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<p>"Plan for People, Not Just Autos" was the title of an article I wrote about this new architecture that genuflects to the highway. I have watched this deference to the automobile manifest itself in worse ways across the continent. Time after time, I have witnessed cities and other environments become asphalt encrusted as the urge to hold the cars of shoppers or home owners has taken primacy. As economist Donald Shoup summed it up, "Form no longer follows function, fashion, or even finance. Instead, form follows parking requirements." In the end. the car's horizontal needs at rest and in motion mean that architecture is car bound.
For us these needs encompass some 200 million moving vehicles traveling 2 trillion-plus miles a year on roads and ramps, along with parking lots for resting. As speed and the search for parking have become the ultimate quests, a new urban axiom has evolved: if a city is easy to park in, it's hard to live in; if it's easy to live in, it's hard to park in Architecture critic Lewis Mumford predicted no less more than 40 years ago: "The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city."</p>

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<li>The attitude of the author of Passage 1toward "this deference" (line 24) is primarily one of
(A) shame
(B) disdain
(C) bemusement
(D) defensiveness
(E) unconcern</li>
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<p>I Chose C, but the answer was B. Thank you !</p>

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<li>Which best characterizes the tone of Donald Shoup's comment in lines 29-31. Passage 1 ("Form no ... requirements") ?
(A) Laudatory：(of speech or writing) expressing praise and commendation
(B) Despondent
(C) Repentant：feel or express sincere regret or remorse about one's wrongdoing or sin
(D) Wry：using or expressing dry, especially mocking, humour
(E) Earnest</li>
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<p>Why is the answer D instead of B?</p>

<p>Today everyone who values cities is disturbed by automobiles.
Traffic arteries, along with parking lots, gas stations, and driveways, are powerful and insistent instruments of city destruction. To accommodate them, city streets are broken down into loose sprawls, incoherent and vacuous for anyone afoot. City character is blurred until every place becomes more like every other place, all adding up to Noplace. And in the areas most defeated, uses that cannot stand functionally alone—shopping malls, or residences, or places of public assembly, or centers of work — are severed from one another.
But we blame automobiles for too much.</p>

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<li>In line 45, "disturbed" most nearly means
(A) displaced
(B) baffled：totally bewilder or perplex
(C) destabilized：upset the stability of; cause unrest in
(D) troubled
(E) disrupted</li>
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<p>Again I messed up i chose A. The answer is D</p>

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<li><p>The answer must be strongly negative. The narrator wrote a book called “Plan for people, not just autos,” after all,!</p></li>
<li><p>This one’s tougher. The “humor” is to be found in anticlimax. The expression starts BIG “Form…follows function,” stays somewhat philosophical “fashion” and “finance” and ends with “parking requirements,” a “punch line” we don’t expect. It’s also worth noting that “wry,” historically, has almost never been wrong :)</p></li>
<li><p>A would mean that people are forced to move their homes. The passage says “we blame automobiles” which fits “troubled” (as in “concerned” or “bothered”).</p></li>
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<p>Hope this helps!</p>

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<p>@marvin100‌ thank you ! about 13, why not E? </p>

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<p>Try to think about it yourself instead of asking us every single time. You need to realize that on the real SAT, we won’t be able to answer any of your questions. </p>

<p>I’ll tell you why it’s not E, but first, you need to at least show us what you’re thinking - give us your thought process and rationale as to why you chose A instead of D and why even after we told you it’s D, you think it’s E. This is the only way we can help you; not by telling you what is right or wrong, but rather by correcting your thought process and analysis of each problem. The SAT can easily throw you a curve-ball and then knowing what is right or wrong does not help you at all, but learning to have the correct though process will be infinitely times more helpful.</p>

<p>So I want you to write your next post here with a detailed paragraph telling us why you chose your answer and your logic process behind it. Remember that every single problem’s solution in the SAT Critical Reading has direct evidence that can support it in the passage itself - do not rely on what you think, rely on what the passage says.</p>

<p>And only after I hear what you say will I tell you why it’s not E.</p>

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<p>@BipolarBuddhist‌ For 11 in the context: I have watched this deference to the automobile manifest itself in worse ways across the continent. I thought it was kinda funny, because the deference finally became worse.</p>

<p>For 12,in the context: Form no longer follows function, fashion, or even finance. Instead, form follows parking requirements." In the end. the car’s horizontal needs at rest and in motion mean that architecture is car bound.</p>

<p>First he talked about forms no longer follows functions fashion and etc. Then He said in the end, the car’s horizontal needs at rest and in motion mean that architecture is car bound. I think his tone is sort of despair because he said something really serious…</p>

<p>For 13, I thought disrupted is the right answer at first because it means interrupted or annoyed. If you put it back into the original sentence, it worked. </p>

<p>Thanks for you suggestions, i will analyze everything single wrong question and write down my thought process every time since i made since january is my last test.</p>

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<p>Okay, you have a good start with #13, but sometimes plugging things in will give the wrong answer. You need to consider the context of the word.</p>

<p>What does the author imply about the city people’s attitude towards automobiles?
Read this excerpt carefully:</p>

<p>" Traffic arteries, along with parking lots, gas stations, and driveways, are powerful and insistent instruments of city destruction. To accommodate them, city streets are broken down into loose sprawls, incoherent and vacuous for anyone afoot. City character is blurred until every place becomes more like every other place, all adding up to Noplace. And in the areas most defeated, uses that cannot stand functionally alone—shopping malls, or residences, or places of public assembly, or centers of work — are severed from one another."</p>

<p>The emphasis on instruments of city destruction, loose sprawls, incoherent and vacuous, “Noplace”, a blurred form of monotonous living, places severed from one another…does this seem like disruptive to you or more like disturbing? The world troubled means showing distress or anxiety. A writer does not place all these descriptive details in unless he wishes to suggest something, a connotation perhaps. To the people of this city, sure, automobiles do not disrupt their form of life. There is nowhere that says the having automobiles will interrupt or annoy how they live. Instead, the automobile seems like a plague, a parasite that threatens to turn their world into something else. Being on the brink of losing all form of vividness or distinction in their lives causes people to feel troubled, E, towards the automobiles.</p>

<p>You really have to read into the text and understand the connotations behind the paragraph. If the automobiles were disruptive, the author would use say stuff like “hindrances, pesky, annoying, in the way, etc” but instead the writer fashions a near-dystopian world using words like, as I mentioned before, “instruments of city destruction, loose sprawls, incoherent and vacuous, “Noplace”, a blurred form of monotonous living, places severed from one another”.</p>