medium · Enhanced ACT reading
The marsh at dawn was not silent so much as conversational. Reeds clicked against one another in the wind, and somewhere a bittern pumped its low, hidden note. To the developers who toured the site that spring, the place read as wasted acreage waiting for fill and foundations. But the biologist who walked the same boards each morning saw a working economy: every channel a trade route, every tide a delivery, every decaying stalk a reinvestment. What looked like emptiness to one set of eyes was, to hers, the busiest commerce she knew.
The passage as a whole most strongly suggests that the difference between the developers and the biologist lies in their:
- disagreement about whether the marsh contains any living organisms at all.
- ways of interpreting the same place rather than in the facts they observe.
- competing financial claims to the legal ownership of the marsh site.
- preference for visiting the marsh at different hours of the day.
Sign up free to see the explanation and track your rank →
More Enhanced ACT reading practice
- What is the main idea of the paragraph?
- Which of the following is the central point of the paragraph?
- Which choice best summarizes the main idea of the passage?
- What date was written on the map?
- what time did Elias check his watch?
- The passage indicates that the economist responds to her critics primarily by:
- The passage most strongly suggests that the keeper's true motivation for his long service
- The author includes the examples of opening jars and carrying coconut shells primarily in