USA June 2011 SAT Critical Reading Thread

<p>Does anyone remember the other answer choices/questions to the censure questions. Cant remember what I put for those haha</p>

<p>SENTENCE COMPLETIONS:
heralded…idiosyncratic
indices…measure
largess…perquisites
believed…proved
excused…credible
yielded…captured
curtailed
diversity
quagmire
Loquacious
heyday
soporific
impasse
churlishness</p>

<p>INDIAN GIRL PASSAGE
hopeful
a plan previously espoused
Spent little time cooking (might be “has no desire to learn to cook”, someone needs to confirm this)
sadness/melancholy
caretaker
she felt partially responsible
Except que–>the mother was surprised by the daughter’s idealism</p>

<p>WINDMILLS SHORT DOUBLE PASSAGE
emphatic disagreement
concession</p>

<p>CENSORSHIP LONG DOUBLE PASSAGE
Both believe in Independent Thinking
Outraged/Spirited vs Thoughtful
familiar but undeserved (not obscure but (some adj i forgot lol))
extreme
heartfelt
uncontroversial books
designated
moralistic (maybe emotional, but most likely not)
protect from negative influences.
passage 1 emphasizes the limitations of schoolteachers rather than focusing on their ability to make wise judgements (question was about what passage 2 feels about paragraph 2 of passage 1)
it is easier to teach adults, not children or soemething like that</p>

<p>GARDENING PASSAGE
people believe they need to control nature
explain through illustration (debated-could be develop a counterargument)
was inquisitive
a sudden revelation
bee was an agent
applied idea to new context (coevolution to human and plant relationship)
appeal to authority (not historical reference), this was an except question</p>

<p>ORAL GOSSIP PASSAGE
complexity of gossip
US supreme court used to show distinction between oral and written gossip
not everyone reeds it, only a small group of people.
Parentheses used to give additional info to previous statement
the answer to last question of the passage was NOT that columinsts need to be controlled by stringent journalistic standards</p>

<p>GUITAR GIRL SHORT
the first sentence shows her passion at a young age
approach to musical comp</p>

<p>i think it was heartfelt because there were certain clues in the passage. it said the parents were “sincerely concerned” the line before it. actual is too objective</p>

<p>does anyone know that terraforming was 100% experimental</p>

<p>@SAT - the first question to the guitar girl passage was what the statement of the girl marrying her guitar meant. i’m pretty sure the answer was that it indicated her early passion for music.</p>

<p>Why is nobody discussing “natural” and “harsh but accurate”?
I was sure these were correct!!!</p>

<p>^whats ur credibility?</p>

<p>780 lit subject test</p>

<p>^ how bout the SAT CR?</p>

<p>First time.
But I have been consistently getting 760-800 in practice tests.</p>

<p>^Natural is wrong, but harsh but accurate might be right</p>

<p>Could you explain why natural is wrong?</p>

<p>for the one that you are talking about (harsh but accurate), what about _____ but understanding (forgot the first word)?</p>

<p>anyone remember the questions and other answer choices to these answers for censure passages?
Both believe in Independent Thinking
Outraged/Spirited vs Thoughtful
extreme
uncontroversial books
protect from negative influences.
passage 1 emphasizes the limitations of schoolteachers</p>

<p>“Harsh but accurate” was wrong, in my opinion, because the author of the second passage wouldn’t characterize as “frightened” like author one, but rather as “misguided”. And the beginning of passage two discusses the stereotype of “belligerence” that is associated with censors and how librarians do not fit this, but rather fall into the other category.</p>

<p>agreed ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</p>

<p>can someone remind me the context of the question with the answer of “extreme” from the censorship passage?</p>

<p>What do you guys think a -6 will be? 730?</p>

<p>Ok next set of questions: The paragraphs about the wind turbines, Riding in a Train</p>

<p>Agenda of a certain person
Disagree
A feeling of motion
Geography</p>

<p>Yes, but I thought passage two characterized censorship as “odious” and promoted “selection” which “includes” rather than “excludes.” To me, the tone of the passage suggested that the author did not like censorship because it is confused with “selection.”</p>