In desperate need of CR MC/W help - specific questions from BB 2nd ed.

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<li>Which of the following revisions is most needed in sentence 15?</li>
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<p>*He believed that peace has to start among the young, being that the hatred of the adults in the campers' homelands is very deeply ingrained.<a href="A">/I</a> Insert "Furthermore" at the beginning.
(B) Add "people" after "young"
(C) Change "being that" to "since"
(D) Change "adults" to "elders"
(E) Change "is" to "are"</p>

<p>I know it's in context but the answer is C. I don't undedrstand the difference between "being that" and "since" if someone can clarify for me</p>

<p>Now for CR from the BB 2nd edition practice test #3</p>

<p>Pg. 538
7. In the passage, the author's childhood wish "to be a Renaissance artist" (lines 11-12) is best understood as</p>

<p>(a) an early sign of artistic ability
(b) a common goal of young people
(c) a naive and grandiose ambition
(d) the beginning of an arduous and painful apprenticeship
(e) the spark that initiated a devotion to the visual arts</p>

<p>I narrowed it down to c and e. I chose e since I don't see any indication of C in the passage unless the line "I seriously (too seriously!) committed myself to writing poetry" conveys naivete, but still, that seems way too subtle to me</p>

<p>Pg. 541
15. Both authors agree on which of the following points?</p>

<p>(a) A maritime environment would have presented unique challenges to early Americans
(b) The first Americans most likely subsisted on masatdons and other big game
(c) Overland travel to the New World would have been difficult during the most recent ice age
(d) It may never be definitively determined when America was initially settled
(e) The Clovis people were most likely the first Americans</p>

<p>I narrowed it down to C and D. I chose D but the answer is C. To be honest, I can't really see either in both passaged. For C, I can definitely see it in passage 2 but noehere to be found in passage 1. </p>

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<li>The quotation in lines 21-22 serves primarily to</li>
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<p>(a) provide concrete evidence
(b) discredit a widely shared assumption
(c) support a provocative claim
(d) offer an opposing viewpoint
(e) summarize a common understanding</p>

<p>This question was incredibly hard for me. i narrowed it down to c and d but the answer is e. The sentence it comes from is:</p>

<p>As late as 1996 a prominent archaeologist, Frederick Hadleigh West, could state that "Clovis is taken to be the basal, the founding, population for the Americas." But in the past decade such certainty had been dramatically shaken.</p>

<p>I don't see how the passage suggests it is a "common mistunderstanding." It sounding like a provocative/outlandish claim to me.</p>

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<p>Quick question from me to:</p>

<p>Acquaintances of Alexei have commented that he is at once annoying because of his unpredictability (but his imagination is still a delight).</p>

<p>Answer is E. (and delightful because of his imagination). Why is he annoying AND delightful. Aren’t they opposites of each other?</p>

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<p>^ I just checked the book and you’re looking at the answer key wrong. You were right. Correct answer is E</p>

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<p>Thanks. I typed D instead of E though so I did get it wrong :(, I’ll try to help out yours in a sec.</p>

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<p>Thanks for any help.</p>

<p>And the best way I cant hink of explaining that to you is that “at once” links too contrasing ideas. For example, “Taking the SAT is at once liberating and nerve-wracking.”</p>

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<li><p>Being that is just the wrong word choice. I believe it’s because the use of it has become faded in current times. It also just sounds wrong and overly wordy. I remember taking this test and spending a bit longer on this question, but I narrowed it down by crossing out the other answer choices because they don’t make sense or don’t add anything useful.</p></li>
<li><p>I’m pretty sure that parenthetical phrase is the reasoning behind the answer choice. It’s definitely not A, B, D. It also isn’t E because she had already had a “command of the crayon that was greater than [her] command of writing.” It states directly after, “Then at about the age of twelve…” The “then” in the sentence means that her idea of being a renaissance artist came after she had found her visual ability of coloring with crayons, which means it couldn’t spark her devotion to the visual arts.</p></li>
<li><p>I’m honestly with you here, I spent too much time on that particular question and just guessed the correct answer. I really couldn’t find any true reasoning that made C a definitive choice.</p></li>
<li><p>The quote by West is used after the explanation of an understanding that the Clovis were the first people in America or w/e. He’s basically just restating what the parts before that quote said. After that sentence is when that common understanding is “shaken,” with all the ideas or evidence saying something different.</p></li>
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<p>But really, I missed this question as well, and that was the only explanation that seemed feasible to me. Like you said, I couldn’t find any reference in the article itself that the understanding was “common.” This just makes me believe more that the CR has some subjective qualities to it.</p>

<p>That passage gave me a lot of trouble for some reason. For me it was hard to understand what the hell each passage was talking about, and it took me much, much longer than usual to finish the questions.</p>