I remembered him pointing to a tree, a cloud, a dog, and naming them in the Miami language, giving them back to me in the language of his own childhood. After he died, it was a language I never heard again —nonetheless, until I heard myself struggling with the words he had used so easily all those years ago, his voice coming back as vividly as if he were next to me once again, pointing to the page, guiding me.
(A)NO CHANGE
(B) furthermore,
(C) because,
(D) that is,
Growing up, in' Mexico in the 1920s Hernandez believed she was bom to dance.
（A）NO CHANGE （B） up in Mexico in the 1920s, （C） up, in Mexico in the 1920s, （D） up in Mexico, in the 1920s
Correct Answer: B
Although pharmaceutical companies that began to produce the drug learned that taxol could be extracted from the bark of all species of yew, its attention was soon focused on the Pacific yew.
（A）NO CHANGE （B） it soon focused its attention （C） they soon focused their attention （D） it was soon focused
Correct Answer: C
Tan also realized that, whether her work was published or not, one could only learn about oneself by writing in her own, Chinese-American, voice.
（A）NO CHANGE （B） one could only learn about herself （C） she could only learn about herself （D） oneself could only be known
Correct Answer: C
More ACT English Exam Questions
- 1Beans hang on the cornstalks, and squash vines had sprawled everywhere.
- 2A single pod of Brazil nuts (which are actually seeds) weighs nearly six pounds, so when it falls from a tree eight stories high, it has the force to cause serious injury.
- 3Holm claims at having a prairie eye, feeling uncomfortable in enclosed, mysterious spaces like the woods. He prefers the "magnitude and delicacy" of the open prairie.
- 4McMlintock found taht some of the maize kernels were striped or spotted rather than the uniform color found i nthe parent plants. For example, these findings were in marked contrast to Mendel's work, which had concluded that the kernel color of offspring could be predicted from the combination of genes inherited from the parent plants.
- 5The word itself comes from the Spanish word for dance, baile.