International SAT December 1st 2012 Discussion for Critical Reading

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<p>Eagerness, dread, …(rest were too wrong to be remembered at all…) and it should be irony for the poetry golden age. Do you remember the other choices for the first question of the poetry? The answer/question were:
The relationship between the two passages: passage 2 elaborates on a concept brought up in passage 1</p>

<p>Guys, what were the other options in the question which had ‘she saw the shards after she touched the rock’ as one of the options ?</p>

<p>Plus, the shards that she felt were hypothetical right ? Because in the next sentence…she said that she walked to the nearby second cave and she could feel the water gushing out of the cave and innundating the crops, as it did in 1450 bc. So, the shards were part of how she imagined the surroundings to</p>

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<p>Be in 1450s</p>

<p>Anyone ?</p>

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<p>^junaid</p>

<p>I forgot about the other options there, but the shards were definitely real. See the actual passage here: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/15114915-post279.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/15114915-post279.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>What about phrases like ‘historic debris’ then ?</p>

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<p>Real. The author implies that no one were able to differentiate between historical debris (eg: shards, flint chips etc) from the ground until he was able to deduce that the grinding stone were ancient. The phrase ‘worked’ adds to this fact as if the author were hypothetically speaking, he would most probably skip that word. Check the past nov 08 threads and Jan 11 threads to verify this answer choice.</p>

<p>One more question.</p>

<p>“Several canyons looked promising for springs on our topographical map, but turned up dry. Finally, at the top of a narrow, overgrown gorge we found a blessed tinaja, a deep, shaded hollow in the rock about the size of four or five claw-foot tubs, holding water.”</p>

<p>Map was misleading vs she didn’t find what she expected to find?</p>

<p>I assume “Map was misleading” right? Damnn :(</p>

<p>Map was misleading. The maps looked promising for springs (translation: stated there was springs) but turned out there wasn’t a spring to be found.</p>

<p>Could you please help me recount the other answer choices, then?</p>

<p>And could you please give me the link to the Alu Bose passage? I need to discuss another question as well</p>

<p>^
I’m not too sure about the other answer choices for the other question, sorry.</p>

<p>^
No one’s been able to find the passage yet I’m afraid.</p>

<p>I</p>

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<p>I am pretty sure I saw that passae in this thread or in the 2008 or 2011 thread :/</p>

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<p>The Alu passage is from the book “The Circle of Reason” by Amitav Ghosh. The Chapter is called “Playing to a Beat”.</p>

<p>^Thanks AimingAt750!</p>

<p>Do you know where did the poetry passages came from?</p>

<p>AimingAt750,</p>

<p>Could you please provide us with the link to the ebook? I can’t find it on google :/</p>

<p>What was the question in the hiking passage that has “figurative language” as an answer?
And what were the other choices in the question?</p>

<p>Was there also “She didn’t find what she had expected to find” along with “the map was misleading” in the hiking passage?</p>

<p>^junaid:</p>

<p>[The</a> Circle Of Reason - Amitav Ghosh - Google Books](<a href=“The Circle of Reason - Amitav Ghosh - Google Books”>The Circle of Reason - Amitav Ghosh - Google Books)</p>

<p>Page 395, to be exact.</p>

<p>^All answers here: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/15114855-post278.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/15114855-post278.html&lt;/a&gt;
I can personally attest to their correctness; I’ve even combed through the past threads to verify them.</p>