<p>I don't understand these questions </p>
<p>When we came home, Aunt Sylvie would certainly be home, too, enjoying the evening, for so she described her habit of sitting in the dark. Evening was her special time of day. She gave the word three syllables, and indeed I think she liked it so well for its tendency to smooth, to soften. She seemed to dislike the disequilibrium of counterpoising a roomful of light against a worldful of darkness. Sylvie in a house was more or less like a mermaid in a ship's cabin. She preferred it sunk in the very element it was meant to exclude. </p>
<p>10) The last sentence of the passage suggests that Sylvie felt a house should be a
A) shelter from darkness and danger
B) defense against unwelcome visitors
C) mysterious and adventurous place
D) reminder of the cabin of a ship
E) part of the world outdoors</p>
<p>Here are some writing questions I didn't understand, what is the error in each of these questions and how do you get the right answer for them?</p>
<p>9) The apparently chaotic images in certain types of contemporary painting strike many viewers as both confusing [but] delightfully original.
A) but
B) but also
C) yet
D) and as
E) and </p>
<p>28) Annual visitors [(A) to] New York City's Central Park [(B) number] [(C) almost] ten times [(D) that of Mount Rushmore].
(E) No error</p>
<p>9) Tell me where you have been and [an account of] your activities there.
A) an account of
B) your accounting of
C) what you account of
D) what account you had made of
E) give me an account of</p>
<p>By the way I put A for the first one because I thought that “sunk” and “exclude” would mean being in closed doors and away from darkness.</p>
<p>I put C for the 1st writing question because “yet” shows “confusing” and “delightfully original” contrasting each other.</p>
<p>I put E for #28 and C for the last question. </p>
<p>The right answers are
10) E
9) E
28) D
9) E, I see why E is right for the last question, but why is C wrong?</p>
<p>cmon guys I need some help bump!</p>
<p>10) This question I have no idea about the correct answer. However, I can use the process of elimination:
A) The passage does not talk about any “danger”
B) There is no “unwelcomed visitors”
C) The passage does not mention that the place is myterious
D) “Remind of the cabin of the ship” is far from the info of the passage
E) It seems the least wrong. Although I don’t fully understand the character, I feel that the passage examines the habit of her which is relevant to the world of dark and light. :)) </p>
<p>9) It’s idiomatic : both…and
28) It’s just the problem of parallelism. “that of Mount Rushmore” should be “those of Mount Rushmore”, indicating “Annual visitors”
9) C is wrong because the phrase “what you account of activities” does not mean anything. " tell me your account of activities" means tell me the number or something like that of activities.
Hope this help!!! :3</p>
<p>^Thank You^, especially for the grammar parts, the first #9 and 28 make a lot of sense now. </p>
<p>I still don’t really understand the second #9 though. To me, choice C reads “Tell me what you account of your activities there” and to me it makes sense. I thought this would mean for you to explain what you thought of your activities.</p>
<p>in #9, “account” is used non-idiomatically. “account” as a verb goes with “for”–“account for your activities”. “account” as a noun goes with “give” not “tell”–“give me an account of your activities”.</p>