ACT prep

The passage implies that at the time the microscope was invented:

• it needed improvements in order to be useful

• no one had, as yet, found a scientific use for it

• people feared that it would be used for the wrong reasons

• the telescope was considered a more important invention

• scientists believed that it would lead to important discoveries

Which of the following best describes the type of supporting information the author uses in this passage?

• Quotations from King's books and observations by former opponents of King's ideas

• Quotations from two of King's most famous speeches and commentary from liberal political theorists

• Quotations from people who worked with King and information from state records

• Comments from King's followers and city records from Birmingham

• Quotations from one of King's speeches and from something King wrote

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The passage compares the retina in the most complex invertebrate eye to the:

• darkened chamber of a camera.

• diaphragm of a camera.

• light-sensitive film in a camera.

• lens of a camera.

• iris of a camera.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

As it is used in the passage, what does the highlighted phrase “mind him” mean?

• Take care of him

• Encourage him

• Take him seriously

• Learn from him

• Remember him

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Why does the example provided in the third paragraph incompletely support the author’s claim in that paragraph?

• The example does not take into account the effect of tax advantages enjoyed by the public utilities.

• The example covers rates for one year, but the author makes a claim about rates over a much longer time.

• The example does not provide the actual rates of public and investor-owned utilities, but only the percentage difference.

• The example does not provide information regarding people who generate their own electricity.

• The example does not take into account the effect of hydroelectric power on the rates of public versus investor-owned utilities.

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

Make the best choice for the highlighted portion.

• preparing to peel a few prickly pears for we.

• preparing to peel a few prickly pears for I.

• preparing to peel a few prickly pears for theirs.

• preparing to peel a few prickly pears for us.

• preparing to peel a few prickly pears for ours.

Make the best choice for the highlighted portion.

• forever testing his limits; and, getting into trouble.

• forever testing his limits and, getting into trouble.

• forever testing his limits and getting into trouble.

• forever testing his limits, and, getting into trouble.

• forever testing his limits and getting, into trouble.

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Make the best choice for the highlighted portion.

• that abnormally whales behave when approached by human observers.

• abnormally that whales behave when approached by human observers.

• that whales behave abnormally when approached by human observers.

• that whales abnormaller behave when approached by human observers.

• that whales behave abnormallest when approached by human observers.

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Make the best choice for the highlighted portion.

• A truck that tried to cross and pass to get by over the flood

• A truck that tried to cross by moving across the flood

• A truck that tried to get across by crossing the flood

• A truck that tried to pass over and cross the flood

• A truck that tried to cross the flood

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Make the best choice for the highlighted portion.

• because the diagnosis then would have been neurasthenia.

• for the diagnosis then would have been neurasthenia.

• also the diagnosis then would have been neurasthenia.

• but the diagnosis then would have been neurasthenia.

• or the diagnosis then would have been neurasthenia.

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