Despair, however, soon gives up on adaptation.
(A)NO CHANGE
(B) away
(C) out of
(D) way to
That cart usually contains piles of fabric topped off with something fancy, such as a bunch of peacock feathers or a spool of lace. Which of the following alternatives to the underlined portion would NOT be acceptable?
(A)fancy: (B) as fancy as (C) fancy (D) fancy, perhaps
Correct Answer: C
Hurston, however, remained true to it,57 convinced that the accuracy of her representation would ultimately prevail over the political pressures her peers sought to inflict upon her.
(A) NO CHANGE(B) her project,(C) that thing,(D) which,
Correct Answer: B
37.Poisonous snakes-such as rattlesnakes, vipers, and cobras-are most frightening to people, but they attack if they are only provoked.37
(A) NO CHANGE(B) they will provoke and attack them.(C) they will attack humans only if provoked.(D) if provoked, they will attack them.
Correct Answer: C
More ACT English Exam Questions
- 1One can only imagine (if) the final price of a human voyage to Mars would be.
- 2Such praise does not come any easier to any big-city police chief, but Harvard applies her talents and works twelve-to-sixteen-hour days to earn it.
- 3Its removal, my father said, was like the erasure of a memory—the discarding of a traditional landmark.
- 4A teenager whose holding a shoebox containing a kitten as tiny as a gingersnap smiles as a line of girls in frilly white communion dresses file by.
- 5Now and then, one member of the audience or another would bend forward as if you were intently following an argument that is both complicated and fascinating.