<p>Did anyone find the CR sections harder than normal??? I certainly did, well I find all the CR hard but this in particualer was much harder. Please discuss the Indian programmer and novelist, how the media affects young childrens lives, and the other one you guys might remember, just do not break the rules. Also discuss how you found the CR part and why. Thanks.</p>
<p>I also thought it was much harder than usual.</p>
<p>For #18 on section 8 or 9, How did the writer's mood toward writing change?
A) from doubt about his literary abilities to hard won confidence
D) from unselfconscious pleasure to respect for the challenges of the creative process
E) from frustration to pride in the completed work</p>
<p>After rereading the passage 4 times, waffling multiple times, I finally went with D although I'm still unsure.</p>
<p>The correct answers for the vocab ones from a mixture of memory and looking them up when I got home were florid, malfearance (not sagacity, obsequitious, etc.), pastoral (not illusory, diminutive, etc.), C) inimical....? (not abstemious....antithetical), sweet voice = mellifluous</p>
<p>Any other vocabs that people remember?
(Editing more in)</p>
<p>xeaqs i said d) for that as well. 'unselfconscious pleasure' was the only one that made sense to me. and i chose all the sent completion one you wrote as well </p>
<p>any get the one w/ the girl having a full & sweet voice? it was a sent completion q</p>
<p>ALSO - what was that sent completion w/ the researcher? i know paradoxical and pragmatic were used ..</p>
<p>mellifluous</p>
<p>mellfluidous, something or other, about the voice.</p>
<p>Can we go over the questions about the Indian computer programmer/writer passage? Particularly about the italicized words, and what the quote about 'adoring' authors meant?</p>
<p>I thought the CR was about the same.</p>
<p>@Xeaqs8: I picked E for that one...frustration into pride. Though I thought D was just as legitimate - it kind of depended on whether you took into account "from __" from the beginning or the middle of the passage. Maybe I got it wrong.</p>
<p>Oh darn! I confused inimical with inimitable...was that the right answer? (Btw I think it was abstemious). Oops...I picked licentious and that definitely seems wrong.</p>
<p>The one I had trouble with was the last museum question...I picked E, which was questioning the way the museums tried to catch viewers' attention or something like that, though I had a feeling about D the whole time. Hm.</p>
<p>xeaqs, agreed all around. Also the full and sweet voice, I can't even remember the possible answers but I remember having a difficult time.</p>
<p>Overall I actually thought the reading passages were substantially easier? The vocab was definitely not though.</p>
<p>Unselfconscious (what an ugly word) pleasure... was the right answer for that question. All those vocab answers you just said sounded right, and I also remember having guilt...compunction for one and not being completely sure.</p>
<p>ok good i chose melliflulous (or w/e it was).</p>
<p>oh the one about the guy not feeling guilty about leaving his friends or w/e i chose the answer with compunction - is that right?</p>
<p>xarri: same here , i put E</p>
<p>ugh i pickedd euphonious isntead of mellifluous</p>
<p>for the italicized word i did the one with redundancy</p>
<p>dont remember the adoring one</p>
<p>JML, I think guilt.. compunction was definitely one of the answers, but not for any of the ones that were already listed. Thanks for the confirmation though, as I feel a teeny bit better about myself. When I read the math threads, I weep, but I shine on the CR threads :]</p>
<p>i put frustration into pride also for the writer question. ugh i hope i did well</p>
<p>I eliminated E because there was never any mention of a completed work nor did it say anything about pride.</p>
<p>I'm looking at at least 2 sent completions right now, but hopefully there'll be a nice curve</p>
<p>for the italicized word one I put something about emphasis on doubt or uncertainty. Was it the "each and every" or the "maybe, perhaps" one?</p>
<p>i put unselfconscious pleasure to respect too</p>
<p>for the indian writer passage - was the reference to lightning v. lightning bug "profound"? and also, what did the italicized words represent (each & every)?</p>
<p>I said B) emphasis on their status as qualifiers</p>
<p>What did everyone put for what Mark Twain about the difference? The choices were something like A) profound, E) incomprehensible (I put A)</p>
<p>the answer for the italicized "each and every" was emphasis on how pervasive the phenomenon was I believe, and for the italicized "maybe, perhaps" the answer was emphasis on the fact that they were qualifiers.</p>
<p>I can't remember anything I put, but all I know is that the Indian one fried my brain.</p>