June 2010 Critical Reading

<p>^ I think that’s what I put too.</p>

<p>anyone put generally innocuous instead of comes at the expense of real insight?</p>

<p>Total: 53/67</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>Reading Promotes Learning
Make a claim
Debatable</p>

<p>Independent Films
familiar and overly alarmed
monetary concerns
passage 2 is more optimistic</p>

<p>– Long P –</p>

<p>Talent/Practice
to examine a psychological experiment
“account” = explained
muddling of cause and effect
walking, talking, potty training: people develop at different times
basketball players, other professions: broad application of a principle
Harvard researchers chose that specific group because “they had a specific talent”
Third to last question: “to demonstrate an incomplete explanation”
10,000 Hours question (second to last): “even if one has a talent, one needs to practice for years to become an expert”</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
painful to stay because of “isolation”</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
painful to stay because of “isolation”</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>anyone remember the answer for the question about “dichotomy” in the talent/practice passage?
is "to examine psychological explanation’ the answer for that, or different one</p>

<p>what was the one about the committee’s only rule was to show up, so sending a surrogate would be _____?</p>

<p>^ i put ‘proscribed’</p>

<p>Proscribed @packer</p>

<p>for the talents one, was the answer for the structure of the passage “describes a debate, then offers a compromise”?</p>

<p>that doesn’t make any sense. It said the attendance was inviolable, so sending a surrogate would be…</p>

<p>I said inevitable, whatever, its just one question</p>

<p>anybody remember the other options for the sending a surrogate question?</p>

<p>A) venerable
B) inevitable
C) pardoned</p>

<p>D) proscribed
E) judicious</p>

<p>shoot. I messed up big time on the vocab :(</p>

<p>Well, I think a surrogate is one who stands in your place? And since the inviolable tenet is that you are the one who shows up, it would be proscribed.</p>

<p>gotcha. Makes sense. to comdemn. I mixed it up with prescribe, like medicine</p>

<p>so… the talent structure question… was it “describes a debate then offers a compromise”?</p>

<p>yup/ tenchar</p>

<p>What was the empirical/ provisional question?</p>

<p>@Packer, aren’t those all wrong?</p>

<p>anyone remember the question for “matured, fulfilling” in s/c?</p>