June 2010 Critical Reading

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Was “fight” part of the answer?</p>

<p>“The words “carefully annotated edition” (Line _<em>) and “notebook” (Line _</em>) serve to indicate…”</p>

<p>I put “uniqueness of author’s situation” for this one.</p>

<p>“The prime minister’s term was marked by _____ due to his involvement in the scandal.”</p>

<p>The correct answer here is supposed to be ignominy. Unfortunately I got this one wrong :/</p>

<p>Was “fight” part of the answer?
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I can’t remember…like I said I had the wrong answer. D:</p>

<p>Ohhhh! Now I remember. Yea I put down impression vs. reality, because the narrator said in that same line that the author he worked for used a lot of people as “notebooks.” So, his situation wasn’t exactly unique. And also, in that same paragraph, the author says that he felt like he was privileged to get all this knowledge (or something like that…), but really he was just being used as a notebook. So his impression differed from reality.</p>

<p>^Fortunately, I read The Scarlet Letter earlier this year. The author is obsessed with ignominy.</p>

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<p>I remember “aground” was also an answer choice…</p>

<p>Okay, got it. -2 so far… I’m hoping there isn’t more :stuck_out_tongue: If only I’d known what ignominy meant, or seen it somewhere before >.<</p>

<p>Do any of you remember the answer to the SC that talked about some sort of harmful animal/insect type of thing lol…</p>

<p>It had two blanks and some answer choices were “aground, fight, …”</p>

<p>The one with fight.</p>

<p>Also, for the boy and author passage…
Why did the narrator repeat the authors name… he started like 3 consecutive sentences with his name…</p>

<p>can anyone tell mewhat the questions were for “savvy about nature for zoos” and for “products of human culture”?</p>

<p>Can someone make a consolidated list of all the SC known so far? I would do it but I gotta go for awhile.</p>

<p>2-3 pages back I updated the list ;)</p>

<p>there was one question that goes like
in order to _ (fight) against the exotic species… to prevent them from running_ (rampant) in their original environment…</p>

<p>^^thanks</p>

<p>10char</p>

<p>Also, for the boy and author passage…
Why did the narrator repeat the authors name… he started like 3 consecutive sentences with his name…
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Wasn’t that to show how little control he had…or like how much control the other guy had.</p>

<p>There was a question in the boy and author passage that read something like:
“Why does the narrator repeat the author’s name …”</p>

<p>** – S/C – ** 14/19
Diverse
Devised
Ignominy
Acolyte
Ubiquitous
Apoplectic
Charismatic
Provisional
Matured, Fulfilling
???, Upbraid
Underdog
Pioneer, Vanguard
Complicity, Exonerated of
Fight, Rampant</p>

<p>– Short P –</p>

<p>Rachel Carson story
Marking a watershed moment in public
Respectful</p>

<p>???
Make a claim
Debatable</p>

<p>Independent Films
passage 1 is more disgusted (something along those lines)
familiar and overly alarmed</p>

<p>** – Long P – **</p>

<p>Talent/Practice
to examine a psychological experiment
“account” = explained
blurred cause and effect</p>

<p>Boy and Author
Argentinian author and author reading stories aloud
Recount unusual experience –> new understanding
happy in his subordinate role
author’s impression with reality
apprehending –> perceiving
author’s lack of control
valuable for readers make connections w/ past readings</p>

<p>Girl
father wanted her to go on the trip “to learn about her non-English relatives”.
“freedom” means “releasing emotional burdens”
appalled = different viewpoints have equal values
likes her grandfather because “he talked about the present”
felt “disdain” for parent’s nostalgia
“loved father like she loved a horse” = elaborate on previous sentence</p>

<p>Zoo
products of human culture
condition: state of being
spectatorship: strong disapproval
savvy about nature of zoos
curiosities on display for audience
unconcerned with debates about zoo
fun comes at the expense of real insight of animals
do not offer authentic experience of wild animals
passage 1 makes argument that passage 2 finds unpersuasive</p>

<p>By cribelle’s list and the list above I have everything right so far…</p>

<p>And cribelle, I think you are right</p>

<p>I guessed all the answers Ds, do you think i can hit some?</p>