<p>Definitely disappointed.</p>
<p>what is the question about irksome? I remember I crossed it out immediately when I saw it as an option. I don’t think that is the right answer</p>
<p>@xiahuihuang It was about the first 3 lines or so of the 2nd passage about blogging. Basically it asked what the Passage 2 author thought about blogging, and he pretty much said “Oh, there’s a whole bunch of stuff that we have to upkeep on a blog.” The answer was that passage 2 thought blogging had irksome chores or whatever. I’m 100% sure it’s the right answer.</p>
<p>I’m reposting because so many people have asked about “irksome”</p>
<p>Section 1:
<em>Short: woman who could have become a president</em>
- Attitude of RESPECT toward woman.
- Showed her strong influence</p>
<p><em>Short: nature writing</em>
3. Walden is fundamentally human-centered
4. Both gains and losses of focusing on nature </p>
<p><em>Nuclear Power Passage</em>
5. Tone: emphatic
6. Tone: vehement
7. Three mile island: pivotal turning point
8. Both authors invoke “collective interest
9. Alternative energy has been tried and found wanting
10. Primary concern: Less harmful to the environment
12. The passages both agreed that nuclear plants were controversial
13. Both passages are concerned about the negative impacts</p>
<p>Section 2:
<em>Blogging</em>
15. Some would consider the claims overly optimistic
16. Explain a phenomenon.
17. Passage one says that bloggers get a chance to attract attention
18. The second passage mentions “irksome tasks” involved in maintaining a blog</p>
<p><em>Art in Life</em>
19. The highway represents everyday life
20. Detour: different from life?
21. Concrete reality vs abstract art
22. Art’s place in life
23. Tone: Personal and reflexive
24. Analogy with a lawyer reusing ideas from a previous case.</p>
<p><em>Roommate</em>
25. Drew = attracted
26. Dean = killjoy
27. Forehead: pride?
28. Roommate was Paranoid
29. Roommate’s behavior was eccentric
30. “I just wanted to be friends: Disappointed
31. Ideas are independent of human consciousness
32. Thinking from his navel was a “taunt.”</p>
<p>Section 3:
<em>Ella Baker passage</em>
33. Most important topic: Baker’s political philosophy
34. Quote called for an alternative approach
35. Self-admonition…maybe?
36. Biographer like an archaeologist
37. Treatment = Handling
38. Shaping Baker’s life
39. Most interested in human complexity
40. Weighing: considering deeply
41. Biographer shared Baker’s political goals
42. Walking through muddy water is analogous to acting “apprehensively.”
43. Marginalized people must participate</p>
<p><em>Sentence completion</em>
44. Clever debater even the opponents praised him
45. Advanced ages: longevity
46. Scientists: edify…reticence
47. Ameliorate social injustice
48. Faculty….Emotion
49. Exacerbate
50. Recondite
51. Compelling…formulaic
52. Mercurial
53. Fickleness
54. Rebutted
55. Digress
56. Poisonous/deadly
57. rationalism/eschew</p>
<p>
Does anyone remember the other answer choices to the question that matches this answer? </p>
<p>
And to reiterate a fellow CCer - are we sure that it’s “thus far wanting”? Do you remember any of the other choices?</p>
<p>Thanks! :)</p>
<p>@Opheliaa I’m pretty sure it was “Tried and left wanting.”</p>
<p>Can anyone remember ANYMORE details about any of the following questions?</p>
<ol>
<li>The second passage mentions “irksome tasks” involved in maintaining a blog</li>
<li>Shaping Bakers life (anything more specific about this question)</li>
<li>Weighing: considering deeply (anything more specific)</li>
<li>Exacerbate (anyone remember any of the other answer choices?)</li>
<li>Recondite (anyone remember any of the other answer choices?)</li>
</ol>
<p>I thought it was the financial one, because clearly in the passage, it remarked extensively on the fact “billions have been poured into wind and solar power” and that"enough money has been spent on gas ‘somethings’ to bankrupt California" so yeah</p>
<p>tylrrvera@ I totally agreea and i put financial whatever answer choice</p>
<p>And here is the Passage 2, which explicitly says that the wind and solar powers costed lots of money
[Wired</a> 13.02: Nuclear Now!](<a href=“http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.02/nuclear.html]Wired”>http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.02/nuclear.html)</p>
<p>I put the financial one as well. Perhaps I misread the choices but wouldn’t “found wanting” mean that we should still pursue that method? Why would the author of passage 2 support that method? He(or she) clearly said that the method has been tried with billions of dollars but has failed. Why would it be found wanting then? I’m just curious. Found wanting was my first answer that I changed from. I might’ve overthough this. (I do that a lot)</p>
<p>Here’s for the FINANCIAL / FOUND WANTING:</p>
<p>Definition of “found wanting” is not “I want it.”</p>
<p>[What</a> does it mean to be ‘found wanting’? in The AnswerBank: Word Origins](<a href=“What does it mean to be 'found wanting'? in The AnswerBank: Word Origins”>What does it mean to be 'found wanting'? in The AnswerBank: Word Origins)</p>
<p>"‘Wanting’ means deficient or lacking and ‘find’ here means decide or judge , as when a jury is asked ‘How do you find? Is your verdict guilty or not guilty’ or a magistrate says ‘I find the case proved’. (‘To want’ originally meant ‘to be lacking or missing’ and only much later did it come to be used for ‘to need’. ) </p>
<p>To say someone is ‘found wanting’ is to say that it has been decided that they are lacking in some quality or qualities. If someone is not up to a task, not up to the job, we may say ‘he was given the job but was found wanting’ meaning that it turned out that he was not capable, not good enough, lacked the necesary qualities to do it properly: his skills were wanting."</p>
<p>The methods were tried and were not sufficient. Therefore, they were found wanting.</p>
<p>@tylrrvera and @rorror45, yeah, i put financial one too, but the moment i realized my mistake, i instantly regretted my answer. it never said they “underestimated the financial costs” (whcih was the answer choice), the passage said that it cost a lot of money. the reason the “tried but left wanting” one is better is that the passage says we’ve done all these things, but they haven’t measured up to our expectations (which is what “wanting” means)</p>
<p>That explains my mistake. I would go with that choice also. I apologize for my ignorance haha.</p>
<p>I’m think it’s “financial understatement” , because in passage 2 the author stressed how much money had gone into alternate sources of energy, but the author of passage 1 simply suggested a lot ideas for alternate sources of energy but neglected to state how much they would all cost.</p>
<p>Can someone post the Walden passage?</p>
<p>does anyone remember the vocab question with the answer “rationalism…eschew”?</p>
<p>22 I think I put a different answer, but I do not recall the question nor the answer choices
23 is reflective, not reflexive lol.
43 I put something that had unknown in it lol</p>
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<p>however, the passage didn’t explicitly say the alternate energy is “found wanting” or incapable, which can be seen in the 2nd paragraph. He merely complained about how it costs so much money and ruin the environment. the financial cost option is better</p>
<p>^ Now that I think about it, you guys are right. Well, I’m glad that was clarified!</p>
<p>@xiahuihuang, that doesn’t mean that it’s not “found wanting.” he said it cost a lot of money, and yes sounded a bit like he was complaining, but his entire diatribe about energy efficient stuffs was about how they’ve already done it, but it just wasn’t enough <- left wanting.</p>
<p>i can see why there’s definitely debate over this. there really isn’t much of an indication that it was “left wanting” either. it talks about how it’s been tried, it talks about how expensive it costs, but neither answer is good enough. DERRRR. let’s just get over it. :D</p>