ACT English prep

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Why are we so completely obsessed with the hair on our heads? Millions of dollars are spent each year on cutting hair, lengthening hair, bleaching hair, straightening hair, curling hair, highlighting hair, and even growing hair; whatever you can do to hair, someone is willing to pay the money to do it.

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pay

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Natural redheads long for to be brunettes and dishwater blondes dream of shiny golden tresses. Both men and women cringe at the sight of each gray hair, so teenagers enjoy weekly experiments with magenta dyes, spikes, and tangerine streaks. What is the correct phrase?

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to be

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Natural redheads long to be brunettes and dishwater blondes dream of shiny golden tresses. Both men and women cringe at the sight of each gray hair, so teenagers enjoy weekly experiments with magenta dyes, spikes, and tangerine streaks

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and

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What is the correct phrase in the context: "result of"?

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No change

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As my sister begins by telling me about the scorpion in her bed that stung her as she slumbered, I could feel my eyes popping out of my head and my jaw dropping to the floor. She seemed so calm telling me this story, and all I could think about was: "began" and "No change"; "had begun" and "slumbered I could"; "began" and "slumbered I could,"; No change for both underlined words.

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"began" and "No change"

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What is the correct phrasing for the underlined parts in the sentence: She seemed so calm telling me this story, and all I could think about was how that she’s lucky to be alive?

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No change, "how she is" and no change.

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Only later did they learn that the corpse should have been kept for identification purposes. Some Arizonan scorpions are deadlier than others, and it is important to know which species is responsible for a given attack.

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No change

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Who would have thought that there was any connection between a cup of coffee and a bird, butterfly, or even a bat? Such seems to be the case, however, as methods for cultivating coffee plants have gradually changed over the past 30 to 40 years.

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No change

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Coffee plants were first discovered growing naturally, in Africa; hundreds of years ago. The plants grew under a wide canopy of forests, which protected the coffee plants’ tender leaves from the burning sun. A

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naturally in Africa