Reading Passages with Questions

Organizational Patterns

• The pattern the author uses to organize his or her ideas:

• For what reason did the author write the passage.

• Visual representation of data

• A story of connected events

Genres that you may encounter on a paired passage include...

• fiction + poem

• nonfiction (informational) + drama

• poem + nonfiction

• drama + drama

How many total questions on each of the 4 passages on the ACT Reading test?

• 5

• 10

• 20

• 40

With 35 minutes and 4 passages with 10 questions each, how much time should you spend on each passage?

• 35 minutes

• 8-9 minutes

• 10 minutes

• 5 minutes

What is the title of the first passage on the ACT Reading test?

• Literary Narrative

• Social Science

• Humanities

• Natural Science

What is the title of the secondpassage on the ACT Reading test?

• Literary Narrative

• Social Science

• Humanities

• Natural Science

The contents of the Reading Test includes the following (select all that apply):

• 5 Reading Passages

• 47 Passage-Based Questions

• All Multiple Choice

• No Mathematical Computation

Read the following passage:

[...] The coming decades will likely see more intense clustering of jobs, innovation, and productivity in a smaller number of bigger cities and city-regions. Some regions could end up bloated beyond the capacity of their infrastructure, while others struggle, their promise stymied by inadequate human or other resources.

The underlined word "intense" most nearly means:

• emotional.

• concentrated.

• brilliant.

• determined.

Read the following passage:

[...] As Kingman developed as a painter, his works were often compared to paintings by Chinese landscape artists dating back to CE 960, a time when a strong tradition of landscape painting emerged in Chinese art. Kingman, however, vacated from the tradition in a number of ways, most notably in that he chose to focus not on natural landscapes, such as mountains and rivers, but on cities. [...]

The underlined word "vacated" most nearly means:

• NO CHANGE

• evacuated

• departed

• retired

How many texts will be in the paired passage?

• 0

• 1

• 2

• 3