Since there's not much chance that a seven-year-old just learning the game can hit a pitched baseball, the umpire puts the ball on top of a stationary tee, a piece of flexible tubing adjusted to each batter's height.
(A)NO CHANGE
(B) While
(C) Although
(D) Unless
Texas was one of the early leaders in this movement, established a wildflower program in the 1930s, thanks to the initiative of Gibb Gilchrist, the state's highway engineer at the time.
(A)NO CHANGE (B) Texas, where (C) In Texas, (D) Texas,
Correct Answer: D
The first bubble gum, Blibber-Blubber, was developed by the Fleer Corporation in 1906, but it proved to be too sticky and brittle to be successfully marketed.
(A)NO CHANGE (B) to (C) much to (D) OMIT the underlined portion.
Correct Answer: A
In the dusk of a late summer evening, I walked quietly with a small gathering of people toward a shelter at the edge of a field innorthern Indiana.
(A)NO CHANGE (B) On (C) With (D) From
Correct Answer: A
More ACT English Exam Questions
- 1Complicating their goals, Ortiz and his team opened 120 pods, attached a magnetic strip to each seed, and the pods were glued back together.
- 2In a few days, when the kiln has cooled, Ellen opens the chamber, revealing the results of her labor and of the fire's magic.
- 3Her clear and expressive singing style soon gained her widespread popularity in the Spanish-speaking regions of North and South America.
- 4Her persistence paid off in her twenties, when Cisneros was admitted prestigious to the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. The best placement for the underlined portion would be:
- 5In a tulip bed underneath the kitchen window, I expected to find a dinosaur tooth or maybe a tunnel to a magical underworld. Unearthed, I didn't expect to find several old coins.