A CR question from March 2005 SAT

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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>I have a CR question from the March 2005 SAT. I have the answer–please just provide me with a reasonable explanation. </p>

<p>Excerpt from long passage:
" After 50 years of life and 20 years of death, the great Adler and Sullivan Auditorium in Chicago is back in business again. Orchestra Hall, also in Chicago, was beautifully spruced up for its sixty-eighth birthday. In St. Louis, a 1925 movie palace has been successfully transformed into Powell Symphony Hall, complete with handsome bar from New York’s demolished Metropolitan Opera House " </p>

<li>The bar mentioned in ine 7 had apparently been
A. costly but symbolic
B. beautiful but outdated
C. enlarged and elongated
D. treasured and imitated
E. rescued and relocated </li>
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<p>I’ve narrowed it down to D and E. Help</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>Im almost positive that the answer is E</p>

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<p>E. All of the examples in the passage are old places that have been renovated, or rescued.</p>

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<p>I think the answer is E because the passage does not mention that the bar was imitated. It says that it is from NY's DEMOLISHED Metropolitan Opera House. The word demolished shows that the bar was saved and now is in St. Louis, which explains the relocated part.</p>

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<p>Oops...i thought you just wanted an answer ... Well, I got to E through process of elimination and by first finding the "wrong" answers (Grammatix method). </p>

<p>A. costly but symbolic <---- nowhere in the passage does it say the bar<br>
was costly or symbolic (although it could be, you c
ant infer it). Incorrect
B. beautiful but outdated <-- Although the message says the bar is
handsome is certinaly doesnt say its
outdated.. Incorrect.
C. enlarged and elongated <--- what?! another stupid answer- Incorrect
D. treasured and imitated <--- The passage does not say that the bar<br>
was treasured or imitated. Do not infer!<br>
Although the bar is probably treasrued, the
passage does not say this. And nowhere is<br>
the message does it say the bar was<br>
imitated.
E. rescued and relocated <--- Ding, Ding, Ding! From the passage, one can conclude the the bar was rescued from the demplished Opera House and relocated to Symphany Hall. Mark E as the answer. </p>

<p>Hoped this helped.</p>

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<p>Thanks. I just couldn't imagine how an entire bar could be relocated all the way from NY to St. Louis. Also, since the opera house was demolished, I assumed everything was destroyed and the bar can only be imitated.
The answer is E by the way, thanks.</p>

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<p>what does “bar” mean?</p>

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<p>To the OP: Was “Agoraphobic” unavailable?</p>

<p>And the answer is E. The bar was rescued from the Opera House and was relocated to the Symphony Hall.
It wasn’t “imitated”; It was relocated. That cancels out D.</p>