ACT Practice

Rosie, it turns out is: a desert tortoise that my grandmother had started raising over twenty years ago.

Over many weeks, as time goes by, her collection slowly grows

Benjamin’s grandmother taught him to read, and he attended a one-room Quaker school during the winter. Which is wrong?

Having died down, she bricks up the firebox as well, sealing the remaining heat inside.

Unbricking a kiln after a firing is like a person uncovering buried treasure.

Benjamin Banneker, African American inventor and astronomer, grew up on his familys’ farm in colonial Maryland.

I learned that tortoises are among the most endangered families in reptiles.

Many people use kayaks recreationally for white-water sports and for touring wilderness areas that are extremely wild.

Equipment for both types of kayaks are similar, and fairly simple.

My aunt said she had a gift for me.

"Occasionally, the fire chugs like a train engine, hungry for more oxygen." Which change is not acceptable?

Heat-loving extremophiles, or thermophiles, flourished in temperatures over 150 degrees Celsius.

The next morning, using twigs, for kindling she starts a small blaze in the firebox.

The clock keeps precise time for over forty years.

The paddler pulls one end through the water of the paddle on alternating sides of the boat." Where does the bold belong?

The two principal types of kayaks are; the easily maneuverable white-water kayak and the larger sea kayak.

Last week, he told me he had to go on a business trip in connection with his work.

My aunt said that she would have checked with my parents.

The chamber is just big enough for her to crouch in as she carefully arranges the pieces inside.

Poisonous waters from cracks at temperatures up to 360 degrees Celsius gush in the ocean floor. Where does the bold fit?

"Soon after I arrived, my aunt said she had a gift for me." Which change is not acceptable?

Rosie must have heard us talking, because she began to amble over to us.

"Each time the fire is stoked, sparks shoot from the chimney into the night sky." Which change is not acceptable?

He also began to calculate annual tables of yearly sets of astronomical data.

In 1948, graduate students, Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver, took on a problem that had troubled retailers for years.

My friend Ellen is typical of many more potters in that she shapes many pieces on a spinning potter’s wheel.

He had dismantled a pocket watch borrowed from a traveling merchant, made detailed drawings of it’s components.

She then carries the assortment to the wood-fired kiln, it is a brick structure designed to bake pottery and harden it.