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Passage
PROSE FICTION: This passage is adapted from Susan Coolidge's novel, What Katy Did © 1872.
The September sun was glinting cheerfully into
a pretty bedroom furnished with blue. It danced on
the glossy hair and bright eyes of two girls, who sat
together hemming ruffles for a white muslin dress. The
(5) half-finished skirt of the dress lay on the bed, and as
each crisp ruffle was completed, the girls added it to the
snowy heap, which looked like a drift of transparent
clouds or a pile of foamy white of egg beaten stiff
enough to stand alone.
(10) These girls were Clover and Elsie Carr, and it
was Clover’s first evening dress for which they were
hemming ruffles. It was nearly two years since a certain
visit made by Johnnie to Inches Mills and more than
three since Clover and Katy had returned home from
(15) the boarding school at Hillsover.
Clover was now eighteen. She was a very small
Clover still, but it would have been hard to find any-
where a prettier little maiden than she had grown to
be. Her skin was so exquisitely fair that her arms and
(20) wrists and shoulders, which were round and dimpled
like an infant’s, seemed cut out of daisies or white
rose leaves. Her thick, brown hair waved and coiled
gracefully about her head. Her smile was peculiarly
sweet, and the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty,
(25) had still that pathetic look which made them quite
irresistible to anyone with a tender or sympathetic
heart.
Elsie, who adored Clover, considered her as beau-
tiful as girls in books, and was proud to be permitted
(30) to hem ruffles for the dress in which she was to burst
upon the world. Though, as for that, not much “burst-
ing” was possible in the village of Burnet, where tea
parties of a middle-aged description, and now and
then a mild little dance, rep-resented “gaiety” and
(35) “society.” Girls “came out” very much as the sun
comes out in the morning—by slow degrees and grad-
ual approaches, with no particular one moment which
could be fixed upon as having been the climax of the
joyful event.
(40) “There,” said Elsie, adding another ruffle to the
pile on the bed, “there’s the fifth done. It’s going to be
ever so pretty, I think. I’m glad you had it all white;
it’s a great deal nicer.”
“Cecy wanted me to have a blue bodice and sash,”
(45) said Clover, “but I wouldn’t. Then she tried to persuade
me to get a long spray of pink roses for the skirt.”
“I’m so glad you didn’t! Cecy was always crazy
about pink roses. I only wonder she didn’t wear them
when she was married!”
(50) Yes, the excellent Cecy, who at thirteen had
announced her intention to devote her whole life to
teaching Sunday School, visiting the poor, and setting
a good example to her more worldly contemporaries,
had actually forgotten these fine resolutions, and before
(55) she was twenty had become the wife of Sylvester Slack,
a young lawyer in a neighboring town! Cecy’s wedding
and wedding clothes, and Cecy’s house furnishing, had
been the great excitement of the preceding year in
Burnet; and a fresh excitement had come since in the
(60) shape of Cecy’s baby, now about two months old, and
named ‘Katherine Clover,’ after her two friends. This
made it natural that Cecy and her affairs should still be
of interest in the Carr household, and Johnnie, at the
time we write of, was paying her a week’s visit.
(65) “She was rather wedded to them,” went on Clover,
pursuing the subject of the pink roses. “She was almost
vexed when I wouldn’t buy the spray. But it cost lots,
and I didn’t want it at all, so I stood firm. Besides,
I always said that my first party dress should be plain
(70) white. Girls in novels always wear white to their first
balls and fresh flowers are a great deal prettier, anyway,
than the artificial ones. Katy says she’ll give me some
violets to wear.”
“Oh, will she? That will be lovely!” cried the ador-
(75) ing Elsie. “Violets look just like you, somehow. Oh,
Clover, what sort of a dress do you think I shall have
when I grow up and go to parties and things? Won’t it
be awfully interesting when you and I go out to choose
it?” Clover’s smile beamed.
Passage
PROSE FICTION: This passage is adapted from Susan Coolidge's novel, What Katy Did © 1872.
The September sun was glinting cheerfully into
a pretty bedroom furnished with blue. It danced on
the glossy hair and bright eyes of two girls, who sat
together hemming ruffles for a white muslin dress. The
(5) half-finished skirt of the dress lay on the bed, and as
each crisp ruffle was completed, the girls added it to the
snowy heap, which looked like a drift of transparent
clouds or a pile of foamy white of egg beaten stiff
enough to stand alone.
(10) These girls were Clover and Elsie Carr, and it
was Clover’s first evening dress for which they were
hemming ruffles. It was nearly two years since a certain
visit made by Johnnie to Inches Mills and more than
three since Clover and Katy had returned home from
(15) the boarding school at Hillsover.
Clover was now eighteen. She was a very small
Clover still, but it would have been hard to find any-
where a prettier little maiden than she had grown to
be. Her skin was so exquisitely fair that her arms and
(20) wrists and shoulders, which were round and dimpled
like an infant’s, seemed cut out of daisies or white
rose leaves. Her thick, brown hair waved and coiled
gracefully about her head. Her smile was peculiarly
sweet, and the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty,
(25) had still that pathetic look which made them quite
irresistible to anyone with a tender or sympathetic
heart.
Elsie, who adored Clover, considered her as beau-
tiful as girls in books, and was proud to be permitted
(30) to hem ruffles for the dress in which she was to burst
upon the world. Though, as for that, not much “burst-
ing” was possible in the village of Burnet, where tea
parties of a middle-aged description, and now and
then a mild little dance, rep-resented “gaiety” and
(35) “society.” Girls “came out” very much as the sun
comes out in the morning—by slow degrees and grad-
ual approaches, with no particular one moment which
could be fixed upon as having been the climax of the
joyful event.
(40) “There,” said Elsie, adding another ruffle to the
pile on the bed, “there’s the fifth done. It’s going to be
ever so pretty, I think. I’m glad you had it all white;
it’s a great deal nicer.”
“Cecy wanted me to have a blue bodice and sash,”
(45) said Clover, “but I wouldn’t. Then she tried to persuade
me to get a long spray of pink roses for the skirt.”
“I’m so glad you didn’t! Cecy was always crazy
about pink roses. I only wonder she didn’t wear them
when she was married!”
(50) Yes, the excellent Cecy, who at thirteen had
announced her intention to devote her whole life to
teaching Sunday School, visiting the poor, and setting
a good example to her more worldly contemporaries,
had actually forgotten these fine resolutions, and before
(55) she was twenty had become the wife of Sylvester Slack,
a young lawyer in a neighboring town! Cecy’s wedding
and wedding clothes, and Cecy’s house furnishing, had
been the great excitement of the preceding year in
Burnet; and a fresh excitement had come since in the
(60) shape of Cecy’s baby, now about two months old, and
named ‘Katherine Clover,’ after her two friends. This
made it natural that Cecy and her affairs should still be
of interest in the Carr household, and Johnnie, at the
time we write of, was paying her a week’s visit.
(65) “She was rather wedded to them,” went on Clover,
pursuing the subject of the pink roses. “She was almost
vexed when I wouldn’t buy the spray. But it cost lots,
and I didn’t want it at all, so I stood firm. Besides,
I always said that my first party dress should be plain
(70) white. Girls in novels always wear white to their first
balls and fresh flowers are a great deal prettier, anyway,
than the artificial ones. Katy says she’ll give me some
violets to wear.”
“Oh, will she? That will be lovely!” cried the ador-
(75) ing Elsie. “Violets look just like you, somehow. Oh,
Clover, what sort of a dress do you think I shall have
when I grow up and go to parties and things? Won’t it
be awfully interesting when you and I go out to choose
it?” Clover’s smile beamed.
Q. As it is used in Paragraph 3, the phrase “the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty, had still that pathetic look” most nearly means that:
- a)Clover was beautiful with the exception of her pitiable eyes.
