ACT考试大纲关于阅读方面的说明，ACT考试阅读部分选材于四个方面：社会科学，自然科学，散文、小说和人文学科......ACT考试阅读部分选材于四个方面：社会科学，自然科学，散文、小说和人文学科。社会科学/科学得分基于前两者的得分情况。文科/文学得分基于散文、小说和人文学科的得分。

　　The Reading Test is based on four types of reading selections: social studies, natural sciences, prose fiction, and humanities. The Social Studies/Sciences subscore is based on the questions in the social studies and the natural sciences sections of the test, and the Arts/Literature subscore is based on the questions in the prose fiction and humanities sections of the test.

　　· Social Studies (25%). Questions in this category are based on passages in the content areas of anthropology, archaeology, biography, business, economics, education, geography, history, political science, psychology, and sociology.

　　· 社会科学(25%)人类学，考古学，传记，商务，经济，教育，地理，历史， 政治科学，心理学和社会学。

　　· Natural Sciences (25%). Questions in this category are based on passages in the content areas of anatomy, astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, ecology, geology, medicine, meteorology, microbiology, natural history, physiology, physics, technology, and zoology.

　　·自然科学(25%)解剖学，天文学，生物学，植物学，化学，生态学，地质学，医学，气象学，微生物学，博物学，生理学，物理学，工艺和动物学。

　　· Prose Fiction (25%). Questions in this category are based on intact short stories or excerpts from short stories or novels.

　　· 散文、小说(25%)完整的短篇故事或者短篇小说和长篇故事的节选。

　　· Humanities (25%). Questions in this category are based on passages from memoirs and personal essays and in the content areas of architecture, art, dance, ethics, film, language, literary criticism, music, philosophy, radio, television, and theater.

　　· 人文学科(25%)论文集，随笔，建筑学，艺术，舞蹈，道德，电影，语言，文学评论，音乐，哲学，电台，电视和剧院。