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Practice Test 4 - ACT Reading

20 questions. Answer them in any order, then submit to see your score and every explanation.

  1. According to the passage, the narrator's attitude toward the greenhouse changes over the course of the summer primarily from:
  2. Which of the following best describes a flaw in the critic's reasoning?
  3. An art critic argues that a painter's later works are more emotionally powerful than the early works. The critic notes that viewers in a gallery spent an average of 40 seconds longer in front of later paintings than early paintings, and that the later works use darker colors. The critic concludes that the later works are therefore more emotionally powerful. A flaw in the critic's reasoning is that the critic:
  4. The relationship between the grandfather's response to the barometer and the grandmother's response to the sky is best described as one of:
  5. As it is used in the passage (bolded), the word introverted most nearly means:
  6. The passage most strongly suggests that eliminating the parking fees:
  7. It can most reasonably be inferred that the sculptor's private notebooks indicate that she:
  8. As it is used in line 1, the word "close" most nearly means:
  9. It can most reasonably be inferred from the passage that the neocortex is:
  10. "Grandpa's account of the flood grew longer each time, gaining a canoe here and a heron there." As used here, "account" most nearly means:
  11. How do the two underlined portions relate to each other?
  12. As it is used in the passage (underlined), the word compromise most nearly means:
  13. It can most reasonably be inferred that Rosalind's repeated delay in mailing the letter suggests that she:
  14. Which of the following best describes a flaw in the author's reasoning?
  15. Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between the two passages?
  16. Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the columnist's argument?
  17. The author most likely includes the detail that Mr. Patel "looked down" in Paragraph 3 in order to:
  18. Which of the following best describes the ecologist's argument?
  19. According to the passage, what did follow-up interviews reveal about the actual source of the productivity increase among remote workers?
  20. Which of the following best describes the author's reasoning flaw?

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