<p>Too bad the guys back at ACT don’t understand what ambiguous means…</p>
<p>Ok, so is the weather instruments one the only Reading question we’re polarized on or is there something else as well?</p>
<p>it’s definitely prideful. I read that sentence over like 3 times. It’s prideful</p>
<p>^If you just read that one sentence, you would incorrect. Remember that the question was asking about the paragraph in general. And I don’t think that it gave off a prideful tone at all.</p>
<p>Besides, he also says that his instruments are delicate.</p>
<p>i put pride
and the other question i put familiar</p>
<p>@billabong: He did not have the feeling of: “Oh no, our instruments say 24 mph while the government’s say 27 mph! We should probably consider what the government says.” The feeling was more like: “Yeah, the government says 27, but we’re going with our reading.” He was prideful in that he thought his instruments were more accurate than the government’s.</p>
<p>^^ Familiar is right. We’re still discussing prideful vs. reliant though.</p>
<p>I’m positive it was pride</p>
<p>I don’t see how it can be pride. Their instruments, while more accurate, were not capable of recording the wind speed that day. Why else would he call the three men down?</p>
<p>i honestly don’t understand how people could be positive that it’s pride…</p>
<p>does anybody remember the title of the passage? Maybe we can get a snapshot of it on google ebooks or somehitng. We did that for the June ACT’s</p>
<p>If you read before the sentence about their “delicate and more accurate equipment,” though, you’ll see that he said that the wind was 27 mph, which was what the government measured. He believed that his equipment was accurate, but he still went with the government’s measure. I don’t see any pride in that.</p>
<p>This is just like vocab words on the crit. reading section of the SAT - everyone has their own answer. I think it’s pride - not in an arrogant way but rather in a way such as: “our instruments are more accurate and say 24, where as the government is 27, so i’m going to use our instruments.” Reliant means he completely accepted 27, which he didn’t</p>
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Good idea. I’m pretty sure it was a magazine that someone wrote using Orville’s account.</p>
<p>And for the jingle bells question my answer was awareness of the mother…?</p>
<p>asofyet, i don’t think he ever accepted 27, just said that it was the official one</p>
<p>I skipped the last passage. And after reading this, I’m certain that I bombed another two questions. Fuhhhhhk.</p>
<p>They bragged about how their instruments were more accurate than the government’s. How is that not pride?</p>
<p>Just my opinion- I don’t think there was sufficient information to say that they were full of pride when they said that. Also, the word choice does not suggest that they were prideful, it seems it was simply stating a fact.</p>
<p>But, it’s a pretty bad question because there was not enough information to make a fair choice.</p>
<p>^There was no word choice that indicated that, if anything, pride is a pretty strong choice to pick.</p>