Act English Practice Quiz 3 (30 MCQs)

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1. St. Peter's Basilica, the largest cathedral in the Northern Hemisphere, is remarkable. Built upon second-century (a) St. Peter's features a dome designed by the artist and architect Michelangelo.
2. Painting the trees onto the canvas, the wind blew hard that day.
3. I'm still parked out by the lake-the one by Santa Fe.
4. Two hundred people were standing in line for tickets when the booth opened; then, only 30 people were left.
5. "Scholars often probe the museums' archives of early written works for insights into lives led long ago."Choose the best answer.
6. Because I rely on my calculator so often, I had forgotten how to do long division.
7. However, on the day of Gehrig's retirement from baseball, he delivered one of the most famous speeches of the time.
8. Each of the answers ..... checked carefully.
9. Identify the sentence with correct sentence structure that avoids a run-on sentence.
10. She usually ..... to school, but today she rode the bus.
11. 53
12. #50 Choose the best option
13. Either the boy or the girls (a) in the evening.
14. The rain in Spain falls oftenly/largely/hugely/mainly on the plain.
15. 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?
16. (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$^{1}$
17. The police like to question me/myself whenever I have no alibi for me/myself.
18. What is the subject-verb agreement error in this sentence:'The series of events that occurred last summer have shaped my perspective'?
19. The county cleared this path and paved it with packed gravel, so they would have a peaceful place to hike and bike.
20. 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."
21. The ACT test-taking skill 'Yards After Contact' refers to what?
22. 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.
23. Which of the following sentences is an example of irony?
24. Which choice contrasts most directly with the other ways to get involved at the observatory that are mentioned in the paragraph?
25. 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.
26. Increasingly important
27. 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.
28. New research shows that high cholesterol levels are as much a result of heredity as also is a healthy diet and active lifestyle are.
29. Which detail would be relevant to this main idea? There are many fun things to do at the beach.
30. The Angel purportedly taught Kidd how to summon ghosts and demons to do his bidding, and keep buried riches safe from gold seekers.