<p>Can you please post the last question in the writing section?</p>
<p>Because you said please, here it is.</p>
<p>In context, which of the following is the best version of the underlined portion of sentence 13 (reproduced below)</p>
<p>Photographs of the attacks were a good way to turn public opinion against the mill owners and create pressure on the two sides to come to an agreement.</p>
<p>A. were good for turning
B. made them turn
C. helped turn
D. are a way to turn
E. turned</p>
<p>C is correct</p>
<p>Hahaha</p>
<p>On the last grid in problem of the math portion, the one with all the pictures, my brother saw the kid next to him drawing out different orders of the squares, triangles, circles, etc, to represent the pictures on the desk. Little did he know he would have to draw 720 pictures! Just a little tedious, huh?</p>
<p>What was the answer to the last error identification question please?</p>
<p>Can someone post the answers to the improving paragraphs? I don’t need the question; just the answers.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>bump bump bump</p>
<p>hischoolstudent: The first woman in the US to be granted a patent was Mary Dixon Kies, her new method for weaving straw with other fibers proved useful to hatmakers.</p>
<p>Answer B her</p>
<p>genesis:
35. C. More than 33 percent of mill workers died before they reached the age of 26, possibly as a result of injuries suffered in industrial accidents.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>D. The mill owners charged money for drinking water and docked workers an hour’s pay for arriving just a few minutes late.</p></li>
<li><p>A. The union provided meals for workers’ families and helped organize picket lines.</p></li>
<li><p>C. Whatever the intentions of the union organizers might have been, violence broke out.</p></li>
<li><p>Photographs of the attacks were a good way to turn public opinion against the mill owners and create pressure on the two sides to come to an agreement.
C. helped turn.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>can anyone post vocab? the questions and answers please!</p>
<p>Yankee, can you please post the critical reading answers for the short passage reality tv crtic and fans one, and also the socrates being conciliatory or pretentious one??thanks!</p>
<h1>1 Cognitive psychologist, Kathleen Eberhard, uses software to ____ her design of experiments: what once took days now takes minutes.</h1>
<p>A. accelerate</p>
<h1>2 although she always had the best of __<strong><em>, Joan was nonetheless often accused of meddling because of her tendency to _</em></strong> the lives of her friends.</h1>
<p>D. intentions…interfere in</p>
<h1>3 A scholar of US history, Sabrina was hired to scrutinize the script of an upcoming film set in the Old West in order to___ its historical ____.</h1>
<p>A. Verify / accuracy</p>
<h1>4. Ruth Ella Moore’s distinguished work in the field of bacteriology____ that of other African-American women who later achieved success in science careers.</h1>
<p>B. Foreshadowed</p>
<h1>5 The report was ____ about the future of the ailing economy, concluding optimistically that conditions would ____ within months.</h1>
<p>D. sanguine / improve</p>
<h1>6 Director Carlos Avila has been called ta master of restraint: his films_<strong><em>a tendency toward</em></strong>.</h1>
<p>B. reveal?understatement</p>
<h1>7. Unlike the works of the Cubist painters, which tend to have _____ appeal, Chaim Soutine’s paintings are quite _____ arousing profoundly emotional responses in many viewers.</h1>
<p>B. a cerebral / visceral</p>
<h1>8 Although the journalist intended his critique of contemporary artists to be <strong><em>, the article’s tone instead expresses a _</em></strong> not in keeping with his usual carping persona.</h1>
<p>D. disparaging / charitableness.</p>
<h1>9 Both passages support the claim that reality television A. has value in spite of its flaws.</h1>
<h1>10 The author of passage 1 mentions rules in line 12 in order to</h1>
<p>C. emphasize the relative lack of constraints in reality tv.</p>
<h1>11. The author of passage 2 would most likely respond to the claims in lines 2-4, in passage 1 by maintaining that reality tv</h1>
<p>E. acknowledges human individuality rather than emphasizez human failure.</p>
<h1>12 Which best describes a difference between the two passages?</h1>
<p>D. passage 1 discusses reality tv from a political perspective, whereas passage 2 considers how it will be seen in the future.</p>
<p>More Vocab. and Socrates.</p>
<ol>
<li>Never especially eager to go climbing with his friends, Mick felt even less ___ when he actually saw the mountain.
D. enthusiastic</li>
</ol>
<h1>26Telling our own life stories has___ effect: it helps us to overcome fears and to heal psychological wounds.</h1>
<p>C. therapeutic
27. Many animals migrate early in certain years, apparently to avoid the ___ of particularly harsh, snowy winters.
B severity</p>
<h1>28 Although Prof. Kniffen vigorously ___ the development of neuclea technology, she nonetheless adopts a somber and____ tone when speaking of its potential safety issues.</h1>
<p>A. supports / cautionary.</p>
<p>Alvarez is far less___ than his peers, tending rather to flout tradition and disdain conventional behavior.</p>
<p>E. punctilious</p>
<h1>45. In the fourth paragraph, the author presents his own behavior as being habitually</h1>
<p>A. conciliatory.</p>
<p>^Hi Yankee Belle! Thanxs soooo much!!! Is the answer to Question 47 E Risky? Thank you!!</p>
<p>SCORES ARE OUT!!!
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<h1>47 on CR was d. ludicrous</h1>
<p>Is D LUDICROUS the official answer?</p>
<p>Yes…</p>
<p>I feel really stupid because the only question I got wrong on the math section was the grid-in about pizza. I put 6.8 and the answer was 7. lol.
That dropped me from an 80 to a 76. Overall, I got over 200 though and that’s all I care about.</p>
<p>Hi Yankee Belle,</p>
<p>I am new to this forum. Looks like the following questions are from a real PSAT test, can you tell me when this test was administrated on?</p>
<h1>1 Cognitive psychologist, Kathleen Eberhard, uses software to ____ her design of experiments: what once took days now takes minutes.</h1>
<p>A. accelerate</p>
<h1>2 although she always had the best of __<strong><em>, Joan was nonetheless often accused of meddling because of her tendency to _</em></strong> the lives of her friends.</h1>
<p>D. intentions…interfere in</p>
<h1>3 A scholar of US history, Sabrina was hired to scrutinize the script of an upcoming film set in the Old West in order to___ its historical ____.</h1>
<p>A. Verify / accuracy</p>
<h1>4. Ruth Ella Moore’s distinguished work in the field of bacteriology____ that of other African-American women who later achieved success in science careers.</h1>
<p>B. Foreshadowed</p>
<h1>5 The report was ____ about the future of the ailing economy, concluding optimistically that conditions would ____ within months.</h1>