<p>Believe that the final sentence completion is DISPERSE! Something about a stain DISPERSING or spreading across the cloth. Does this ring a bell?</p>
<p>Believe that this is a question from the Paired Passage that has eluded us: The author of Passage 1 considered undisturbed silence one of the comforts
he enjoyed when traveling alone.</p>
<p>Good work sunnyboy! I also added the CAPCOM question mentioned before.
We have 62 out of 67! </p>
<ol>
<li>ENTHRALLED - loved to read</li>
<li>RETICENT - (Thurgood Marshall was forthright in public but reticent in private)</li>
<li>IMPECUNIOUS .. AFFLUENT (neither poor or wealthy)</li>
<li>CHAGRIN</li>
<li>ENDEMIC (wildlife in Australia or New Zealand)</li>
<li>EBULLIENCE .. PESSIMISM (group has to rethink their policies because their initial ebullience gave way to pessimism)</li>
<li>AMALGAM .. COIN (author combined two names to coin a new name)</li>
<li>PROPONENT (a champion)</li>
<li>EXTEMPORIZE (about monarch butterflies)</li>
<li>COMPLICITY .. EXONERATED (evidence connected person to crime so he/she could not be exonerated)</li>
<li>TEPID - little enthusiasm</li>
<li>PERSPECTIVES .. ANONYMITY (artist's strange perspectives lead to anonymous figures)</li>
<li>HAMPERED (interpretation of data hampered)</li>
<li>SEDENTARY (children were confined)</li>
<li>TRANQUIL (quiet reading room)</li>
<li>People CONFORM to gain approval and avoid being REJECTED</li>
<li>Two dancers were DETERMINED to MASTER Latin American dance steps.</li>
<li>An experiment did not produce DECISIVE results, the results were only of NOMINAL importance.</li>
<li>A stain would DISPERSE across a cloth if you try to dissolve it.(or something similar)</li>
</ol>
<p>PUFFIN PARAGRAPH
1. The simile implies oceans are critical to the planet
2. Puffins are ENDEARING</p>
<p>BILINGUAL CALLIGRAPHER
1. Punishment - something difficult to master
2. Daughter's job is most similar to the editor of a publishing house
3. Both mother and daughter often get frustrated with each other
4. List of different jobs depicts the variety of the mother's work
5. Mother's description of how to write shows that she emphasizes HARMONY
6. In the description of how mother lectured during lessons, the word 'stuffing' in the sentence on how she stuffed her daughter's head full of lessons most nearly means CRAMMING
7. The word SIMPLE most nearly means UNCOMPLICATED
8. The situation most nearly similar to that of the athlete practicing his moves because his behavioral pattern is that of a muscian or someone practicing his work</p>
<p>MINI-PAIR: GENIUS
1. The purpose of the opening sentences in Passage 1 is that they provided a context for the discussion
2. Author of Passage 2 uses a word that the Author of Passage 1 would challenge
3. Author of Passage 1 would consider the description of the person's friend to be OVERSTATED
4. The author of Passage 1 lamented the lack of geniuses and if he thought the way the author of passage 2 did then geniuses would be everywhere.</p>
<p>EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENT ON BEHAVIOR: PSYCHOLOGICAL ECOLOGY
1. Purpose of the first paragraph - a generalized thesis which is then supported
2. Most similar to "going thru" - going thru driving test maneuvers
3. Paying a professional decorator to find a better spot for a sofa - unfortunate response to a behavioral phenomenon
4. Dark side - lose flexibility in thinking
5. Wild idea - unconventional
6. List of teachers..students; doctors..patients etc - something like roles we unconsciously fill
7. SECURE = ACQUIRE
8. What distinguishes artists? It was something along the lines of artists always seeing the world in a fresh perspective
9. Passage is a thoughtful examination of a phenomenon
10. Adults were able to compensate for visual distortion because they were more experienced than children</p>
<p>PAIRED PASSAGE: TRAVELING ALONE
1. PARADOX - "I am never less alone than when I am alone"
2. Sterne would most likely support the idea of traveling with a companion
3. Fleming would support the author of Passage 1 in that traveling alone is better
4. Description of different routines illustrates the PETTY differences between two people
5. Description implies PROVINCIAL CHARM
6. What Hemingway TOOK from his road trip with Fitzgerald...what he GLEANED
7. Last paragraph of Passage 1 acknowledges that there is an exception to the rule stated above
8. Hemingway's quote "Never travel with anyone you don't love" implied that Fitzgerald did something that annoyed Hemingway
9. The shy person liked to travel because he got to meet new people.
10. The last paired passage question asked about the role of the Sterne and Fleming references. The answer was that both provided a contrast to initial statements.
