Official Dec 2012 READING thread

<p>Does anyone remember the last two questions of the Mangroves Passage and what they put for them? I was feeling awful on exam day so I couldn’t concentrate very well, and I ended up guessing on the last two :(</p>

<p>@negativekarma Read the thread then ask questions.</p>

<p>What did you guys get for the violinist’s feelings about baseball and music?</p>

<p>What were the choices? I think I said something about… nope don’t remember sorry</p>

<p>It was the most boring one. Like she is disappointed the baseball season is over but is looking forward to playing.</p>

<p>I said she was accepting that the season was over and excited to focus on violin in the summer. I had trouble with the “real” one too but eventually decided on “untouched by humans / natural habitat” just because the sentence was set up talking about taking shelter from the desert heat, and THEN talked about how city foxes “followed suit.”</p>

<p>@wallrus I don’t agree I said what @emeraldevi said. Disappointed but excited for violin. It clearly stated near the beginning of the passage that she was happy to be up early in the morning for her lesson.</p>

<p>That’s what I put I think… forgot the options.</p>

<p>I put that she was accepting that softball season was over and was looking forward to the violin or something</p>

<p>Oh my bad I thought you meant playing baseball in spring. There was a choice that said that.</p>

<p>For foxes, anyone remember the question about what the scientist was trying to study/do? I know one of the answers was “keep on endangered species list” which wasn’t right, but I can’t remember the rest. Something about studying how they’ve adapted?</p>

<p>And what was the overall purpose of the passage-- was it the answer choice with “to inform”?</p>

<p>@emeraldEvi
I put down B for that one, which was scientists studying their genes to see how they adapt to humans affecting their environment or something like that…</p>

<p>Were any of the last 3 answers B? Pretty much had to randomly guess on the last section which is frustrating because I got a 34 on a practice reading test yesterday.</p>

<p>I second @readymed. I said how they adapt around humans basically.</p>

<p>I put something about Genes so they can help them or something. Not sure if that’s the same as what you’re saying</p>

<p>That’s wrong I’m pretty sure. It never mentioned genes and the whole passage was about them adapting to the way their habitat has changed from humans.</p>

<p>I think there was an answer choice involving adaptation that didn’t involve genes? And I think that one might be right. Wish I could remember the specifics.</p>

<p>The main purpose had something to do with the fox’s interaction with humans.</p>

<p>I’m not so sure about the baseball-violin one. The passage specifically stated later on that the girl was fed up with violin playing and even quit during the baseball season.</p>

<p>What will the curve be on this section? -1, -2, -3 etc.</p>