November 2010 SAT - Critical Reading

<p>It was “spanned many eras” because they said that he stopped dancing when the era of rock-and-roll came in. But his CAREER was still there and thus it spanned multiple eras when he returned at the age of 75.</p>

<p>tinge: to impart a trace or slight degree of some color to
Black and grey are colors.</p>

<p>something about “provisional”
one of the last questions was about the guy rolling on the ground. one of the answers (i didnt put this though) was he wasn’t aware of his surroundings</p>

<p>I put that it was because he expressed himself thorough rhythm and sound or something.</p>

<p>yea cause he was tapping and humming or something. was the provisional one something like discoveries were moving quickly now? i think another answer was physicists couldn’t expect people to understand their theories…something like that…</p>

<p>Yeah, the teachers one was something like “how does the author discredit the teachers credibility” or something like that…I’m pretty sure the answer was “by stressing their unattractive response” like whitaupe said. I remember in the passage it talked about the teachers getting hysterical whenever the possibility of using both english and creole in schools was mentioned.</p>

<p>Can someone please make a consoladated list?</p>

<p>does anyone remember for the college athletics what the first author would think of the second author’s claim that academics should come first? i dont remember many answer choices (one of them was naive and dangerous, but i dont think i put that…)</p>

<p>Quantum physics bored me…and probably bored into my score as well.</p>

<p>One question had the debunking past evidence/validifying present claims (paraphrased) as answer choices, and I picked the one about the past.</p>

<p>Another question: scientists either cannot agree on how to visualize something or they are unsure how to. I chose the second one (over that and three others).</p>

<p>also in the caribbean passage…i agreed with all the answers on the other thread except for the reassessment one. i remember thinking about that answer but then picking something about the effect of something on them…</p>

<p>i probably just got thatn one 100% wrong</p>

<p>i vaaaaaaguley remember the visualize question. i wish we could find the passage online because i would remember the questions if i read the passage again</p>

<p>@liveforit: here you go :)</p>

<p>Critical Reading</p>

<p>Sentence Completion
convenient
vexing…stymied (math conjecture)
pedestrian (no flair + no imagination)
convenient
population
verve
evocation
partisan…bias
dearth…diminution (robins)
mosaic
dispute
foster…exhort
flexible
conservative
mollify…inflamed
obdurate</p>

<p>Passage Comprehension</p>

<p>Man Visits from Northern City
Marriage proposal
woman had complex personality</p>

<p>Langston Hughes
Passage was about one of his goals as a writer
relationship was like moderator (advisor)?</p>

<p>Farmhouse
The conversation between the daughter and father was a ritual that they often participated in.
Daughter went from nostalgia to indifference
parenthetical reference to lack of quotations on modern-lack of irony and self-consciousness
absence makes the heart grow fonder
both the daughter and the father are conscious to each other’s feelings
author implies that newer farmhouses have a better view of the countryside</p>

<p>Chemical Farming
Both authors agree that world’s population needs to be supported
“That’s right.”- Author acknowledges that her point is surprising
Author of Passage 2 would argue that even using just a little bit of chemicals can produce high-yield crops
Passage 1 offers a solution while Passage 2 offers a moderated version of it</p>

<p>Hummingbird
passage explains why not all hummingbirds have evolved to have long bills</p>

<p>Quantum Physics (grrr……)
nervous=uneasy
visualization affected the work style of one quantum physicist
“shatter question”- showed how old ideas were discredited
First paragraph served to set up the nature of the problem</p>

<p>Caribbean
produced=generated
Government more motivated by commercial than cultural interests
Youngsters idolizing Hollywood celebrities- effect of “cultural penetration” Japanese
Caribbean families are flexible and inclusive
language is tenacious and dynamic
Caribbean ppl often denied sense of identity
To show a paradox set of attitudes (why talk about family and language?) </p>

<p>Deception
Last paragraph functions to make a general statement about the nature of deception
Author 2’s tone was more judgmental
habitually lying dehumanizes the liar
calculated=planned
could/should say= conceivable…beneficial
tone of quote was nonchalant
the 19th century philosophers would claim that lying leads to more vicious and harmful lying
The author of passage 1 would respond to author 2 by saying deception is necessary in some social situations</p>

<p>can you guys post the answers you got for the other 2 passages? i didn’t get a chanced to look at that disqualifed thread…thankx!</p>

<p>I choose advisor.</p>

<p>Does anyone remeber there is a question about a parallel sentence in paragraph2 of quantum physics: oversimplification of …</p>

<p>I think i had something about oversimplification…</p>

<p>Does anyone remember the question about endorsing something? It was in the Caribbean passage.</p>

<p>whoever just messaged me…do it again cause my pop up blocker was on</p>

<p>another one is what does “physical intuition” mean.</p>

<p>I remember the endorsing one, it was a word replacement…</p>

<p>yes. I remember endorse is about the contradiction.</p>