ACT Aspire 5th grade English Test Prep

What change if any should be made to the highlighted words.

Shortly after arriving in South Africa, my mother, sister, and I traveled north with our tour group toward the savannah for our first safari adventure.

• No Change

• my, mother, sister, and,

• my mother, sister, and,

• my mother sister and

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CCSS.L.1.2C

CCSS.L.5.2A

CCSS.L.7.2A

As our vehicle bounced along the dusty dirt roads, I begin scanning the tall grasses for cheetah tails, zebra stripes, and ostrich beaks.

• NO CHANGE

• will have begun

• have begun

• began

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CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1B

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

Choose the answer that is punctuated correctly.

Suddenly, our vehicle came to a halt, and our guide pointed toward a few lonely trees several yards away. Excited, he whispered, Lion!

• "Lion,"!

• "Lion!"

• "Lion"!

• "Lion!".

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CCSS.L.1.2B

CCSS.L.4.3B

CCSS.L.K.2B

What change if any should be made to the highlighted word?

My mother dimmed her eyes with her hand and squinted, trying tot see the mother and her cubs more clearly, while my sister adjusted the zoom feature on her camera, hoping to get a picture worthy of a frame.

• NO CHANGE

• shaded

• clouded

• cooled

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

The highlighted phrases in the essay may or may not be in the correct order. Drag the phrases so that they are in the most logical order.

As I stared, at me the lioness seemed to look directly with her large eyes.

• As I stared, the lioness seemed to look directly at me with her large eyes.

• As I stared, at me seemed to look directly the lioness with her large eyes.

• As I stared, the lioness at me seemed to look directly with her large eyes

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CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.7.1C

This is how howler monkeys begin and end each day. With these back-and-forth howls, troops claim their territory and protect their food.

• No change

• This is how howler monkeys begin and end each day, with these back-and-forth howls, troops claim their territory and protect their food.

• This is how howler monkeys begin and end each day with these back-and-forth howls, troops claim their territory and protect their food.

• This is how howler monkeys begin and end each day so with these back-and-forth howls, troops claim their territory and protect their food.

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CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

The male howlers have large throats with special parts that make their cries even louder. When the males from one troop how, other groups in the area answer. This is how howler monkeys begin and end each day.

The writer is considering replacing the highlighted word. Which of the following choices would keep the sentence logical?

• If the males from one troop howl, other groups in the area answer.

• In the event that the males from one troop howl, other groups in the area answer.

• Even though the males from one troop howl, other groups in the area answer.

• Whether or not the males from one troop howl, other groups in the area answer.

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CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.6.5

If a howler monkey is spotted on the ground. It is probably because the weather has been very dry, and the monkey is looking for extra water or food.

• No Change

• spotted. On the ground, it

• spotted on the ground, it

• spotted on the ground it

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CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

Most of their water comes from the foods they eat so, howler monkeys normally stay in the tops of the trees where greener, water-rich leaves are found. First of all, they sometimes eat fruits and flowers, but those are hard to find in treetops.

What change, if any, should be made to the highlighted words?

• No change

• For example,

• Additionally,

• As a result,

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

Most of their water comes from the foods they eat so, howler monkeys normally stay in the tops of the trees where greener, water-rich leaves are found.

• No change

• eat, so

• eat so

• eat, so,

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.4.2