- b)Clover’s eyes aroused a feeling of compassion.
- c)People often felt sorry for Clover when they looked into her eyes.
- d)Clover had pretty eyes but very poor vision.
Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer?
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This statement indicates that Clover’s eyes were always her most notable source of beauty; therefore, answer choice A can be immediately eliminated. The passage states that Clover’s eyes, with their pathetic look, “made them quite irresistible to anyone with a tender or sympathetic heart.” This indicates that her eyes were compelling to kind and compassionate people, which best correlates with answer choice B.
Answer choices C and D are not supported by details found in the passage.
Answer choices C and D are not supported by details found in the passage.
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Directions: Read the passages and choose the best answer to each question.PassagePROSE FICTION: This passage is adapted from Susan Coolidges novel, What Katy Did © 1872.The September sun was glinting cheerfully intoa pretty bedroom furnished with blue. It danced onthe glossy hair and bright eyes of two girls, who sattogether hemming ruffles for a white muslin dress. The(5) half-finished skirt of the dress lay on the bed, and aseach crisp ruffle was completed, the girls added it to thesnowy heap, which looked like a drift of transparentclouds or a pile of foamy white of egg beaten stiffenough to stand alone.(10) These girls were Clover and Elsie Carr, and itwas Clover’s first evening dress for which they werehemming ruffles. It was nearly two years since a certainvisit made by Johnnie to Inches Mills and more thanthree since Clover and Katy had returned home from(15) the boarding school at Hillsover.Clover was now eighteen. She was a very smallClover still, but it would have been hard to find any-where a prettier little maiden than she had grown tobe. Her skin was so exquisitely fair that her arms and(20) wrists and shoulders, which were round and dimpledlike an infant’s, seemed cut out of daisies or whiterose leaves. Her thick, brown hair waved and coiledgracefully about her head. Her smile was peculiarlysweet, and the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty,(25) had still that pathetic look which made them quiteirresistible to anyone with a tender or sympatheticheart.Elsie, who adored Clover, considered her as beau-tiful as girls in books, and was proud to be permitted(30) to hem ruffles for the dress in which she was to burstupon the world. Though, as for that, not much “burst-ing” was possible in the village of Burnet, where teaparties of a middle-aged description, and now andthen a mild little dance, rep-resented “gaiety” and(35) “society.” Girls “came out” very much as the suncomes out in the morning—by slow degrees and grad-ual approaches, with no particular one moment whichcould be fixed upon as having been the climax of thejoyful event.(40) “There,” said Elsie, adding another ruffle to thepile on the bed, “there’s the fifth done. It’s going to beever so pretty, I think. I’m glad you had it all white;it’s a great deal nicer.”“Cecy wanted me to have a blue bodice and sash,”(45) said Clover, “but I wouldn’t. Then she tried to persuademe to get a long spray of pink roses for the skirt.”“I’m so glad you didn’t! Cecy was always crazyabout pink roses. I only wonder she didn’t wear themwhen she was married!”(50) Yes, the excellent Cecy, who at thirteen hadannounced her intention to devote her whole life toteaching Sunday School, visiting the poor, and settinga good example to her more worldly contemporaries,had actually forgotten these fine resolutions, and before(55) she was twenty had become the wife of Sylvester Slack,a young lawyer in a neighboring town! Cecy’s weddingand wedding clothes, and Cecy’s house furnishing, hadbeen the great excitement of the preceding year inBurnet; and a fresh excitement had come since in the(60) shape of Cecy’s baby, now about two months old, andnamed ‘Katherine Clover,’ after her two friends. Thismade it natural that Cecy and her affairs should still beof interest in the Carr household, and Johnnie, at thetime we write of, was paying her a week’s visit.(65) “She was rather wedded to them,” went on Clover,pursuing the subject of the pink roses. “She was almostvexed when I wouldn’t buy the spray. But it cost lots,and I didn’t want it at all, so I stood firm. Besides,I always said that my first party dress should be plain(70) white. Girls in novels always wear white to their firstballs and fresh flowers are a great deal prettier, anyway,than the artificial ones. Katy says she’ll give me someviolets to wear.”“Oh, will she? That will be lovely!” cried the ador-(75) ing Elsie. “Violets look just like you, somehow. Oh,Clover, what sort of a dress do you think I shall havewhen I grow up and go to parties and things? Won’t itbe awfully interesting when you and I go out to chooseit?” Clover’s smile beamed.Q.As it is used in Paragraph 3, the phrase “the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty, had still that pathetic look” most nearly means that:a)Clover was beautiful with the exception of her pitiable eyes.b)Clover’s eyes aroused a feeling of compassion.c)People often felt sorry for Clover when they looked into her eyes.d)Clover had pretty eyes but very poor vision.Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer?
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Directions: Read the passages and choose the best answer to each question.PassagePROSE FICTION: This passage is adapted from Susan Coolidges novel, What Katy Did © 1872.The September sun was glinting cheerfully intoa pretty bedroom furnished with blue. It danced onthe glossy hair and bright eyes of two girls, who sattogether hemming ruffles for a white muslin dress. The(5) half-finished skirt of the dress lay on the bed, and aseach crisp ruffle was completed, the girls added it to thesnowy heap, which looked like a drift of transparentclouds or a pile of foamy white of egg beaten stiffenough to stand alone.(10) These girls were Clover and Elsie Carr, and itwas Clover’s first evening dress for which they werehemming ruffles. It was nearly two years since a certainvisit made by Johnnie to Inches Mills and more thanthree since Clover and Katy had returned home from(15) the boarding school at Hillsover.Clover was now eighteen. She was a very smallClover still, but it would have been hard to find any-where a prettier little maiden than she had grown tobe. Her skin was so exquisitely fair that her arms and(20) wrists and shoulders, which were round and dimpledlike an infant’s, seemed cut out of daisies or whiterose leaves. Her thick, brown hair waved and coiledgracefully about her head. Her smile was peculiarlysweet, and the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty,(25) had still that pathetic look which made them quiteirresistible to anyone with a tender or sympatheticheart.Elsie, who adored Clover, considered her as beau-tiful as girls in books, and was proud to be permitted(30) to hem ruffles for the dress in which she was to burstupon the world. Though, as for that, not much “burst-ing” was possible in the village of Burnet, where teaparties of a middle-aged description, and now andthen a mild little dance, rep-resented “gaiety” and(35) “society.” Girls “came out” very much as the suncomes out in the morning—by slow degrees and grad-ual approaches, with no particular one moment whichcould be fixed upon as having been the climax of thejoyful event.(40) “There,” said Elsie, adding another ruffle to thepile on the bed, “there’s the fifth done. It’s going to beever so pretty, I think. I’m glad you had it all white;it’s a great deal nicer.”“Cecy wanted me to have a blue bodice and sash,”(45) said Clover, “but I wouldn’t. Then she tried to persuademe to get a long spray of pink roses for the skirt.”“I’m so glad you didn’t! Cecy was always crazyabout pink roses. I only wonder she didn’t wear themwhen she was married!”(50) Yes, the excellent Cecy, who at thirteen hadannounced her intention to devote her whole life toteaching Sunday School, visiting the poor, and settinga good example to her more worldly contemporaries,had actually forgotten these fine resolutions, and before(55) she was twenty had become the wife of Sylvester Slack,a young lawyer in a neighboring town! Cecy’s weddingand wedding clothes, and Cecy’s house furnishing, hadbeen the great excitement of the preceding year inBurnet; and a fresh excitement had come since in the(60) shape of Cecy’s baby, now about two months old, andnamed ‘Katherine Clover,’ after her two friends. Thismade it natural that Cecy and her affairs should still beof interest in the Carr household, and Johnnie, at thetime we write of, was paying her a week’s visit.(65) “She was rather wedded to them,” went on Clover,pursuing the subject of the pink roses. “She was almostvexed when I wouldn’t buy the spray. But it cost lots,and I didn’t want it at all, so I stood firm. Besides,I always said that my first party dress should be plain(70) white. Girls in novels always wear white to their firstballs and fresh flowers are a great deal prettier, anyway,than the artificial ones. Katy says she’ll give me someviolets to wear.”“Oh, will she? That will be lovely!” cried the ador-(75) ing Elsie. “Violets look just like you, somehow. Oh,Clover, what sort of a dress do you think I shall havewhen I grow up and go to parties and things? Won’t itbe awfully interesting when you and I go out to chooseit?” Clover’s smile beamed.Q.As it is used in Paragraph 3, the phrase “the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty, had still that pathetic look” most nearly means that:a)Clover was beautiful with the exception of her pitiable eyes.b)Clover’s eyes aroused a feeling of compassion.c)People often felt sorry for Clover when they looked into her eyes.d)Clover had pretty eyes but very poor vision.Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer? for ACT 2025 is part of ACT preparation. The Question and answers have been prepared according to the ACT exam syllabus. Information about Directions: Read the passages and choose the best answer to each question.PassagePROSE FICTION: This passage is adapted from Susan Coolidges novel, What Katy Did © 1872.The September sun was glinting cheerfully intoa pretty bedroom furnished with blue. It danced onthe glossy hair and bright eyes of two girls, who sattogether hemming ruffles for a white muslin dress. The(5) half-finished skirt of the dress lay on the bed, and aseach crisp ruffle was completed, the girls added it to thesnowy heap, which looked like a drift of transparentclouds or a pile of foamy white of egg beaten stiffenough to stand alone.(10) These girls were Clover and Elsie Carr, and itwas Clover’s first evening dress for which they werehemming ruffles. It was nearly two years since a certainvisit made by Johnnie to Inches Mills and more thanthree since Clover and Katy had returned home from(15) the boarding school at Hillsover.Clover was now eighteen. She was a very smallClover still, but it would have been hard to find any-where a prettier little maiden than she had grown tobe. Her skin was so exquisitely fair that her arms and(20) wrists and shoulders, which were round and dimpledlike an infant’s, seemed cut out of daisies or whiterose leaves. Her thick, brown hair waved and coiledgracefully about her head. Her smile was peculiarlysweet, and the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty,(25) had still that pathetic look which made them quiteirresistible to anyone with a tender or sympatheticheart.Elsie, who adored Clover, considered her as beau-tiful as girls in books, and was proud to be permitted(30) to hem ruffles for the dress in which she was to burstupon the world. Though, as for that, not much “burst-ing” was possible in the village of Burnet, where teaparties of a middle-aged description, and now andthen a mild little dance, rep-resented “gaiety” and(35) “society.” Girls “came out” very much as the suncomes out in the morning—by slow degrees and grad-ual approaches, with no particular one moment whichcould be fixed upon as having been the climax of thejoyful event.(40) “There,” said Elsie, adding another ruffle to thepile on the bed, “there’s the fifth done. It’s going to beever so pretty, I think. I’m glad you had it all white;it’s a great deal nicer.”“Cecy wanted me to have a blue bodice and sash,”(45) said Clover, “but I wouldn’t. Then she tried to persuademe to get a long spray of pink roses for the skirt.”“I’m so glad you didn’t! Cecy was always crazyabout pink roses. I only wonder she didn’t wear themwhen she was married!”(50) Yes, the excellent Cecy, who at thirteen hadannounced her intention to devote her whole life toteaching Sunday School, visiting the poor, and settinga good example to her more worldly contemporaries,had actually forgotten these fine resolutions, and before(55) she was twenty had become the wife of Sylvester Slack,a young lawyer in a neighboring town! Cecy’s weddingand wedding clothes, and Cecy’s house furnishing, hadbeen the great excitement of the preceding year inBurnet; and a fresh excitement had come since in the(60) shape of Cecy’s baby, now about two months old, andnamed ‘Katherine Clover,’ after her two friends. Thismade it natural that Cecy and her affairs should still beof interest in the Carr household, and Johnnie, at thetime we write of, was paying her a week’s visit.(65) “She was rather wedded to them,” went on Clover,pursuing the subject of the pink roses. “She was almostvexed when I wouldn’t buy the spray. But it cost lots,and I didn’t want it at all, so I stood firm. Besides,I always said that my first party dress should be plain(70) white. Girls in novels always wear white to their firstballs and fresh flowers are a great deal prettier, anyway,than the artificial ones. Katy says she’ll give me someviolets to wear.”“Oh, will she? That will be lovely!” cried the ador-(75) ing Elsie. “Violets look just like you, somehow. Oh,Clover, what sort of a dress do you think I shall havewhen I grow up and go to parties and things? Won’t itbe awfully interesting when you and I go out to chooseit?” Clover’s smile beamed.Q.As it is used in Paragraph 3, the phrase “the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty, had still that pathetic look” most nearly means that:a)Clover was beautiful with the exception of her pitiable eyes.b)Clover’s eyes aroused a feeling of compassion.c)People often felt sorry for Clover when they looked into her eyes.d)Clover had pretty eyes but very poor vision.Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer? covers all topics & solutions for ACT 2025 Exam. Find important definitions, questions, meanings, examples, exercises and tests below for Directions: Read the passages and choose the best answer to each question.PassagePROSE FICTION: This passage is adapted from Susan Coolidges novel, What Katy Did © 1872.The September sun was glinting cheerfully intoa pretty bedroom furnished with blue. It danced onthe glossy hair and bright eyes of two girls, who sattogether hemming ruffles for a white muslin dress. The(5) half-finished skirt of the dress lay on the bed, and aseach crisp ruffle was completed, the girls added it to thesnowy heap, which looked like a drift of transparentclouds or a pile of foamy white of egg beaten stiffenough to stand alone.(10) These girls were Clover and Elsie Carr, and itwas Clover’s first evening dress for which they werehemming ruffles. It was nearly two years since a certainvisit made by Johnnie to Inches Mills and more thanthree since Clover and Katy had returned home from(15) the boarding school at Hillsover.Clover was now eighteen. She was a very smallClover still, but it would have been hard to find any-where a prettier little maiden than she had grown tobe. Her skin was so exquisitely fair that her arms and(20) wrists and shoulders, which were round and dimpledlike an infant’s, seemed cut out of daisies or whiterose leaves. Her thick, brown hair waved and coiledgracefully about her head. Her smile was peculiarlysweet, and the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty,(25) had still that pathetic look which made them quiteirresistible to anyone with a tender or sympatheticheart.Elsie, who adored Clover, considered her as beau-tiful as girls in books, and was proud to be permitted(30) to hem ruffles for the dress in which she was to burstupon the world. Though, as for that, not much “burst-ing” was possible in the village of Burnet, where teaparties of a middle-aged description, and now andthen a mild little dance, rep-resented “gaiety” and(35) “society.” Girls “came out” very much as the suncomes out in the morning—by slow degrees and grad-ual approaches, with no particular one moment whichcould be fixed upon as having been the climax of thejoyful event.(40) “There,” said Elsie, adding another ruffle to thepile on the bed, “there’s the fifth done. It’s going to beever so pretty, I think. I’m glad you had it all white;it’s a great deal nicer.”“Cecy wanted me to have a blue bodice and sash,”(45) said Clover, “but I wouldn’t. Then she tried to persuademe to get a long spray of pink roses for the skirt.”“I’m so glad you didn’t! Cecy was always crazyabout pink roses. I only wonder she didn’t wear themwhen she was married!”(50) Yes, the excellent Cecy, who at thirteen hadannounced her intention to devote her whole life toteaching Sunday School, visiting the poor, and settinga good example to her more worldly contemporaries,had actually forgotten these fine resolutions, and before(55) she was twenty had become the wife of Sylvester Slack,a young lawyer in a neighboring town! Cecy’s weddingand wedding clothes, and Cecy’s house furnishing, hadbeen the great excitement of the preceding year inBurnet; and a fresh excitement had come since in the(60) shape of Cecy’s baby, now about two months old, andnamed ‘Katherine Clover,’ after her two friends. Thismade it natural that Cecy and her affairs should still beof interest in the Carr household, and Johnnie, at thetime we write of, was paying her a week’s visit.(65) “She was rather wedded to them,” went on Clover,pursuing the subject of the pink roses. “She was almostvexed when I wouldn’t buy the spray. But it cost lots,and I didn’t want it at all, so I stood firm. Besides,I always said that my first party dress should be plain(70) white. Girls in novels always wear white to their firstballs and fresh flowers are a great deal prettier, anyway,than the artificial ones. Katy says she’ll give me someviolets to wear.”“Oh, will she? That will be lovely!” cried the ador-(75) ing Elsie. “Violets look just like you, somehow. Oh,Clover, what sort of a dress do you think I shall havewhen I grow up and go to parties and things? Won’t itbe awfully interesting when you and I go out to chooseit?” Clover’s smile beamed.Q.As it is used in Paragraph 3, the phrase “the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty, had still that pathetic look” most nearly means that:a)Clover was beautiful with the exception of her pitiable eyes.b)Clover’s eyes aroused a feeling of compassion.c)People often felt sorry for Clover when they looked into her eyes.d)Clover had pretty eyes but very poor vision.Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer?.
