October 2009 SAT Critical Reading

<p>Yes, it was the feast.</p>

<p>How likely is it that the College Board will throw out any of the questions? Has it happened before? Some of the answers to these questions are debatable…</p>

<p>Oh and why was the parenthesis on that short passage. Was it because of the erratic behavior of a teenager?</p>

<p>The CollegeBoard intends to make things vague. I would say it would have to be blatantly wrong, not only debatable, for them to retract anything. Because they can just hide behind the fact that their questions ask for the best response.</p>

<p>Andromeda: The answers to that passage were Independence and explain a reaction</p>

<p>OMG I GOT SLAPSTICK TOO haha seriously I’m like O___O?!?!</p>

<p>… Why would it be completely agree? The entire passage was about how he thought living in the present was good at SOME TIMES but one shouldn’t live in the present the ENTIRE TIME.</p>

<p>Partially agree.</p>

<p>Can anyone put the compiled list?? Thank you very much.</p>

<p>The guru and the hedonist think it’s all about the present, but the author passage 2 refutes that. However, the author passage 1 would agree with the guru and the hedonist because he also thinks the present is awesome.</p>

<p>i only said “partially agree” although I don’t entirely remeber why. I think it had something to with the Buddha passage saying that we needed to make an actual effort to achieve joy in everything, while the second passage said we could just instantly open ourselves to the joy with no effort at all.</p>

<p>I said “partially agree” as well.</p>

<p>I selected completely agreed. Yeah, the “argument” in Passage 2 augmented the point made in Passage 1, but I couldn’t imagine the author of Passage 1 having any reservations to “partially” agree.</p>

<p>Maybe I read the question wrong but wasn’t the question asking how the Author of the 2nd passage felt about the ideas of the first passage?</p>

<p>got it from ten pages before
and i added more description about the questions
let’s try to complete it</p>

<p>Vocab
1.Inhospitable
2.Entranced…lexicon
3.Hobble
4.Synthesized… Crystallized
5.Polymath
6.captious… edifying
7.satellite
8.slapstick
9.recrimination
10.defiant… reinforced</p>

<p>passage
11.Chart (plot)
12.Compliant (parent’s response to the name change)
13.Wry? (tone in the article about artist)
14.Admiration? Or discovery ? (remarks about Michelangelo)
15.Mocking? Or jeering? (a flock of sheep)
16.immediately understandable? Or artificially
17.full time endeavor
18.women and aristocrat’s social position
19.rustic circumstances (a part of stock-in-trade)
20.independence? (girl , peace corps passage)
21.explain reaction? (in the girl entering into publishing work)
22.surprised the work is finished? (name change , so much work is no work
23.intense and involuntary? (his response, name change)
24.singer listening to a similar song?
25.title - feast? (Zen)
26.native americans- important to everyday life
27.worth to obtain
28.usefulness in modern technology (Mercator
29.genius is not specific to a type of people
30. Novelty and diversity? (Space Atlas prompt, they asked why the author chose to use a long list of words to describe the book. “Here were…”)
31. completely agree / partially agree ?</p>

<p>Was the drug being efficacious and something having plasticity experimental? As well as Summer 1953?</p>

<p>I actually said disagree for hedonist and guru… darn ><</p>

<p>and yes, feast before us</p>

<p>artist passage: it was because of social reasons</p>

<p>just curious, aren’t we like completely violating collegeboard policy by discussing this? lol</p>

<p>CrossTheUniverse, that’s how I remembering reading it as well.</p>

<p>Does anyone else remember that question? It WAS asking what the author of Passage 2 thought about the ideas in Passage 1, right?</p>

<p>Another vocab answer was grounded in. It was about the blues artist. </p>

<p>The one about the hedonist was competely agree. It was the first sentnce. Not the complete passage. So it’s completely agree</p>

<p>Another vocab answer was plasticity</p>

<p>Hey USERS!!!
I have been following the 59 pages but could not understand “useful to modern technology” question.</p>

<p>Before arguing that certain answer choice is current, can any merciful user explain the question(the context, what it was asking) and tell me what were the five specific answer choices were??? PLEASE !</p>

<p>the what would Passage 1 author say about Passage 2 referred to the “argument” solely in lines one and two, that was, if we take advantage of moments we will be filled with bliss. Passage 1’s author would completely agree.</p>

<p>So Mercator invented his own style of charting Earth stuff a long time ago. The author was surprised that it is “useful to modern technology” since the invention is so old and since it’s original purpose now extends beyond the Earth.</p>