They learn firsthand how language differences can stand in the way of trade.
(A)NO CHANGE
(B) differences, which
(C) differences that
(D) differences of which
Last week some fellow passengers and I watched an elderly man with a portable chessboard playing chess against himself. Which of the following alternatives to the underlined portion would NOT be acceptable?
（A）who played （B） as he played （C） played （D） who was playing
Correct Answer: C
If the writer were to delete the phrase "which I returned with a quiet nod" from the preceding sentence and end the sentence with a period, the sentence would primarily lose:
(A) a detail that expresses the narrator's ease while in the nursery.(B) a specific description of the narrator's anger toward the director.(C) information that indicates the narrator will quit the hospital as soon as the director leaves.(D) nothing at all, because this information had already been provided earlier in the passage.
Correct Answer: A
I loved our traditional New Year celebrations. One would burn paper money for good luck and go from house to house wishing our relatives health and happiness.
（A）NO CHANGE （B） People （C） You （D） We
Correct Answer: D
More ACT English Exam Questions
- 1As he typed, the machine melted chunks of metal and then formed the molten mass into lines of metal type, bright and burning liot, these lines of type—headlines, sentences, phrases—slid out of the machine.
- 2First, McWilliams's photographs in a small town provide a rare and valuable record of the daily life of African Americans in the early 1900s.
- 3The children were required to do more than sit arid listen quietly through their "lessons."
- 4Tan, who once felt she could never live up to her mother's, expectations now feels that her professional success has filled her mother with pride.
- 5While some sculptors suggest the magnitude of an event by presenting larger-than-life figures, Lin relies on more understated methods to suggest matters of great ignificance.