Directions: Read the passages and choose the best answer to each question.PassagePROSE FICTION: This passage is adapted from Susan Coolidges novel, What Katy Did © 1872.The September sun was glinting cheerfully intoa pretty bedroom furnished with blue. It danced onthe glossy hair and bright eyes of two girls, who sattogether hemming ruffles for a white muslin dress. The(5) half-finished skirt of the dress lay on the bed, and aseach crisp ruffle was completed, the girls added it to thesnowy heap, which looked like a drift of transparentclouds or a pile of foamy white of egg beaten stiffenough to stand alone.(10) These girls were Clover and Elsie Carr, and itwas Clover’s first evening dress for which they werehemming ruffles. It was nearly two years since a certainvisit made by Johnnie to Inches Mills and more thanthree since Clover and Katy had returned home from(15) the boarding school at Hillsover.Clover was now eighteen. She was a very smallClover still, but it would have been hard to find any-where a prettier little maiden than she had grown tobe. Her skin was so exquisitely fair that her arms and(20) wrists and shoulders, which were round and dimpledlike an infant’s, seemed cut out of daisies or whiterose leaves. Her thick, brown hair waved and coiledgracefully about her head. Her smile was peculiarlysweet, and the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty,(25) had still that pathetic look which made them quiteirresistible to anyone with a tender or sympatheticheart.Elsie, who adored Clover, considered her as beau-tiful as girls in books, and was proud to be permitted(30) to hem ruffles for the dress in which she was to burstupon the world. Though, as for that, not much “burst-ing” was possible in the village of Burnet, where teaparties of a middle-aged description, and now andthen a mild little dance, rep-resented “gaiety” and(35) “society.” Girls “came out” very much as the suncomes out in the morning—by slow degrees and grad-ual approaches, with no particular one moment whichcould be fixed upon as having been the climax of thejoyful event.(40) “There,” said Elsie, adding another ruffle to thepile on the bed, “there’s the fifth done. It’s going to beever so pretty, I think. I’m glad you had it all white;it’s a great deal nicer.”“Cecy wanted me to have a blue bodice and sash,”(45) said Clover, “but I wouldn’t. Then she tried to persuademe to get a long spray of pink roses for the skirt.”“I’m so glad you didn’t! Cecy was always crazyabout pink roses. I only wonder she didn’t wear themwhen she was married!”(50) Yes, the excellent Cecy, who at thirteen hadannounced her intention to devote her whole life toteaching Sunday School, visiting the poor, and settinga good example to her more worldly contemporaries,had actually forgotten these fine resolutions, and before(55) she was twenty had become the wife of Sylvester Slack,a young lawyer in a neighboring town! Cecy’s weddingand wedding clothes, and Cecy’s house furnishing, hadbeen the great excitement of the preceding year inBurnet; and a fresh excitement had come since in the(60) shape of Cecy’s baby, now about two months old, andnamed ‘Katherine Clover,’ after her two friends. Thismade it natural that Cecy and her affairs should still beof interest in the Carr household, and Johnnie, at thetime we write of, was paying her a week’s visit.(65) “She was rather wedded to them,” went on Clover,pursuing the subject of the pink roses. “She was almostvexed when I wouldn’t buy the spray. But it cost lots,and I didn’t want it at all, so I stood firm. Besides,I always said that my first party dress should be plain(70) white. Girls in novels always wear white to their firstballs and fresh flowers are a great deal prettier, anyway,than the artificial ones. Katy says she’ll give me someviolets to wear.”“Oh, will she? That will be lovely!” cried the ador-(75) ing Elsie. “Violets look just like you, somehow. Oh,Clover, what sort of a dress do you think I shall havewhen I grow up and go to parties and things? Won’t itbe awfully interesting when you and I go out to chooseit?” Clover’s smile beamed.Q.As it is used in Paragraph 3, the phrase “the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty, had still that pathetic look” most nearly means that:a)Clover was beautiful with the exception of her pitiable eyes.b)Clover’s eyes aroused a feeling of compassion.c)People often felt sorry for Clover when they looked into her eyes.d)Clover had pretty eyes but very poor vision.Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer? for ACT 2025 is part of ACT preparation. The Question and answers have been prepared according to the ACT exam syllabus. Information about Directions: Read the passages and choose the best answer to each question.PassagePROSE FICTION: This passage is adapted from Susan Coolidges novel, What Katy Did © 1872.The September sun was glinting cheerfully intoa pretty bedroom furnished with blue. It danced onthe glossy hair and bright eyes of two girls, who sattogether hemming ruffles for a white muslin dress. The(5) half-finished skirt of the dress lay on the bed, and aseach crisp ruffle was completed, the girls added it to thesnowy heap, which looked like a drift of transparentclouds or a pile of foamy white of egg beaten stiffenough to stand alone.(10) These girls were Clover and Elsie Carr, and itwas Clover’s first evening dress for which they werehemming ruffles. It was nearly two years since a certainvisit made by Johnnie to Inches Mills and more thanthree since Clover and Katy had returned home from(15) the boarding school at Hillsover.Clover was now eighteen. She was a very smallClover still, but it would have been hard to find any-where a prettier little maiden than she had grown tobe. Her skin was so exquisitely fair that her arms and(20) wrists and shoulders, which were round and dimpledlike an infant’s, seemed cut out of daisies or whiterose leaves. Her thick, brown hair waved and coiledgracefully about her head. Her smile was peculiarlysweet, and the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty,(25) had still that pathetic look which made them quiteirresistible to anyone with a tender or sympatheticheart.Elsie, who adored Clover, considered her as beau-tiful as girls in books, and was proud to be permitted(30) to hem ruffles for the dress in which she was to burstupon the world. Though, as for that, not much “burst-ing” was possible in the village of Burnet, where teaparties of a middle-aged description, and now andthen a mild little dance, rep-resented “gaiety” and(35) “society.” Girls “came out” very much as the suncomes out in the morning—by slow degrees and grad-ual approaches, with no particular one moment whichcould be fixed upon as having been the climax of thejoyful event.(40) “There,” said Elsie, adding another ruffle to thepile on the bed, “there’s the fifth done. It’s going to beever so pretty, I think. I’m glad you had it all white;it’s a great deal nicer.”