ACT考试题型介绍—英语部分

　　ACT考试阅读部分题型介绍-ACT Science Test

　　Length Question Types

　　45 Minutes 40 Usage/Mechanics Questions

　　35 Rhetorical Skills Questions

　　On the ACT English Test, you‘ll have 45 minutes to answer 75 questions—that’s about 30 seconds per question! The test is divided into 5 passages, each with about 15 questions.

　　You‘re not being tested on spelling or vocabulary. Rather, the ACT English Test is designed to assess your understanding of the conventions of English —punctuation, grammar, sentence structure—and of rhetorical skills. Rhetorical skills are more strategic including things like organizing the text and making sure it’s styled clearly.

　　ACT English Question Format

　　Almost all of the English questions follow a standard format. A word, phrase, or sentence in a passage is underlined. You‘re given 4 options: to leave the underlined portion alone (“NO CHANGE,” which is always the first choice), or to replace it with one of the three alternatives.

　　Some English questions don’t follow the standard format—usually about 10 per exam. These items pose a question and offer four possible responses. In many cases, the responses are either “yes” or “no,” with an explanation.

　　Many of the nonstandard questions occur at the end of a passage. Some ask about the meaning, purpose, or tone of individual paragraphs or of the passage as a whole. Others ask you to evaluate the passage. And still others ask you to determine the proper order of words, sentences, or paragraphs that have been scrambled in the passage.

　　Top 10 Strategies for the ACT English Test

　　Skim an English passage before starting work on the questions

　　On questions that ask you to judge a passage, lean toward selecting a choice that favors it

　　Choose answers that match the level of formality of the entire passage

　　The best way to write something is the shortest correct way of writing it

　　If you speak a “nonstandard” dialect, be extra careful with questions that focus on idioms

　　Watch for subject-verb and noun-pronoun agreement

　　Make sure parenthetical phrases begin and end with the same punctuation mark

　　Look out for sentence fragments and run-on sentences

　　Make sure that nouns and pronouns are modified by adjectives, and that verbs and adjectives are modified by adverbs

　　Learn the difference between it‘s and its