Official Crtitical Reading Discussion Thread November

<p>I might be thinking of a different question, but it was asking about some lines at the end of the left hand column of the geography passage, maybe talking about glaciers? There was like 5-6 verbs all in an -ed format, and they all were actions the glaciers/ice sheets did to shape the earth. That’s what I distinctly remember.</p>

<p>Hey, what was that passage about the Koreans on? Could someone give me a summary? I took a subject test today, but I heard a lot about the Korean story…Thanks!!</p>

<p>Can we compile a list?</p>

<p>I think someone should try to find the passages! :slight_smile: I never look at footnotes, so I’m not good at that sort of thing…</p>

<p>Let’s compile the Sc’s

  1. ingenuity
  2. pessimistic
  3. cultivated…castigate ( do you remember the sentence0?</p>

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<p>FOUND THE SUNNY PAssage ( calligrapher)</p>

<p>Can someone try to find Bach or the Glaciers, or Mark twain?</p>

<p>did anyone else have the herodotus passage?</p>

<p>1) ingenuity
2) pessimistic
3) cultivated…castigate
4) delightful
5) frustrated because consumers should learn more about organic farming
6) chaotic nature of crime scene
7) The disparity of the observation of planets,blah, blah, blah, raises debate… (I am not sure about this one.) other choices, spate, waning.
8) towns and villages are destitute
9) best evidence-- line 35 which talks about the changing landscape of Boston or something like that.
10) for the Korean one, the italicized line is simile.
11) uncomfortable for …
12) importance of having role model in writing
13) the journey is pointless</p>

<p>welcome any different ideas</p>

<p>Ahh, thank you so much, Novelidea! What part of that book was on the SAT? Thanks again.</p>

<p>which is not author’s reaction? alarmed, excited, admired?</p>

<p>the closest meaning to cold? chilled or impersonal?</p>

<p>I put deliberate for cold…
For the author journey, how was it pointless? I thought it was arduous because he compared himself to a laborer and how he had “grope in the dark”.</p>

<p>Also towns and villages were vulnerable to the glaciers…not destitute.</p>

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<p>@carlhefferson, im pretty sure a lot of those are wrong</p>

<p>@mmaatt</p>

<p>Agree. I’d say about half of those are wrong.</p>

<p>then post the right answers you guys think</p>

<p>The glaciers one was moraines, I think. The last few sentences indicated that the evidence would have to be found in places near research centers.</p>

<p>Here are some of my answers:</p>

<ol>
<li>opening paragraph: two children “enjoyed” playing the sport</li>
<li>Brother felt uncomfortable with his sister being in the men’s quarters</li>
<li>illiterate</li>
<li>cold = deliberate?</li>
<li>alarmed</li>
<li>impugn…recant</li>
<li>arduous journey (author, short passage)</li>
<li><p>which is an example of an evidence for glaciers as implied in last sentence? was it terrain morraines or something? Can’t even remember the spelling but that was the only one that had to do with the “natural landscape” mentioned in the last line. </p></li>
<li><p>finger print passage: extend the metaphor in previous line? or define a new way of viewing fingerprinting? I chose the first one. </p></li>
<li><p>caricature, surrogate, personification? sentence completion one.</p></li>
</ol>

<p>I have a feeling the last two are CR experimental, can anyone confirm? It was Section 5 on my test and had a long passage about Mark Twain/finger-printing. ALSO: was the passage on illiteracy experimental? </p>

<p>I got an 800 for CR on my previous SAT, but I feel this one was harder :/</p>

<p>SC’s

  1. ingenuity
  2. pessimistic
  3. cultivated…castigate
  4. delightful
  5. demanded…threat
  6. spate-
  7. brisk
  8. hostility
  9. humanitarian…altruism</p>

<p>Passages</p>

<p>Short Dual on Farming:

  1. frustrated because consumers should learn more about organic farming</p>

<p>Long Dual on Fingerprints

  1. chaotic nature of crime scene</p>

<p>GLaciers

  1. towns and villages are destitute
  2. best evidence-- line 35 which talks about the changing landscape of Boston or something like that.</p>

<p>Korean Calligraphy

  1. for the Korean one, the italicized line is simile.
  2. uncomfortable for brother</p>

<p>Short passage on Writing

  1. importance of having role model in writing
  2. The journey is arduoud ( not-the journey is pointless)</p>

<p>BACH
1)measured optimism
2) wow factor- adds excitement
3) there was a question comring him learning to read the music to another situation but I cant remember the answer
4) what was the purpose? to describe a challenging event (something like that)</p>

<p>Wow-factor question, I got that it makes Bach’s music unique? Not adds excitement.
What was the question to “importance of having role model in writing”? I remember that choice but I didn’t put it.</p>