“Cecy wanted me to have a blue bodice and sash,”(45) said Clover, “but I wouldn’t. Then she tried to persuademe to get a long spray of pink roses for the skirt.”“I’m so glad you didn’t! Cecy was always crazyabout pink roses. I only wonder she didn’t wear themwhen she was married!”(50) Yes, the excellent Cecy, who at thirteen hadannounced her intention to devote her whole life toteaching Sunday School, visiting the poor, and settinga good example to her more worldly contemporaries,had actually forgotten these fine resolutions, and before(55) she was twenty had become the wife of Sylvester Slack,a young lawyer in a neighboring town! Cecy’s weddingand wedding clothes, and Cecy’s house furnishing, hadbeen the great excitement of the preceding year inBurnet; and a fresh excitement had come since in the(60) shape of Cecy’s baby, now about two months old, andnamed ‘Katherine Clover,’ after her two friends. Thismade it natural that Cecy and her affairs should still beof interest in the Carr household, and Johnnie, at thetime we write of, was paying her a week’s visit.(65) “She was rather wedded to them,” went on Clover,pursuing the subject of the pink roses. “She was almostvexed when I wouldn’t buy the spray. But it cost lots,and I didn’t want it at all, so I stood firm. Besides,I always said that my first party dress should be plain(70) white. Girls in novels always wear white to their firstballs and fresh flowers are a great deal prettier, anyway,than the artificial ones. Katy says she’ll give me someviolets to wear.”“Oh, will she? That will be lovely!” cried the ador-(75) ing Elsie. “Violets look just like you, somehow. Oh,Clover, what sort of a dress do you think I shall havewhen I grow up and go to parties and things? Won’t itbe awfully interesting when you and I go out to chooseit?” Clover’s smile beamed.Q.As it is used in Paragraph 3, the phrase “the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty, had still that pathetic look” most nearly means that:a)Clover was beautiful with the exception of her pitiable eyes.b)Clover’s eyes aroused a feeling of compassion.c)People often felt sorry for Clover when they looked into her eyes.d)Clover had pretty eyes but very poor vision.Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer? covers all topics & solutions for ACT 2025 Exam. Find important definitions, questions, meanings, examples, exercises and tests below for Directions: Read the passages and choose the best answer to each question.PassagePROSE FICTION: This passage is adapted from Susan Coolidges novel, What Katy Did © 1872.The September sun was glinting cheerfully intoa pretty bedroom furnished with blue. It danced onthe glossy hair and bright eyes of two girls, who sattogether hemming ruffles for a white muslin dress. The(5) half-finished skirt of the dress lay on the bed, and aseach crisp ruffle was completed, the girls added it to thesnowy heap, which looked like a drift of transparentclouds or a pile of foamy white of egg beaten stiffenough to stand alone.(10) These girls were Clover and Elsie Carr, and itwas Clover’s first evening dress for which they werehemming ruffles. It was nearly two years since a certainvisit made by Johnnie to Inches Mills and more thanthree since Clover and Katy had returned home from(15) the boarding school at Hillsover.Clover was now eighteen. She was a very smallClover still, but it would have been hard to find any-where a prettier little maiden than she had grown tobe. Her skin was so exquisitely fair that her arms and(20) wrists and shoulders, which were round and dimpledlike an infant’s, seemed cut out of daisies or whiterose leaves. Her thick, brown hair waved and coiledgracefully about her head. Her smile was peculiarlysweet, and the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty,(25) had still that pathetic look which made them quiteirresistible to anyone with a tender or sympatheticheart.Elsie, who adored Clover, considered her as beau-tiful as girls in books, and was proud to be permitted(30) to hem ruffles for the dress in which she was to burstupon the world. Though, as for that, not much “burst-ing” was possible in the village of Burnet, where teaparties of a middle-aged description, and now andthen a mild little dance, rep-resented “gaiety” and(35) “society.” Girls “came out” very much as the suncomes out in the morning—by slow degrees and grad-ual approaches, with no particular one moment whichcould be fixed upon as having been the climax of thejoyful event.(40) “There,” said Elsie, adding another ruffle to thepile on the bed, “there’s the fifth done. It’s going to beever so pretty, I think. I’m glad you had it all white;it’s a great deal nicer.”“Cecy wanted me to have a blue bodice and sash,”(45) said Clover, “but I wouldn’t. Then she tried to persuademe to get a long spray of pink roses for the skirt.”“I’m so glad you didn’t! Cecy was always crazyabout pink roses. I only wonder she didn’t wear themwhen she was married!”(50) Yes, the excellent Cecy, who at thirteen hadannounced her intention to devote her whole life toteaching Sunday School, visiting the poor, and settinga good example to her more worldly contemporaries,had actually forgotten these fine resolutions, and before(55) she was twenty had become the wife of Sylvester Slack,a young lawyer in a neighboring town! Cecy’s weddingand wedding clothes, and Cecy’s house furnishing, hadbeen the great excitement of the preceding year inBurnet; and a fresh excitement had come since in the(60) shape of Cecy’s baby, now about two months old, andnamed ‘Katherine Clover,’ after her two friends. Thismade it natural that Cecy and her affairs should still beof interest in the Carr household, and Johnnie, at thetime we write of, was paying her a week’s visit.(65) “She was rather wedded to them,” went on Clover,pursuing the subject of the pink roses. “She was almostvexed when I wouldn’t buy the spray. But it cost lots,and I didn’t want it at all, so I stood firm. Besides,I always said that my first party dress should be plain(70) white. Girls in novels always wear white to their firstballs and fresh flowers are a great deal prettier, anyway,than the artificial ones. Katy says she’ll give me someviolets to wear.”“Oh, will she? That will be lovely!” cried the ador-(75) ing Elsie. “Violets look just like you, somehow. Oh,Clover, what sort of a dress do you think I shall havewhen I grow up and go to parties and things? Won’t itbe awfully interesting when you and I go out to chooseit?” Clover’s smile beamed.Q.As it is used in Paragraph 3, the phrase “the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty, had still that pathetic look” most nearly means that:a)Clover was beautiful with the exception of her pitiable eyes.b)Clover’s eyes aroused a feeling of compassion.c)People often felt sorry for Clover when they looked into her eyes.d)Clover had pretty eyes but very poor vision.Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer?.
