ACT Past Papers with Answers

The writer is considering revising the underlined portion to the following accurate phrase: including hotels, government offices, and hospitals, If the writer were to make this revision, the essay would primarily gain: Williams helped create. information about the kinds of buildings that Williams helped create. a visual description of WiIliams's style of architecture. the idea that Il'illiams preferred designing hotels over designing other kinds of Structures. homes for the Hollywood elite. However, Williams did not limit his work to Southern California. His architecture stretches from Washington, DC, lo Bogota, Colombia. One of his most interesting designs were

Source question 3. were built stood in Las Vegas; the La Concha Motel.

Source question 5. out, and Williams was hired to design it in 1961. out from its neighbors: larger Las Vegas hotels. out and be different. eye-catching design that would attract guests. He drew inspiration from a Southern California architectural trend known as Google. [B] [3] Envisioning a motel that combined the name La Concha (which translates to "shell") with the arched roofs typical of Google architecture. the lobby that Williams designed was meant to

Source question 6. it had a lobby designed by Williams and the design for Williams's lobby appear, from a distance like a giant shell. On three

Source question 7. appear, from a distanc4 Iike appear, from a distance like, appear from, a distance like of the ones, Williams designed twenty-eight-foot-high

Source question 8. sides of the building, of those sides, of them, concrete arches that jutted out over the sidewalks. [C]

Source question 9. extended themselves out lengthily went and stuck out stuck super far out Inside. the lobby, which was a place for gathering. io consisted of a large, open space that functioned as

Source question 16. octopus¢s are a species of octopus is an octopus is

Source question 17. even opening even open screw-top jars. In 2012, at the New England Aquarium, an octopus used its anatornical siphon to propel a pill bottle crossed its

Source question 18. 18 across its across it's -cross it's tank. When the pill bottle reached the other side, a jet stream in the tank returned it to the octopus. Amazingly, ACT.BOS GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. the octopus propelled the pill bottle back toward the jet stream. The researchers at the aquarium realized the octopus was doing something extraordinary: inventing a version of pitch-and-catch. In inventing this game, the actions of the octopus were not based l9 on survival. The octopus simply wanted to

Source question 19. octopus's actions were not based octopus did not base its actions play. Evolutionary biologists believe play could have an important role through animals 20 cognitive development. According to the Theory

Source question 20. in an animal's in animals of Flexibility. play, the theory says, teaches an 21

Source question 24. toys and puzzles, is a series of nesting cubes. Each cube features a different latch for the octopus has to open until the octopus reaches 25 the smallest cube. Typically, after just a few weeks,

Source question 25. and octopuses master this puzzle, solving it in a matter of minutes. 26

If the writer were to delete the phrases 'after just a few weeks," and "solving it in a matter of minutes" from the previous sentence (adjusting the punctuation as needed), the paragraph would primarily lose: mastering the puzzles created by the researchers. clarifications about how researchcrs gauge octo- puses, interest in solving a given puzzle. clarifications about the length of time octopuses should be allowed to work on the puzzles. created by the researchers. ACT-B05 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. Researchers are interested not only in whether octopuses can solve such puzzles but also in the methods 27 by which they do so. While one octopus might use trial-and-error to unlatch the cubes, another octopus

Source question 27. also and may just use a lot of strength in opening the larger cubes 28

Which choice offers the most specific information about the method applied by some octopuses? latches) opt to break the larger cubes ruin the larger cubes to get to the smaller ones. Therefore. researchers have 29 noted how octopuses tnodify and improve their methods

Source question 30. making the implied suggestion that with the suggestion that iTnplies PASSAGE111 Sandscape Stories [1] In hEr sand animation performances, artist Ilana Yahav tells 31 stoi.ies through a series of images she creates

Source question 32. manipulatino contriving onto a large screen in real time. [A] Viewers must watch closely because each story Yahav tells cascades by in images that last just a second or two. ACT-805 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. [2] To tell a story. Yahav clears sand from the center 33 of the glass. As she shapes the sand around the edges

Source question 34. starts to appear. appears. 34 glass to "draw" facial features, and other, smalI 35 objects. When she wants to create less-defined

Source question 36. images-such as a grove of trees or a snowfalj, images, such as a grove of trees, or a snowfall images, such as a grove of trees or a snowfall [B] Yahav's hands move fluidly. not pausing while a 37

Source question 38. illustrates much illustrate miich illustrate many image of an orange resting in an open palm to that of the face of a young woman, her head resting on her forearm. [C] Facial features, along with a teardrop near one eye. appear when Yahav pinches bits of sand into place on the face of a young woman. A steady sweep 39

In order to most clearly indicate that Yahav moves both hands simultaneously when adding flowers to the woman's hair, the best placement for the underjined portion would be: where it is now. after the word hands. after the word flowers. after the word hair (and before the period). to add at once flowers to the woman's hair. 43 [4] [D] Yahav plans and mernorizes every frame of her stories, outlining the scenes on a storyboard similar to the kind filmmakers use. Q As she explains. "I use only my 44 hands, my fingers, and my soul.,

Which of the following statements, if added here. would provide the most logical transition from the pre- ceding sentence to the last sentence of the paragraph? glass, she likens her art to the act of dancin images she creates overlap and e.ventuaIly "erase" each other. audiences tnesmerized without using complicated di(rital effecls. "You've Got a Friend" begins with Yahav framing the scene by spreading sand on the bottom half of the glass to create a horizon line. Question 45 asks about the preceding passage as a whole.

