October 2010 CR SAT Thread

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<p>Hi, here is what I could remember based on what’s already been discussed. :)</p>

<p>Sentences:

  • Circumvent because in the past - erroneous.
  • Prolific / trenchant for Harper Lee.
  • Ramona’s practicing - unremittingly (synonym to ceaselessly).
  • Director was easygoing - could work with even the most temperamental.
  • Thousands of years ago, nomads, etc. Traversed/wealth.
  • Basset hound - hard to move into action - phlegmatic.
  • Well-mannered something - decorum.</p>

<p>About the log short passage:

  • It was an antidote.
  • The analogy about the child with someone else’s toy because he realized it could not last?</p>

<p>Hummingbird passage:

  • Purpose (?) was to explain why not all had evolved to a longbill.
  • The cited evidence was based on interpretation of documents.</p>

<p>Did the Trojan War really happen?

  • Probably, because no evidence contradicts it.
  • Thucydides mainly pulled from Homeric epics.
  • Paradox because everyone believes it, but equally, there is no proof.
  • Purpose was to ‘illustrate’ something.
  • Used the Magna Carta to emphasize the amount of time that occurred between Trojan War and Thucydides’s work.</p>

<p>Critic passage:

  • Author was admiring of Kael.
  • Mentioning the other authors - to show that style was not unique? (There were others who also wrote in the colloquial form).
  • Analogy to Oscar Wilde’s piano player - artfully written but factual errors? (Because he said, “I don’t play accurately, but I play somethingsomething.”)
  • The “fizz” - lively and something.</p>

<p>Rewilding passage:

  • Passage 1 would think the last part of Passage 2 (the suggestions about what to do with the money) was inadequate.
  • Passage 2 would think the conservationists mentioned in Passage 1 (who had concerns about impacts of rewilding) - well-founded.
  • Last part of passage 2 - suggesting alternatives.
  • Passage 1 thought the future possibility (by something or design) was undesirable (or something along those lines).
  • Passage 1 thought the issue with current conservation efforts was that they didn’t work on solving the overall problem.</p>

<p>Girl jumping rope:

  • First part with the basketball and the old cars or something - comparison.
  • The “helix” - feeling of vibrant well-being.
  • Adult schedules were predictable.
  • Something showed confidence.
  • Something about getting the nerves of other girls, similar to a figure skater doing complex leaps to fluster competitors.
  • Represented, to her, unlimited possibility.</p>

<p>Short passages about national radio?

  • Analogy about the wouldn’t want to read something.
  • Passage 1 believes it would interfere with the functioning of political government.</p>

<p>Opinions? Agree/disagree?</p>

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<p>trojan war: the answer was archaeological evidence because the theo(forgot rest) guy said that he examined evidence of walls ect</p>

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<p>Was the desert SC traverses… wealth</p>

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<p>Thuyclides (sp?) is archaeological, not Homer. Remember when he was talking about the wall and what-not?</p>

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<p>yes but it also said that “out of homer” he developed his findings</p>

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<p>does anyone remember putting something with “objective” for the very last one on the passage about Kael</p>

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<p>yeah. they said that archaelogical was probably, and second they said there could’ve been alternative sources but that they were unlikely.</p>

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<p>what the…i had a reading experimental but no one is even mentioning it</p>

<p>the experimental was NOT trojan/critic/animal shelter/jumprope</p>

<p>The experiment was the one with the NONFICTION and FICTION books, wasn’t it?
Please tell me it was…I did bad on that section lol.</p>

<p>did anyone get permeate for one of the sentence co mpleteions?</p>

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<p>come on let’s get this done! i don’t really remember the SC, but passages were: movie critic, jumping rope, Troy - true or not, and some species resurrection project or something. For short passages: whether to fund or not fund the PBC or PCB, whatever…,</p>

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<p>i got : prudent, colloquial, mudslinger, analogy, comparison, erroneuous, unremmiting, decorum, prolific trenchant, and for the magna carta one, i put that you like forget history or somehting</p>

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<p>I thought it was inevitable, not undesirable. But hey, I’m prob wrong XD</p>

<p>Undesirable would work, its just that the passage used “surely” and I thought that inevitable would work more.</p>

<p>Especially if we didn’t do pleitho something the extinct animals</p>

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<p>For the one about the media/movies I put exaggeration.</p>

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<p>So which is the experimental one? God I hope its the Troy one, the other two were easy.</p>

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<p>Tell me the jumping rope passage was NOT experimental!</p>

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<p>I wasn’t sure about the functioning of national government. That’s a strong statement. The first passage did suggest that the public radio is basically pushing it in terms of democracy, but it doesn’t actually interfere with the government being able to function</p>

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<p>The passage said one of his sources was Homer, but the passage only gave one sentence to Homer – a lot was written about the archaeological findings and how Thuyclides used it.</p>

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<p>And it not archaeological. It said “probably” The homer was right.</p>

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<p>Was the answer for “uniform”, “unanimous”.</p>

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<p>no he stated that doing so would interfere with democracy’s process</p>

<p>ie going against our national government</p>

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<p>the undesirable…
i kno that inevitable is quite extreme
but in the passage i saw “it will surely include…”
the surely part made me chose inevitable :(</p>