SAT January 2012 - Critical Reading

<p>Guys: answers i got for the short blog double passage:

  1. Offer personal views on a contemporary practice
  2. Private details are often exposed on blogs
  3. An intrusion into the reading of a blog
  4. Passage 1 finds intimacy of blogs interesting whereas passage 2 was ambivalent about this intimacy</p>

<p>CAN ANYONE SECOND THIS?</p>

<p>Someone posted the link to the traffic passage last night, so now I can advocate recycling guy as the answer. Copy and paste from my post last night:</p>

<p>To put an end to the job analogy for the photography passage. The referenced like for that passage contained this information (pulled straight from the book):
“…Eno, who became a global celebrity of the sorts, boating off to Paris and Sao Paulo to solve traffic problems…”</p>

<p>This should settle the debate. The answer is clearly the recycle guy who is asked to hold workshops. Eno was a GLOBAL celebrity, and he went to different countries because his skills were needed/valued.</p>

<p>I did not put intrusion. Also, the job analogy wasn’t for the photography passage, SAT100.</p>

<p>And the energy guy (choice B) also went to other countries.</p>

<p>But what about that “became a global celebrity of the sorts” line in the passage?!?! suggests he was kinda living some extravagant lifestyle so i put celebrity ><</p>

<p>im worried about intrusion into personal experience of reading a blog, and describe details of a finding.</p>

<p>What were other choices for the blog passage? I remember deciding that they weren’t intrusive, yet also because of author 2’s intense following of a blog that he liked that he DID NOT agree with passing strangers.</p>

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<p>Being a global celebrity and living an extravagant lifestyle are not necessarily related. For one, Mother Teresa, who was a global celebrity, did not live an extravagant lifestyle.</p>

<p>GLOBAL CELEBRITY IS WRONG. IT’S ENERGY OR RECYCLING.</p>

<p>THe celebrity didn’t do any good, or help out like the traffic engineer did. Just a celebrity. Like an actor.If they said they went to other countries to star in their films, it would be a bit closer, but still not right.</p>

<p>ok the other choices were: accurate representation, inviting distraction, intrusion, unrealistic representation, fading popularity</p>

<p>Word (Q 1~8)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5. Transcribe
6.
7.
8. Prescient</p>

<p>Blog (Q 9~10)
9. What do strangers refer to? Random readers
10. Criticized on advanced technology / Commented on contemporary</p>

<p>Farm (Q 11~12)
11. Discovery that can discredit the opinion? Trading (I don’t think it is neighbor)
12. Scientific proof? Finding evidence that they cultivated distant farms (many say that the answer choice that had the word “neighbor” was in Q11, but I think it was this one that had one of the answer choices having the phrase “trading with neighboring villages.” I think this is not the answer because neighboring villages are likely to be “near.” We need to find prove that they could have “distant” farms)</p>

<p>Photography (Q 13~24)
13. Technical skills are less important that something
14. What does “course” refer to? Progression
15. What does “rides” refer to? Depends
16. Can be powerful if good person uses
17. Deal (solve) dissatisfaction
18. What does “history” refer to? Future social changes
19. To catch subtle evidence of attitude
20. What question would author 2 add to the list of questions of author 1’s? Distort the subject
21. Objection to stories
22. Philosophy / Methodology
23. To persuade skeptical readers who do not believe injustices do exist
24. The assumption that authors of both passage make is? is it something about social things?</p>

<p>Word (Q 1~6)
4. Adroit & Erudition
5. Voluptuous
6. Ruminate</p>

<p>Singer (Q 7~8)
7. To dramatize magnitude
8. Awe</p>

<p>Mrs. Alexander the Landlord (Q 9~14)
9. Polite policeman
10. Foreshadow future events (is it future? I heard some say past events which of course doesn’t make any sense)
11. Aloof & Proud
12. What does “cold blood” refer to? Rational / heartless detachment
13. Captivated to her attitude
14. Content / ambivalent</p>

<p>Biological Clock (Q 15~24)
15. What’s the purpose of the article? To introduce a phenomenon and (re)solutions / To introduce a theory and ways of testing it (I personally chose the latter one because I couldn’t find any (re)solutions. As a matter of fact, ways of testing it make more sense since they did experiments to find out that our internal clock is actually 25 hours and not 24 hours. Also all the things regarding going in to a light isolated cave for months and etc).
16. What does the word “work” mean? Operate
17. What does the phrase “If the legend can be believed” do? Qualify a sentence
18. What does the phrase “Found at 1917, and more thoroughly examined half century later” indicate? To describe the finding of the biological clock (I know many will think this as controversial, but I think this is right. I’ve seen some say that it’s to give scientific evidence or something but isn’t too vague to say that this verifies its validity. Rather I think it is just objectively providing information regarding its finding).
19. How independent is our internal clock from external influences. (The question was relevant to the word “autonomous”).
20. In which of the following cases might the additional time accumulate? Isolation of light and sound
21. Objective & Instructive
22. Why did the french researcher locked himself in the cave? To avoid sunlight
23.
24.</p>

<p>THANK YOU BEATIFUL. YES THAT WAS THE QUESTION. I’LL REVISE IT.</p>

<p>Word (1~6)
4. Quackery & Forestall / Humbuggery & Elude (I’ve put the former one, but I think the latter is more plausible. Well, it’s still controversial and I wish the former is correct lol).
5. Exaggerate
6. Obdurate</p>

<p>Traffic (Q 7~19)
7. Entertainment of historical event (This is also a little bit controversial, but I objectively think this is correct)
8. Have to change social behavior as well as something (like technical problems or etc)
9. Resent at new rules (laws)
10. What does the phrase “only keep in the right side was the common rule” indicate? Underscore the need for more laws (rules)
11. Gaining appreciable influence
12. What do all those different colors for traffic signs refer to? (or the question might be “Red might mean “stop” in one region and “go” in another region) The need to standardize stuffs
13. Should we change to green and red or stick with gray and purple? Highlighted the issues to be resolved
14. (question regarding Montana and Montacco have same traffic sings) Had become standardized
15. (Anology question)
16. street is disorderly organized
17. Cyclists should share the same road (or maybe have a separate lane)
18. What are “walkers and cyclists”? people that share streets with the motorists
19.</p>

<p>But my snag comes where the traffic engineer went to other places to solve problems, and the recycling guy was SUMMONED by them. It seems that the energy guy also CHOSE to go and help out in other countries, and not just hold workshops.</p>

<ol>
<li>What does the phrase “only keep in the right side was the common rule” indicate? Underscore the need for more laws (rules)</li>
</ol>

<p>I put… other previous laws were arbritrary</p>

<p>did u guys get intrusion?</p>

<p>Again, I put unrealistic representation because of author 2’s closing statement that whenever he found a blog he liked, he followed it eagerly with dedication (not exact words) , as opposed to just flipping through some posts and moving on.</p>

<p>@S3xt1ng: Underscore the lack of standardization.</p>

<p>There is nothing that supports previous laws being arbitrary, or even that previous laws existed.</p>

<p>for the clock passage i got present a theory and different ways of testing it or sumting?!?</p>

<ol>
<li>The assumption that authors of both passage make is? is it something about social things? half a century in biological clocks…im down to those now</li>
</ol>

<p>How do u think the curve for CR gunna be?how many can u get wrong before losing 800?</p>

<p>If I recall correctly, one of the reading sections only had 23 questions. It may have been the experimental one.</p>

<p>introduce a phenomenon and solutions, IMO</p>