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ACT Aspire Reading: Summarizing Events
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Which of the following sentences provides the best description of the events in the passage?

ACT Aspire Reading: Recognizing Explicit Details
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Lucy runs to the edge of Kensington Gardens because...

ACT Aspire Reading: Understanding Sequence of Events
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Immediately before Lucy lays her hand on her father's knee, she was...

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ACT Aspire English: Maintaining a Consistent Style and Tone 0 Views


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Choose the best alternative to the text below.
really nicely


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Really nicely Yeah that's were focused on here A c

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t s fire shmoop fur's really nicely Who says that

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It's good on paragraph three were on six of twelve

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I didn't speak any spanish at first but within a

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year i was completely fluent Everything happened in slow motion

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in our little coastal town We were the only foreigners

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in town but people welcomed us really nicely How does

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that feel All right There's got to be some changes

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there Well here the author is trying to convey how

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welcoming the people in panama were The phrase with open

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arms doesn't mean that everyone in panama was literally standing

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at the airport with their arms wide open Instead the

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phrase means to give a very warm welcome right which

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is what the author probably intended The other choice is

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there also fine grammatically speaking but they lack the clarity

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and sophistication of the idiomatic expression arms wide open or

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with open arms Got it So with style questions you

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gotta look for the simplest and most effective way to

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communicate what the offer is trying to say While staying

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consistent with the style and tone of the passage like

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this one is not super formal In fact it's really

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informal So using idioms like with open arms like we

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see in b which is the right answer here kind

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of fits And then it would read We were the

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only foreigners in town but people welcomed us with open

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arms Big hug their big like the end of an

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abc sitcom big hug

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