June 2010 Critical Reading

<p>Domineering isn’t the answer. It is too extreme, and is a wrong interpretation of Borges.</p>

<p>^ Do you remember what that question asked?</p>

<p>I saw domineering in the answers. I considered it briefly, before discarding it for a better one. </p>

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<p>Anyone remember?</p>

<p>I don’t remember that.</p>

<p>It was like: "Somebody _____ something now called a potboiler…(devised)</p>

<p>The devised one had something to do with something a female scientist did. Beyond that, I have no idea.</p>

<p>EDIT: ^Yes.</p>

<p>i remember devised; it was def the answer</p>

<p>What was the question that had domineering as one of the choices?</p>

<p>Reposting…</p>

<p>Total: 57/67</p>

<p>Sentence Completion - 16/19
Diverse
Devised
Ignominy
Acolyte
Ambition, Ruthless
Ubiquitous
Apoplectic
Charismatic
Provisional
Matured, Fulfilling
Severe, Upbraid
Underdog
Pioneer, Vanguard
Complicity, Exonerated of
Fight, Rampant
Proscribed</p>

<p>– Short Passage –</p>

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

<p>Reading Promotes Learning
Make a claim
Debatable</p>

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

<p>– Long Passage –</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”
reference specific studies
Statement about ppl who practice but fail: “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</p>

<p>Girl in Austria
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 about tearfully watering plants
“loved father like she loved a horse” = elaborate on previous sentence
painful to stay because of “isolation”
the old ways are “snobbishly excessive”
Inability to empathize with her father</p>

<p>Zoos (Paired Passage)
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>So have we decided on it being author’s impression and reality? Does anyone think it was the unique situation?</p>

<p>^ I put “unique situation”, but I’m just assuming “impression vs. reality” is correct.</p>

<p>^ I really think it is uniqueness of his situation, it referenced him being used by the author as an “annotated notebook,” which implies specialization.</p>

<p>Yea, you also can’t be a “notebook” in reality. That is just one layer less than annotated notebook, but is still not “reality.” </p>

<p>So maybe only 2 on cr (assuming it was provisional, wish they’d strike that).</p>

<p>^ Well, the actual question went, “The words “carefully annotated edition” (Line _<em>) and “notebook” (Line _</em>) serve to indicate…?”</p>

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Should be “compassion, ruthless”.</p>

<p>I mean both answers work. Just which on CB decides works more.</p>

<p>For the talent passage, does anybody remember an answer that was like the students did not know they were talented (something like that)?</p>

<p>^^Yeah, I couldn’t remember the exact wording.
But, the passage seemed like it was talking about the way the author treated him, not the way the author thought of him.
I agree with ugaboga232.</p>

<p>^^Yes, it was the question about the conditions of the experiment, and the one about students not knowing how they were identified in the study was the correct answer.</p>

<p>goldysocks, the passage explicitly stated that the situation was not unique. in one line of the passage, the author began talking about how he felt unique, but then went on the say that he was just a notebook, and in parentheses it said (like so many others)… thats the explicit reference to him not being unique, hence it is his impression vs. reality</p>