11. The author of Passage 1 considered undisturbed silence one of the comforts
he enjoyed when traveling alone.</p>
<p>ASTRONAUTS
1. Description of Inuit language shows relationship between language and thought. I believe this was the question saying Inuit had like ten words for "snow" but one for "tree" and a simple translation of any of the ten into "snow" would cause the original thought to be lost in translation.
2. Author implies that there is more jargon than efficient communication (there's exclusivity)
3. Description of astronaut jargon as "foreign language" shows that most laypersons would find it needlessly complicated
4. Different languages use the same words in different manner
5. Space jargon developed as a response to an unprecedented situation
6. There was a question with how CAPCOM, an abbreviation, has become a word.</p>
<p>Blockbuster movie
1. Cornerstone means fundamental element
2. Author was DERISIVE</p>
<p>who remember the answer for CAPCOM? is it something that since it's used so frequently, it has become an acceptable vocabulary?</p>
<p>Google really is incredible! Turns out that the passage we are calling the "Bilingual Calligrapher" is from an Amy Tan novel called "The Bonesetter's Daughter." The question we listed as number 8 is off the mark. The passage used on our test had two characters - LuLing (the mother) and Ruth (the daughter). Our question 8 should be deleted. Here as best I can reconstruct them are our two missing questions:
1. In the last paragraph LuLing "provides instruction."
2. The last paragraph uses lots of figurative language</p>
<p>The passage on the effect of environment on behavior is from a book called the "Power of Place" by Winifred Gallagher! Going to bookstore to find a copy.</p>
<p>We have 64 out of 67! </p>
<ol>
<li>ENTHRALLED - loved to read</li>
<li>RETICENT - (Thurgood Marshall was forthright in public but reticent in private)</li>
<li>IMPECUNIOUS .. AFFLUENT (neither poor or wealthy)</li>
<li>CHAGRIN</li>
<li>ENDEMIC (wildlife in Australia or New Zealand)</li>
<li>EBULLIENCE .. PESSIMISM (group has to rethink their policies because their initial ebullience gave way to pessimism)</li>
<li>AMALGAM .. COIN (author combined two names to coin a new name)</li>
<li>PROPONENT (a champion)</li>
<li>EXTEMPORIZE (about monarch butterflies)</li>
<li>COMPLICITY .. EXONERATED (evidence connected person to crime so he/she could not be exonerated)</li>
<li>TEPID - little enthusiasm</li>
<li>PERSPECTIVES .. ANONYMITY (artist's strange perspectives lead to anonymous figures)</li>
<li>HAMPERED (interpretation of data hampered)</li>
<li>SEDENTARY (children were confined)</li>
<li>TRANQUIL (quiet reading room)</li>
<li>People CONFORM to gain approval and avoid being REJECTED</li>
<li>Two dancers were DETERMINED to MASTER Latin American dance steps.</li>
<li>An experiment did not produce DECISIVE results, the results were only of NOMINAL importance.</li>
<li>A stain would DISPERSE across a cloth if you try to dissolve it.(or something similar)</li>
</ol>
<p>PUFFIN PARAGRAPH
1. The simile implies oceans are critical to the planet
2. Puffins are ENDEARING</p>
<p>BILINGUAL CALLIGRAPHER
1. Punishment - something difficult to master
2. Daughter's job is most similar to the editor of a publishing house
3. Both mother and daughter often get frustrated with each other
4. List of different jobs depicts the variety of the mother's work
5. Mother's description of how to write shows that she emphasizes HARMONY
6. In the description of how mother lectured during lessons, the word 'stuffing' in the sentence on how she stuffed her daughter's head full of lessons most nearly means CRAMMING
7. The word SIMPLE most nearly means UNCOMPLICATED
8. The situation most nearly similar to that of the athlete practicing his moves because his behavioral pattern is that of a muscian or someone practicing his work
9. In the last paragraph LuLing "provides instruction."
10. The last paragraph uses lots of figurative language</p>
<p>MINI-PAIR: GENIUS
1. The purpose of the opening sentences in Passage 1 is that they provided a context for the discussion
2. Author of Passage 2 uses a word that the Author of Passage 1 would challenge
3. Author of Passage 1 would consider the description of the person's friend to be OVERSTATED
4. The author of Passage 1 lamented the lack of geniuses and if he thought the way the author of passage 2 did then geniuses would be everywhere.</p>
<p>EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENT ON BEHAVIOR: PSYCHOLOGICAL ECOLOGY
1. Purpose of the first paragraph - a generalized thesis which is then supported
2. Most similar to "going thru" - going thru driving test maneuvers
3. Paying a professional decorator to find a better spot for a sofa - unfortunate response to a behavioral phenomenon
4. Dark side - lose flexibility in thinking
5. Wild idea - unconventional
6. List of teachers..students; doctors..patients etc - something like roles we unconsciously fill
7. SECURE = ACQUIRE
8. What distinguishes artists? It was something along the lines of artists always seeing the world in a fresh perspective
9. Passage is a thoughtful examination of a phenomenon
10. Adults were able to compensate for visual distortion because they were more experienced than children</p>
<p>PAIRED PASSAGE: TRAVELING ALONE
1. PARADOX - "I am never less alone than when I am alone"
2. Sterne would most likely support the idea of traveling with a companion
3. Fleming would support the author of Passage 1 in that traveling alone is better
4. Description of different routines illustrates the PETTY differences between two people
5. Description implies PROVINCIAL CHARM
6. What Hemingway TOOK from his road trip with Fitzgerald...what he GLEANED
7. Last paragraph of Passage 1 acknowledges that there is an exception to the rule stated above
8. Hemingway's quote "Never travel with anyone you don't love" implied that Fitzgerald did something that annoyed Hemingway
