@michael008 How the hell did you get your hand on the text??? While I do remember that it was from a novel called Laws of the Evening or something by Mary Yukari something, just how???
@ypmagic I chose ingrained/untenable for your expedient/shortsighted question. The belief is widely accepted by people, even taken for granted (ingrained), yet it can be easily refuted by the fact that Spanish speaking people can live all around the world, not necessarily in Spain exclusively (untenable).
@ypmagic I’m still kind of in two minds about it because I’m not sure if they used undercut deference or undercut WITH deference or not… Anyway, I think I went with spirituality mostly because the guy went on to descibe the air his father affected in great details. As seen here:
“Saburo had moments of readjustment similar to entering a temple from a busy street. Dinner-table conversations, more often than not, were monologues on the moons of Jupiter, the Andromeda nebulae or various theories on cosmogony. Chewing his food slowly-a habit from rationing days, when the rule had been one hundred times-Saburo let the academic words flow through him like water through a net. What he heard was his father’s voice: a voice like the universe, regulated and unknowable, with the endurance of silent planets rotating in their endless, solitary orbits.”
And I’m 100% sure that it’s NOT expedient/short-sighted. Expedient = practical but potentially immoral. And the part of the sentence between the blanks said something about the people.
@Starior I’ve skimmed the thread. I see that they haven’t quite decided on the answer, unless you ask one of those people who got all correct in CR back then. I mean, the author didn’t say it was “worthwhile” or anything specifically positive about defining creativity. All s/he said was that the attempts contributed a lot to the debate, so “useful” should work. Glad to know that we thought the same thing!
By the way, guys, are they really going to ban us if we continue digging up all the questions from the test like this? The moderator’s warning seems discouraging but the March thread is practically a copy of the whole test but no one did anything about all the comments.
@ypmagic I disagree. Ugh, I can’t explain, but I’m 100% sure on this one.
Anyway, does anyone remember the answer to the question in which a class of 36 people were lined into 5 consecutive rows and we were asked the probability of Martha’s getting picked into the last row?
@SopheliaSavvy CC says discuss at our own risk. CB bans it. Yeah, by this time, I’m pretty sure that all of our scores will be cancelled if we are “discovered” (i.e if they want to make a big deal out of it because CB definitely know about us). Eh, no use if we stop now. Besides, we can always point to the rest of CC and drag them down with us, US included.
For oral interview or sth paragraphs there was a question for how can the accuracy of information of authors of passage 1 be judged by the author of passage 1. What was the answer? I said volume of information previously unknown.