The writer is concerned about the level of detail in the preceding sentence and is considering deleting the phrase “the first section of” from it. If the writer were to make this deletion, the paragraph would primarily lose information that: would become. been completed by October 27, 1904. of the second section of the subway was already underway. this celebration believed the entire subway system was complete. GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. ACT-67C-PRACTICE 1 1 Question 15 asks about the preceding passage as a whole. 14 16 17 16 18263 Preparing ACT 2012-13_5003 AAP Prep for ACT 6/8/12 9:34 AM Page 16 17 The original subway line was 9.1 miles long and had twenty-eight stations. [A] The first train took twenty-six minutes to complete the route, which ran from City Hall to West 145th Street in under a half an hour. Tens of thousands of New Yorkers could now avoid traffic jams by traveling underneath the streets. [B] As early as 1865, there had been proposals for a New York subway, but that took decades to resolve the many political, financial, and technical challenges. The engineer, William Barclay Parsons accepted responsibility for overseeing this project. Parsons decided that most of the subway tunnel would be constructed using an innovation engineering method known as “cut and cover.” [C] First, workers used picks and shovels to remove roads and dig a deep trench. After installing wooden braces to hold back the earth, workers built a concrete floor. Tunnel walls were created: with layers of brick, ceramic blocks, tar-soaked felt for waterproofing, and concrete. The roof was made from arch-shaped wooden molds also covered with concrete. Next, track beds were filled with crushed stone, and rails were secured to wooden ties. Finally, the roof was covered with tar-soaked felt, and the roads were rebuilt.
