June 2009 SAT Critical Reading

<p>agree with zingzong: the ideas were not by nature incompatible, they just didnt work with the author’s experience of the motor home. with the capitalized letters you can almost hear the authors voice BOOMING in a mocking way announcing each idea, thus she was gently poking fun at the ideas (she was making fun of the idealism of the advertising!)</p>

<p>I was deciding between playing down a pivotal event and her memories of it.</p>

<p>I ended up putting memories, but i regret it now, bleh.</p>

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<p>didn’t know what ostensible meant, thanks! it all makes sense now.</p>

<p>dang, so mechanical wasn’t “unintentioned?” so it was “automatic” ?</p>

<p>was that question about the trip like dream and reality…</p>

<p>there was no choice that said “dream and reality”, do u mean expectation and reality?</p>

<p>I put pivotal event</p>

<p>Compilation:
Mechanical =physical force
Infinitesimal for a sentence completion
Dramatic/anticlimax
Conviviality
Biased</p>

<p>Caravan passage
Capital letters in caravan passage: gently poke fun
Enigmatic (for the mother’s eyelids)
Scientifically inclined (still being disputed though)</p>

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<p>Obsteperously for one of them?</p>

<p>What did you guys put for the architect who wanted people to tactilely admire her structures or something? I had almost no clue on that one</p>

<p>ya aspiring expectation and reality</p>

<p>is it biased or ostensible?</p>

<p>obstreperous is in the experimental</p>

<p>egg2333: i got “touch”. because tactile means to touch.</p>

<p>@eg2333
TACTILELY = TOUCH</p>

<p>Was the dragon comparison to the rocket obsolescence? Or dominance??</p>

<p>The “infinitesimal” was for the molecules one. What does infintesimal mean? XD</p>

<p>what was the point of the 1st two lines</p>

<p>i said to say what happens then the personal thing but i wasn’t sure</p>

<p>was a sentence question “trivial”</p>

<p>Prism: I put obsolescence, but I can’t be sure. That short passage seemed teh most confusing.</p>

<p>spectravoid: dramatic & anticlimatic</p>

<p>the dragon was obsoleteness (sp?) because a sentence earlier it said that NASA had “faded”.</p>

<p>Dragon: attraction to newcomers</p>

<p>i picked attract newcomers</p>