ACT Past Papers with Answers

Source question 4. ovei- to dianiond-shiiped (yrid with numbered Squares in rows and coluninq. The puzzle was to be filled in with the answer8 to cliies that corresponded to the numbered .squares. He nanied his new ci'eation a "word-il"OSS." After the puzzle's debut in December. Requesiq

Source question 6. week and usually week-u8ually week; usually a readei"'8 subnii88ion. Eventually the PL1221Ls became known as "crosswords." By 1915, reader submissions arrived in such great numbers that. Martha Petherbridge, Wynne's seci"etary,

If the writer were to delete the undei'lined portion, the paragraph would primarily lose: an indication of the importance of the newspaper to Arthur Wynne. specific details that help the reader understand how Seriously crossword enthusÈa.¥tb took the puzzles. ali explanation of why the author is interested in crossword puzzles. an indication of readers, fru.sti"ation with the work of Martha Petherbridge. the puzzles, ,so Petherbridge checked carefully for

Source question 9. content errors carefully. carefully: checked for eTrors, prior to printing, both typographical and content. checked, prior to printing, typographical and con- tent errors, carefully. typographical and Lontent errors prior to prÉnting. She al80 established fKI'm riileg foi- ci-ossword layouts, including the introduction of square-shaped grids. By the 1920,s. the craze for cro%sword8 went far beyond the World's "Fun" supplement. Songwriters released tunes with cro8%word-related lyrics. Fashionable women wore crossword-decorated dresses. In line, fans of ci'osswoi"ds in crowds waited io at the New York Public Library to u.se

Source question 11. themselves one hit: the first book-lenoth collection of cro,ssword puzzles. 12

Source question 13. signified th1¢ t crosswords had reachcd the top peak indicated and signaled the peak marked the height with crosswords, the puzzles and their cryptic cliies 14

Given that all the choices are true, which on¢ providps the most effective and logical concluqion to this essay,. in 1931. <iiid Wordplay. these puzzles are published across the woi'ld and in many langiiages. continue to captivat¢ aLidience.s. 14 Question 15 asks about the preceding passage as a whole.

At this point, the writer is considering adding the fol- lowing true statement: 'Corne here,, Lane 1% %Liying to the toddler. Should the writer make this addition here? of the easiest Coastal Athabaskan phrases to trans- late into English. Coastal Athaba.%kan phra%e quoted earlier. a phi"1( se unfamiliar to most readers. vant to ttie para(Traph's focus on describiiig Lane's granddaughtei.. No, because the ess(iy later suggests that the phrase Lane speaL"s to hi,% oraiiddaughter has sev- ei.al ineiining8 in Coa8tal Athab£isk-an. a lieai.ly extinct language spoken fluently by only a few menibei's of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, given that it is the language of their ancestors. 17

Source question 18. since he did not grow up on the CO{28t of Oreuon or near the Siletz Reservation. considering it was the place to do so. as the purpose ot his move. program to successfully teach the tribes, preschoolers to speak their native languagc, Chinuk Wawa.

Which choice proNides the most specific examples of the types of tra(rments of the Coastal Athabaskan lan- guage that Lane learned.? such as a few evei'yday phrases and lyrics to sonos, enough for him to be able to .%peak it a little, %omething new here and tliere, ACT-74H GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. Lane convinced Nellie Orton, a tribaI elder who knew

Source question 21. whoin the language well but nevcr .%poke it in public. to be hi% teacher. 22 e pi'oduced languaLFe CD% and created an

Which of the following true statement£, if added here. would provide the most logical link to the intormation about Lane's work that follows in the next sentence? niately thirty iiidiLTenoug language4 are ali'eiqdy extinct, and without direct prescrvation efforts: more will be logt. peech and %tLidied the Coastal Athabaskan lan- guage, becomiiig one of the tribe'.% most fluent speakers. design a ced<l1-_plaiik dance hoLiSC aloiig the Siletz Rivcr. Lane algo worl<ed closely with two other tribal elders, Loreii Bommelyn and Gladys Bolton. online Coastal Athabaskan 'talking dictionary,, of words that had previously existed only in the few speakers,

Source question 23. online Coa%tal Athabaskan, 'talking dictionary" online Coastal Athabaskaii 'talking dictionary" online, Coastal Athabaskan 'talking dictionary," heads. [C] [4] In 20()3, the li-ibal COLincil a8ke(l Lane whether he 24

Source question 24. counLil, asked Lane, council, asked Laiie council asked Lane, were to h(ive started l<iiiouage cl(1sse% iii the Lommunity. 25 ?$. A. NO CHANGE would start %tarted %tai't.s Still. he soon rcsigncd from his job at the local paper

Source question 25. Refer to the source image.

