ACT Prep A
He insists that it would be too much trouble to learn all of the functions on a word-processing program.
F. NO CHANGE
G. insists, that
H. insists that,
J. insists, that,
F. insists that
She insisted that the premium package was amazing, with many extra sports, and movie channels.
F. NO CHANGE
G. sports, and movie, channels.
H. sports and movie, channels.
J. sports and movie channels.
J. sports and movie channels.
His abilities were noticed by a German piano teacher he gave Joplin free lessons and instilled in him good classical technique.
A. NO CHANGE
B. who
C. whom
D. that
B. who
After some years as a traveling musician, he eventually settled back in Sedalia and became a pianist at several, popular, black men’s clubs.
F. NO CHANGE
G. pianist, at several, popular black men’s clubs.
H. pianist at several popular black men’s clubs.
J. pianist, at several popular black men’s clubs.
H. pianist at several popular black men’s clubs.
The ragtime style illustrates how people of diverse heritage can create unique music that lots of people like.
A. NO CHANGE
B. everyone likes to listen to.
C. appeals to a broad audience.
D. never gets old.
C. appeals to a broad audience.
Sequoia was born into the Cherokee Nation in approximately 1770; his mother was a descendant of many respected Cherokee chiefs.
F. NO CHANGE
G. mother who was
H. mother being
J. mother is
F. NO CHANGE
Sequoia’s fame comes mainly from his acknowledged development of a written Cherokee language.
Which choice gives the sense that some of the facts of the story are unsubstantiated?
F. NO CHANGE
G. documented
H. alleged
J. accounted
H. alleged
The woods in French Canada, he said, were hearty and old, all of, the trees were the regrowth from widespread logging over a century ago.
A. NO CHANGE
B. old; all of
C. old all of
D. old; all, of
B. old; all of
As two tectonic plates collide, one of them is forced under the other, and the seabed rock melts to form new, low-density magma.
F. NO CHANGE
G. one of the plates are
H. one,
J. one plate, being
F. NO CHANGE
As a result, librarians must now be proficient curators of electronic information, compiling, catalog, and updating these collections.
A) NO CHANGE
B) librarians cataloging,
C) to catalog,
D) cataloging,
D) cataloging,
I couldn’t wait to view painter, Georges Seurat’s, 10-foot-wide A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte in its full size.
A) NO CHANGE
B) painter, Georges Seurat’s
C) painter Georges Seurat’s,
D) painter Georges Seurat’s
D) painter Georges Seurat’s
As I walked through the exhibit, I overheard a visitors’ remark, “You know, that grandfather clock actually runs. Its glass door swings open, and the clock can be wound up.”
A) NO CHANGE
B) visitors remarking,
C) visitor remarked,
D) visitor remark,
D) visitor remark,
A recent study by two professors at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Chris Wilmers and James Estes, suggests, that kelp forests protected by sea otters can absorb as much as twelve times the amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as those where sea urchins are allowed to devour the kelp.
A) NO CHANGE
B) suggest that
C) suggests, “that
D) suggests that
D) suggests that
Planned obsolescence, a practice whereby products are designed to have a limited period of usefulness, has been a cornerstone of manufacturing strategy for the past 80 years.
A) NO CHANGE
B) usefulness—
C) usefulness;
D) usefulness
A) NO CHANGE
More like a fair then an actual café, the first Repair Café took place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
A) NO CHANGE
B) fair than
C) fare than
D) fair, then
B) fair than
Her goals were straightforward; reduce waste, maintain and perpetuate knowledge and skills, and strengthen community.
A) NO CHANGE
B) straightforward, therefore:
C) straightforward:
D) straightforward,
C) straightforward:
In the past, such research was limited by the weight and bulk of the fossils as well as its preciousness and fragility.
A) NO CHANGE
B) it’s
C) their
D) there
C) their
Researchers from the National Museum of Brazil has relied on this technique to study a fossilized skeleton that was discovered protruding from a rock at an old São Paulo railroad site.
A) NO CHANGE
B) relied
C) will rely
D) is relying
B) relied
The fossil was too delicate to be removed from the rock. Because of the fossil’s delicate nature, the team dug up a block of stone around the fossil and brought it to their lab.
Which choice most effectively combines the underlined sentences?
A) The fossil could not be removed from the rock on account of it being too delicate; moreover, the team dug up a block of stone around it and brought it to their lab.
B) The team thought the fossil was too delicate to remove from the rock, and their next decision was to dig up a block of stone around the fossil and bring it to their lab.
C) The fossil was too delicate to be removed from the rock, so the team dug up a block of stone around the fossil and brought it to their lab.
D) In removing the fossil from the rock, the team found it was too delicate; then they dug up a block of stone around the fossil and brought it to their lab.
C) The fossil was too delicate to be removed from the rock, so the team dug up a block of stone around the fossil and brought it to their lab.
Boss Tweed’s Tammany Hall group, which controlled New York City in the 1860s—stole more than $30 million.
A) NO CHANGE
B) City in the 1860s,
C) City, in the 1860s,
D) City in the 1860s
B) City in the 1860s,
Tammany Hall was so powerful and corrupt that, the New York Times, commented “There is absolutely nothing . . . in the city which is beyond the reach of the insatiable gang.”
A) NO CHANGE
B) corrupt, that the New York Times commented,
C) corrupt that the New York Times commented,
D) corrupt that the New York Times, commented
C) corrupt that the New York Times commented,
One of the artist’s most famously well-known images showed Tweed with a bag of money in place of his head.
A) NO CHANGE
B) famous and well-known
C) famous and commonly known
D) famous
D) famous
At it’s best, the system can give creators direct access to millions of potential backers.
A) NO CHANGE
B) its
C) its’
D) their
B) its
The idea is obviously very attractive. An obscure method of photography may be made available to many with little expense.
Which choice most effectively combines the underlined sentences?
A) With the idea being obviously very attractive, an obscure method of photography may be made available to many at little expense.
B) The idea is obviously very attractive: an obscure method of photography may be made available to many at little expense.
C) An obscure method of photography may be made available to many at little expense, and the idea is obviously very attractive.
D) An obscure method of photography, an idea that is obviously very attractive, may be made available to many at little expense.
B) The idea is obviously very attractive: an obscure method of photography may be made available to many at little expense.
It is not difficult to understand why a cash-strapped, understaffed publication might feel pressure to cut teams of investigative reporter’s—their work is expensive and time-consuming.
A) NO CHANGE
B) reporters:
C) reporters,
D) reporter’s;
B) reporters: