Like other folk music forms, Tejano music has an intensity, literary richness, and rhythmic variety that means it'll stick around a while.
(A)NO CHANGE
(B) causes it to be one of those enduring things with a timeless appeal.
(C) makes lots of people really like it.
(D) ensures its continued vitality.
While New Yorker's sometimes take Central Park for granted, visitors are often astonished to discover its size and variety.
(A)NO CHANGE (B) Yoeker’s (C) Yoekers (D) Yoekers’
Correct Answer: C
Smith realized the extent of her gift when her friend Alex Haley who had gathered essential material for his best-selling novel Roots from a griot in Gambia, began to refer to her as "my American griot." This was a revelation to Smith.
(A)NO CHANGE (B) friend, Alex Haley (C) friend Alex Haley; (D) friend Alex Haley,
Correct Answer: D
This question asks about the preceding passage as a whole. Upon reviewing the essay and realizing that some key information has been left out, the writer composes the following sentence incorporating that information: Soon enough, I showed up for my first day at the hospital. This sentence would most logically be placed before the first sentence in Paragraph:
(F) 1(G) 2(H) 3(J) 4
Correct Answer: H
More ACT English Exam Questions
- 1As a result of her success to bring community members into the legislative process, Woods was asked to fill a vacant seat on the city council.
- 2Ratings for parents a rough guide to the nature of a recording's contents.
- 3Indeed, she identifies strongly with the griots of West Africa—those village storytellers where they use songs, poems, and narration to help preserve and transmit culture and history.
- 4In the months I spent in that central Asian capital, I was intrigued by the culture, having allowed local traditions and modern importations to flourish side by side.
- 5As early as 1865, there had been proposals for a New York subway, but that took decades to resolve the many political, financial, and technical challenges.