In the home of Amy Tan's editor, a large blowup of a 1991 New York Times best-seller list hangs on the wall. The number one novel, Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife, is boldly circled.
(A)NO CHANGE
(B) novel, Amy Tan’s The Kitchen God’s Wife is boldly
(C) novel Amy Tan’s The Kitchen God’s Wife, is boldly,
(D) novel: Amy Tan’s The Kitchen God’s Wife, is boldly
Following the war, however, interest in vegetarianism resumed. This time in connection with a rising public concern over the adulteration of processed foods with unpalatable and sometimes toxic substances.
(A)NO CHANGE (B) resumed, this (C) resumes. This (D) resumes, this
Correct Answer: B
If there is a virus in your system, you had hope that it better responds to the appropriate treatment and therapy.
(A)where it is now.
(B) after the word yours
(C) after the word had.
(D) after the word respond
Correct Answer: C
While the harmonica was marketed as originally a child's toy, it eventually became a valued portable instrument for folk and blues musicians.
(A)NO CHANGE (B) toy; (C) toy (D) toy, that
Correct Answer: A
More ACT English Exam Questions
- 1Last 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?
- 2The works in Moua's anthology records the challenges of adjusting to a new homeland while preserving the writers' ethnic traditions.
- 3In this artistic field, few cinematographers rank the higher for James Wong Howe.
- 4Beyond the meadow, a brook ran beneath a hickory tree in whose shadow we looked for polliwogs or, later, the tiny frogs they became.
- 5They can watch marine life through large portholes, and enter and exit their pressurized domicile through the moonpool, a special air pocket that keeps the ocean outside.