January 2010 Critical Reading

<p>More answers! </p>

<p>-cars to cards analogy: continuous sequence
-father’s comparison to a cowboy: something about his enthusiasm
-Son’s thoughts of his father’s refusal to pick up a soldier: disloyal, as evidenced by the words “patriotically offended”</p>

<p>for the testimony question- wasn’t the answer deprecate, not bolster? Bolster doesn’t really make sense there.</p>

<p>i remember something with palatable and something with ancient greek columns that i think i put austere/unadorned</p>

<p>wild exuberance for the father was what I put. Sigh… 2 wrong on CR so far.</p>

<p>yeah I got </p>

<p>disloyal
wild exuberance
continuous sequence</p>

<p>Did anyone get:</p>

<p>humorous or amusing (i forget what it was)
faster travel</p>

<p>^ Which question was “humorous” for? And yeah, I put “faster travel”.</p>

<p>i put disloyal and its probably the answer. but then i changed it to irrational because i went back and saw that the father asked to look for a hitchhiker to join them but then all of a sudden didn’t want a serviceman. eh idk</p>

<p>It asked what the son thought about the father’s comments in the first paragraph. I was between humorous and commonplace.</p>

<p>Sentence Completion</p>

<p>debilitate/disheartening
progenitor/exploit
penchant/locution
bolster
rancor
unflappable
_______/mitigate
Prodigy/Anonymity
Austere/Unadorned</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</p>

<p>I thought that the kid thought his father’s comments were incomplete, because he goes on to explain that there were other, more practical, reasons.</p>

<p>Sorry, my memory is absolutely terrible. I can’t even recall what the father said in the first paragraph - can you remind me?</p>

<p>i put inexpensive motel because everything they listed has to do with being cheaper like the cheap gas and w.e.</p>

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<p>It was incomplete, because he goes on to say besides the sentimental reasons there were many other reasons.</p>

<p>Sentence Completion</p>

<p>debilitate/disheartening
progenitor/exploit
penchant/locution
bolster
rancor
unflappable
_______/mitigate
Prodigy/Anonymity
Austere/Unadorned</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</p>

<p>I put inexpensive motels because the other three items listed dealt with saving money - no tolls, price shopping for food or something, and…cheap gas. anyone else?</p>

<p>^And I think it was between amusing and commonplace. I think I put amusing, because in the lines directly after the ones referenced, the son said something along the lines of ‘my father made me laugh so much’ or something</p>

<p>it was definitely ‘incomplete’ not humorous or commonplace</p>

<p>it was definitely humorous b/c afterwards he was like my father has been making me laugh since we left the town</p>

<p>for “fair” i put “right”… when the boy told his dad it wasn’t fair that he wouldn’t pick up the soldiers</p>

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something about turnpikes taking over the United States - that soon everything would become concrete.</p>

<p>I agree with incomplete and inexpensive motel.</p>

<p>hm I thought narrow-minded?</p>