@ypmagic It was like advertisements in the past were not deeply interwined with our lives as today or sth along the line.
The question to the frequency inured answer was something along the lines of the government’s making so many announcement that the people were used to it.
The girl whose friend was named Isabel was intense.
I don’t think I picked expedient…
@ypmagic @Starior The first sentence went sth along the lines of “certainly, we have ads in the past, but they weren’t as deeply ingrain as they are today”, which is NOT the thesis of the essay. It was merely an opening, admitting an incontestable fact that seemingly went against the real thesis of the essay, which was the next two sentences.
@Synonyms I don’t think the answer introducing key ideas means showing the thesis of the essay. The sentence, as you said, was just an introduction so it gave us the key ideas of the passage as an introduction which later these ideas developed.
Guys what was the CR curve for March 2015?
@Synonyms Also do you remember what you chose instead of expedient for that question?
pls check for me
heredity
abbreviate
frequency
anecdote
conversed…
Collaborative…shared
complex…accessible
monolithic
Sabura
-demonstrate atmosphere
-self-ability
-analogy:a politician focused on one issue to win the vote
-dad is spirituality
-inattention to his father
-mother anticipated about dad annoucement
-delight
-supportive(mother’s attitude)
-in the cart:strain
-personal struggle
Short:
-Spain is used as an illustrative example
-not the real Lyncie
-plaussie but offensive
-intense
Short:
-Analogy
-Enthusiastic
Double:about gulf stream
-raw:inadequate
-both passage 1 and 2:mail ship wandered
Advertisement:
-savor
Creativity:
-tone passage:aprreciate
-asserted
-originity
-presenting a new theory
@michael008
Sabura:
-Analogy-I chose the ‘musician who practices one instrument to become adept’
-I didn’t put personal struggle, I put ‘changing relations’
-I didn’t put mother anticipated about dad’s announcement for sure
What was the short story (or stories) about again? (Not the Isabel one)
Double: ship didn’t wander. They refused to listen or something along those lines
Also for the question from the advertisement passage where it asked what the author meant by ‘real’, was the answer something along the lines that TV watchers couldn’t escape watching advertisements (I think choice D)?
@ypmagic What was the passage about nation states exactly about again?
YES I REMEMBER NOW. I put ingrained and untenable as the answer to the expedient question! The whole paragraph was about how language <> nation. The author argued that since 1) there are more languages than there are nations, and 2) not everyone who speaks the same language lives in the one nation, with Spain and Spanish-speakers as the example, the idea that language = nation was an ingrained but untenable one!
Interesting how they recycled such a recent test. Imagine how someone could have checked the March thread and found all these discussions before the October test.
@michael008 I don’t recall choosing politician/spirituality/anticipation/personal struggle for the Sabura passage. The short one about language should have ingrained + untenable as an answer. Raw most likely means unprocessed, I think. And I figured the mail ships tend to refuse advice, but I can’t remember the exact evidence in the text.
Anyone with different answers?
@Synonyms Ah I finally remembered! I put the same answer as you, ingrained but untenable
@ypmagic The exact word is delighted. The mother was delighted that the father, normally distant from his son, now took active interest in his son’s life.
Musician and changing relationship.
I think I chose something along the line of “because the advertisements can be as entertaining as real TV programs.” Or sth.
@Synonyms Can you try to recall as many questions from the creativity passage so that we can review the answers? I had the most struggle with that passage but I’m having a hard time recalling all the questions
I was sort of confused by the temple/busy street question. What did you guys put? Showing contrast in his life or undercutting with deference? The contrast option seemed too apparent and I thought they might be looking for something beyond that.
did anyone remember the answer for creativity passage and the one about advertisement?
The exact passgae that was on the test yesterday.
When Saburo joined the track-and-field team in his first year at Bukkyo High School, the sport was enjoying a popularity it had not known before the war. At the time, few schools could afford baseball bats or gymnastic equipment. And there was something in the simplicity of the sport-the straight path to the goal, the dramatic finish line-that stirred the community to yells and often tears. On Sundays entire families came outdoors to cheer, Thermoses of cold wheat tea slung across their chests. They sat on woven mats and munched on rice balls, roasted potatoes, hard-boiled eggs and pickled shoots of fuki gathered up in the hills.
