Nothing beats practicing with the full format test.
These are in no particular
order. Check back from time to time to this post-I will add links to this post
as I find them.
Under each link is the 1st
passage from the reading test of that test for comparison.
Passage 1
PROSE
FICTION: This passage is adapted
from Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman (©1998 by
Anne Fadiman).
Long ago, when George and I were not yet
married but seemed to be tottering in that general direction, we gave each
other our first Christmas presents.
Passage I
PROSE FICTION: This passage is adapted from the short
story “From Aboard the Night Train” by Kimberly M. Blaeser (©1993 by Kimberly
M. Blaeser), which appeared in Earth Song, Sky Spirit: Short Stories of the Contemporary
Native American Experience. The passage begins with a female narrator traveling
to her hometown.
The moon gives some light and I can make
out the contours of the land, see the faint reflection in the lakes and ponds
we pass.
Same Test (http://www.unioto.k12.oh.us/ACTpreparing.pdf), (http://www.collegetidbits.com/tools/...or-the-act.pdf)
Passage I
PROSE
FICTION: This passage is adapted from the short story “American
History” by Judith Ortiz-Cofer (©1992 by Judith Ortiz-Cofer). The story
appeared in the anthology Iguana Dreams: New Latino Fiction.
There was only one source of beauty and
light for me my ninth grade year. The only thing I had anticipated at the start
of the semester.
Same Test-
(http://www2.btcs.org/ths/ACT_Resourc...%20Test%29.pdf )
Passage I
PROSE
FICTION: This passage is adapted from the short story “The Threshold” by
Cristina Peri Rossi (original Spanish version ©1986 by Cristina Peri Rossi;
translation ©1993 by MaryJane Treacy).
The woman never
dreams and this makes her intensely miserable.
Passage
I
PROSE
FICTION: This passage
is adapted from the title story of Only the Little Bone, a collection of short stories by David Huddle (©1986 by David
Huddle).
Passage I
The moon gives some light and I can make out the
contours of the land, see the faint reflection in the lakes
and ponds we pass. Several times I see or imagine I see
glowing eyes staring back at me from a patch of woods
beside the track.
Passage I
This passage is adapted from the short story
“The Threshold” by Cristina Peri Rossi (original Spanish version
©1986 by Cristina Peri Rossi; translation ©1993 by Mary
Jane Treacy).
The woman never dreams and this makes her
intensely miserable. She thinks that by not dreaming
she is unaware of things about herself that dreams
would surely give her. She doesn’t have the door of
dreams that opens every night to question the certainties
of the d
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http://www.coylecassidy.com/preparing2012.pdf
http://www.sdcoe.net/lret/avid/act/PreparingforACT.pdf
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