ACT Test Prep Workshop

Read the following paragraph:

From Salad to Symphony

Though they can often be see lugging bags stuffed with fresh vegetables home from Beijing markets, brothers Nan Weidong and Nan Weiping are not chefs - they are musicians. Their instrument of choice is considered rather unusual: a pan pipe fashioned from carrots, an ocarina created from a sweet potato, other brightly colored vegetables.

Which of the following phrases best replaces the underlined portion?

• does seem

• are

• is

• NO CHANGE

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Read the following paragraph:

From Salad to Symphony

Though they can often be see lugging bags stuffed with fresh vegetables home from Beijing markets, brothers Nan Weidong and Nan Weiping are not chefs - they are musicians. Their instrument of choice is considered rather unusual: a pan pipe fashioned from carrots, an ocarina created from a sweet potato, other brightly colored vegetables.

Which choice best maintains the pattern established in the sentence's two previous examples?

• vegetable instruments of all shapes and sizes.

• a flute made from a bamboo shoot.

• a certain type of root vegetable.

• NO CHANGE

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Read the following paragraph:

The Walls of Rome

Rome, founded on the banks of the Tiber River, boasts two ancient walls that, when they were built, surrounded the city. Although both were built as walls intended to defend the city protectively and stood ten meters tall they were erected under different historical circumstances.

Which of the following phrases best replaces the underlined portion?

• defensive walls for defending the city.

• walls to provide defense protection.

• defensive walls.

• NO CHANGE

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Read the following paragraph:

The Walls of Rome

Rome, founded on the banks of the Tiber River, boasts two ancient walls that, when they were built, surrounded the city. Although both were built as walls intended to defend the city protectively and stood ten meters tall they were erected under different historical circumstances.

Which of the following phrases best replaces the underlined portion?

• tall. They

• tall, they

• tall; they

• NO CHANGE

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

Read the following sentence:

It was nineteen kilometers long greatly expanded and surrounded the city of Rome as well as a small section of the Tiber's west bank.

Which of the following placements for the underlined portion makes it most clear that it was Rome that has expanded?

• After the words surrounded the

• After the word Rome

• After the words of the

• Where it is now

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

Which of the following expressions is equivalent to  $\left(3+x\right)^{-100}$  ? 

•  $-3^{100\ }-x^{100}$  

•  $-300-100x$  

•  $\frac{1}{3^{100}}+\frac{1}{x^{100}}$  

•  $\frac{1}{\left(3x\right)^{100}}$  

•  $\frac{1}{\left(3+x\right)^{100}}$  

Tags

CCSS.HSA.SSE.B.3

CCSS.HSA.SSE.A.2

CCSS.HSN.RN.A.2

The mean of 5 integers is 52. The median of these 5 integers is 82. Three of the integers are 0,12, and 82. Which of the following could be one of the other integers ?

• 52

• 66

• 84

• 86

• 105

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CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Vanna walked at a rate of 2 miles per hour for 10 minutes and then walked at a rate of 3 miles per hour for 5 minutes. Which of the following gives the average rate, in miles per hour, at which she walked over this 15-minute period?

• $\frac{1}{3}$

• $\frac{7}{3}$

• $\frac{7}{24}$

• $\frac{7}{180}$

• $\frac{35}{2}$

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

If  $x<y$  and  $y<4$ , then what is the greatest possible integer value of

  $x+y$ ?

• 0

• 3

• 4

• 7

• 8

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Given $f\left(x\right)=x^2+3x\$  and  $g\left(x\right)\ =\ x+1$ , what is
  $f\left(g\left(x\right)\right)$  ?

•  $x^2+5x+4$  

•  $x^2+3x+1$  

•  $x^3+5x^2+4x$  

•  $x^3+4x^2+3x$  

•  $x^4+4x^3+3x^2$  

Tags

CCSS.HSA.SSE.B.3

CCSS.HSA.APR.A.1