Short English ACT Prep

Ants' search for food can require traveling as far as one hundred meters away from their nests (the rough equivalent of a human walking fifteen miles). Yet no matter how winding a path ants might have taken to find food. They are able to navigate back to their starting point with remarkable precision.

If the writer were to delete the parenthetical information in the preceding sentence, the essay would primarily lose:

• an approximation of distance that humans typically travel on a daily basis to obtain food.

• a detail that puts the distance ants travel on a scale readers might better be able to imagine.

• an estimation of the distance that ants travel in order to find food.

• a correlation that indicates a similarity between humans and ants.

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Ants' search for food can require traveling as far as one hundred meters away from their nests (the rough equivalent of a human walking fifteen miles). Yet no matter how winding a path ants might have taken to find food. They are able to navigate back to their starting point with remarkable precision.

• food, they

• food they

• food; they

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To test their scientific hypothesis, a team of research biologists studied ants in the Tunisian desert. The scientists will place food a short distance from the ants' home and then tracked the ants' paths to the food.

Which choice MOST CLEARLY introduces the research question central to the essay?

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• To discover how certain animals navigate their way over long distances,

• To determine how ants accomplish this navigational task,

• To answer this question,

To test their scientific hypothesis, a team of research biologists studied ants in the Tunisian desert. The scientists will place food a short distance from the ants' home and then tracked the ants' paths to the food.

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• have placed

• placed

• place

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To test their scientific hypothesis, a team of research biologists studied ants in the Tunisian desert. The scientists will place food a short distance from the ants' home and then tracked the ants' paths to the food.

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• the paths that were taken by the ants as they went

• the ants' paths that the ants took

• DELETE the underlined portion

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The team's first experiment involving relocating the ants after they'd found the food. By moving the ants to a new location, the scientists changed the direction the ants would need to walk in order to return to their nest.

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• involved that they relocated

• involving them relocating

• involved relocating

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They also tested what they referred to as "the pedometer hypothesis." The scientists tied tiny stilts made out of pig hair to some ants' legs. With the extended legs, which were made out of pig hair, the ants moved a greater distance with each step. Marching far past their nest on they way home, the researchers determined that ants count their steps.

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• referred, to as

• referred to, as

• referred to as,

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They also tested what they referred to as "the pedometer hypothesis." The scientists tied tiny stilts made out of pig hair to some ants' legs. With the extended legs, which were made out of pig hair, the ants moved a greater distance with each step. Marching far past their nest on they way home, the researchers determined that ants count their steps.

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• legs that had been extended by attaching pig hair,

• extensions made of pig hair attached to their legs,

• the extended legs,

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They also tested what they referred to as "the pedometer hypothesis." The scientists tied tiny stilts made out of pig hair to some ants' legs. With the extended legs, which were made out of pig hair, the ants moved a greater distance with each step. Marching far past their nest on they way home, the researchers determined that ants count their steps.

• So when the ants marched

• So as they marched

• By marching

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They also tested what they referred to as "the pedometer hypothesis." The scientists tied tiny stilts made out of pig hair to some ants' legs. With the extended legs, which were made out of pig hair, the ants moved a greater distance with each step. Marching far past their nest on they way home, the researchers determined that ants count their steps.

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• passed there

• passed their

• past there

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