January 2010 Critical Reading

<p>Tallias and powerbomb i put all of those</p>

<p>don’t remember any more sc but does anyone know if fascination was the answer to a short passage that asked a lot of questions. second humor one i think.</p>

<p>I said Africans walk modestly. Really strange answer but it seemed right because he said that “maybe his walk would lose its arrogance” and “maybe I’ll act more African” in a way that seemed to relate the two.</p>

<p>I emailed CB about the disloyal/irrational question…we shall see what they say. (Heres hoping its irrational.)</p>

<p>negative effects of commercial consideration was also an answer</p>

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<p>The quotation talked about a bit more than this, but I went with that answer because none of the others seem logical.</p>

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<p>I went with that, but I was afraid that I was missing some deeper philosophical implication. </p>

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<p>I didn’t see anything in the text that supported that answer. Do you recall something?</p>

<p>1253729, i’m 99 percent sure it was disloyal.
“patriotically offended” or something like that</p>

<p>I said negative effects of commercial consideration.
I said Tunisians walk more modestly.</p>

<p>I did not say that Africans were less conscious about other nationalities.</p>

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I said the repetition emphasized the uncertainty of the outcome. </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
Traveling by river vs land is different because river is unambiguous
The question from the old man was to emphasize one of the author’s points
Tunisian passage details author’s feelings of being a foreigner</p>

<p>For the grass one
I think the answer choice was Unpalatable rather than palatable
so I put ____, edible</p>

<p>Yeah I know it said that. But later he says “Why are you not stopping?” I know it probably is disloyal. Just let me hope will ya? lol… Its just that this question would be the difference between -2 raw (800) and -4 raw (760-770) for me.</p>

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<p>I agree with that.</p>

<p>Repetition of perhaps was to show uncertainty.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I recall it being “unpalatable” as well.</p>

<p>the grass one was unpalatable. the plants decreased in variety because of deer overgrazing… the ones that were unpalatable were left.</p>

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<p>What was the question?</p>

<p>why don’t i remember the wistful question?</p>

<p>anyone else get companiionship for one of the questions in the roadtrip virgil passage?</p>

<p>“where do you want to go”
emphasized the author’s lack of destination or something</p>

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Old man was asking him where exactly he wanted to go in Tunisia</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/Unpalatable</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
Traveling by river vs land is different because river is unambiguous
The question from the old man was to emphasize one of the author’s points
Tunisian passage details author’s feelings of being a foreigner</p>

<p>The old man question was part of the Africa passage. A old guy asks “Where are you going to go?” And the author uses it to emphasize his point that he doesn’t know where he is going.</p>