<p>Let's have a thread in which you post your hardest CR or writing questions and then someone else will attempt to answer them. It will give us a lot of practice for the March SAT especially if you are only missing some of the hard or medium questions. After you say your answer, if you can, explain why your answer is correct. Trust me, this will help everyone get another viewpoint and another person's way of how to solve a problem! </p>
<p>This is actually not a very hard question, I think. But I just don’t understand why my answer is wrong and why the correct answer is correct.</p>
<p>May 2009 QAS, Section 5, </p>
<p>Sometimes, much the dismay of my fellow academics, I write about my activities and the activities of my colleagues … I believe their distrust of my work reflects a distrust of me. My work smacks of speculation; I tell stories about people who inhabited the ancient ruins-and my colleagues do not CARE FOR my tales.</p>
<p>“CARE FOR” most nearly means
a. appreciate
b. feel concern about</p>
<p>I chose b. Because the colleagues don’t care about the author’s tales. They disregard her tales, thinking that the tales are unworthy. But my choice is wrong according to CB. </p>
<p>She doesn’t mean that her colleagues don’t “care about her tales.” The text as a whole supports the notion that her colleagues actually feel contempt for her work - hence they do FEEL CONCERN ABOUT it but they do not APPRECIATE it.</p>
<p>This is not a hard question either:)
but it’s somewhat confusing.
It’s from McGraw Hill Writing.</p>
<p>When Victoria Woodhill was selected(a) by the Equal Rights Party to be its(b) candidate in the 1872 elections, she became(c) the first woman to run(d) for President of the United States.(e)</p>
<p>I assumed it was (d) and the correct sentence should have been ‘… the first woman to HAVE RUN for President…’ since in the previous test I took there was a sentence
’ The Medieval era is considered by most scholars to begin…’
and ‘to begin’ was changed for ‘to have begun’ since the event happened in the past.</p>
<p>But in this test it says that ‘to run for President’ is fine.
So am I the only one that is confused?</p>
<p>When Victoria Woodhill was selected(a) by the Equal Rights Party to be its(b) candidate in the 1872 elections, she became(c) the first woman to run(d) for President of the United States.(e)</p>
<p>There is nothing wrong with this sentence. I assume you already know why a, b, and c are ok. D is also ok because the verb “became” already signifies that the event happens in the past. In this regards, “to run” must remain in its infinite test. If you’re still confused, think of these sentences:</p>
<p>Armstrong was the first person to walk on the mooon.
Einstein was the first person to claim that light is both a wave and a beam of particles.
My horse that died a few years ago was the first of its kind to lay eggs. (as weird as it sounds lol, this sentence is grammatically correct)</p>
<p>Now with regards to your second sentence The Medieval era is considered by most scholars to begin…</p>
<p>“is considered” is in present tense. Which is why “to begin” must be changed to “to have begun”. It can’t be changed to “began” because there will be a verb-tense disagreement in the sentence (is considered, began). </p>
<p>this is great guys…now its giving people a chance to understand how to answer a question or type of question from another person’s point of view! Keep the questions coming!!</p>
<p>We followed what seemed to be a large movement of chimpazees into one great open room in the forest, relatively clear except for columns of nut trees. Soon about a dozen chimps were hammering away, using log hammers on log or root anvils.</p>
<p>It can be inferred that the “chimps” are
A. using simple tools to crack open nuts
B. working cooperatively on different tasks.</p>
<p>A or B?</p>
<p>Liars may betray themselves through linguistic mistakes, but the main sources of betrayal are the emotions.
Clumsy deceivers are sometimes visibly agitated, but in general there is no such thing a “typical” deceptive behavior.</p>
<p>Both above lines contain
A. paradox
B. qualification
C. simile
D euphemism
E. understatement</p>
<p>"We followed what seemed to be a large movement of chimpazees into one great open room in the forest, relatively clear except for columns of nut trees. Soon about a dozen chimps were hammering away, using log hammers on log or root anvils.</p>
<p>It can be inferred that the “chimps” are
A. using simple tools to crack open nuts
B. working cooperatively on different tasks.</p>
<p>A or B?"</p>
<p>A because there’s no evidence of cooperating, not even a hint of it.</p>
<p>"Liars may betray themselves through linguistic mistakes, but the main sources of betrayal are the emotions.
Clumsy deceivers are sometimes visibly agitated, but in general there is no such thing a “typical” deceptive behavior.</p>
<p>Both above lines contain
A. paradox
B. qualification
C. simile
D euphemism
E. understatement</p>
<p>What is a “qualification”?"</p>
<p>Qualification is a very important word on SAT CR because it’s a basic tool of rhetoric: you make a claim, then you support it, then you qualify it (show that it’s limited or even weaken it a little), then return to say it’s basically true anyway. For example, I might say “Test-takers should be very attracted to answers with the world ‘qualification.’ Of course they aren’t always right, but the word ‘qualification’ is nevertheless frequently the right answer.” The first clause of my second sentence is a qualification.</p>
<p>“From the start, Cirque de Soleil was hardly a conventional circus. It had outrageous costumes, original music, and clever performers- but no animals. Despite the dearth of beasts, it was a rousing success. Those initial decisions were brilliant, since they essentially redefined the genre. By not featuring animals, cirque eliminated one of the most costly and controversial parts of any circus. And by shifting the focus from an event geared to kids to one designed for adults, cirque pulled in an audience the traditional circus had never seen: adult theatergoers accustomed to paying steeper ticket prices.”</p>
<p>Q4, Why does the author consider Cirque de Soleil a success?
