January 2010 Critical Reading

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<p>His father making him laugh has no correlation to what he thought about his father’s little diatribe. However, IMMEDIATELY after his father’s quote, the author mentions that there were other non-sentimental reasons for not taking turnpikes. Thus his father’s reasons are incomplete.</p>

<p>I put “right”, too. But I wasn’t too sure if I was right.</p>

<p>agreed that it is incomplete but other choices make sense</p>

<p>srry for double posting but did “true” writers mean genuine?</p>

<p>shaheiruddin, i also put narrow-minded but judging by the responses, I think we’re wrong. I was stuck between that and incomplete.</p>

<p>Meh, my reason for choosing “faster travel” was that in the NEXT paragraph, the father mentioned that he wanted to get to their destination as quickly as possible. But I could be wrong. </p>

<p>Also, another answer: analogy to thieves = something about progress…</p>

<p>Anyone remember other sentence completions? </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
Father isn’t fair - Right
True writers - Genuine writers</p>

<p>stealthy progress. 10 char</p>

<p>I put:
(Austere/Unadorned) what was this sentence?</p>

<p>thief - freedom
back road way - faster travel</p>

<p>■■■ 5 wrong already. (The father/boy passage was hard).</p>

<p>It’s definitely inexpensive motel. The previously mentioned examples all relate to financial things.</p>

<p>i agree with the inexpensive motel since they were all pretty much superficial money savers. i was going to put scenic route (or something like that) but it did’t really fit in with the rest in the sequence</p>

<p>incomplete?? i got the impression that the other reason’s listed after concrete world were father’s but indirect. i put defensible. I’m probably retarted, but I thought his initial reason was defensible because practical reason’s were listed after.</p>

<p>can someone confirm the question about the Greek buildings for sentence completion? What was the plain/_____ choice?</p>

<p>And was “wild exuberance” the cowboy question?</p>

<p>what was the sentence to the debilitate/disheartening one??</p>

<p>thieves analogy = unaccustomed freedom?</p>

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what question did that come from? was it in a passage? I vaguely remember something about thieves but don’t remember anything about stealthy progress…</p>

<p>[edit] @powerbomb - oh yeah, now I remember, I put unaccustomed freedom too.</p>

<p>how were they “stealthy” in any way? </p>

<p>grim pursuit is not correct either,</p>

<p>anticipation of punishment or whatever wasn’t it either.</p>

<p>Yeah, that was the analogy between the kid and father and thieves.
I said something like unaccustomed freedom.</p>

<p>*** is this, I got every single boy father question wrong???</p>

<p>definitely unaccustomed freedom </p>

<p>can someone confirm the question about the Greek buildings for sentence completion? What was the plain/_____ choice?</p>

<p>And was “wild exuberance” the cowboy question?</p>

<p>^ Yes wild exuberance was the cowboy analogy. The greek buildings the answer was austere/unadorned. </p>

<p>Anyone remember other sentence completions?</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
Father isn’t fair - Right
True writers - Genuine writers
Thieves analogy - Unaccustomed freedom</p>