Source question 46. car, the time being car at the time car at "You'll need this at the top," she said. She handed me a wool hat, which I regarded skeptically. We were in Maui, after all. we had spent the day before lying on the beach. Further, I decided to take her word for it. I had never been 47 to the top of Mount HaleakaIa, the "House of the Sun., [A]

Source question 48. one can view viewing 10,023 feet above sea level. [B] Tourists and locals alike make the arduous 38-mile drive, cheerfully 49 navigating the haiipin turns in the dark hours of early morning. Kayla was one of them. I, on the other

Source question 49. alike, Tnake the arduous. alike make, the arduous. alike, make the arduous hand. clutched my coffee and tried not to focus on the well-traveled road before us. 50

Which choice most effectively illustrates that the drive up the volcano was unsettling for the narrator? steep tangle of road looming road that unfolded winding road [3] Once we reached the summit and parked the car, my misgivings ￿pere compounded by the shocking cold. being, at most, 40 degrees 51 Fahrenheit. [c] I grudgingly pulled on the wool hat,

Source question 51. it was. trudging behind Kayla until we reached the main observation polnt. About a hundred people had already gathered, a guard rail the only thing separating them from 52 the crater's edge. Granted, all I could see were clouds.

Source question 54. 54 crowd. crowd of about a hundred people. crowd who stood together by the crater's edge. [4] At exactly 5:57 a.m., the sun made its way out of the 55

Source question 55. itself its, it's clouds. Not to mention that someone standing near us 56 began a nzele oli, a native Hawaiian chant. We observers

Source question 57. next to each other, observing shoulder to shoulder close and observed as the ascending sun lit the sky golden and casted a rosy 58 blush onto the clouds below. [D] I was simply grateful to

Source question 58. alighted the sky golden and casted alighted the sky golden and cast be there at that moment, with Kayla, watching the new day break over the island. Questions 59 and 60 ask about the preceding passage as a whole.

Source question 61. it was a shaky but ultimately safe journey as Garnerin regarded as the first trial parachute jump. About 62 three hundred years before Garnerin designed his

The writer wants to indicate that other people had attempted to parachute jump before Garnerin's public stunt in Paris. Which choice best accomplishes that goal? successful ever parachute however, Italian artist, Leonardo da Vinci, 63 had sketched a similar contraption in the margins of

Source question 64. notebook-a sketch that resembled Garnerin's own parachute design. notebook that contained his sketches. notebook. Leonardo wrote prolifically in his 65 notebooks about an enormous range of ideas. 65

Given that all the choices are accurate, which one most effectively leads readers into the rest of the essay. and sketched out ideas for related innovations. including several types of flying machines and a device to measure wind speed. sance-a time when creativity was widely stimu- lated and encouraged. from any great height whatsoever without injury." Unlike the nylon parachutes of today, these bend as 66 they catch the air, Leonardo's design, if constructed, would be rigid and unwieldy: its frame consisted of twenty-two-foot-long wooden poles shaped into a pyramid.

Source question 66. which they ACT.B05 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. It was unclear whether the linen panels anchored to the frame would catch enough air to ensure a jumper's safe landing. Leonardo himself never actually built his parachute. 67

If the writer were to delete the preceding sentence, the essay would primarily lose a: suggestion that Leonardo's parachute was ulti- mately credited to a different inventor. attempting to construct his parachute. clarification that Leonardo's parachute was theoretical. parachute. [1] In 2000, British skydiver Adrian Nicholas decided to test Leonardo's design. [2] The finished parachute weighed 187 pounds. about 172 pounds heavier than a modern parachute. [3] He constructed the parachute according to Leonardo's plans. using only materials that would have been available in fifteenth-century Milan.

Source question 69. there its, its free near the end of the jump and deploy his backup 70

For the sake of logic and cohesion, Sentence 2 should be placed: where it is now. after Sentence 3. after Sentence 5. Acr-Bos 12 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. Eight years later, Swiss parachutist Olivier Vietti-Teppa modernized Leonardo's original concept. His parachute was constnicted with nylon and without the heavy wooden frame. Despite his inability to steer the parachute, Vietti-Teppa managed to complete what 73 he called a perfect jump. Q The pyramidal shape of the