<p>was one of the fill ins </p>
<p>ferocious … contentious? the one before succinct?</p>
<p>For the diamond one, what did you guys get for something about the innocent people?</p>
<p>@manman I said they were defamed</p>
<p>@ manman: i said defamed as well.</p>
<p>ohhhhh word on ‘lack of’. respect</p>
<p>itsinreach. i put defamed also, i was stuck between corrupted and defamed… but then again, why would they be corrupted? (does not makes sense here)
answer: possibly, Defamed. :0</p>
<p>yeah the answers were succinct ferocious/contentious. for the “want” questions if there was a lack of history or whatever wouldn’t future generations want or desire the story? thats how i interpreted it lol</p>
<p>I put corrupted because in the next sentence it says something about their memory being corrupted or something similar to that…</p>
<p>For reference, here is the diamond passage:</p>
<p>In the first part of ROBINSON CRUSOE, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written:</p>
<p>“Now I saw, though too late, the Folly of beginning a Work before we count the Cost, and before we judge rightly of our own Strength to go through with it.”</p>
<p>Only yesterday, I opened my ROBINSON CRUSOE at that place. Only this morning (May twenty-first, Eighteen hundred and fifty), came my lady’s nephew, Mr. Franklin Blake, and held a short conversation with me, as follows:–</p>
<p>“Betteredge,” says Mr. Franklin, “I have been to the lawyer’s about some family matters; and, among other things, we have been talking of the loss of the Indian Diamond, in my aunt’s house in Yorkshire, two years since. Mr. Bruff thinks as I think, that the whole story ought, in the interests of truth, to be placed on record in writing–and the sooner the better.”</p>
<p>Not perceiving his drift yet, and thinking it always desirable for the sake of peace and quietness to be on the lawyer’s side, I said I thought so too. Mr. Franklin went on.</p>
<p>“In this matter of the Diamond,” he said, “the characters of innocent people have suffered under suspicion already–as you know. The memories of innocent people may suffer, hereafter, for want of a record of the facts to which those who come after us can appeal. There can be no doubt that this strange family story of ours ought to be told. And I think, Betteredge, Mr. Bruff and I together have hit on the right way of telling it.”</p>
<p>Very satisfactory to both of them, no doubt. But I failed to see what I myself had to do with it, so far.</p>
<p>“We have certain events to relate,” Mr. Franklin proceeded; “and we have certain persons concerned in those events who are capable of relating them. Starting from these plain facts, the idea is that we should all write the story of the Moonstone in turn-- as far as our own personal experience extends, and no farther. We must begin by showing how the Diamond first fell into the hands of my uncle Herncastle, when he was serving in India fifty years since. This prefatory narrative I have already got by me in the form of an old family paper, which relates the necessary particulars on the authority of an eye-witness. The next thing to do is to tell how the Diamond found its way into my aunt’s house in Yorkshire, two years ago, and how it came to be lost in little more than twelve hours afterwards. Nobody knows as much as you do, Betteredge, about what went on in the house at that time. So you must take the pen in hand, and start the story.”</p>
<p>In those terms I was informed of what my personal concern was with the matter of the Diamond. If you are curious to know what course I took under the circumstances, I beg to inform you that I did what you would probably have done in my place. I modestly declared myself to be quite unequal to the task imposed upon me–and I privately felt, all the time, that I was quite clever enough to perform it, if I only gave my own abilities a fair chance. Mr. Franklin, I imagine, must have seen my private sentiments in my face. He declined to believe in my modesty; and he insisted on giving my abilities a fair chance.</p>
<p>Two hours have passed since Mr. Franklin left me. As soon as his back was turned, I went to my writing desk to start the story. There I have sat helpless (in spite of my abilities) ever since; seeing what Robinson Crusoe saw, as quoted above–namely, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it. Please to remember, I opened the book by accident, at that bit, only the day before I rashly undertook the business now in hand; and, allow me to ask-- if THAT isn’t prophecy, what is?</p>
<p>I also put defamed</p>
<p>@aquapatty the question asks about the innocent people, not their memory</p>
<p>@Matthew - How did you get this?</p>
<p>For the question that everybody put defamed, I put corrupted because their memory could be corrupted as well as their character.</p>
<p>The answer was defamed. It was saying that innocent people were hurting from this case. That eliminates “corrupted” because it was hurting the innocent people, not making them corrupt. And you can infer that the hurting the innocent people are feeling is coming from them being defamed, because this results in a loss of reputation and social outcastedness.</p>
<p>How the hell do you have the passage matthew???</p>
<p>@matthew0820, =o how did you manage to copy the entire text??? x(</p>
<p>@peachiemk Thanks man</p>
<p>But does anyone remember the other selections besides Succinct in that question? I’m still having a hard time remember what I put.</p>
<p><a href=“http://collins.thefreelibrary.com/The-Moonstone/1-1[/url]”>http://collins.thefreelibrary.com/The-Moonstone/1-1</a></p>
<p>sentence completion:
ostensibly(not salient)
squalid(not cataclysmic)
tycoon/philanthropist
succinctly
archeaologist
fierce/contentious</p>
<p>passages:
- chimpanzees
- physics string theory
- stolen diamond w/ lawyer and butler</p>
<p>2)author of passage 2 would be in complete agreement
3)butler was deferential at lawyer
prudent
3)‘want’ means lack of
2)superhuman computer represents lack of technology to use it as a tool
2)passage 2 would say that the mathematicians and physicians should pursue different avenues
3)“as soon as he turned his back” showed his eagerness
3)the quote from robert crusoe represented an omen
3)growing sense of alarm(in lawyer)/moment of perplexity
3)Only repeated meant brevity of interval
1)look in chimpanzee’s eye/raising of hand shows relation between empathy and technology
3)cost means personal toll
1)chimpanzees were cracking nuts
3)puffery was self-regard and exaggeration
lying passage - qualification
welsh passage - her nationality wasn’t her most important characteristic
3)innocent people were defamed</p>
<p>keep adding/put a question mark if you don’t agree</p>
<p>yea, what itsinreach said</p>