Solutions for Directions: Read the passages and choose the best answer to each question.PassagePROSE FICTION: This passage is adapted from Susan Coolidges novel, What Katy Did © 1872.The September sun was glinting cheerfully intoa pretty bedroom furnished with blue. It danced onthe glossy hair and bright eyes of two girls, who sattogether hemming ruffles for a white muslin dress. The(5) half-finished skirt of the dress lay on the bed, and aseach crisp ruffle was completed, the girls added it to thesnowy heap, which looked like a drift of transparentclouds or a pile of foamy white of egg beaten stiffenough to stand alone.(10) These girls were Clover and Elsie Carr, and itwas Clover’s first evening dress for which they werehemming ruffles. It was nearly two years since a certainvisit made by Johnnie to Inches Mills and more thanthree since Clover and Katy had returned home from(15) the boarding school at Hillsover.Clover was now eighteen. She was a very smallClover still, but it would have been hard to find any-where a prettier little maiden than she had grown tobe. Her skin was so exquisitely fair that her arms and(20) wrists and shoulders, which were round and dimpledlike an infant’s, seemed cut out of daisies or whiterose leaves. Her thick, brown hair waved and coiledgracefully about her head. Her smile was peculiarlysweet, and the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty,(25) had still that pathetic look which made them quiteirresistible to anyone with a tender or sympatheticheart.Elsie, who adored Clover, considered her as beau-tiful as girls in books, and was proud to be permitted(30) to hem ruffles for the dress in which she was to burstupon the world. Though, as for that, not much “burst-ing” was possible in the village of Burnet, where teaparties of a middle-aged description, and now andthen a mild little dance, rep-resented “gaiety” and(35) “society.” Girls “came out” very much as the suncomes out in the morning—by slow degrees and grad-ual approaches, with no particular one moment whichcould be fixed upon as having been the climax of thejoyful event.(40) “There,” said Elsie, adding another ruffle to thepile on the bed, “there’s the fifth done. It’s going to beever so pretty, I think. I’m glad you had it all white;it’s a great deal nicer.”“Cecy wanted me to have a blue bodice and sash,”(45) said Clover, “but I wouldn’t. Then she tried to persuademe to get a long spray of pink roses for the skirt.”“I’m so glad you didn’t! Cecy was always crazyabout pink roses. I only wonder she didn’t wear themwhen she was married!”(50) Yes, the excellent Cecy, who at thirteen hadannounced her intention to devote her whole life toteaching Sunday School, visiting the poor, and settinga good example to her more worldly contemporaries,had actually forgotten these fine resolutions, and before(55) she was twenty had become the wife of Sylvester Slack,a young lawyer in a neighboring town! Cecy’s weddingand wedding clothes, and Cecy’s house furnishing, hadbeen the great excitement of the preceding year inBurnet; and a fresh excitement had come since in the(60) shape of Cecy’s baby, now about two months old, andnamed ‘Katherine Clover,’ after her two friends. Thismade it natural that Cecy and her affairs should still beof interest in the Carr household, and Johnnie, at thetime we write of, was paying her a week’s visit.(65) “She was rather wedded to them,” went on Clover,pursuing the subject of the pink roses. “She was almostvexed when I wouldn’t buy the spray. But it cost lots,and I didn’t want it at all, so I stood firm. Besides,I always said that my first party dress should be plain(70) white. Girls in novels always wear white to their firstballs and fresh flowers are a great deal prettier, anyway,than the artificial ones. Katy says she’ll give me someviolets to wear.”“Oh, will she? That will be lovely!” cried the ador-(75) ing Elsie. “Violets look just like you, somehow. Oh,Clover, what sort of a dress do you think I shall havewhen I grow up and go to parties and things? Won’t itbe awfully interesting when you and I go out to chooseit?” Clover’s smile beamed.Q.As it is used in Paragraph 3, the phrase “the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty, had still that pathetic look” most nearly means that:a)Clover was beautiful with the exception of her pitiable eyes.b)Clover’s eyes aroused a feeling of compassion.c)People often felt sorry for Clover when they looked into her eyes.d)Clover had pretty eyes but very poor vision.Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer? in English & in Hindi are available as part of our courses for ACT.
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Here you can find the meaning of Directions: Read the passages and choose the best answer to each question.PassagePROSE FICTION: This passage is adapted from Susan Coolidges novel, What Katy Did © 1872.The September sun was glinting cheerfully intoa pretty bedroom furnished with blue. It danced onthe glossy hair and bright eyes of two girls, who sattogether hemming ruffles for a white muslin dress. The(5) half-finished skirt of the dress lay on the bed, and aseach crisp ruffle was completed, the girls added it to thesnowy heap, which looked like a drift of transparentclouds or a pile of foamy white of egg beaten stiffenough to stand alone.(10) These girls were Clover and Elsie Carr, and itwas Clover’s first evening dress for which they werehemming ruffles. It was nearly two years since a certainvisit made by Johnnie to Inches Mills and more thanthree since Clover and Katy had returned home from(15) the boarding school at Hillsover.Clover was now eighteen. She was a very smallClover still, but it would have been hard to find any-where a prettier little maiden than she had grown tobe. Her skin was so exquisitely fair that her arms and(20) wrists and shoulders, which were round and dimpledlike an infant’s, seemed cut out of daisies or whiterose leaves. Her thick, brown hair waved and coiledgracefully about her head. Her smile was peculiarlysweet, and the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty,(25) had still that pathetic look which made them quiteirresistible to anyone with a tender or sympatheticheart.Elsie, who adored Clover, considered her as beau-tiful as girls in books, and was proud to be permitted(30) to hem ruffles for the dress in which she was to burstupon the world. Though, as for that, not much “burst-ing” was possible in the village of Burnet, where teaparties of a middle-aged description, and now andthen a mild little dance, rep-resented “gaiety” and(35) “society.” Girls “came out” very much as the suncomes out in the morning—by slow degrees and grad-ual approaches, with no particular one moment whichcould be fixed upon as having been the climax of thejoyful event.(40) “There,” said Elsie, adding another ruffle to thepile on the bed, “there’s the fifth done. It’s going to beever so pretty, I think. I’m glad you had it all white;it’s a great deal nicer.”“Cecy wanted me to have a blue bodice and sash,”(45) said Clover, “but I wouldn’t. Then she tried to persuademe to get a long spray of pink roses for the skirt.”“I’m so glad you didn’t! Cecy was always crazyabout pink roses. I only wonder she didn’t wear themwhen she was married!”(50) Yes, the excellent Cecy, who at thirteen hadannounced her intention to devote her whole life toteaching Sunday School, visiting the poor, and settinga good example to her more worldly contemporaries,had actually forgotten these fine resolutions, and before(55) she was twenty had become the wife of Sylvester Slack,a young lawyer in a neighboring town! Cecy’s weddingand wedding clothes, and Cecy’s house furnishing, hadbeen the great excitement of the preceding year inBurnet; and a fresh excitement had come since in the(60) shape of Cecy’s baby, now about two months old, andnamed ‘Katherine Clover,’ after her two friends. Thismade it natural that Cecy and her affairs should still beof interest in the Carr household, and Johnnie, at thetime we write of, was paying her a week’s visit.(65) “She was rather wedded to them,” went on Clover,pursuing the subject of the pink roses. “She was almostvexed when I wouldn’t buy the spray. But it cost lots,and I didn’t want it at all, so I stood firm. Besides,I always said that my first party dress should be plain(70) white. Girls in novels always wear white to their firstballs and fresh flowers are a great deal prettier, anyway,than the artificial ones. Katy says she’ll give me someviolets to wear.”“Oh, will she? That will be lovely!” cried the ador-(75) ing Elsie. “Violets look just like you, somehow. Oh,Clover, what sort of a dress do you think I shall havewhen I grow up and go to parties and things? Won’t itbe awfully interesting when you and I go out to chooseit?” Clover’s smile beamed.Q.As it is used in Paragraph 3, the phrase “the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty, had still that pathetic look” most nearly means that:a)Clover was beautiful with the exception of her pitiable eyes.b)Clover’s eyes aroused a feeling of compassion.c)People often felt sorry for Clover when they looked into her eyes.d)Clover had pretty eyes but very poor vision.Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer? defined & explained in the simplest way possible. Besides giving the explanation of
