December 2010 ACT Reading Discussion

<p>The passage said that her friend gave her the parka when she went to perform in Washington D.C. This immediately rules out every answer choice except for “performed for the President” and “was given the parka”, as it was stated that she performed in D.C. in the past. It is implied that she must have worn the parka when she performed for the president, so the answer to the question “What came first chronologically?” is that she was given the parka. (Then she performed for the president, then watched the seagull, then performed the dance.)</p>

<p>Can someone paste every single passage here? That’d help a tremendous amount. Then we can get 100% answers instead of speculating our positions.</p>

<p>scotttenzer- I had the same thought process. I wanted to put the parka one, but it was attached to the seagull dance, so I ended up choosing the “dancing for the president”</p>

<p>Yea exactly my thought process. My logic was that the sea gull dance compelled her to create the dance for the annual town meeting.

  • Did most of you guys put that?</p>

<p>If so, then how could she have received the parka for sea gull dance first?</p>

<p>Regardless of that,
i remember clearly it said she was given the parka when she danced for the president years ago.
If im thinking about this correctly, the president thing happened first or somewhat simultaneously, you know what I mean?</p>

<p>P.S, was there a question about what type of ceremony was she at or something? Or was there a question saying what question was made but not answered?</p>

<p>^Yeah…I remember some kind of a question like that but don’t recall what it was.</p>

<p>There was also a question saying what would be deleted if lines 66-71 were removed? </p>

<p>I think I put we would not know what kind of languages were spoken at the meeting (Inuitian or something like that?)</p>

<p>Oh yeah i remember that. I think the question was if you remove those lines what would be removed EXCEPT.
I remember some of the answer choices.

  1. The type of languages would be missed ( It was clearly in the passage)
  2. That role of that guy who was carrying out the ceremony
  3. ( Dont remember)
  4. (Dont remember)</p>

<p>So did you go with the language answer?</p>

<p>I thought the language answer WAS in that paragraph? I forgot exactly what I put, but I’m pretty sure I didn’t put that.</p>

<p>no I didnt, because if I picked that we would have missed what sort of languages they were speaking in the ceremony, which i believe were native american.</p>

<p>Ya I think it said the president spoke in like two different languages… one being english then inutican or something. i may be way off.</p>

<p>^ Yes. The question basically asked what was not in the passage. The correct answer was something along the lines of “the content of the reports at the town meeting.”</p>

<p>^That’s correct.</p>

<p>what did u put as the answer then hollatmeson</p>

<p>yea ur right, it was def the content of the reports.</p>

<p>does anyone remember the hawaii plantations Q&As?</p>

<p>For the Hawaii palm trees questions, I remember one where it asked something like “what part of the palm trees were not damaged by the enviroment” and the answer choices were “bark, leaves, roots” and something else… I put roots but it was a complete guess… anyone remember this one and what they put??</p>

<p>that was def bark .</p>

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<p>I’m sorry, that was a wrong guess. :confused: The correct answer was (100% sure) roots. I marked in the passage when they mentioned any animal, and it definitely said, in order of answer choices, what animals destroyed what. The rats ate the leaves, the goats ate the saplings, and the pigs? ate the roots, thus the answer was that bark was the only thing not damaged.</p>

<p>I thought the pigs trampled and ruined the roots? Either way, it is the bark</p>

<p>Something like that. It is insignificant though except for the fact that goats, pigs and rats (not mongooses) destroyed the plants, and the parts that they destroyed were leaves, saplings, and roots (not bark).</p>