Source question 27. this is how and then including instructional materials accessible not onIy to schoolchi Idreii but to al I ti'l bal nieiiibLr,%. ACT.74H GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. [_5] Foi" Lane, a unique knowledge is embedded in the Ii'adition.s of his torebears, includiniF medical knowledge.

Given that all the choices are accurate, which one most effectively leads readers into Lane's message in the concluding sentences of the essay. Langua(Te, he believes, is the life force of a culture, a and his granddaughter is one of the youngest Tnem- bers of the Tututni ti'ibe. %evcral of whom are still living. source of %tories, poetry, history, and art. 'Languaoe 29 lilciintain% oui- view ot. I'ulil the woi-ld,, he .%ays.

Source question 29. including history, the history there, with history, Question 30 asks about the preceding passage as a whole.

Source question 31. a feeling that Ès likc as though The %ti-eet% at the South Street SeL1port cire paved with cobblestones. [A] Bobbing up and down iii the Ea%t Rivei. 1< re %everal. well-preserved,

Source question 32. severii I, well-preserved, nineteenth-centui"y, several, well-prescrved nineteenth-century, several well-preserved nineteenth-century niDeteenth-century multimasted schooners. 32 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. The mo%t potent link to the seaport's past, however. is the fishy smell Loming from the East River. -13

Source question 34. on such mornings which i,$ ivhen DELETE the underliiied poi'tioii. catch in to the East River. The distributors, in turn. would

Given that all the choices al'e accurate, which one is most relevant at this point iii tloe paraoraph,? to sell to wholesale distributoi-%. (Ifter Speiidiiig tiime at %ea. 8ell the fish to bus ers whotn purcha%ed seafood for local

Source question 36. buyers who restaurants and stores. [1] As I approached, I could hear a clamor of voices as hundred% of tishmongers and buyers haggled over prices. [2] Rows upon rows of carts and wooden bin8 packed with ice and scafood was crammed into the

Source question 37. were building. [3] I remember the first tiii]e I visited the mai'ket. [4] Anyone new to the inarket would be overwhelmed by the variety of seafood alone with live blue crabs. haIf-ton -38

Source question 38. alone, there w'ere alone.. alonc; swordfigh. tiventy-pouiid tund fillets, fresh octopus. Jy [5] Dod(Fing forklifts, I made my way past bins of ice lined

Which choice be%t InaiEit¢lillS the desLriptive pattern established in the list of seafood? some other %li£htly niore e.Kotic species. %oniething th&lt S think was octopiis. etc. with fish laid side by side. head to tail, head to tail. 40

For the Sake of logic and coliesion. SenteiiLL' 3 should be placed: where it 1% now. after Sentence l. al-ter Seiitence 4. ACT-74H GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. [4] Today: beLau%e of niy p&8.%illg by the biiildino that 41 ..)nLe W¢1g thL Fulton Fi%h MLirk-et. I li8teii to the excited

Source question 41. while in PLl8sing as I pass i'oices of tourists who have corne to visit the nearby SeilPOI't Mii8Liiin <2nd %h()P (it tlie Se1( port M1c11. [C] The Irea is 8till busy, so the market itself m(Ived in 2005 to 42 tlie Bronx, whei'e it Iiow oper<ltes a.% the New Fulton Fish

Source question 42. or .Xqark'et Cooper<ltive. [Dl It's ea,%y to iiiiagine, likewi.4e, tlie market still echoino aro)und me hei"e on Fulton Street. All

Source question 43. as a matter of fact. in other words, though, I havL to do is cl()%e my eyL.% <iiid tcike li deep brLath. Questions 44 and 45 ask about the preceding passage as a whole.

The writer is con8iderinLF adding the folloiiiing true %ent¢nLe to the e.48ay: In 19?4. for example, the rnai'ket sold 384 mil- lion pounds of fish-25 percent of all seafood sold iii the United States. If the writer wei"e to ddd this %entenLe, it would most logically be placed at: Poiiit D in ParaiJraph 4.

Source question 46. iin airy arrangement that almo%t looks soinething like a bunch of grapes a self-made cluinp of air bubbles a bunch ACT-74H GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. These 'bubble-rafting .snails" (janthinids) di'ift for miles, moving up and down, feeding on jellyfish and other

The writer wants to emphasize that janthinids mol'e b! drifting passively under the surface of the water. Givev. that all the choice% ai"e true. which one best accoTn- plishes tliat godl'P their bubble,$ peeking through the water's sui-face. wherever the water and wind take theiii, often in groups that travel together, 47 floating prey. [A] They use mucus to create a Small r<2ft of tiny air bubbles, permanently attached to the bottom of their bodies, which makes them float in that way. 111 2011,

Source question 49. as a determinati()n ot as determining [B] Churchill, who found in her surpi'ise that bubble rafters 50

Source question 51. Lomparing the same they are creatures that feed on coral and gea anenione,%, 52 and rarely, if ever, come up to the water's surface. These

