<p>I am seriously starting to doubt these answers! I very seldom get a passaged-based reading question wrong, and, according to these, I had four wrong! Please reconsider some of these choices. Hypothetical musing was one of the answers for sure on the E.T. passage! There was no sense of elitism in the urban sprawl passages.</p>
<p>@bruce There is a debate whether the answer is “Mo was a shrewd judge of the students’ character” or "Mo was trying to limit Duncan’s ability. I don’t think it is that Duncan is inexperienced because it later mentions in the passage that he is a language expert and it just doesn’t make much sense in general.</p>
<p>@000 Mo repeating “kind” was mocking.</p>
<p>For the security grammar question, its “not choosing”. It can’t be any of the answer choices with “you” because its not talking directly to a person.</p>
<p>@IDC
“Highbrow critics” ← elitism
No hypothetical musings in ET passage…what question was this?</p>
<p>@kamzarro </p>
<p>Thanks that’s what I put. And on bruce’s question what were the other answer choices?</p>
<p>@dasdui & Aj39vn23cf2 I thought it said the student “wasn’t the best,” or something to that effect?</p>
<p>I believe it said that he was chosen to speak for the class “despite the fact that he wasn’t really a good student” or something.</p>
<p>@IDCMineLife- “High-browed critics” implies a sense of elitism. What was the question with “Hypothetical musings” as an answer choice?</p>
<p>Here’s what i’ll do: tomorrow after school i will ask the teacher to go over some of the answers, and ill report them here.</p>
<p>RIGHT. i thought it was hypothetical musing but apparently it was a concession? and i said that it wasnt elitist because the 2nd passage mentioned that the sprawls are disliked first then they become trendy then antique, so wouldnt the passage 1 attitude be understandable?</p>
<p>Wait, I think I’ve been confusing two questions for the past few hours…</p>
<p>What was the answer to the question that asked why Mo repeated “it’s not a popularity contest”? Something about jealousy?</p>
<p>@Greenmamba20</p>
<p>You can do that?! lol</p>
<p>@dasdui. But the first clause ends with “that” which must refer to some noun…right?</p>
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<p>So, I didn’t choose elitism - short-sighted for that particular question(just telling you so you see where I’m coming from). I still do agree that the answer is indeed elitism - short-sighted. Elitism in the sense of snobbishness, and short-sighted since the author of Passage 2 sees value in those housings while the author of Passage 1 doesn’t.</p>
<p>@Amyga17- The passage never mentioned anything about the student’s ability in school. It just said that he asked the teacher for music on behalf of the class.</p>
<p>@Aj I don’t remember seeing that quote… LOL, so I guess you are right. I was pretty rushed on that one. There was a lot of supposition in the passages. The author engaged in hypothetical musing, as he was absorbed in the bad things that would happen IF humans discovered intelligent life, and he made very few concessions.</p>
<p>what do you mean f1yin?</p>
<p>@dasdui For the security one. It was something like “The security guard recommended that, when choosing a password, _________ a string that could be found in the dictionary” or something.</p>
<p>What was the closest number to 7?!!?!</p>
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For me, the key was short sighted. Passage two is about how in a while, people will probably consider them historic, so people are being shortsighted by not seeing that future perception.</p>
<p>@dasdui You’re probably right. I got it down to 50/50 and couldn’t decide. :(</p>