**2011 Oct international CR**

Test Preparation SAT Preparation
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<p>I see no clear thread about this</p>

<p>So far
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Grandma
- irony was: suspicion is usually negative<br>
- euphoria on going home vs never experienced before
- ailing and frail vs forceful and direct<br>
- light? trivial vs gentle
- half hearted humor vs self mocking
- confrontational relationship<br>
- transition: general to specific<br>
- expecting visibly aging<br>
- intense pleasure<br>
- laughter: living thing<br>
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Short pari: identity
- sense of identity of both authors: conflicted vs integrated
- village: stable environment vs cultural vacuum
Italian folklore
- catalog: </p>

<p>Building
- which statement would discredit they lived in unsafe flimsy houses in past
- estrange from society
- it comes at too great cost </p>

<p>3
Monarch butterfly</p>

<p>VOCAB
pardon<br>
incorporate<br>
aplomb<br>
propitiate<br>
opacity<br>
licentious<br>
aprophos-anguish<br>
critical-physical<br>
auspicious<br>
fortitude-inspired<br>
noxious<br>
antecedent<br>
impasse<br>
affable-craven
benefit-flourish<br>
commendable<br>
perfidy</p>

<p>anyone with consolidated list from november 2010?</p>

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<p>do you remember the context of commendable and noxious ? got same answers on other questions<br>
about the CR questions you are not sure
euphoria on going home vs never experienced before the second one it is not author 's home .
.ailing and frail vs forceful and direct the first one …many details in the passage
trivial vs gentle not sure about this I put trivial
half hearted humor vs self mocking I put second one the" half-hearted " made the option weird
village: stable environment vs cultural vacuum definitely first one …the passage emphasizes the village is where the tradition culuture comes from .
Italian folklore

  • catalog: variety of human experience something ???</p>
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<p>600++ on CR pleaseeeee</p>

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<p>I’ve been looking for this! Agree with most, except</p>

<p>Grandma

  • euphoria on going home vs never experienced before: It was a tossup between the two, but I put that something about overwhelming his senses. Although he did call it home in the last paragraph.
  • ailing and frail vs forceful and direct: Pretty sure it was forceful and direct
  • light? trivial vs gentle: I put trivial, because he was experiencing so many strong emotions
  • half hearted humor vs self mocking : self-mocking, but they’re all 50/50 ugh</p>

<p>Short pari: identity

  • village: stable environment vs cultural vacuum: I put cultural vacuum</p>

<p>VOCAB
pardon<br>
incorporate
aplomb (the self-confidence of someone in court)<br>
propitiate<br>
opacity (an impenetrably obscure document)<br>
licentious (a dissolute society that encouraged this)<br>
aprophos-anguish (a book of poems called ‘Despair’)
critical-physical (a researcher who said fatigue was a psychological disease)
auspicious (good omens)
fortitude-inspired<br>
noxious (pro-Stalin ballets were politically–)
antecedent<br>
impasse
affable-craven (I think this was magnanimous-commendable. The second blank seemed to have a positive connotation, and magnanimous is close to affable)
benefit-flourish<br>
commendable
perfidy</p>

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<p>fortitude-inspired, what was the question regarding this option? Anyone remembers? Coz I remember not answering ‘fortitude-inspired’ and choosing sth like " practiced-… ’ for the answer…</p>

<p>Anyone can help?</p>

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<p>It was about a girl in a race who kept going even though she was far from first place (:</p>

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<p>Oh! I got it wrong, I guess…</p>

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<p>There was one about tone or something…
The choices were I think gratification and humility…anyone knows??</p>

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<p>was it the architecture essay asking about the tone of the author on earlier buildings? I picked admiration.</p>

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<p>Yup, that was the question…but are u sure it’s admiration?</p>

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<p>What’s the context for the “perfidy” one? Also, isn’t “Folktale” an experimental section？</p>

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<p>actually, I wasn’t really sure on that one</p>

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<p>Venice was experimental</p>

<p>the perfidy and aplomb ones are from the same question and aplomb was the answer…</p>

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<p>Are craven and commendable from the same question?</p>

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<p>oh… glad to know that Venice was experimental… I was rather baffled by the “Fog” stuff.</p>

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<p>craven and commendable were from the same question</p>

<p>I remember being confused between
magnanimous-commendable
affable-craven</p>

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<p>nemo931102, you seem to remember a lot of thing from the exam… what’s your opinion on cultural vacuum vs. stable environment?</p>

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<p>I choose stable environment, but I’m not sure</p>

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<p>what about the question author of passage 2 would most likely view the realm in passage 1 as …? i omitted that one</p>

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<p>what were the answer choices to that question??
were they in phrases?</p>