AccelePrep for the ACT Test 2nd Edition Student Text

54 • S URGE TO S UCCESS ! E NGLISH T EST P REP

he spilled while driving. [4] A prison inmate goes all the way to the Supreme Court because the jail uses the wrong kind of peanut butter. 5. Which of the following would be the most suitable sentence to insert immediately after sentence 1? A. Lawyers go to school for an additional three years after college. B. The news runs daily stories of how people have been injured. C. I have often thought about becoming a lawyer after I graduate. D. It seems as though every day we hear of another frivolous lawsuit. 1 . This paragraph is devoted to describing different lifestyle choices that are harmful to a person’s health (e.g., smoking, obesity, and drug use). Therefore, it is the simple fact that tobacco is harmful (“smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases”) that makes it relevant in this context. The statement about nicotine is unnecessary because the nature of tobacco and the addictive mechanism of smoking is not relevant in this essay. Therefore, the correct answer is (D). 2 . Inserting the information as a parenthetical expression helps to ’”‡•‡”˜‡ –Š‡ ϐŽ‘™ ‘ˆ –Š‡ ϐ‹”•– ’ƒ”ƒ‰”ƒ’ŠǤ  ƒ††‹–‹‘ǡ –Š‡ ‹ˆ‘”ƒ–‹‘ must accurately and effectively refer to “Left Bank.” So, (H) is the best choice. The other choices suggest complete sentences, and inserting a whole sentence into the paragraph is likely to be distracting to the reader and give too much importance to a fairly minor detail. 3 . This paragraph gives several examples of rules that the Burger Barn employees must follow in order to ensure adequate amounts of safe food. The second sentence of the paragraph states that “[t]here must be so many orders of fries under the warming lamp and a certain number of burgers on the grill.” The third sentence continues to give additional rules. Therefore, the best answer is choice (B): “In addition, paper products and condiments must be restocked every half hour.” None of the remaining choices are logical in the context of the paragraph. 4. The correct answer is (F). The writer is neither defending nor attacking Long, so you can rule out (H) and (J) as possible choices. Then, you can rule out (G) because the writer is more concerned with Long’s vision and philosophy than with his actual achievements. 5. The writer has started off by saying generally that lawyers get „ƒ† ’”‡•• ƒ† –Š‡ Šƒ• ˆ‘ŽŽ‘™‡† —’ ™‹–Š –Š”‡‡ •’‡…‹ϐ‹…‡šƒ’Ž‡•Ǥ Therefore, a sentence that provides a transition would be appropriate, and (D) does this by introducing the three examples that follow.

POWER TIP Use the transitional words in a sentence as clues when reorganizing sentences. For examples, reference the list of transitional words in the previous section.

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1. p. 51 2. p. 51 3. p. 52 4. p. 53 5. p. 54