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spot-check your answers.
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When answering multiple-choice questions, ...
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Websites
www .act. org— The official ACT site.
www.testprep.compracticehdr.shtml—Provides practice tests for the ACT exam.
www.powerprep.com—Provides strategies, tutoring, software, diagnostic and online practice ... from the nucleation centers.
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Getting into the ACT: Official Guide to the ACT Assessment (New York: HBJ, 1997).
Kaplan ACT 2000 with CD-ROM (New York: ... opposite poles of the cell.
Spontaneous reaction—A reaction that does not require an external source of energy to proceed.
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Directions
Read the questions carefully and choose the best answer for each question. Some questions may refer to a passage,
illustration, ... write in the test booklet. Make any notes or calculations on a sep-
arate piece of paper.
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1. In an acid base reaction, an acid reacts with a
base to produce water and a salt. The pH scale
can...
... end of Practice Reading Test One.
Now continue with Practice Writing Test One on page 104.
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PRACTICE TEST TWO
PRACTICE LISTENING TEST TWO
This is a practice listening test ... of Practice Writing Test One.
Now continue with Practice Speaking Test One on page 105.
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Practice Test Two
Reading Passage 3
Questions 29 - 40
You are advised to spend about 20 minutes on Questions ... of Practice Reading Test Two.
Now continue with Practice Writing Test Two on page 125.
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Practice Test Two
Reading Passage 2
Questions 16-28
You are advised to spend about 20 minutes on Questions...
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16. a. Every human normally inherits 23 chromo-
somes from the mother and 23 chromosomes
from the father. However, that doesn’t mean that
humans look exactly ... dig-
its on each hand and foot, binocular vision, and
flexible shoulder joints.
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acter rides into town in a convertible), you need to con-
sider why the author has ... planets are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,
and Neptune.
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These signal words usually mean that a supporting
fact or idea will follow. If you are having trouble finding
the...
... passage, the first practical transformer was developed in:
A. 1820.
B. 1831.
C. 1881.
D. 1900.
ACT PracticeTest 4
READING
Passage XIII
HUMANITIES: The following passage is
excerpted from A Short History ... molecules. To detect biological
activity, Martian soil samples were treated
with various nutrients that would produce
characteristic by-products if life forms were [30]
active in the soil. The results ... and boulders. The view resembled
nothing so much as a flat section of desert—
in fact, the winning entry in a contest at
J.P.L. for the photograph most accurately [15]
predicting what Mars would...
... their
mother tongue from a foreign language,
sucking more vigorously when they hear it [15]
ACT PracticeTest 1
READING
Passage I
PROSE FICTION: This passage is an adapted
excerpt from Willa Cather’s ... original
utterances.
But recent studies suggest there is [90]
much more to the story—that children
actively seek out abstract grammatical
rules. In one clever experiment, researchers
led by New York University ... deciding upon a course of
action.
H. doing as she pleases without permission from her father or governess.
J. abiding by strict rules governing her behavior.
Passage III
SOCIAL SCIENCE: The following...
... included the jaguar stories of three
ranchers (lines 34-67) in order to:
ACT PracticeTest 2
READING
Passage V
SOCIAL SCIENCE: The following passage is
excerpted from a popular journal of archeology.
About ... performance.
To test this hunch, Steele and Aronson gave
44 Stanford undergrads questions from the
verbal part of the tough Graduate Record
Exam. One group was asked, right before [70]
the test, to ... anonymi-
ty, the greatest names, such as Leonardo da
Vinci, Hans Holbein, Albrecht Durer, and [75]
Benvenuto Cellini, were found quite matter-
of-factly among those of designers and
manufacturers of arms.
...
... pho-
tography and that they have made their
greatest contribution in this field. One rea-
son for this is not difficult to ascertain. As [5]
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READING
Passage IX
HUMANITIES: The passage ... the mother of six children, she
adopted several more and still found time to
be active in social causes and literary activi- [25]
ties. After the Camerons settled in England
in 1848 at Freshwater ... numerous activities and
taking care of her large family, Mrs.
Cameron might have been remembered as
still another rather remarkable and colorful [35]
Victorian lady had it not been for the fact
that,...
... At one time it was common
practice for abalone fishermen to chop starfish into
pieces and throw them back into the ocean. What was
the most probable result of this practice?
F. The starfish population ... would
yield the most useful data concerning the reaction
conditions that favor each product?
A. Varying the concentration of the solutions
B. Testing with pH levels of 7.0
C. Heating the solutions ... suggested that Product B may react to form other,
more readily dissolved compounds in the presence of
certain ions. Such a hypothesis is best supported by the
fact that:
F. Product A forms at...
... 1
Surface earthquakes occur when rock in the Earth’s
crust fractures to relieve stress. However, below 50 km,
rock is under too much pressure to fracture normally.
Deep-focus earthquakes are caused by ... phase change is thought to occur at
400 km, and indeed, earthquake activity at this level is
negligible. Between 400 and 680 km, activity once again
increases. Although seismologists initially believed ... Deep-earthquake activity does not occur below 400
km.
B. Fluid allows tectonic plates to slip past one
another.
C. Water can penetrate mantle rock.
D. Rock below 50 km will not fracture normally.
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