Source question 52. these snails, like most in the family Epitoniidae. teed teedi n(v snails use mucus to bind their eggs together into loniT strands or egg masses that trail behind them as they glide 53

Which choice both is punctuated correc-tly and make. fflost clc1¢ r that 'ego ina,8%es" 1% the term for the IL)n:- strands of eggs that wentletr<iPS biiid to(sethei witl. mucus? strands (with eog masses) strands, or egg masses, gtrands; egg masses across the ocean floor. Churchill asserts that is the genetic 54

Source question 54. these egg masses are wliich are it is precurqor to bubble rafts. ACT-74H 10 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAG [3] According to the biolo(rist, air ot.ten gets trapped in the egg mas.%es of female wentletraps, forming Small air bubbles. At one point, a wentletrap inust Iiave created eiiough biibbles to caiise her to float to the ocecin's %urfacL. Given the abundance of jellyfish and othei. foods on the surface, creating air bubble% and floating becaiiie a 55

Source question 55. SLlI-tace creating air bubbIes surface, creatin(r air bubble%- qurfcice creatints <ljl- bubble8 survival advantage. 56

Source question 56. need% to %urvive. means to the end that is nourishment. [4] Churchill argiies that thouiyh the ability to make

Source question 57. ifted talent to Inake bubbles on purpose didn't evolve quickly, while Lertain

Source question 58. whei.ea lineages of wentletrap% did develop this hLibit. [D] These exceptional snailq gave rise to the handful of bubble-rat.ting snail species known today. Chiirchill, in explaining how a few bottom-feedin? wentletraps becaine janthinids skiinming the ocean's surtace, ha4 answered the question of how goiiie 8nail8 bLcame surfers.

Source question 59. otfered an unknown about 8nails and %urfing in her provlded expIaiiatioii. oiven an answer to a question relating biologically to surfing .qnic ils. Question 60 asks about the preceding passage as a whole.

Source question 61. 61 hive-%ecui"ely packed. sealed> Lind humming with sonie of his very own. some bee%. lite ai'i'ived at Paucton'% woi-kplaLe. the Palais Garniei. is 62 a preeminent opera house in the city's historic distrtct.

Source question 63. transport setile for a place to temporarily store his purchase. [2] Up on the root, an opera house fireinan %u(Tge%ted (who wa% raisiiig 64 trout in the huoe cistern l)elow the Palais Gai"nier).

Source question 64. an opera house fireman made the suggestion SU47gested an opera house fireman was an opera house fireman'8 suggestion [3] Paucton's bees have been cared for ever siiicc, high above elaborate productions ot Ccii"iiic'ii, l.Li Bcilièipie, and

Which choice best emphasizes that Paucton's bees lead healthy lives at their opera house location. thriving noted Cosi Fail Tutte. [4] Now in his late seventies, the beekeeper has expaiided Eiis pi-ojeLt to tive hives. [5] The <lllllUdl harvest has gi'own to Inore t111< n one thou%and pounds of honey, which he bottles, labels by Iiand. cind .sells in nearby specialty %hopi. 66

For the sake of logic and cohesion, Sentence 4 should be placed: where it is now. after Sentence l. after Sentence 2. For all itg chai'iii, Pauctoii's story ha% an 67

Source question 67. its, increasin>(kly serious dimension. Since the niid-19908,

Source question 68. diinen8ionc21ity of itself. howevei., bee population% worldwide have declined

Source question 69. neverthelegs, i) ACT-74H 12 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. dra￿laticallY. Hundreds of thou,sands of hives have beeii 7th disappeai-ing every year. Pesticide.8. polliition, paiasites,

Whicli ot" the following altei'natives to the uiiderliiied portion would NOT be acceptable? dram<ltically; hundreds and disea.se imperil the insects, which I'aiik aniong the top pollinator8 on Earth. Countless crops-apples. cucurnberg, 71 almonds, avocado,s, bi'occoli, to naine a tew-simply won't 71 row as well without bees to pollinate them.

If the writer were to delete the underlined portion. the e%siiy would primarily lo%c detail% that: create unnecessary confusion for readers who think of becs as pests. establi%li the difference betweeii PauLton'% bee4 and bees in the couiitryside outside Pari s. elaborate on a key point being made about bee.%' centi'al role in world a(¥ricLilture. %u(Tgest ￿1hY more beekeepers than ever <ire tiirnini? their hobbies into professions. Surpi'i8ingly, bees in urban area8, where there ai"e fewei" pe.sticides and a far gr¢ater variety of flowering plilllts and tree8, are fai-ino better by far then theii- 72

Source question 72. than iheir then Lountry Lousins. While the disorder, widely known as

Source question 74. them The ramific(Ition% for the agriculture industry and for tlie oeiieial health of the planet are or£1nder than the grandest Question 75 asks about the preceding passage as a whole. opera .4iacYed at the Pal.iis Garnier.