November 2010 SAT - Critical Reading

<p>I think naive and dangerous is incorrect (it’s naive but not at all dangerous)… what were the other choices??</p>

<p>and what does “SC” mean?!</p>

<p>Hey Guys!! I got these Reading questions too! i actually think that it wasnt that bad
the question about 'what’s an analagous comparison to her being ‘free’" (the chinese painter girl)–i believe it was the last answer about a person ‘realizing’ the virtues of something…</p>

<p>Secondly, What did you guys put down for the question about ‘dream teams’ and ‘tradition bound olympics’? i said (A) to make a point about amateurism.</p>

<p>Thoughts??!</p>

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Yeah, I put that at first, then replaced it with something like “admirable but ludicrous”.</p>

<p>I put the artist one because he praised her even though there it was sloppy and had errors while also commenting on the beauty of her brush strokes. Perhaps I fell into a trap for putting artist as CB may have been trying to trick people with the brush stroke correlation with art</p>

<p>Sentence Completion?</p>

<p>I also put amateurism for the dream teams one.
I thought that the analogy for free went with the passage about piano…</p>

<p>I don’t remember what I put for her being free. Anyone remember the choices?
I also put to make a point about amateurism, anyone else confirm?</p>

<p>^ Oh, I think you’re right. I’ll delete mine.</p>

<p>^ for the analogous comparison, I put the lecturer being able to speak fluently without notes, though I’m pretty sure that was for the piano player… it was the most closely related because the piano player was able to compose music freely without sheet music, and that’s when he became “free.”</p>

<p>I put amateurism for “dream teams.” (:</p>

<p>What did you guys put for the one regarding the French Artist taking the flowers beauty</p>

<p>The one about cast I took it to mean like “to cast a shadow” since she was talking about shading. Tinge has to do with color, which I didn’t think made sense. So I put “bent” like the shadowing was bent in an unnatural direction</p>

<p>I said that it emphasized his ability to paint or something, because the author contrasted his meaty hands with the beautiful flowers he drew.</p>

<p>caribbean one… vestiges of colonialism? was that the answer for the one which asked about the language?</p>

<p>YEAH that was it. I also put the lecturer being able to speak without notes. I was pretty sure about that one. What did you guys put was the main idea or purpose for the artist girl one? was it to describe the development of an artist?</p>

<p>^ yes on development of emerging artist.</p>

<p>papercutz, I think it was like Personification, Metaphor, Analogy etc. more literary devices rather than the type of answer you put</p>

<p>I also put “appealing but ludicrous” because he described it as laughable but ridiculous or something like that.</p>

<p>I put bent for the shadow one too! My reasoning was that in the actual sentence, it was like, “the uneven curve” of the flower (might have not been curve, but something to do with shape) AND the something (bent/tinge/mold) cast of the shadow. I thought bent made the most sense because it refers to shape, and if she was drawing unevenly, you could also assume her shadows would be bent.</p>

<p>Speak fluently without notes is right.
I had teacher/student for the relationship question - because although he does refer to her art in the last sentence of the quoted paragraph, the rest of the paragraph is talking about her nervousness re: him seeing her calligraphy, stuff like that. Which is like a student being nervous about grades.
I’d say spectacle is right, because it’s not just an exhibit - it’s a big, showy exhibit, or a spectacle.</p>

<p>yeah I put appealing but ludicrous I thought that naive and dangerous was too extreme</p>