“So what distance are you running?” Saburo’s father asked at the dinner table. “Eight hundred meters,” Saburo said. He would have preferred a long-distance event, which commanded the most respect. But he had watched those runners stagger toward the finish line, eyes rolling back in their heads, some even vomiting in the grass afterward-and he had been afraid. Sprints came next in popularity, but Saburo was not particularly fast. Two laps around the track seemed the most appropriate distance.
“Eight hundred meters? Is that all?”
“I just want to focus on one,” Saburo said, “and perfect it.”
His father nodded in approval.
Saburo’s father was old, much older than his mother. His gray hair, ascetic cheekbones and scholarly decorum (he was professor of astronomy at Nangyo University) commanded both respect and distance. When sitting down beside his father at the low dining table, 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.
Something about the running must have struck a chord with his father, although as far as Saburo knew, he had not been a track man in his youth. At any rate, the following evening at dinner his father made an announcement.
“On.the days you don’t have practice,” he told Saburo, “I’ll be taking you out to Kaigane Station to clock your runs.”
Saburo’s mother looked up from ladling rice into a bowl. “Maa, Father, what an excellent idea!” she said. She then turned to her son, surprise and pleasure still in her face. “Saburo, thank your father,” she said. Saburo was not altogether happy with the actual arrangement; his devotion to running was not that strong. Nonetheless, he was suffused with a quiet; manly pride that he tried to mask with an expression of nonchalance. “So nice, ne-a father and son, doing things together!” sang Saburo’s mother, expecting no reply and getting none besides a good-willed “That’s right” from her husband. Dinner that night felt very much like a rite of passage, and Saburo’s mother served up the mackerel with a gravity reserved for celebratory red snappers.
Saburo’s father never attended Saburo’s track competitions; he left that to his wife. But he always inquired after the results at dinner, showing more interest in his son’s times than in his rankings-a good thing, since Saburo never placed especially high. The boy never thought to question his father’s absences or to complain. His father was simply different. He was old. He was an academic, whereas Saburo’s friends’ fathers were grocers and merchants. If he got excited, his eye pressure would go up.
But from that evening on, each time Saburo came home on nonpractice days, his father was waiting, still dressed in his Western-style lecture clothes: white short-sleeved shirt and gray trousers, creased and starched. They sat gingerly side by side in the streetcar as it bumped and clattered through the bustling fish vendors’ district, the smells and raucous vendor calls floating in through the windows. It was awkward and silent in the streetcar, just the two of them. Saburo’s mother, with her cheerful chatter, so often served as their buffer. Saburo stole a glance at his father, who was carefully holding both their tickets ready in one hand, even though there were still a dozen stops left to go. He wished his father were like his friends’ fathers: sun-browned, guffawing men who ruffled children’s hair with affectionate ease.
The streetcar rattled on until there was no more open-air market, only an asphalt road slicing through kilometer after kilometer of rice paddies. Kaigane Train Station was the final stop on the route. Because of postwar cutbacks the train came through only once a day now, so in the evenings the station was deserted.
Only here, with silence stretching over the open fields like an extension of his father, did Saburo feel complete harmony between them.
@NParker The short story was about languages define nation, using Spain as an example.And what did you put for the question which asked mom react to dad’s announcement
@SopheliaSavvy I put spirituality, but I’m not entirely sure on that one.
@NParker Eh, I’ll try. Let’s see:
What’s the tone of the last passage? Appreciative.
Which aspect of creativity were the lines (paraphrased here) “creativity, as defined by blah blah blah, was only when you create something new or expand some existing domain” talking about? Originality.
What’s the aim of the whole passage? Presenting a theory
What was implied to have happened to many artists? Many had already died when their arts were discovered to be valuable.
Which correlation was implied in the lines about Van Gogh and how only after he died did his work was “critically acclaimed”, became “sought after”, and sold for millions of “dollars”? I put monetary value and critical acclamation, but I’m not too sure. There was that other answer about critical “approbation” and “artistic excellence”. (Words in " " are direct quotes).
Ugh, that’s about it. I may remember more if someone remind me of it.