- 4Few books have been more influential in the U.S. environmental movement as Marjory Stoneman Douglas's The Everglades: River of Grass. Which of the following alternatives to the underlined portion would NOT be acceptable?
- 5She became a regular moderator, a job that led to her becoming head of public affairs at another television station.