McClintock believed maize (corn) was idealistically a plant to study because each ear had hundreds of kernels for each with a different set of chromosomes.
(A)NO CHANGE
(B) an ideal
(C) an ideally
(D) an idealistic
Three bright stars that I've read about have acquired significance for many viewers around the globe.
(A)observers (B) overseers (C) night-sky watchers (D) stargazers
Correct Answer: B
Producing the film long before interplanetary explorations had begun, Melies could arouse his audience's curiosity with unconstrained fantasy.
(A)whet (B) stimulate (C) awaken (D) disturb
Correct Answer: D
I must admit, though, that when chairperson, mail carrier, and police officer were being predded into the lauguage to replace chairman,mailman, and policeman, I had my doubts; what Idoubted was taht words could effect change. Yet I see now with my daugter that language does change what we perceive as possible and appropriate.
(A)NO CHANGE (B) Consequently, (C) Moreover, (D) Therefore
Correct Answer: A
More ACT English Exam Questions
- 1However, the real money comes in the form of "residuals": performers are paid again each time their commercial airs on television. More than $50,000 could be earned by a commercial if a performer runs for a year.
- 2Meanwhile, Japan's educational system and its business community have joined forces to ensure that a steady supply of well-prepared youth continue to enter the work force.
- 3In the mid-sixties, Coretta Scott King began to take on a more active role in the movement, which after her husband's assassination in 1968, she helped carry on the cause of racial and economic justice.
- 4I had followed Amil's initial instructions only to realize he had not told me what to do next I didin't even know how to get Stormy to start moving.
- 5Even though wolves supposedly disappeared from the area years ago, the hunter's story was not unusual.