ACT Past Papers with Answers

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Source question 2.

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. For the sake of the'logic and coherence of this para­ graph, Sentence 1 should be placed:

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At this point, the writer is considering adding the fol­ lowing true statement: Dr. Ingrid Strauss, a leader in hippotherapy, is a neurologist from Germany. Should the writer make this addition here? education of a leader in hippotherapy. that Dr. Strauss has trained therapists in the United States. Dr. Strauss became interested in bippotherapy. statement to the paragraph or the essay as a whole. ACT-69F 2 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. 110}\._CT 微信号loviact 独角兽在这里 1 Why a horse? The mov�ment'in a� , 5 pelvis when he or she rides a horse is si血lar to the movement created by a person walking upright. This movement is difficult to duplicate using typical physical therapy tools, such as balls and swings, since the possible motions, and functions; of 6 those tools are relatively fixed. 曰 It's easy, however, a duplication of this pelvic movement 8 with the assistance of a walking horse. A horse-in-motion provides steady sensory input to the patient, and then the walking speed of 9 the horse can be controlled, so can the level

Paper 55 · ACT June 2011 · Form 69F · English Test

Source question 5.

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Source question 6.

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If the writer were to delete the preceding sentence, the essay would primarily lose a statement that explains: therapy tools. _ w _ balls and swings are typically used in physi­ cal therapy. as balls and swings. be used in hippotherapy.

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Source question 8. of sensory input. 巨］

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Source question 9.

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Which of the following true statements, if added here, would most effectively conclude the paragraph by building on the information in the preceding sentence? !: !:_Iippotherapy has evolved over the last forty years. teen months. response to the patient's needs. during and after hippotherapy sessions. ACT-69F 3 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. 11o�CT 微信号loviact 独角兽在这里 1 [1] Hippotherapy is not at all like recreational 11 horseback riding. [2] If you were to visit a hippotherapy center, you would see patients in different positions. 巨］ [3] One purpose of these positions is to allow the patient to learn how his or her body responds as the hor�e walks. [4] In other words, tr组ned spotters ensure the patient's 13 safety. [5] Horses are also used because _ many peopie are drawn to them. [6] Patients often work with the same horse and grow to love that animal. [7] Most of the patients are children, and they enjoy brushing the horses andseeing 14 the horse stables. [8] The experience is a lively and invigorating variation on traditional physical therapy. 曰

Paper 55 · ACT June 2011 · Form 69F · English Test

Which of the following alternatives to the underlined portion would NOT be acceptable?

Paper 55 · ACT June 2011 · Form 69F · English Test

In the preceding sentence, the writer is considering revising the clause "you would see patients in different positions" to "you might see someone sitting backward or sideways on a horse or lying prone on a horse's back." Should the writer make this revision? experience w1th hippoth如rapy. about the ways patients are positioned on horses during therapy sessions. tion to the essay. focus of the essay.

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Source question 13.

Paper 55 · ACT June 2011 · Form 69F · English Test

Which of the following alternatives to the underlined portion would NOT be acceptable?

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The writer wants to drvide this paragraph into two in order-to separate the discussion of hippotherapy posi­ tions from the discussion of the emotional link between horses and hippotherapy patients. The best place to begin.the new paragraph would be at the beginning of Sentence: PASSAGE II The Birth of Broadcasting In the early 1900s, radio was not the widespread medium that it is today. Instead, its use was limited to 16 electronics buffs, many of whom built their own wireless sets, as radios were sometimes called in their infancy.

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Source question 16. ACT-69F 4 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. 11o�T 微信号loviact 独角兽在这里 1 On his way to becoming, chairman of the board., of the 17 Radio Corporation of America (RCA), � 18 David Sarnoffwho saw a huge audience for radio. 18 To create such an audience, Sarnoff believed would 19 require connecting citizens around the nation via radio to a dramatic large-scale popular event with built-in mass 20 appeal. Broadcasting this event from receivers set up

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Source question 17.