B It provided a new source of entertainment for parents.
D It made a number of shrewd financial decisions.
Why can’t the answer be B?? Thanks!</p>
<p>Read the last sentence. It says it got hold of adults who are used to paying alot of money for tickets but this time this circus somehow got these adults to come even though they sell their tickets cheaply. </p>
<p>Also earlier in the paragrah, it states that the circus removed animals, they reduced the exorbitant costs. So there you go, shrewed financial decisions.</p>
<p>B is wrong because it didnt necessarily provide a new source of entertainment. The adults just went to a circus which were more expensive. It was more like redirecting the adults from the expensive circus to the unconventional, cheap circus through financial decisions.</p>
<p>Thank you so much Marvin100! Now I understand what is a qualification. :D</p>
<p>@magicjane
I did this practice before. At first, I got B, but then I realized that the passage only says that the circus provides entertainment for Adults, not parents. Also, in the passage, the author writes about financial matters. So the answer is D.</p>
<p>Thank you!! I also have several two writing Qs</p>
<ol>
<li><p>The security officer recommends that, when asked to provide a computer password,
a. not to choose
b. you not choose
any string of letters. </p></li>
<li><p>We were opposed to the program because we thought it would have little accomplishment despite its bilateral support
vs. We opposed the program, despite its bilateral support, because we thought it would accomplish little.
Thanks!</p></li>
</ol>
<p>We were like convicts escaping; every miles crossed testified to our incredible good fortune, our giddy peril.</p>
<ol>
<li>The reference to “convicts escaping” primarily used to express a sense of
a. grim pursuit
b. stealthy progress
c. inevitable punishment
d. unaccustomed freedom
e. unspoken regret</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li><p>Well, the answers sound a bit weird. But I know that last clause should start with “you” or “I” or “people” which is the subject for “when asked…”. It is a person/people who is being asked. So you need a human subject for the clause.</p></li>
<li><p>“We were opposed to…” sounds better. “Be opposed to” is idiom. And the sentence flows better by saying “we did sth because we thought it xxx although(despite) it xxx.”</p></li>
</ol>
<p>I have another one! It’s from the Improving Paragraphs part. I’ll just write two of the options, since the rest of them were nonsensical.</p>
<p>(a)Some people think that sports distract us from important things like thinking about who is the best quarterback rather than who should be president.</p>
<p>(b) Some people complain that sports distract us from important things, focusing us on questions like who is the best quarterback rather than who is the best presidential candidate.</p>
<p>I actually think both of the choices sound awkward, but doesn’t (b) have an ambiguous modifier? (’…things, focusing us…’ while it must be ‘sports, focusing us’)</p>
<p>Is the answer B?
Normally, escaping convicts will escape “stealthily” as indicated by B. You can also think of “miles” as a synonym for progress. </p>
<p>C:You cannot assume C because the sentence does not indicate that the convicts are found running away, and therefore punished. </p>
<p>D: You wouldn’t really associate “unaccustomed freedom” to this context. This would be more appropriate to describe a situation where a slave successfully escaped his master, etc.</p>
<p>The answer is actually D. It’s pretty hard to answer any Cr questions without the passage tbh, but I’ll try since I took this test before and got it right. The passage is basically about a dad and son taking a trip.</p>
<p>B isn’t right because the Dad and the son aren’t actually doing anything in a surreptitiously way. They’re going around to places and places, having fun in a pretty blatant way, would you call this “our incredible good fortune, our giddy peril” stealthily? Probably not.</p>
<p>C is wrong because it’s just completely off. The sentence describes how free they are and the whole passage has a carefree tone to it. So the whole convict thing doesn’t describe an inevitable punishment. </p>
<p>D. Is right. Convicts escaping prison would have “unaccustomed freedom” because they aren’t use to being able to go anywhere they want (after all they’re in a cell). There’s probably some line in the passage where the Son mentioned how this is the first time he spend quality time/ go on such a trip like this with his dad or something.</p>
<p>Mr. Mustard. The answer is B.</p>
<p>“focusing us on questions like who is the best quarterback rather than who is the best presidential candidate.” This is modifying sports. After all it IS the presence of Sports that is making the people focus on questions like that, and not someone else.</p>
a)… the sentence doesn’t specify an object so the pronoun “you” doesn’t apply (you can’t be the subject). Furthermore “you not choose” is just awkward wording. </p>
<ol>
<li>We opposed the program, despite its bilateral support, because we thought it would accomplish little… try to keep the sentences as simple as possible. The second one is also more active (active vs passive voice); the first one is unnecessarily wordy.</li>
</ol>
Good luck on your SAT.</p>