ACT

Practice session

Read the following passage and answer the question. "Elena had grown up in a small coastal village where every morning smelled of salt and old nets. She had left at eighteen to pursue a career in architecture, building glass towers in cities that never slept. Now, at thirty-six, standing outside her childhood home with its peeling paint and wind-bent garden, she felt the strange pull of a place that existed only in memory — the real thing always slightly wrong." The phrase 'the real thing always slightly wrong' most nearly suggests that: A) the house had deteriorated significantly since Elena left. B) Elena's childhood memories idealized the place beyond its actual reality. C) the house needed major repairs before it could be sold. D) Elena regretted her decision to pursue architecture.

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