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Source question 18. radio. radio. David Sarnoff.

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Source question 19. in store windows, city parks, and other public spaces to 21 demonstrate that anyone could listen to the wireless, not just people with special skills and hard-to-build equipment. The determinedly, ambitious Sarnoff latched onto 22 the perfect event. In 1921, he made elaborate plans to broadcast a heavyweight boxing match between American Jack Dempsey with Frenchman Georges Carpentier. 23

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Source question 20.

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Source question 21.

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Source question 22. 曰Sports enthusiasts around the world were anxiously awaiting the bout between the experienced Dempsey and the popular underdog, Carpentier. When the time came, a transmitter was borrowed from the U.S. Navy and hired 25 Major J. Andrew White to describe the action, at RCA's 26 request, store managers, theater owners, and municipal workers across the country set up loudspeal,cers. ACT-69F

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Source question 23.

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At this point, the writer is considering adding the fol­ lowing true statement: Athletes continue to draw media attention worldwide. Should the writer make this addition here? understanding the si,gnificance of the broadcast. ity diminished when television was invented. focused on an athletic event. essay's focus on radio's beginnings.

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Source question 25.

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Source question 26. · G. action at J . action then at 5 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. 1 · 10}:\_CT 微信号 loviact 独角兽在这里 1 The match took place in Jersey City on a hot July afternoon. While the athletes battled it out, Major White described the action from ringside. All over the country, 27 people listened in rapt attention. For the first time, they were hearing a distant event as ithappened and sharing the experience with millions of others.. During the fourth round, Dempsey defeated Carpentier, just as the Navy's overheated transmitter broke down into a molten mass of wires and tubes. No matter: ＼ 、 RCA would soqn be offering radios in return for money 28 to a public demanding broadcast music, sports, news, and weather. The era of electronic broadcasting had begun.

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Given that all the choices are true, which one con­ tributes to the paragraph's point that radio enabled the broadcast of eyewitness accounts of events?

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Source question 28. Question 29 asks about the precedin_g passage as a whole.

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S·uppose the writer had intended to write an essay about how a· single event had far-reaching conse­ quences in terms of public information. Would this essay fulfill the writer's goal?- broadcast of a boxing match,transformed the public into an audience seeking unprecedented access to live events. radio broadcast of a boxing match, the public's interest in news was replaced with an interest in sports. been providing information to individuals long b�fore Sarnoff broadcast a boxing match to a widespread audience. attracted interest in a broadcast of a boxing match but does not indicate the long-term consequences of that broadcast. PASSAGE Ill At Home in a Language When I was a child growing up in Delhi, India. My 30 parents and I will have spent our summers inCalcutta, 31 India, visiting my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.

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Source question 30.

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Source question 31. ACT-69F 6 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. 11o�T 微信号loviact 独角兽在这里 1 We took the train over. eight hundred miles from Delhi to Calcutta, which I considered a treat as itself. I loved the 32 dining car, the cozy sleeping berth in our cabin, and the 33 gentle rocking motion of the train that would lull me 34 to sleep at night. As an adult,·1 prefer to trave1 by car. 巨 When we arrived at the Calcutta station the next morning, we were welcomed announcing train arrivals and departures over the intercom by the sound of the Bengali language. 36 Back in Delhi, the language most people commonly spoke was Hindi. Though I spoke Hindi fluently, it wasn't my first language. My parents were born in Calcutta, where most people spoke Bengali. They had lived there for years before they got married and moved to Delhi, where Hindi was widely spoken. 37 Because my parents had grown up speaking Bengali, we spoke Bengali, not Hindi, in our house. It was not surprising, then, that hearing Bengali on the streets of Calcutta made me feel right at home. Being in Calcutta was a comfort to me because I could speak almost exclusively in my first language. 38 Store clerks, cab drivers, bus drivers, schoolchildren, families picnicking in the parks: it seemed like everybody in Calcutta spoke Bengali. It only took me a day or two to adjust to not having to �anage two languages.

