January 2010 Critical Reading

<p>For SC’s did anyone get any of the following for answers?</p>

<p>diffident/heated
placate
affected
jaded
antagonizing/poise</p>

<p>What was the textual evidence for the two authors speculatively agreeing on “humor is not always appropriate?”</p>

<p>Anyone get the question on that passage with that guy and his dad. Some question that these locations of something. I put down “sceneic route”; I was running out of time when I put that down. :o</p>

<p>Anyone get that question about Dan Rather?</p>

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<p>One passage is about the negative consequences of using humor in the workplace, the other one disagrees that humor should be used in the workplace to promote efficiency.</p>

<p>Sorry for joining the thread late. Are there any questions still up for debate? I’m feeling as though I got everything right.</p>

<p>fascination or approval
both were their own one word answers?</p>

<p>also, for the novel passage</p>

<p>the author of passage 1 would care less about the negative effects of commercial consideration? </p>

<p>and “bench” is unncessary something for the readers</p>

<p>Silver…Thieves analogy - Unaccustomed freedom</p>

<p>Is that right?</p>

<p>What is the difference between a 1 right and 1 omit. How much points will it cost me if I omit something when I could’ve gotten it right?</p>

<p>One question, though:</p>

<p>Was the first passage about workplace humor criticizing a common practice or delineating the consequences for particular actions?</p>

<p>The second one said it was a “troubling idea” that humor is used so often in so many situations.</p>

<p>^ It was delineating the consequences.</p>

<p>It began with a generalizing statement about how humor should not be used in the workplace although laughing is essential in life. Then it listed consequences of humor in the workplace.</p>

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<p>I was not completely comfortable with that answer. But the other ones did not make any sense, so I put it anyways.</p>

<p>Yeah I put delineating the consequences as well.</p>

<p>Anyone get that question about Dan Rather?</p>

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<p>That’s good: I put that.</p>

<p>Did anyone feel as though the CR sections were really fast today? I finished most of them with about 11-12 minutes left.</p>

<p>Anyone remember any of the other sentence completions?</p>

<p>Sentence Completion</p>

<p>Debilitate/Disheartening
Progenitor/Exploit
Penchant/Locution
Bolster
Rancor
Unflappable
_______/Mitigate
Prodigy/Anonymity
Austere/Unadorned
Acute
Cajolery/Undertake
Diversity/Palatable</p>

<p>Reading Questions</p>

<p>Father’s face was tender
Writer’s motto comes off as arrogant
Something wistfulness
Cards to cards - Continuous Sequence
Writing a novel Passage 1 was didactic
Father’s comparison to cowboy - Wild exuberance
Father refusal to pick up soldier - Disloyal
Example of another reason - Inexpensive motel
Father isn’t fair - Right
True writers - Genuine writers
Thieves analogy - Unaccustomed freedom
Businesses use novelty
Two authors agree that humor is not acceptable in all situations</p>

<p>please help me out, what would 4 wrong and 2 omits be ?
thanks so much</p>