It was twenty below zero that afternoon, and the sky shone with a pale gray light. Which of the following alternatives to the underlined portion would NOT be acceptable?
(A)was glowing
(B) glowed
(C) shined
(D) shoned
The Correct Answer
Hearing a Venezuelan singer latest recording being played on its sound system might prompt a bilingual speaker to use Spanish.
(A)NO CHANGE (B) a store’s (C) their (D) it’s
Correct Answer: B
You think, you might become ill.
(A)NO CHANGE (B) think, that you (C) think you (D) think, you then
Correct Answer: C
Using highly sensitive hearing, sight, and smell, as well as touch receptors on the sides of their jaws alligators easily identify prey.
(A)NO CHANGE (B) receptors, on the sides of their jaws (C) receptors on the sides of their jaws; (D) receptors on the sides of their jaws,
Correct Answer: D
More ACT English Exam Questions
- 1However, the real money again comes in the form of "residuals": performers are paid each time their commercial airs on television.
- 2Sandra Cisneros, perhaps the best known Latina author in the United States, writes poems and stories whose titles alone —"Barbie-Q," My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn," "Woman Hollering Creek" —engage potential readers' curiosity.
- 3To avoid becoming stranded when winter arrived, the women called a ski plane prudently to airlift them to McMurdo.
- 4Out of all those people who were interviewed many of those people raved about the perfect seven-course (meal) they had once been served in a grand expensive restaurant.
- 5Then there's the Scotch bonnet, which ought to be called the scorch bonnet, since one walnut-sized pepper can heat a vat of salsa, with an SHU rating of 300,000.