January 2010 Critical Reading

<p>futball, add alturistic to the list; I’m certain. Now we are just missing one. :)</p>

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<p>If so, the “stealthy progress” answer seems to be the opposite of what was implied in the text.</p>

<p>why the **** would it be disloyal? he isnt supposed to be loyal to the military</p>

<p>Yeah, altruistic and fraudulent were also Sentence Completion answers.</p>

<p>@Jersey13</p>

<p>Could you please restate (or explain) the questions that had Debilitate/Disheartening
as an answer and the one that had rancor as an answer?</p>

<p>Sentence Completion</p>

<p>1)Debilitate/Disheartening
2) Progenitor/Exploit
3) Penchant/Locution
4) Bolster
5) Rancor
6) Unflappable
7) _______/Mitigate
8) Prodigy/Anonymity
9) Austere/Unadorned
10) Acute
11) Emotional/Literal
12) Cajolery/Undertake
13) Diversity/Unpalatable
14) Integral/Extinction
15) Steadfast
16) Precedent For
17) Impromptu
18) altruistic
19)</p>

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Unpalatable means not pleasing to eat. So the only plants that would remain would be the ones that deer did not want to eat.</p>

<p>Sentence Completion - COMPLETE</p>

<p>Debilitate/Disheartening
Progenitor/Exploit
Penchant/Locution
Bolster
Rancor
Unflappable
_______/Mitigate
Prodigy/Anonymity
Austere/Unadorned
Acute
Emotional/Literal
Cajolery/Undertake
Diversity/Unpalatable
Integral/Extinction
Steadfast
Fraudulent
Altruistic
Impromptu
Precedent For </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
Trick means feat
Author says how scientists choose to specialize in a field of study is “no matter”
Brand new shoe evokes sensory image</p>

<p>So I think the final 19 are:</p>

<p>1) Debilitate/Disheartening
2) Progenitor/Exploit
3) Penchant/Locution
4) Bolster
5) Rancor
6) Unflappable
7) _______/Mitigate
8) Prodigy/Anonymity
9) Austere/Unadorned
10) Acute
11) Emotional/Literal
12) Cajolery/Undertake
13) Diversity/Unpalatable
14) Integral/Extinction
15) Steadfast
16) Precedent For
17) Impromptu
18) Altruistic
19) Fraudulent</p>

<p>I don’t remember having ‘diffident/heated’ or ‘antagonizing/poise’ so maybe those were experimental
I did have “fraudulent” and “altruistic” though.</p>

<p>Also, for the one asking about Virgil’s opinion of what was in the opening paragraph, I put “defensible” because in response to his father’s saying that he hated turnpikes, virgil goes to list reasons why side roads could be better</p>

<p>orange peel, the passage said the phrase “casually seditious,” and Virgil thought he was unpatriotic for not picking up the army dude. So thus he was being disloyal to his country.</p>

<p>was the “precedent for” something about a jury trial or law?</p>

<p>I remember choosing altrusitic and fraudulen…and I didn’t have the experimental section.</p>

<p>it was definitely not faster travel because later it says they pulled up next to the turnpike and everybody on there was passing them like a deck of cards or something. therefore, inexpensive motels.</p>

<p>awesomemath, yes it was talking about how a case would cover new ground or something like that.</p>

<p>@sounditout: For Virgil’s opinion of his father’s explanation of using the backroads, I put “incomplete” because his father had left out the fact that he was doing it to save money.</p>

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<p>Why not? He’s a citizen of the country that the military defends; it’s only logical to expect someone to be loyal.</p>

<p>Yay, only one SC wrong.</p>

<p>Beats the hell out of my last one, three wrong -_-</p>

<p>Even after all of my studying I can’t beat my first go though, -0. Goes to show that plenty of luck’s involved.</p>

<p>what was “fraudulent” for?</p>

<p>fraudulent was about the people going to the scientists and duping them again and again.</p>

<p>Inveigle was also a SC, about a car dealership. Unless that was experimental. I hope so, because I got that wrong (I had absolutely no idea what the word meant)</p>

<p>Speaking of which, can someone help me figure out which section was experimental? I didn’t count, but I had either math or cr. What were some questions that were on the experimental for each?</p>

<p>Damn inexpensive motels is a *****! It depends whether they were talking about the line or the passage, but i don’t remember exactly how it was worded. So either it was a nasty trick or a terrible question. Or both. I’d vouch for both.</p>

<p>Oh and debilitate/disheartening was about a desert hike with a lot of sun.</p>