9. The shy person liked to travel because he got to meet new people.
10. The last paired passage question asked about the role of the Sterne and Fleming references. The answer was that both provided a contrast to initial statements.
11. The author of Passage 1 considered undisturbed silence one of the comforts
he enjoyed when traveling alone.</p>
<p>ASTRONAUTS
1. Description of Inuit language shows relationship between language and thought. I believe this was the question saying Inuit had like ten words for "snow" but one for "tree" and a simple translation of any of the ten into "snow" would cause the original thought to be lost in translation.
2. Author implies that there is more jargon than efficient communication (there's exclusivity)
3. Description of astronaut jargon as "foreign language" shows that most laypersons would find it needlessly complicated
4. Different languages use the same words in different manner
5. Space jargon developed as a response to an unprecedented situation
6. There was a question with how CAPCOM, an abbreviation, has become a word.</p>
<p>Blockbuster movie
1. Cornerstone means fundamental element
2. Author was DERISIVE</p>
<p>The CAPCOM question doesn't have an answer, does anyone remember? is it something that since it's used so frequently, it has become an acceptable vocabulary?</p>
<p>OK, where are you getting question 11 of the travelers passage from. That doesn't sound familiar. </p>
<p>Are you sure it was a question?</p>
<p>I'm not sure, but sunnyboy has it in one of his posts</p>
<p>I think 11 was a question that said why does the author of passage one like traveling alone or something similar. sunnyboy remembered it and it kind of sounds familiar.</p>
<p>Yeah i remember the answer as undistrubed silence. lol, how does sunnyboy remember all those questions.</p>
<p>Check this out!!!!!!!!!
Essay by William Hazlitt called "On Going a Journey"
These are just small excerpts from a much longer essay.</p>
<p>One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey; but I like to do it myself. I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.
"Let me have a companion of my way," says Sterne, "were it but to remark how the shadows lengthen as the sun declines." It is beautifully said; but in my opinion, this continual comparing of notes interferes with the involuntary impression of things upon the mind and hurts the sentiment. If you only hint what you feel in a kind of dumb show, it is insipid; if you have to explain it, it is making a toil of a pleasure. You cannot read the book of nature without being perpetually put to the trouble of translating it for the benefit of others.
I grant, there is one subject on which it is pleasant to talk on a journey; and that is, what one shall have for supper when we get to our inn at night. The open air improves this sort of conversation or friendly altercation by setting a keener edge on appetite. Every mile of the road heightens the flavor of the viands we expect at the end of it. How fine is it to enter some old town, walled and turreted, just at approach of nightfall, or to come to some straggling village, with the lights streaming through the surrounding gloom; and then after inquiring for the best entertainment that the place affords, to "take one's ease at one's inn!" These eventful moments in our lives' history are too precious, too full of solid, heart-felt happiness to be frittered and dribbled away in imperfect sympathy.</p>
<p>This should go somewhere in the passage:</p>
<p>Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.</p>
<p>The SAT passage was pieced together sentence by sentence almost.</p>
<p>i think hes like god</p>
<p>Awesome job Stantonia! Would really like to know how you tracked this essay down.</p>
<p>I typed in the I am never more alone quote into Google and found this page <a href="http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/schallj/20.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/schallj/20.htm</a> which described an essay that sounded like our passage and then I found the actual essay on Google again. Google is king!</p>
<p>Google is truly amazing. Can't believe we are tracking down the sources for the passages. This is making it possible to recall the missing questions. So does the phrase "aberrant input" jog anyone's memory? I believe this referred to information that doesn't match our prior experiences. Does this sound right?</p>
<p>We previously identified the list of teacher's - students; doctors and patients as roles that people fill. These people do "the right thing" because it is customary. Does this sound right?</p>
<p>Thanks! Just posted two more questions. We are very close now!</p>
<p>I don't know if the actual phrase "aberrant input" was used but yea it sounds right.
I don't remember "the right thing."</p>
<p>I remember the "right thing" because it is customary, but i don't remember aberrant input, but I do remember the question</p>