Walking my dog, I find the beach is no longer deserted: dedicated sunbathers lie on towels or sit in chairs, read, slept, or talked.
(A)NO CHANGE
(B) to read, sleep, or talking.
(C) reading, sleeping, or talking.
(D) read, sleep, or to talk.
Hamlet's regard for humanity is evident in his line "What a piece of work is a man!" Nonetheless, we still use the expression piece of work, though now it's used to describe someone who is hard to understand or deal with.
(A)NO CHANGE (B) Otherwise, we (C) While we (D) We
Correct Answer: D
In the late 1800s, clothing store owner, Levi Strauss patented the practice of putting rivets, tiny metal studs, on the stress points of men's "waist overalls."
(A)NO CHANGE
(B) owner Levi Strauss,
(C) owner, Levi Strauss,
(D) owner Levi Strauss
Correct Answer: D
Unless we're willing to deputize every sales clerk in every music store, music ratings won't be enforced. Moreover, rock music, more than film, expresses youthful rebellion.
(A)NO CHANGE (B) Therefore, (C) Despite this, (D) The implication being,
Correct Answer: A
More ACT English Exam Questions
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- 2The editors of our triannual literary magazine is kept busy all year with a wide variety of tasks.
- 3The Hot Springs of Iceland Although Iceland touches the Arctic Circle and contains many immense, permanent glaciers (Vatnajokul,for example, covers 3,125 square miles), the country is more interesting with heat. Specifically, Iceland is one of the earth's most volcanically active areas.
- 4The movie Dracula, with its batlike title character who feeds on human blood, is just one of many sources of people's (ideas about bats that are flawed).
- 5Perhaps the celebration of New Year's Day in Korean culture is heightened because it is thought of as everyone's birthday party.