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Recognizing Supporting Evidence
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The narrator suggests that Rayburn may be more accurately described as a "widower devoted to his only surviving child" rather than "a reserved and...

ACT Aspire Reading: Comparing Differences between Two Literary Passages
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Identify one way in which Lucy's reaction to the lady in the passage from Mrs. Zant and the Ghost differs from Huck's reaction to seeing the strang...

ACT Aspire Reading: Giving a Short Response that Identifies Two Supporting Details
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The narrator sees Mrs. Todd in the procession and says that she "knew, with a pang of sympathy, that hers was not affected grief". What reason, if...

ACT Aspire Reading: Comparing Descriptions of Similar Events in Separate Passages
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Compare the way that the narrator in the passage from The Country of the Pointed Firs and the narrator in the excerpt from Great Expectations descr...

ACT Aspire Reading: Providing Supporting Details in a Social Sciences Text
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The author argues that "things that are together in our experience become coupled together as ideas". What evidence, if any, does the narrator offe...

ACT Aspire Reading: Recognizing How One Passage Supports Another
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What information does the excerpt from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding add to the discussion of the association of ideas in The Science o...

ACT Aspire Reading: Reporting Supporting Details
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The author describes early experiences in the life of Lewis Carroll and asserts a connection between these experiences and his literary work. How d...

ACT Aspire Reading: Comparing the Biographies of Two Authors
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Compare the way that Lewis Carroll's biographer and Robert Louis Stevenson's biographer describe how the authors entertained themselves as children...

ACT Aspire Reading: Reporting Supporting Details in a Scientific Text
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This passage states that amphibians in the park exhibit highly specialized adaptations to the harsh glacier climate. Identify a claim that the text...

ACT Aspire Reading: Supporting a Specific Claim with Information from a Scientific Text
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Though boreal toad populations are declining through the Rocky Mountain range, the populations in Glacier Park seem to be growing. Identify a claim...

Picking Supporting Details Out Like Wildflowers
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This passage states that alpine wildflowers are adapted to survive in the alpine zone. Identify a claim that the text makes to support this theory....

ACT Aspire Reading: Defending a Particular Claim with Evidence from a Scientific Text
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Some alpine wildflowers reproduce asexually. Identify a claim explaining why asexual reproduction is necessary to the survival of these alpine wild...