<p>i think there were more cave questions than the 10 i listed… anyone remember more?</p>
<p>sparks and smoke is effort. “despite a lot of effort, the keyhole hasn’t widened.” you wouldn’t say “despite futile attempts, the keyhole hasn’t widened,” that’s repetitive. plus, the author mentioned that maybe in the future the keyhole would expand, implying their efforts may eventually lead to something.</p>
<p>i’m confused about the cave questions. was the gifted artists/teenagers question asking what guthrie thought or what natural historians thought? and i remember answering historical data or something for one of them. i’m having trouble keeping the questions straight!</p>
<p>cave questions:
gifted: what the natural historians who disagreed with gutrhie thoughtt
data: what gutrhie thought</p>
<p>ANYMORE GUYS???</p>
<p>Does anyone remember the answer that said the teenager paintings were reflective? Not sure what question it was for</p>
<p>dizzying…just think about what sparks and smoke represents…It does NOT represent effort…If he wanted to use imagery for effort he would have chosen something different. And where are you getting “despite a lot of effort the keyhole hasnt widened?” That was not in the reading at all. The answer is futile…</p>
<p>^ i can second dizzying, “despite a lot of effort the keyhole hasn’t widened” was definitely in the passage</p>
<p>“Conducting scientific research on this most difficult of groups might be compared to viewing a whale through a tiny keyhole. Some flank of the animal glides past from time to time while we try desperately to figure out what on earth it was. In spite of lots of sparks and smoke, we have so far accomplished little more than a small enlargement of our keyhole view of whales and their ocean lives. Someday, however, we may have a picture-window-sized keyhole and will finally see an ocean-sized view of whales. But even then the enigma of the whale will still stand, un-decoded, before us.”</p>
<p>That is the quote from the passage</p>
<p>And the way the wording was for the answer choices (although I can’t remember exactly how it went) the answer was definitely the one referring to previous futile efforts at expirimentation</p>
<p>what did you guys get for the one about the cave paintings that said “what would both authors agree on” I picked “thematic” something.</p>
<p>yes, and insert effort where the sparks and smoke is and you will have the rendered version of that answer choice. it makes a lot more sense, especially since he concedes that someday the window will be enlarged.</p>
<p>anyways, that whale problem doesnt matter for me since i got it wrong anyways… =P</p>
<p>@brandnew3773</p>
<p>“In spite of lots of sparks and smoke, we have so far accomplished little more than a small enlargement of our keyhole view of whales and their ocean lives.”</p>
<p>“Sparks and smoke” has to signify previous efforts. Try inserting efforts in place of sparks and smoke. It makes perfect sense. Besides, I don’t remember any answer choice about futility…</p>
<p>@AimingforIvy- Hmph. What were some other answer choices?</p>
<p>the wording of the futile answer choice made it wrong. it said something along the lines of “approaching the problem in this way is futile.” and yeah, what omfgitsanazn said about inserting it into the sentence, that’s what i was doing.</p>
<p>@sweetpuri I don’t remember them exactly but one of them had to do with the beauty of the art I think</p>
<p>No the reason why futile was the right answer is because the way the question was asked it was referring to the experimentation on the whales which did in fact prove futile while the enlarging of the keyhole was due to observation alone so if the question had been referring to observation then the answer would have been efforts but since it was referring to te experimentation the answer has to be the futile one</p>
<p>i don’t remember the passage, but i know that efforts definitely fit. sparks and smoke alone made me hesitate because i also thought that futile was the obvious choice. however, when i went back, i chose efforts and i felt fairly confident about it. since we don’t have the passage we’ll just have to wait and see i guess! ):</p>
<p>@saut : I clearly remember the question asking what would gurtie think the paintings in textbook (passage 1) provide/indicate/(synonym) for the scientists (line x passage 2) because I drew a line literally across the two passages linking the two.</p>
<p>@AimingforIvy- Womp. I can’t remember…</p>
<p>@Dizzying- Heres the passage lol:</p>
<p>“Conducting scientific research on this most difficult of groups might be compared to viewing a whale through a tiny keyhole. Some flank of the animal glides past from time to time while we try desperately to figure out what on earth it was. In spite of lots of sparks and smoke, we have so far accomplished little more than a small enlargement of our keyhole view of whales and their ocean lives. Someday, however, we may have a picture-window-sized keyhole and will finally see an ocean-sized view of whales. But even then the enigma of the whale will still stand, un-decoded, before us.”</p>
<p>oh, thank you! yeah, then i definitely still stand by efforts. the fact that he said that the keyhole had enlarged at all implies that the attempts weren’t completely futile, and as i said, since he mentions that we may later make more breakthroughs, saying that the approach was futile wouldn’t make sense.</p>
<p>edit: oh wow i totally missed that it was posted earlier haha.</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone answered my question, so here it is again: for the black concert passage, the question about the Great Migration coming home…it asks you what the METAPHORICAL meaning of the sentence was? Is anyone sure of an answer?</p>