Mde

http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_dow...on-booklet.pdf
Section 3, question 12.. i'll just post out the paragraph and such

"I'm not cynical. I'm only thinking of my pet theory about Miss Honeychurch. Odes it seem reasonable that she should play piano so wonderfully, and live so quietly? I suspect taht someday she shall be wonderful in both. The water-tight compartments in her will break down, and music and life will mingle. Then we shall have her heroically good, heroicallly bad-too heroic, perhaps, to be good or bad."

12: Mr Beebe's statement, "The water-tight...bad" (lines9-11) suggests that Lucy will:
a: ultimately become a famous and respected musician
c: one day begin to live with great passion.

I was pretty sure about a due to "I suspect that someday she shall be wonderful in both." If someone could explain why it's C for me and what disqualifies A that'd be great.

And

"I could as easily tell you what tune she'll play next. there was simply the sense that she found wings and meant to use them. I can show you a beautiful picture in my diary. Miss Honeychurch as a kite, Miss Barlett holding the string. Picture number two: the string breaks."

The sketch was in his diary, but it had been made afterwards, when he viewed things artistically. At the time he had given surreptitious tugs to the string himself.
"But the string never broke?"
"No. I mightn't have seen Miss Honeychurch rise, but I should certainly have heard Miss Barlett fall."

C: an unlikely development
D:an anticipated development

thanks!

Trackkid93

Okay, for the first one from the passage it is saying that Miss Honeychurch plays the piano wonderfully, UNLIKE her life which she "lives quietly". Thus, A is not correct because she is ALREADY a good musician. On the other hand, C is correct because the narrator is hoping that one day she will live as passionately as she plays the piano.

oblivi0n

#14 - For Mr. Beebe, “Picture number two” (line 27) represents
(A) a misleading occurrence
(B) a dangerous gamble
(C) an unlikely development
(D) an anticipated outcome
(E) an avoidable difficulty

Why is it D? Mr Beebe is the clergyman who is having a conversation with Cecil.

trav23

The kite drawing and the string breaking is the clergymans way of telling the lady he is proposing to that girl. Its D because its an anticipated outcome.

Mde

yeah I did not understand the image of the clergymen pulling at the string. If i did it would've easily been D... thanks for the explanation guys really helped a lot!

oblivi0n

wait, isn't a conversation between Mr. Beebe (the clergyman) and Cecil who is engaged to Miss Honeychurch?

who drew the picture? :S

winning11

Beebe drew the pictures anticipating that Miss H would eventually break away from her cousin, even though he was not aware that she had done this.

sanxie

"Okay, for the first one from the passage it is saying that Miss Honeychurch plays the piano wonderfully, UNLIKE her life which she "lives quietly". Thus, A is not correct because she is ALREADY a good musician. On the other hand, C is correct because the narrator is hoping that one day she will live as passionately as she plays the piano."

Yeah, also it never says that she'll be FAMOUS. It says that she'll be good, but there's no mention whatsoever of how famous or respected she'll be, so it can't be A because that's not found in the text. And it's C for the reason mentioned above.