ACT Reading Practice 6

Question 1

Which choice best states the main idea of the passage?

Accepted Answer

After flooding exposes the limitations of her manicured lawn, Teodora begins reconsidering her yard's design in favor of one that works with rainwater rather than against it.

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Teodora blames her neighbors' new driveways and patios for the flooding and resolves to file a formal complaint with the city.

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Teodora's father convinces her over the phone that lawns are pointless and that she should replace hers entirely with a vegetable garden.

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The storm destroys Teodora's roses, and the passage focuses on her grief over losing them and her plan to replant identical rosebushes.

Question 2

According to the passage, what did Phil identify as a cause of the flooding on Teodora's street?

Accepted Answer

A decade of neighborhood development—new driveways, patios, and a widened road—that paved over ground that used to absorb rain.

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An unusually powerful storm system that overwhelmed even well-designed drainage.

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Broken storm drains on the block that had not been repaired in over a decade.

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Teodora's lawn's shallow roots, which behaved like a layer of pavement.

Question 3

Based on the passage, what had Teodora originally planned to do on Saturday, before the flood took over her day?

Accepted Answer

Reseed a bare patch of grass near her mailbox.

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Plant new rosebushes along the low corner of her yard.

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Install a dry creek bed to redirect rainwater.

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Call her father to ask about drainage-friendly plants.

Question 4

It can reasonably be inferred from the passage that Teodora's father's earlier remark calling her lawn "a green parking lot"

Accepted Answer

reflects a practical understanding of land and drainage that Teodora dismissed at the time but comes to appreciate after the flood.

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was intended purely as a joke with no real substance, which is why Teodora never thought about it again.

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caused a lasting rift between Teodora and her father that the flood ultimately repairs.

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was based on his own failed attempt to grow a lawn on his farm decades earlier.

Question 5

As it is used in the sentence "Instead she spent it in rubber boots, dragging a garden hose toward the lowest corner of the yard so the water would have somewhere to go once it finally consented to recede," the word "consented" most nearly means

Accepted Answer

was willing

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legally agreed

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protested

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ACT Reading Practice 6

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