<p>June 4th SAT I Critical Reading list of compiled answers. It's the version with astronauts, calligraphy and traveling, and includes all 67 questions. I thought I would bring it out of the long "Official Verbal Thread - Version with Astronauts" so everyone can see. </p>
<p>SENTENCE COMPLETIONS
1. ENTHRALLED - loved to read
2. RETICENT - (Thurgood Marshall was forthright in public but reticent in private)
3. IMPECUNIOUS .. AFFLUENT (neither poor or wealthy)
4. CHAGRIN
5. ENDEMIC (wildlife in Australia or New Zealand)
6. EBULLIENCE .. PESSIMISM (group has to rethink their policies because their initial ebullience gave way to pessimism)
7. AMALGAM .. COIN (author combined two names to coin a new name)
8. PROPONENT (a champion)
9. EXTEMPORIZE (about monarch butterflies)
10. COMPLICITY .. EXONERATED (evidence connected person to crime so he/she could not be exonerated)
11. TEPID - little enthusiasm
12. PERSPECTIVES .. ANONYMITY (artist's strange perspectives lead to anonymous figures)
13. HAMPERED (interpretation of data hampered)
14. SEDENTARY (children were confined)
15. TRANQUIL (quiet reading room)
16. People CONFORM to gain approval and avoid being REJECTED
17. Two dancers were DETERMINED to MASTER Latin American dance steps.
18. An experiment did not produce DECISIVE results, the results were only of NOMINAL importance.
19. A stain would DISPERSE across a cloth if you try to dissolve it.(or something similar)</p>
<p>PUFFIN PARAGRAPH
1. The simile implies oceans are critical to the planet
2. Puffins are ENDEARING</p>
<p>BILINGUAL CALLIGRAPHER
1. Punishment - something difficult to master
2. Daughter's job is most similar to the editor of a publishing house
3. Both mother and daughter often get frustrated with each other
4. List of different jobs depicts the variety of the mother's work
5. Mother's description of how to write shows that she emphasizes HARMONY
6. In the description of how mother lectured during lessons, the word 'stuffing' in the sentence on how she stuffed her daughter's head full of lessons most nearly means CRAMMING
7. The word SIMPLE most nearly means UNCOMPLICATED
8. In the last paragraph LuLing "provides instruction."
9. The last paragraph uses lots of figurative language</p>
<p>MINI-PAIR: GENIUS
1. The purpose of the opening sentences in Passage 1 is that they provided a context for the discussion
2. Author of Passage 2 uses a word that the Author of Passage 1 would challenge
3. Author of Passage 1 would consider the description of the person's friend to be OVERSTATED
4. The author of Passage 1 lamented the lack of geniuses and if he thought the way the author of passage 2 did then geniuses would be everywhere.</p>
<p>EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENT ON BEHAVIOR: PSYCHOLOGICAL ECOLOGY
1. Purpose of the first paragraph - a generalized thesis which is then supported
2. Most similar to "going thru" - going thru driving test maneuvers
3. Paying a professional decorator to find a better spot for a sofa - unfortunate response to a behavioral phenomenon
4. Behavior settings have a dark side that we brush up against whenever we contemplate changing the positioning of the furniture in the living room. The dark side is our tendency to lose flexibility in thinking
5. Roger Barker had a particularly wild idea. He decided to chronicle entire days in the lives of children. In the passage WILD most nearly means UNCONVENTIONAL
6. List of teachers..students; doctors..patients etc - something like roles we unconsciously fill
7. SECURE = ACQUIRE
8. What distinguishes artists? It was something along the lines of artists always seeing the world in a fresh perspective
9. Passage is a thoughtful examination of a phenomenon
10. Adults were able to compensate for visual distortion because they were more experienced than children
11. "Aberrant input" described information that doesn't match our prior experiences.
12. Why do people subconsciously fill the roles mentioned? It was because it was socially customary.
13. "DISTINGUISHES" most nearly means DIFFERENTIATES</p>
<p>PAIRED PASSAGE: TRAVELING ALONE
1. PARADOX - "I am never less alone than when I am alone"
2. Sterne would most likely support the idea of traveling with a companion
3. Fleming would support the author of Passage 1 in that traveling alone is better
4. Description of different routines illustrates the PETTY differences between two people
5. Physical description of town implies PROVINCIAL CHARM
6. What Hemingway TOOK from his road trip with Fitzgerald...what he GLEANED
7. Last paragraph of Passage 1 acknowledges that there is an exception to the rule stated above
8. Hemingway's quote "Never travel with anyone you don't love" implied that Fitzgerald did something that annoyed Hemingway
9. The shy person liked to travel because he got to meet new people.
10. The last paired passage question asked about the role of the Sterne and Fleming references. The answer was that both provided a contrast to initial statements.
11. The author of Passage 1 considered undisturbed silence one of the comforts
he enjoyed when traveling alone.
12. The author of Passage 1 would argue that Fleming did not acknowledge the occasional pleasures of traveling with a companion!</p>
<p>ASTRONAUTS
1. Description of Inuit language shows relationship between language and thought. I believe this was the question saying Inuit had like ten words for "snow" but one for "tree" and a simple translation of any of the ten into "snow" would cause the original thought to be lost in translation.
2. Author implies that there is more jargon than efficient communication (there's exclusivity)
3. Description of astronaut jargon as "foreign language" shows that most laypersons would find it needlessly complicated
4. Different languages use the same words in different manner
5. Space jargon developed as a response to an unprecedented situation
6. There was a question with how CAPCOM, an abbreviation, has become a word.</p>
<p>BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE
1. Cornerstone means fundamental element
2. Author was DERISIVE</p>