ACT Practice Reading

​ACT PREP READING

Reading Test

This portion of the ACT is made up of three passages: 1 long prose piece and two shorter prose pieces on the same subject.

Each passage or passage set is followed by 10 multiple-choice questions.

You will have 35 minutes to complete the reading and the 40 multipl-choice questions.

The passages come from published materials and are at a reading level a first-year college student can expect to read for a class.

Content

Each passage is preceded by a heading that identifies what type of passage it is, names the author, and may include a brief note that helps in understanding the passage.

Scoring

You will recieve four scores for the ACT reading test: a total test score based on all 40 questions and three reporting category scores based on:

- Key Ideas and Details

- Creaft and Structure

- Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Key Ideas and Details

• Determine central ideas and themes

• Summarize information and ideas accurately

• Understand relationships and draw logical inferences and conclusions including understanding sequential, comparative, and cause-effect relationships

Pace Yourself

• You may want to flip through the entire reading test before you begin reading.

• You can look at any of the reading test passages and questions during the time allotted for that test.

Multiple Choice

It can reasonably be inferred from the passage that as compared to most boys in New England the narrator was:

• No better behaved but no worse behaved

• more angelic and innocent

• less hypocritical more troublesome

• Very different in many ways

Multiple Choice

As it is used in line 18 cordially most nearly means:

• angrily

• Strikingly

• sincerely

• offensively

Multiple Choice

According to the passage which of the following names were acceptable to narrator?

I Higgins

II Blake

III Wallace

• I only

• III only

• II and III only

• I and II only

Multiple Choice

The narrators initial feeling toward moving to Rivermouth can be best described as:

• Indifferent because he was to young.

• reluctant until his father dispelled inaccuracies about life in the north.

• apprehensive because he would be forced to leave his pony Gypsy behind.

• excited until he realized that he would have to part with Aunt Chloe and little Sam.

Multiple Choice

As he revealed in the conversation he has with his son, the narrators father can be best characterized as:

• understanding and patient

• stern and unforgiving

• proud but uneducated

• ignorant but affectionate.

Multiple Choice

According to the first paragraph , the tourist was shocked:

• he could not find any souveniers

• he expected to find souvenirs that reflected the local culture

• he did not realize that the shops would be so small.

• he had never been to Indonesia before

Multiple Choice

As it is used in line 19, the word ubiquitous most nearly means

• Very expensive

• supportive

• far-reaching

• localized

Multiple Choice

According to the passage some people reject Americana because

• it boost foreign investment in local economies

• it modernizes the infrastructure of aging communities

• it pays wages that local businesses cannot compete with

• it dilutes indigenous cultures.

Multiple Choice

According to the passage, the spread of American influences resulted in which of the following in certain foreign countries

I. Increased number of jobs

II Modernized infrastructure

III Decline in tourism

• I only

• II only

• I and II only

• II and III only

Multiple Choice

The passage suggests that tourist resorts in Mexico:

• remain unaffected by American influences

• are struggling to maintain their cultural identity

• can only benefit from influences of American ideas

• have never been so popular with Americans

Multiple Choice

As it is used in line 30 the word lament most nearly means:

• embrace

• enjoy

• deny

• regret

Multiple Choice

It can be reasonably inferred that the author believes Tennessee Williams first great success came from a play published in

• 1944

• 1948

• 1955

• 1958

Multiple Choice

The authors attitude towards the subject of this passage can be best characterized by"

• amused tolerance

• detached interest

• warm appreciation

• mild skepticism

Multiple Choice

The main purpose of this passage is to:

• Explain the weather pattern known as El Nino and describe its effects.

• argue that El Ninos are a far more significant source of weather change and pattern

• discuss four meteorological patterns that form global weather

• describe how scientist study the weather

Multiple Choice

The author uses the information in parentheses in lines 23-25 primarily to:

• present information related to the topic but not immediate relevant to the paragraph

• Suggest La'Nina is less important than El Nino

• Support the use of Spanish Terminology in meteorological research

• Imply that LaNina phenomenon were discovered considerably later than El Nino

​Things to remember about the ACT

1. Get a good nights rest you will be in the testing room for a long time!

2. Eat a good breakfast

3. Make sure that you answer EVERY question

4. Relax! Do YOUR BEST!!!