AccelePrep for the ACT Test 2nd Edition Student Text

C HAPTER 2 | H YPER P REP E NGLISH • 59

4. As the heir of the Samurai, the Japanese soldier had a worthy heritage, but the Allies initially underestimated the capabilities of the Japanese armed forces. Then, following early Japanese victories, the Allies overestimated them. Thus was born the myth of the Japanese super- soldier, a myth nurtured by Japanese propaganda and spread by suspicious war correspondents who wrote about their invincibility. F. NO CHANGE G. credulous H. credible J. callow 5. ‡‡” ƒ”‡ ‘™ ‘”‡ —‡”‘—• –Šƒ ™Š‡ –Š‡ ϐ‹”•– —”‘’‡ƒ •‡––Ž‡”• arrived to this continent, and their ghostly forms are often glimpsed at dusk gliding by in the roadside brush. A. NO CHANGE B. spiritual C. deceased D. magical 1. (C) avoids the awkward use of the passive voice. 2. The original version is wordy. (J) corrects the wordiness without introducing any new errors. 3. The logical structure of the sentence says that the size of the merchant’s business went from small to big. The target word must explain how a single, small store could become a large business. A single structure cannot be enlarged, transferred, or enhanced to become many stores. A small store could be “transformed,” in a business sense, into many structures in a chain, so the correct answer is (C). 4. This item creates a contrast between the initial impression and the later impression of the Japanese soldiers. After initially underestimating the Japanese soldiers, the Allies overestimated them, and Japanese propaganda encouraged this belief. Propaganda is false, or at least exaggerated, and it is public, so the journalists who accepted this false information and reported it were “credulous,” (G). 5. The writer likens the form of the deer at dusk to a ghost—it glides by the roadside and is hardly visible. The other choices may in other contexts be related to “ghostly,” but here they are out of place, making (A) the correct answer.

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TEST SPECS We’ve covered the highest value topics in this Style review. Less frequently tested topics include: • Idiomatic Expression

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