<p>sigh. collegeboard had a lot of weird questions on this test, it’s not even funny. are you guys going to send letters to them?</p>
<p>In the rewilidng passage, he said that there were two courses of action “default or design” and the default one was the one where the environment would be destroyed, which is undesirable. Not inevitable, or else why would he say that there were two courses of action.</p>
<p>do we remember the exact wording of the inevitable/undesirable sentence?</p>
<p>if it was like “if we dont take measures, we will surely have problems” –> answer should be undesirable</p>
<p>if it was like “we will surely have problems” without qualifying the statement, answer should be inevitable</p>
<p>I put undesirable and probably not (no evidence)</p>
<p>^^^ Default and design weren’t part of the Troy passage. They were part of the rewilding of Pleiocene animals one.</p>
<p>if u guys looked the sentence closely,
there was ‘surely’ in the sentence which means that the thing is gonna happen no matter what.</p>
<p>^THAT is what they were trying to make you think. If you want to look at the passage again…someone had it. It was posted a long time back though. But anyway, fine…I’ll fish up my explanation again:</p>
<p>Think of it this way: If it is inevitable, then why is the entire article arguing about rewilding or whatever in ORDER to prevent it from happening? It says “If you don’t take action then surely this happens”, but it is NOT inevitable because if you do take action, it will not happen. Either way, we KNOW the outcome if we don’t take action is undesirable. Right? They were asking you was the “default scenario” or whatever undesirable or inevitable. It is not inevitable because the author poses a solution. But it IS undesirable. There’s your answer.</p>
<p>I say it probably did happen. The whole time the author was writing about why people think it happened despite the lack of actual evidence, and people’s quest to finally find some. But from the whole passage, it seemed like it was in favor of the war’s existence.</p>
<p>Also, if the answer was inevitable, why would the guy be promoting hundreds of millions of dollars for the funding of re-wildering if all the large verebrae animals would just die out, leaving the landscape to be dominated by pests and weeds?</p>
<p>It seems obvious that the author does not want the landscape to be filled with weeds and pests, so he is trying to find a way to combat that senario.</p>
<p>edit: naomikt beat me to the punch</p>
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The author never said it would be undesirable. The author said that if the default path was stayed on then the end result would be destruction of the environment. Which would be inevitable.</p>
<p>boston I agree with you. I put inevitable.</p>
<p>was there an experimental for reading?</p>
<p>^Lolol at Boston. Yeah, making all the plants and animals die out…that’s the most desirable thing EVER. 
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<p>Kay, you’ve heard my argument on that one. I’m not worried about that one…but as far as the probably vs. probably not, I hopeee you’re right Brostradamus. That was my thinking too…</p>
<p>@boston but the way the author stated the scenario with the weeds and stuff sounded undesirable</p>
<p>this is stupid guys why are we fighting we dont even know the correct asnwer shoot me</p>
<p>But he said by “default or design.” There were two courses of action the default scenario of environmental destruction or the design scenario of preserving a wilderness “inferior to” the wilderness of 100 centuries ago. The environmental destruction is not inevitable because he wrote about two possible routes and how Rewilding would be better.</p>
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Unfortunately, I don’t remember the question.</p>
<p>Do you guys remember what answer choice for retiring and penchant was because i just put a random guess of C and don’t remember what the choice corresponds too.</p>
<p>Someone post compiled VOCAB list? I want to see.</p>
<p>i just found this thread. i don’t know if you guys have talked about specific passages yet. did anyone think the reading passage about the trojan war was hard? i found it difficult…</p>
<p>*****Also, can anyone please post all the possible answers to the question regarding the cheetah and the mammoth? I have a strong feeling I accidentally skipped it, which means my answers to questions ~18-25 were OFF.</p>
<p>Which means I’ll have to send a score verification that’s going to seriously delay my ED application 
:(</p>
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Ah, I see. I wasn’t aware you had the ability to read the author’s mind. The author did say that the destruction of the environment would happen if we stayed on the default path. The author never said anything about it being undesirable. </p>
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Undesirable was a trap choice. The author never said it was undesirable.</p>