Honestly passage 1,2,3 are quite okay and mb I can do it but passage 4 (table passage) is very hard to me. I wonder is there any chance ACT will unscore this passage.
None whatsoever
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So despite their reactions immediately after a test, people are sometimes pleasantly surprised how it turns out (also sometimes unpleasantly surprised). But the bottom line is if you normally do better on realistic practice tests but this happened to be a bad section for you, then that is not unusual. And that is why you can usually take it multiple times, and most colleges will superscore. They know this is essentially a random factor.
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It appears English is not your primary language. It would not be surprising that your reading section score will be lower.
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One issue is that both the SAT and the ACT are supposed to be used at least partly to separate out strong applicants from very strong from excellent applicants. As such you should expect there to be some parts of either test that are very difficult. That is okay. You do not need to get every question correct to do well.
The other thing that occurs to me is that for people who grow up in a country where English is the primary language, we might spend many hours learning mathematics, but we spend our entire lives learning and practicing English. As such the expected level of ability in English is actually quite high. You should expect that it will take many hours to learn this well. You might be able to improve your score on future tests by spending as much time as you can practicing the use of English. This includes reading, listening, and speaking English. In order to learn correct use of English, it might be best when speaking English to do so with someone who is a native English speaker.
As an analogy, in high school I was learning French, and I was not all that good at it. For my senior year of high school I tried something: There was a good friend of my parents who was a native French speaker. I dropped by her home one day a week after school, and we just spoke French for an hour or so. I also started watching the news in French, and watching hockey games in French. This combination helped quite a bit.
Similarly, if you know a native English speaker who is willing to do this, you might want to spend an hour or two every week speaking to them in English. Over time this should help. It might best be combined with at other times watching TV and movies in English, and reading things written in English.
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