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Source question 32.

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Source question 33.

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Source question 34.

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The writer is considering deleting the preceding sen­ tence. Should the sentence be kept or deleted? into the narrator's personality. . favorite modes of transportation. events in the paragr?ph. an otherwise impersonal _ essay.

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The best placement for the underlined portion would be:

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Source question 37.

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Source question 38. ACT-69F 7 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. 1 lO�CT 微信号loviact 独角兽在这里 1 Communicating with such ease was a relief; in Delhi I felt 39 split in half, but inCalcutta I really felt like two people. 40 I also found life in my grandparents' house easy 41 to get used to. Their house was always overflowing with 42 members of my father's family. Being an only child, I savored this time spent with relatives. My aunts and uncles 43 lov�d to tease me and tell me jokes and stories. I would skip through the rooms of my grandparents' sprawling house with my cousins, thrilled to have all that extra space 44 in which to play games and have fun. ＂

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Source question 39.

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Which choice most logically completes the contrast between the way the narrator felt in Calcutta and in Delhi?

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Source question 41.

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Which choice most effectively emphasizes the fact that the narrator's father has a large family?

Paper 55 · ACT June 2011 · Form 69F · English Test

Which of the following alternatives to the underlined portion would NOT be acceptable?

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Given that all the choices are true, which one best con­ eludes the sentence and the essay while reinforcing the essay's main idea? Bengali. entire lives. collected. PASSAGE IV The Great Wall of Los Angeles Judith Francisca Baca believes a mural can tell a story and that a largeness of it gives its creator an 45 amplified voice. It began in the summer of 1976, 46 Baca led the creation of what is likely the longest .mural in the world, the Great Wall of Los Angeles.

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Source question 45.

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Source question 46. ACT-69F 8 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. 1 lO�CT 微信号loviact 独角兽在这里 1 This tourist a� painted on the concrete 47 wall of the Tujung� Wash, a flood-control chan�el in the San Fernando Valley, is over thirteen feet high and 48 almost a half mile long. The project was commissioned by Los Angeles city officials, those wanted well-known 49 local muralist Baca to beautify the channel area. She took this opportunity to bring the people of multiethnic Los Angeles together to produce a narrative mural of their stories. Baca imagined the mural, on the channel wall as a 50 timeline. It would proclaim the historical experiences of California's people's, focusing rµainly on the experiences 51

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The writer would like to describe the mural in a way that strongly emphasizes the mural's visual energy. Which choicebest accomplishes this purpose?

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Source question 48.

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Source question 49.

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Source question 50.

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Source question 51. f of women, the poor, and minorities. She wants as many 52 people as possible, especially young people, to help create the mural. 巴 For guidance, they interviewed hundreds of city residents, historians, and social activists. The subjects they picked ranged'from: Dust Bowl refugees to civil 54 rights activists, Olympic champions to labor organizers, 55 land disputes to the growth of suburbia.

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Source question 52.

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Which of the following true statements, if added here, would provide the most effective transition into the information that follows in the paragraph? (SPARC), which Baca and two other artists founded, is based in Venice, California. the mural scenes. well as at the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution. backgrounds.

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Source question 54.

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Source question 55. ACT-69F 9 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. 1lO�CT 微信号loviact 独角兽在这里 1 Next, area artists drew miniature sketches of the 56 . scenes on grids. After that, they created a blueprint qf the 57 mural including "bddge images" that wove � together. 58 A huge grid was traced onto � smoothed and ;�aled section of the channelwall, and the blueprint sketches were outlined onto·it. The drawings were then painted, over numerous summers, by Los Angeles teens in groups recruited with the help of outreach organizations. 巨］ In 1983, the mural was finally finished. Dozens of professional artists, over four hundre� teens, and thousands of other community members had contributed to the Great Wall of Los Angeles, a celebration of the many voices of the city. 60

Paper 55 · ACT June 2011 · Form 69F · English Test

Which of the following alternatives to the underlined portionwould NOT be acceptable?

