Act English Practice Quiz 3 (30 MCQs)

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1. #50 Choose the best option
2. Either the boy or the girls (a) in the evening.
3. The rain in Spain falls oftenly/largely/hugely/mainly on the plain.
4. This question asks about the essay as a whole.The writer is considering adding the following sentence to the essay:This information is used to help create regional weather forecasts.If the writer were to add this sentence, it would most logically be placed at which of the highlighted points?
5. (1) The Cold War was one of the most interest-ing and troubling times in American history. In the first century of the Industrial Revolu-tion, the country undergoing the most dra-matic change was England. After 1850, the Industrial Revolution spread rapidly$^{1}$
6. The police like to question me/myself whenever I have no alibi for me/myself.
7. What is the subject-verb agreement error in this sentence:'The series of events that occurred last summer have shaped my perspective'?
8. The county cleared this path and paved it with packed gravel, so they would have a peaceful place to hike and bike.
9. Passage 4You should choose the alternative that best expresses the idea in standard written English and is worded most consistently with the tone of the passage. If you believe the original version is best, then choose "NO CHANGE."
10. The ACT test-taking skill 'Yards After Contact' refers to what?
11. Unless we psychoanalyze ourselves, we may never be aware of the hidden reasons for our actions. This suggests that the notion of free will might have been$^{7}$ an illusion and that our choices are governed by hidden mental processes which we have no control over.
12. Which of the following sentences is an example of irony?
13. Which choice contrasts most directly with the other ways to get involved at the observatory that are mentioned in the paragraph?
14. She then carries the assortment outside to the wood-fired kiln, it is a brick structure designed to bake pottery to a hardness and transform glazes to glorious colors that drying alone won't achieve.
15. Increasingly important
16. The Industrial Revolution transformed Western society, creating an inter-national capitalist economy, urbanization, labor reforms, a system to educate the public, $^{3}$ and labor specialization.
17. New research shows that high cholesterol levels are as much a result of heredity as also is a healthy diet and active lifestyle are.
18. Which detail would be relevant to this main idea? There are many fun things to do at the beach.
19. The Angel purportedly taught Kidd how to summon ghosts and demons to do his bidding, and keep buried riches safe from gold seekers.
20. It is nearly impossible to discern which number the solver has placed incorrectly once an error is discovered. If you don't have a pencil, use a pen to write the digit as a series of light dots.
21. When the dog chased the cat, ..... ran under the fence.
22. There was a small ..... of water in the glass.
23. She seemed so calm telling me this story, and all I could think about was how lucky she was.
24. The teacher told the students to turn in ..... essays.
25. #54 Choose the best option
26. The seemingly triangular shape of those snowflakes suggests that forming through a different process of chemical bonding.
27. This allowed the cave-creating process to be a process that repeated at different depths hundreds of feet apart.
28. When doing the Humpty Dance, limp to the side like/as if/similar to when/with your leg was broken.
29. The father and originator of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), is largely respon-sible for the way we understand ourselves.
30. Which of the following is correct?Such equipment, however can alarm or even harm sea life.