October 2011 SAT Reading

<p>@prospectiveappli, what were the other choices. i dont remember them and I remember I was really confused on that but I might have put that answer</p>

<p>The “wariness” question was from the nuclear passage. It asked how the author would react to the “scientists and engineers” who experiment and tried a lot of risky things with nuclear and other energy sources.</p>

<p>@Subsidize, isn’t that what the “negative environmental impact” answer is referencing? If not, then what question is that for?</p>

<p>r u sure the biographer shared her political views? I thought it was the other one… and what was the other answers for the concrete reality vs abstract art? was it something about human and decadent?</p>

<p>@scholasticapt
it was about a movie…thats all i remember</p>

<p>i got poisonous for the mushroom. Also for the treatment thing I put management because the author had to manage the way he/she looked at the story of the person. What were the last three answers for the nuclear, D B B?</p>

<p>@ scholastic it was like "movies had stock characterizations; admirers found it ____ despite it being ____ " compelling and formulaic was the best choice</p>

<p>it was something about the stock characters in a movie, which are formulaic because they’re “cliched” and yet it was compelling because it was interesting</p>

<p>Cumulative list so far: </p>

<p>Section 1:
<em>Short: woman who could have become a president</em>
Attitude of respect toward woman.
Showed her strong influence
The guy whom he said the quote to was intent on having an internationally completive business or something along those lines. </p>

<p><em>Short: nature writing</em>
Walden is fundamentally human-centered
Both gains and losses of focusing on nature </p>

<p><em>Nuclear Power Passage</em>
Tone: emphatic
Tone: vehement
Three mile island: pivotal turning point
Both authors invoke “collective interest
Alternative energy has been tried and found wanting
Primary concern: Less harmful to the environment
The passages both agreed that nuclear plants were controversial</p>

<p>Section 2:
<em>Blogging</em>
Some would consider the claims overly optimistic
Explain a phenomenon.
Passage one says that bloggers get a chance to attract attention
Something about people being “irked”</p>

<p><em>Art in Life</em>
The highway represents everyday life
Detour: different from life?
Concrete reality vs abstract art
Art’s place in life
Tone: Personal and reflexive
Analogy with a lawyer reusing ideas from a previous case.</p>

<p><em>Roommate</em>
Drew = attracted
Dean = killjoy
Forehead: pride?
Roommate was Paranoid
Roommate’s behavior was eccentric
“I just wanted to be friends: Disappointed
Ideas are independent of human consciousness</p>

<p>Section 3:
<em>Ella Baker passage</em>
Most important topic: Baker’s political philosophy
Quote called for an alternative approach
Self-admonition…maybe?
Biographer like an archaeologist
Treatment = Handling
Shaping Baker’s life
Most interested in human complexity
Weighing: considering deeply
Biographer shared Baker’s political goals
Walking through muddy water is analogous to acting “apprehensively.”
Marginalized people must participate</p>

<p><em>Sentence completion</em>
Clever debater even the opponents praised him
Advanced ages: longevity
Scientists: edify…reticence
Ameliorate social injustice
Faculty….Emotion
Exacerbate
Recondite
Compelling…formulaic
Mercurial
Fickleness
Digress
Poisonous/harmful</p>

<p>Updated.</p>

<p>Cumulative list so far:</p>

<p>Section 1:
<em>Short: woman who could have become a president</em>
Attitude of respect toward woman.
Showed her strong influence
The guy whom he said the quote to was intent on having an internationally completive business or something along those lines.</p>

<p><em>Short: nature writing</em>
Walden is fundamentally human-centered
Both gains and losses of focusing on nature</p>

<p><em>Nuclear Power Passage</em>
Tone: emphatic
Tone: vehement OR Caustic
Engineers/scientist are to be treated with “wariness”
Three mile island: pivotal turning point
Both authors invoke “collective interest
Alternative energy has been tried and found wanting
Primary concern: Less harmful to the environment
The passages both agreed that nuclear plants were controversial
Wariness</p>

<p>Section 2:
<em>Blogging</em>
Some would consider the claims overly optimistic
Explain a phenomenon.
Passage one says that bloggers get a chance to attract attention
Something about people being “irked”</p>

<p><em>Art in Life</em>
The highway represents everyday life
Detour: different from life?
Concrete reality vs abstract art
Art’s place in life
Tone: Personal and reflexive
Analogy with a lawyer reusing ideas from a previous case.</p>

<p><em>Roommate</em>
Drew = attracted
Dean = killjoy
Forehead: pride?
Roommate was Paranoid
Roommate’s behavior was eccentric
“I just wanted to be friends: Disappointed
Ideas are independent of human consciousness</p>

<p>Section 3:
<em>Ella Baker passage</em>
Most important topic: Baker’s political philosophy
Quote called for an alternative approach
Self-admonition…maybe?
Biographer like an archaeologist
Treatment = Handling
Shaping Baker’s life
Most interested in human complexity
Weighing: considering deeply
Biographer shared Baker’s political goals
Walking through muddy water is analogous to acting “apprehensively.”
Marginalized people must participate</p>

<p><em>Sentence completion</em>
Clever debater even the opponents praised him
Advanced ages: longevity
Scientists: edify…reticence
Ameliorate social injustice
Faculty….Emotion
Exacerbate
Recondite
Compelling…formulaic
Mercurial
Fickleness
Digress
poisonous…deadly
countenance? experimental perhaps?</p>

<p>@Chicago What were the other answer choices for that question</p>

<p>the question with the answer"wariness" was from the nuclear passage</p>

<p>“The guy whom he said the quote to was intent on having an internationally completive business or something along those lines.”</p>

<p>wait…what?</p>

<p>That was a note added by someone else. A summation of the passage, I believe.</p>

<p>I dont understand how Walden is human centered when the article discussed the difference betweem human-centered writing that we are more interested in and natured centered writing like walden which is long, boring and exhaustive at times</p>

<p>The second nuclear article never said that nuclear energy was controversial but I remember both articles mentioning the growth in use of nuclear energy</p>

<p>For vocab:
Fickleness <---- sentence?
Digress <---- sentence?</p>

<p>Wasn’t the main concern of Author 2 (it is 2, right?) to emphasize the necessity of expanded use of nuclear power as a resource temporarily? I understand why searching for an energy source of less environmental impact is a viable option, but this seems too broad of a topic. </p>

<p>Anyway, a lot of these answer choices were very ambiguous…****es me off.</p>

<p>did anyone else feel like the vocab on this CR was really hard
like not hard with the fill in the blanks
but a bunch of vocab in the passage question choices…</p>

<p>^ yup and yup. Also, the scientist biologist lady sentence was edify and reticence. It fits perfectly. Other thread said it was recondite and something else. Inconceivable.</p>

<p>Thanks for the clarification, ProspectiveAppli</p>