<p>Yeah, that one required some very thoughtful thinking…kudos to anyone who understood that one…I completely missed the author’s point by thinking he was referring to the readers and not the writers at the end.</p>
<p>I really think the curve for this test will be -3/-4= 800. At first glance the test didn’t appear to be that hard, but now there are so many that are being debated(vehement vs caustic, for example)…Lots of ambiguous ones and I usually don’t miss more than 2 on the Reading Passages…</p>
<p>Does anyone remember any part of the nuclear passages so we can look it up…?</p>
<p>I got vehement and I really think it is right, but check out this:</p>
<p>vehement:zealous; ardent; impassioned: a vehement defense; vehement enthusiasm.
2.
characterized by rancor or anger; violent: vehement hostility.
3.
strongly emotional; intense or passionate: vehement desire.
4.
marked by great energy or exertion; strenuous: vehement clapping.</p>
<p>Emphatic:
using emphasis in speech or action.
3.
forceful; insistent: a big, emphatic man; I must be emphatic about this particular.
4.
very impressive or significant; strongly marked; striking: the emphatic beauty of sunset.
5.
clearly or boldly outlined: It stands, like a great, stone dagger, emphatic against the sky.</p>
<p>^ emphatic was the answer to a different question</p>
<p>I remember the nuclear passages were from 1982 and 2005 respectively. The first part of the 1982 passage said something like “Nuclear power accounts for 3% of our energy, but 12% of our production”, and the end said “Do we really want to get stuck with another one?”. The 2005 passage started out with like “XX years ago at 3 mile island…”, and that’s all I remember specifically.</p>
<p>^^ really? answer to which one? I definitely remember it being the tone of the certain 2003 passage.</p>
<p>vehement/Caustic paragraph: </p>
<p>The consequences aren’t pretty. Burning coal and other fossil fuels is driving climate change, which is blamed for everything from western forest fires and Florida hurricanes to melting polar ice sheets and flooded Himalayan hamlets. On top of that, coal-burning electric power plants have fouled the air with enough heavy metals and other noxious pollutants to cause 15,000 premature deaths annually in the US alone, according to a Harvard School of Public Health study. Believe it or not, a coal-fired plant releases 100 times more radioactive material than an equivalent nuclear reactor - right into the air, too, not into some carefully guarded storage site. (And, by the way, more than 5,200 Chinese coal miners perished in accidents last year.)</p>
<p>Hahaha nice cortana. I wonder how often people dig up CR passages before the test is released…</p>
<p>Still sounds vehement to me…</p>
<p>The tone of the paragraph is:</p>
<p>(A) Vehement (passionate, intense)
(B) Caustic (sarcastic, bitter)</p>
<p>I would go with (A)</p>
<p>hmmm that paragraph sounds more caustic than vehement in my opinion…</p>
<p>"have fouled the air with enough heavy metals and other noxious pollutants to cause 15,000 premature deaths "</p>
<p>"Believe it or not, a coal-fired plant releases 100 times more radioactive material than an equivalent nuclear reactor - right into the air, too, not into some carefully guarded storage site. (And, by the way, more than 5,200 Chinese coal miners perished in accidents last year.) "</p>
<p>Definitely severely critical enough and is somewhat sarcastic, definitely caustic in my opinion</p>
<p>“Caustic” means more of “severely critical and sarcastic”. I would say the author is severely critical lol…</p>
<p>I put human-centered because it said that WALDEN WILL NOT be forgotten because it is about humans and people still enjoy this books because the movement sucked.</p>
<p>I don’t recall the last lines in the SAT passage. If those were there I can see why he is being sarcastic…</p>
<p>yeah guys I would definitely say caustic. If he was “passionate”, he would be saying things like. " I won’t rest until this stops". He is simply being very critical.</p>
<p>“because it said that WALDEN WILL NOT be forgotten because it is about humans and people still enjoy this books because the movement sucked.” not the right explanation, but yes, it is human centered</p>
<p>He does sound bitter too “(And, by the way, more than 5,200 Chinese coal miners perished in accidents last year.)” “o cause 15,000 premature deaths annually in the US alone”</p>
<p>He’s not really talking with “passion.” He’s severely criticizing coal, which is caustic.</p>
<p>Was the sentence in parentheses in the CR passage?</p>
<p>there’s really no debate here. He is not being subjective whatsoever, which means he cannot be passionate. He is being severely critical of fossil fuels, therefore it has to be caustic.</p>
<p>@subsidize, if i remember correctly, it said “in paragraph (insert number here)” or just the lines for that entire section</p>