Directions: Read the passages and choose the best answer to each question.PassagePROSE FICTION: This passage is adapted from Susan Coolidges novel, What Katy Did © 1872.The September sun was glinting cheerfully intoa pretty bedroom furnished with blue. It danced onthe glossy hair and bright eyes of two girls, who sattogether hemming ruffles for a white muslin dress. The(5) half-finished skirt of the dress lay on the bed, and aseach crisp ruffle was completed, the girls added it to thesnowy heap, which looked like a drift of transparentclouds or a pile of foamy white of egg beaten stiffenough to stand alone.(10) These girls were Clover and Elsie Carr, and itwas Clover’s first evening dress for which they werehemming ruffles. It was nearly two years since a certainvisit made by Johnnie to Inches Mills and more thanthree since Clover and Katy had returned home from(15) the boarding school at Hillsover.Clover was now eighteen. She was a very smallClover still, but it would have been hard to find any-where a prettier little maiden than she had grown tobe. Her skin was so exquisitely fair that her arms and(20) wrists and shoulders, which were round and dimpledlike an infant’s, seemed cut out of daisies or whiterose leaves. Her thick, brown hair waved and coiledgracefully about her head. Her smile was peculiarlysweet, and the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty,(25) had still that pathetic look which made them quiteirresistible to anyone with a tender or sympatheticheart.Elsie, who adored Clover, considered her as beau-tiful as girls in books, and was proud to be permitted(30) to hem ruffles for the dress in which she was to burstupon the world. Though, as for that, not much “burst-ing” was possible in the village of Burnet, where teaparties of a middle-aged description, and now andthen a mild little dance, rep-resented “gaiety” and(35) “society.” Girls “came out” very much as the suncomes out in the morning—by slow degrees and grad-ual approaches, with no particular one moment whichcould be fixed upon as having been the climax of thejoyful event.(40) “There,” said Elsie, adding another ruffle to thepile on the bed, “there’s the fifth done. It’s going to beever so pretty, I think. I’m glad you had it all white;it’s a great deal nicer.”“Cecy wanted me to have a blue bodice and sash,”(45) said Clover, “but I wouldn’t. Then she tried to persuademe to get a long spray of pink roses for the skirt.”“I’m so glad you didn’t! Cecy was always crazyabout pink roses. I only wonder she didn’t wear themwhen she was married!”(50) Yes, the excellent Cecy, who at thirteen hadannounced her intention to devote her whole life toteaching Sunday School, visiting the poor, and settinga good example to her more worldly contemporaries,had actually forgotten these fine resolutions, and before(55) she was twenty had become the wife of Sylvester Slack,a young lawyer in a neighboring town! Cecy’s weddingand wedding clothes, and Cecy’s house furnishing, hadbeen the great excitement of the preceding year inBurnet; and a fresh excitement had come since in the(60) shape of Cecy’s baby, now about two months old, andnamed ‘Katherine Clover,’ after her two friends. Thismade it natural that Cecy and her affairs should still beof interest in the Carr household, and Johnnie, at thetime we write of, was paying her a week’s visit.(65) “She was rather wedded to them,” went on Clover,pursuing the subject of the pink roses. “She was almostvexed when I wouldn’t buy the spray. But it cost lots,and I didn’t want it at all, so I stood firm. Besides,I always said that my first party dress should be plain(70) white. Girls in novels always wear white to their firstballs and fresh flowers are a great deal prettier, anyway,than the artificial ones. Katy says she’ll give me someviolets to wear.”“Oh, will she? That will be lovely!” cried the ador-(75) ing Elsie. “Violets look just like you, somehow. Oh,Clover, what sort of a dress do you think I shall havewhen I grow up and go to parties and things? Won’t itbe awfully interesting when you and I go out to chooseit?” Clover’s smile beamed.Q.As it is used in Paragraph 3, the phrase “the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty, had still that pathetic look” most nearly means that:a)Clover was beautiful with the exception of her pitiable eyes.b)Clover’s eyes aroused a feeling of compassion.c)People often felt sorry for Clover when they looked into her eyes.d)Clover had pretty eyes but very poor vision.Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer?, a detailed solution for Directions: Read the passages and choose the best answer to each question.PassagePROSE FICTION: This passage is adapted from Susan Coolidges novel, What Katy Did © 1872.The September sun was glinting cheerfully intoa pretty bedroom furnished with blue. It danced onthe glossy hair and bright eyes of two girls, who sattogether hemming ruffles for a white muslin dress. The(5) half-finished skirt of the dress lay on the bed, and aseach crisp ruffle was completed, the girls added it to thesnowy heap, which looked like a drift of transparentclouds or a pile of foamy white of egg beaten stiffenough to stand alone.(10) These girls were Clover and Elsie Carr, and itwas Clover’s first evening dress for which they werehemming ruffles. It was nearly two years since a certainvisit made by Johnnie to Inches Mills and more thanthree since Clover and Katy had returned home from(15) the boarding school at Hillsover.Clover was now eighteen. She was a very smallClover still, but it would have been hard to find any-where a prettier little maiden than she had grown tobe. Her skin was so exquisitely fair that her arms and(20) wrists and shoulders, which were round and dimpledlike an infant’s, seemed cut out of daisies or whiterose leaves. Her thick, brown hair waved and coiledgracefully about her head. Her smile was peculiarlysweet, and the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty,(25) had still that pathetic look which made them quiteirresistible to anyone with a tender or sympatheticheart.Elsie, who adored Clover, considered her as beau-tiful as girls in books, and was proud to be permitted(30) to hem ruffles for the dress in which she was to burstupon the world. Though, as for that, not much “burst-ing” was possible in the village of Burnet, where teaparties of a middle-aged description, and now andthen a mild little dance, rep-resented “gaiety” and(35) “society.” Girls “came out” very much as the suncomes out in the morning—by slow degrees and grad-ual approaches, with no particular one moment whichcould be fixed upon as having been the climax of thejoyful event.(40) “There,” said Elsie, adding another ruffle to thepile on the bed, “there’s the fifth done. It’s going to beever so pretty, I think. I’m glad you had it all white;it’s a great deal nicer.”“Cecy wanted me to have a blue bodice and sash,”(45) said Clover, “but I wouldn’t. Then she tried to persuademe to get a long spray of pink roses for the skirt.”“I’m so glad you didn’t! Cecy was always crazyabout pink roses. I only wonder she didn’t wear themwhen she was married!”(50) Yes, the excellent Cecy, who at thirteen hadannounced her intention to devote her whole life toteaching Sunday School, visiting the poor, and settinga good example to her more worldly contemporaries,had actually forgotten these fine resolutions, and before(55) she was twenty had become the wife of Sylvester Slack,a young lawyer in a neighboring town! Cecy’s weddingand wedding clothes, and Cecy’s house furnishing, hadbeen the great excitement of the preceding year inBurnet; and a fresh excitement had come since in the(60) shape of Cecy’s baby, now about two months old, andnamed ‘Katherine Clover,’ after her two friends. Thismade it natural that Cecy and her affairs should still beof interest in the Carr household, and Johnnie, at thetime we write of, was paying her a week’s visit.(65) “She was rather wedded to them,” went on Clover,pursuing the subject of the pink roses. “She was almostvexed when I wouldn’t buy the spray. But it cost lots,and I didn’t want it at all, so I stood firm. Besides,I always said that my first party dress should be plain(70) white. Girls in novels always wear white to their firstballs and fresh flowers are a great deal prettier, anyway,than the artificial ones. Katy says she’ll give me someviolets to wear.”“Oh, will she? That will be lovely!” cried the ador-(75) ing Elsie. “Violets look just like you, somehow. Oh,Clover, what sort of a dress do you think I shall havewhen I grow up and go to parties and things? Won’t itbe awfully interesting when you and I go out to chooseit?” Clover’s smile beamed.Q.As it is used in Paragraph 3, the phrase “the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty, had still that pathetic look” most nearly means that:a)Clover was beautiful with the exception of her pitiable eyes.b)Clover’s eyes aroused a feeling of compassion.c)People often felt sorry for Clover when they looked into her eyes.d)Clover had pretty eyes but very poor vision.Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer? has been provided alongside types of Directions: Read the passages and choose the best answer to each question.PassagePROSE FICTION: This passage is adapted from Susan Coolidges novel, What Katy Did © 1872.The September sun was glinting cheerfully intoa pretty bedroom furnished with blue. It danced onthe glossy hair and bright eyes of two girls, who sattogether hemming ruffles for a white muslin dress. The(5) half-finished skirt of the dress lay on the bed, and aseach crisp ruffle was completed, the girls added it to thesnowy heap, which looked like a drift of transparentclouds or a pile of foamy white of egg beaten stiffenough to stand alone.(10) These girls were Clover and Elsie Carr, and itwas Clover’s first evening dress for which they werehemming ruffles. It was nearly two years since a certainvisit made by Johnnie to Inches Mills and more thanthree since Clover and Katy had returned home from(15) the boarding school at Hillsover.Clover was now eighteen. She was a very smallClover still, but it would have been hard to find any-where a prettier little maiden than she had grown tobe. Her skin was so exquisitely fair that her arms and(20) wrists and shoulders, which were round and dimpledlike an infant’s, seemed cut out of daisies or whiterose leaves. Her thick, brown hair waved and coiledgracefully about her head. Her smile was peculiarlysweet, and the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty,(25) had still that pathetic look which made them quiteirresistible to anyone with a tender or sympatheticheart.Elsie, who adored Clover, considered her as beau-tiful as girls in books, and was proud to be permitted(30) to hem ruffles for the dress in which she was to burstupon the world. Though, as for that, not much “burst-ing” was possible in the village of Burnet, where teaparties of a middle-aged description, and now andthen a mild little dance, rep-resented “gaiety” and(35) “society.” Girls “came out” very much as the suncomes out in the morning—by slow degrees and grad-ual approaches, with no particular one moment whichcould be fixed upon as having been the climax of thejoyful event.(40) “There,” said Elsie, adding another ruffle to thepile on the bed, “there’s the fifth done. It’s going to beever so pretty, I think. I’m glad you had it all white;it’s a great deal nicer.”“Cecy wanted me to have a blue bodice and sash,”(45) said Clover, “but I wouldn’t. Then she tried to persuademe to get a long spray of pink roses for the skirt.”“I’m so glad you didn’t! Cecy was always crazyabout pink roses. I only wonder she didn’t wear themwhen she was married!”(50) Yes, the excellent Cecy, who at thirteen hadannounced her intention to devote her whole life toteaching Sunday School, visiting the poor, and settinga good example to her more worldly contemporaries,had actually forgotten these fine resolutions, and before(55) she was twenty had become the wife of Sylvester Slack,a young lawyer in a neighboring town! Cecy’s weddingand wedding clothes, and Cecy’s house furnishing, hadbeen the great excitement of the preceding year inBurnet; and a fresh excitement had come since in the(60) shape of Cecy’s baby, now about two months old, andnamed ‘Katherine Clover,’ after her two friends. Thismade it natural that Cecy and her affairs should still beof interest in the Carr household, and Johnnie, at thetime we write of, was paying her a week’s visit.(65) “She was rather wedded to them,” went on Clover,pursuing the subject of the pink roses. “She was almostvexed when I wouldn’t buy the spray. But it cost lots,and I didn’t want it at all, so I stood firm. Besides,I always said that my first party dress should be plain(70) white. Girls in novels always wear white to their firstballs and fresh flowers are a great deal prettier, anyway,than the artificial ones. Katy says she’ll give me someviolets to wear.”“Oh, will she? That will be lovely!” cried the ador-(75) ing Elsie. “Violets look just like you, somehow. Oh,Clover, what sort of a dress do you think I shall havewhen I grow up and go to parties and things? Won’t itbe awfully interesting when you and I go out to chooseit?” Clover’s smile beamed.Q.As it is used in Paragraph 3, the phrase “the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty, had still that pathetic look” most nearly means that:a)Clover was beautiful with the exception of her pitiable eyes.b)Clover’s eyes aroused a feeling of compassion.c)People often felt sorry for Clover when they looked into her eyes.d)Clover had pretty eyes but very poor vision.Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer? theory, EduRev gives you an
ample number of questions to practice Directions: Read the passages and choose the best answer to each question.PassagePROSE FICTION: This passage is adapted from Susan Coolidges novel, What Katy Did © 1872.The September sun was glinting cheerfully intoa pretty bedroom furnished with blue. It danced onthe glossy hair and bright eyes of two girls, who sattogether hemming ruffles for a white muslin dress. The(5) half-finished skirt of the dress lay on the bed, and aseach crisp ruffle was completed, the girls added it to thesnowy heap, which looked like a drift of transparentclouds or a pile of foamy white of egg beaten stiffenough to stand alone.(10) These girls were Clover and Elsie Carr, and itwas Clover’s first evening dress for which they werehemming ruffles. It was nearly two years since a certainvisit made by Johnnie to Inches Mills and more thanthree since Clover and Katy had returned home from(15) the boarding school at Hillsover.Clover was now eighteen. She was a very smallClover still, but it would have been hard to find any-where a prettier little maiden than she had grown tobe. Her skin was so exquisitely fair that her arms and(20) wrists and shoulders, which were round and dimpledlike an infant’s, seemed cut out of daisies or whiterose leaves. Her thick, brown hair waved and coiledgracefully about her head. Her smile was peculiarlysweet, and the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty,(25) had still that pathetic look which made them quiteirresistible to anyone with a tender or sympatheticheart.Elsie, who adored Clover, considered her as beau-tiful as girls in books, and was proud to be permitted(30) to hem ruffles for the dress in which she was to burstupon the world. Though, as for that, not much “burst-ing” was possible in the village of Burnet, where teaparties of a middle-aged description, and now andthen a mild little dance, rep-resented “gaiety” and(35) “society.” Girls “came out” very much as the suncomes out in the morning—by slow degrees and grad-ual approaches, with no particular one moment whichcould be fixed upon as having been the climax of thejoyful event.(40) “There,” said Elsie, adding another ruffle to thepile on the bed, “there’s the fifth done. It’s going to beever so pretty, I think. I’m glad you had it all white;it’s a great deal nicer.”“Cecy wanted me to have a blue bodice and sash,”(45) said Clover, “but I wouldn’t. Then she tried to persuademe to get a long spray of pink roses for the skirt.”“I’m so glad you didn’t! Cecy was always crazyabout pink roses. I only wonder she didn’t wear themwhen she was married!”(50) Yes, the excellent Cecy, who at thirteen hadannounced her intention to devote her whole life toteaching Sunday School, visiting the poor, and settinga good example to her more worldly contemporaries,had actually forgotten these fine resolutions, and before(55) she was twenty had become the wife of Sylvester Slack,a young lawyer in a neighboring town! Cecy’s weddingand wedding clothes, and Cecy’s house furnishing, hadbeen the great excitement of the preceding year inBurnet; and a fresh excitement had come since in the(60) shape of Cecy’s baby, now about two months old, andnamed ‘Katherine Clover,’ after her two friends. Thismade it natural that Cecy and her affairs should still beof interest in the Carr household, and Johnnie, at thetime we write of, was paying her a week’s visit.(65) “She was rather wedded to them,” went on Clover,pursuing the subject of the pink roses. “She was almostvexed when I wouldn’t buy the spray. But it cost lots,and I didn’t want it at all, so I stood firm. Besides,I always said that my first party dress should be plain(70) white. Girls in novels always wear white to their firstballs and fresh flowers are a great deal prettier, anyway,than the artificial ones. Katy says she’ll give me someviolets to wear.”“Oh, will she? That will be lovely!” cried the ador-(75) ing Elsie. “Violets look just like you, somehow. Oh,Clover, what sort of a dress do you think I shall havewhen I grow up and go to parties and things? Won’t itbe awfully interesting when you and I go out to chooseit?” Clover’s smile beamed.Q.As it is used in Paragraph 3, the phrase “the eyes, always Clover’s chief beauty, had still that pathetic look” most nearly means that:a)Clover was beautiful with the exception of her pitiable eyes.b)Clover’s eyes aroused a feeling of compassion.c)People often felt sorry for Clover when they looked into her eyes.d)Clover had pretty eyes but very poor vision.Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer? tests, examples and also practice ACT tests.
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