Paper 55 · ACT June 2011 · Form 69F · English Test

Which of the following alternatives to the underlined portion would NOT be acceptable?

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Source question 58.

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If the writer were to delete the phrase "in groups recruited with the -help of outreach organizations" from the preceding sentence, the paragraph would primarily lose: brought together to paintthe mural. nizations helped teens paint the mural. about working on the mural. earlier in the paragraph.

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Given that all thechoices are true, which one best con­ cludes the essay by clearly linking the essay's conclu­ sion to an image in the essay's opening paragraph? and touching up. a magenta undercoat. ACT-69F 10 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. 1 lO�CT 微信号 loviact 独角兽在这里 1 PASSAGE V Coloring the Past [1] When we were children, my older brother and I spent many afternoons coloring at the kitchen table. 曰 I would hold up a carnation pink or a lime green crayon, cover the worn label with my thumb, and asking my 62 brother what color I was holding. I was always surprised 63 time after time, he could not tell the difference between a pink crayon and a green one. The reason for this was that he is color-blind. [2] [1] This is rarely the case. [2] "Color-blind" is a bit of a misnomer, as it implies that people with color blindness cannot see any colors. [�] The human eye contains rod cells, which allow us to see black and white and perceive gradations of lightness, and cone cells, which allow us to see color. [4] Almost all instances of color blindness involve only the eye's reception of red and green. 64 [5] Most people with color blindness cannot differentiate between red and green, but others just see these colors 小fferently than people without color blindness．巳

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The writer wishes to add a sentence here that will clearly lead the reader into the anecdote and informa­ tion to follow in this paragraph. Which of the follow­ ing would best accomplish this purpose? 邮n't always enjoy. young. was good at it. would draw something together.

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Source question 62. asking

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Source question 63.

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Source question 64. �- eye's recep�ing

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For the sake of the logic and coherence of this para­ graph, Sentence 1 should be placed: ACT-69F 11 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. 1lon.cT 微信号loviact 独角兽在这里 1 凶 Seven percent of American males are color-blind, while only 0.4 percent of American females � This 66 � supports the idea that tJi.e gene tor color 67

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Source question 66. known as colorblindness. or see these colors in an unusual way. tence with a period).

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Source question 67. blindness is carried on the X chromosome, men have only · 68 one X chromosome (in addition to.one Y chromosome). [A] Women have two X chromosomes, so a deficiency 69 in it can be compensated for by the other. 70 [4] My brother can easily distinguish pure reds from pure greens without any difficulty. [B] However, the 71 farther these colors are from "pure" (such as carnation pink or lime green), the more difficult it is for him to tell the difference.

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Source question 68.

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Source question 69.

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Source question 70.

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Source question 71. thing is pur½ red or pure green. tence with a period). ACT-69F 12 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. 1lO�CT 微信号loviact 独角兽在这里 1 [5] It has been years since I b_othered my brother with a crayon-color guessing game, but I am still intrigued by how he perceives color. [C] He� a successful 72 painter specializing in, landscapes of exotic places 73 rendered in vivid colors. [DJ He swirls bright color over canvas, transfor_ming pats of apple red, lemon yellow, and robin's egg blue paint into dazzling and vibrant hills, beaches, and mountains, like visions ou� of fantastic dreams. 74

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Source question 72.

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Source question 73. pl�ces places,

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The writer wishes to emphasize that as a result of the way the painter sees and uses color, his landscapes have a unique visual quality. Which choice best accomplishes this purpose? Question 75 asks about, the preceding passage as a whole.

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Upon reviewing the essay and deciding that some information has been left out, the writer composes the following sentenceincorporating that information: He rarely chooses to use grays, browns, or any other muted tones, opting instead for hues that are closer to pure. If the writer were to add this sentence to the essay, the sentence would most logically be placed at Point: END OFTEST 1 STOP! DO NOT TU,RN THE-PAGE UNTIL TOLD TO DO SO. ACT-69F 13