<p>The story referring to Native Americans history (pg. 392-393)</p>
<p>Question #20 [In lines 66-70...]</p>
<p>I don't understand it . after some tough thinking. help?</p>
<p>(A) and (B) are viable candidates. Looking at just lines 66-70 <a href="A"> Western historians.....educated guess</a> seems to be more wel-supported by the lines. And it goes hand in hand with what the passage is explaining. on the other hand , (B) [which is the correct answer] is more of an inference (educated hypothesis), because it's not suggesting that they're disadvantaged- or at least, I can't find ANY evidence for it besides MY OWN PERSONAL OPINION, which of course would not answer the question "the author portrays Western Historians as...." </p>
<p>sooo why did i choose A? "To them, an absolute void is more acceptable and rigorous than an educated guess."
"An absolute void " is more acceptable, with "An absolute void" meaning that the archaeologists are obviously oblivious (or don't care about the evidence), with the word "absolute" highly suggesting that they discard or ignore the evidence to a high degree. so (A) is a 90% more appealing answer to me</p>
<p>Oh god...I had a lot of trouble with this passage.</p>
<p>Did you find this passage difficult to understand?</p>
<p>Lemme go get my blue book.</p>
<p>I actually got this one right..</p>
<p>I picked B because of it saying "culture-bound by their own approach to knowledge" which supports that they have an "overly narrow methodology", but I also had it narrowed down to answer A as well. I do not think that one was right though because I think it is actually saying in the passage that besides the evidence of archaeology, and saying that they are "oblivious" to it is sort of strong.</p>
<p>I don't know, does that help?</p>
<p>Yes! i had much trouble with this passage. we need more people to help us do this. i've been stuck on some of these questions long time. ohhh gosh, hurry, i want to get a movie watched 2 nite <3 <3</p>
<p>haha yeah i know what you mean. i missed quite a lot in this passage, and i felt like i was basically screwed for the test in october haha that i am taking for the third time. but the whole thought of a native american passage definitely did not excite me, and it was very difficult for me to stay focused, and that is why I probably missed so many</p>
<p>IdoNATLoveSAT (can i call you Jose?) yeah that was my reasoning too , i almost selected (B), but it's not suggesting that they're disadvantaged by it. it is saying , crystal clear, that they are bound TO culture, but i'd prefer not to play god to infer that this makes them disadvantaged >_></p>
<p>ohhh yeah u've got a point there..."save the evidence of archaeology"...oh hahha...if you've got the time, plz elaborate</p>
<p>yeah I couldn't really tell you anything else..</p>
<p>Critical reading is definitely my weakest subject haha</p>
<p>Maybe we are looking into things a little too much..that is what I struggle with as well</p>
<p>u know what? </p>
<p>screw this problem. </p>
<p><3</p>
<p>it just goes to show that a factor in your CR score depends on the passage, not your CR abilities in a holistic sense..</p>
<p>please someone</p>
<p>i am dying and my brain is fried</p>
<p>save me!!!</p>
<p>asian can u help me with the problem. must. figure. out.today.</p>
<p>Yea, thanks asian sensation....I guess? haha just kidding...you are right. I thought the passages in the June SAT were pretty difficult. (Yellowstone National Park)</p>
<p>I also have a question about the same passage.</p>
<p>Number 17 and also 18.</p>
<p>Can you explain the reasons for those answers?</p>
<h1>17 was not clear to me. I'll do my best to elaborate it for you.</h1>
<p>The "difficulty" in line 29 undermines... [first of all knowing the definition of undermine really helped me on this problem. undermine means to attack secretly insidiously] so read line 29 first of all -the whole sentence...now read a little more up to line 34 .</p>
<p>notice the word "BUT". </p>
<p>"BUT" serves to contradict some point the author just made. now read the PREVIOUS paragraph. notice the "ancestor-descendant model in line 24? this is how the Europeans viewed the native americans, through this model. lines 24-27 add irrelevant facts, but you don't need these lines. sooo as i was saying the "BUT" refers, or directly contradicts the "model." directly contradicting is basically undermining, so (A) is the best answer.</p>
<h1>18...quite direct. make sure you don't infer anything or you might choose (B). (B) was out of the question and made no sense at all. read lines 34-37 and of course the answer will be somewhat supported by the text. "or else the ancestors of those now called native Americans would truly have vanished long ago." Don't think more of it than it already is. the answer is right there. (C) is the best answer.</h1>
<p>all right thanks a lot that helped. yeah i had trouble understanding what undermined meant and I have seen that a lot throughout the SAT. and is it also the same as underscores?</p>
<p>ok I think for number 18 when it says in the passage "their cultures have HAd to make internal sense, their medicines have HAD to work consistently" i thought D. criteria that Western historians traditionally use to assess cultures</p>
<p>jeez woman</p>
<p>stop hijaxing my thread! </p>
<p>... shoosh!</p>
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<p>joke. meep!</p>
<p>anyone want to give a scholarly view on #20 plz</p>
<p>***idoNATloveSAT: i looked up this definition just for you. ! ^____________^</p>
<p>underscore is to emphasize or stress. ur referring to #22 . the lines 74-75 emphasize (C) ,because the actual names of the countries are unimportant to the point the author is making, which is "Every modern observor was exposed at an early age..." he gives different locations to stress a common viewpoint shared by people of those countries.</p>
<p>bump still need help~!</p>
<p>BB....pg 393 #20 (A) or (B)?</p>
<p>The key to # 20 is in knowing the feeling of Western historians. The text states, "Western historians, culture0bound by their OWN approach to knowledge, are apt to declaim that next to nothing...can be known of early Native American life." They also discredit the Native American way of record-keeping. When talking about NA documentation, "The familiar and REASSURING kinds of written documentation found in European societies...do not exist." </p>
<p>Basically the Europeans are being ignorant thinking that since NAs don't keep records like they do, their records have no significance. Thus B is the closest.</p>
<p>I have had bad experiences with NA passages, so I was not very excited going into this. </p>
<p>Could someone explain why in #14, choice A) commanded does not work well in the sentence, "Native Americans as fundamentally and profoundly different, motivated more often by mysticism than by ambition, _____ (Charged) more by unfathomable visions than by intelligence or introspection."</p>
<p>i also got the correct answer by thinking the same thing as IdoNatLoveSAT.</p>