October International Sentence Completion

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<p>Can anyone answer my questions??</p>

<ol>
<li><p>The context for the sentence completion with answer "licentious"</p></li>
<li><p>Why the answer was "affable...CRAVEN," not " xx.. commendable"</p></li>
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<p>In the passage about Japanese, what would the author of Passage 2 regard the "place" author of Passage 1 mentions-
Is the answer "stable environment" or "cultural vaccuum"</p>

<p>In the passage about visiting wife's mother and aunt:</p>

<p>Why did the man feel "intense pleasure?" I don't recall having read anything about pleasure.. I put utter bewilderment as the answer..</p>

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<p>hey…
for 2 why would it be craven…doesn’t it mean something like cowardly? I chose commendable…</p>

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<p>That’s what I thought, too
It says CRAVEN on the consolidated answers, though I need an explanation…</p>

<p>Thanks for your thoughts zytcan!</p>

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<p>omg it was craven ? S*********</p>

<p>that was pretty hard tho cause it said he put on a false image to look better ? idontknow</p>

<p>but i thought it was “magnanimous … commendable” S***</p>

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<p>guys i know this isnt that relevant but is there an intl reading forum? what did you think the experimental was (if you had an experimental?) COULD IT HAVE BEEN THE VENICE PASSAGE ???</p>

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<p>Hey hongkonggirl,
do you remember the sentence for that question??</p>

<p>Oh and, complaisant was one of the words contained in the sentence, not an option in the answers… that’s why I chose magnanimous-commendable</p>

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<p>im hogging this but …</p>

<p>it was ‘intense pleasure’ because what his emotions that day was foreign to him. he said that the word paradise failed him and that if he had to describe it it would have been forever. based on that ‘intense pleasure’ is the only choice</p>

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<p>the experimental one is Venice…
My friends who got math experimental didn’t have that…
GAH how i hope it’s the grandma one…</p>

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<p>@hongkonggirl
Oh all right… arrrg haha </p>

<p>@zytcan
Yeah … I think I got 2 wrong in that passage… ㅜㅜ</p>

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<p>@zytcan oh shooooot i messed up the butterflies …</p>

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<p>shoot i thought it was escalating tension… he mentioned smt like the air thickens and he was still surprised to find two women</p>

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<p>1. The context for the sentence completion with answer “licentious”</p>

<p>It was something about how “dissolute” a person was in doing something, so I put “licentious”.</p>

<p>2. Why the answer was “affable…CRAVEN,” not " xx… commendable"</p>

<p>I put “magnanimous … commendable”! I’m pretty sure the sentence was positive, described how he stopped the fight?</p>

<p>In the passage about Japanese, what would the author of Passage 2 regard the “place” author of Passage 1 mentions-
Is the answer “stable environment” or “cultural vaccuum”</p>

<p>I was going to go with cultural vacuum, but I remembered seeing this phrase online: [What</a> is a “cultural vacuum?”? - Yahoo! Answers](<a href=“http://■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/question/index?qid=20101023121747AAxyyrb]What”>Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos). Beside, “vacuum” means to be devoid of something isn’t it? So it makes the most sense to put “stable environment”.</p>

<p>**In the passage about visiting wife’s mother and aunt:</p>

<p>Why did the man feel “intense pleasure?” I don’t recall having read anything about pleasure… I put utter bewilderment as the answer…**</p>

<p>I was going with “intense pleasure”. But when I went back to read that specific part, it talked about how the colors, light and smell of the place is so strong he felt like it was as “solid” as the water. So he was drown by his senses aka “overwhelmed his senses”.</p>

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<p>I put magnanimous … commendable too.</p>

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<p>@314jason
I think you and I have the same answers for these questions!
And thank you for your explanations…!</p>

<p>Any other thoughts?</p>

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<p>guys, “magnanimous… commendable” is surely wrong. The sentence is definitely negative, since it mentions that the guy earns “unwarranted friendship”. “unwarranted” means “groundless; having no justification”. Why? Because he just make craven (which means cowardly) efforts to avoid all conflicts.</p>

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<p>@ nemo931102</p>

<p>Why was the word “complaisant” in the sentence then?
Are you sure that “unwarranted friendship” was in the sentence?</p>

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<p>no it was unwarranted pride</p>

<p>i thought the sentence flow was really hard to grab as well .</p>

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<p>was there a “commendable”?
and where did this perfidy come from?</p>

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<p>perfidy? what perfidy?</p>

<p>one of the answer choices was “magnanimous … commendable”</p>

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<p>magnamious means noble and generous? I think He has no authorities in this argument so affable is better choice.I don’t know the meaning of the word craven too,but i think its the hard question so the answer should be hard,so I chose craven.And BTW where did you guys get the answers?</p>