<p>I’m watching Sesame Street with my daugher. Today Grover has transported us to Alaska, where a local lass is suiting up to face the Arctic chill, with the help of her mother, who sews fur pelts together to fashion a coat to repel the subzero temperature. The child rushes out into the crisp fresh air to meet other children, laughing sweetly. It looks so wholesome, so simple, so uncomplicated. No fancy schools to get into, no apartments to compare. It looked pleasant there, out in the bleak but weirdly alluring slate of glistening frost punctuated only by playful tykes toting their homemade lunches to school in swinging buckets.</p>
<p>In context, the references to “fancy schools” and “apartments” serve to
A. illustrate the glamour of urban environments
B. suggest some concerns the narrator may have
C. establish a contrast between past and present lifestyles
D. indicate the narrator’s distaste for rural living
E. challenge the stereotyped view of a region</p>
<p>The answer is B. I am confused with E. In my opinion, those two phrases don’t sound like concerns at all, unless “concern” here means an important interest; but that isn’t so b/c it says that “the narrator has the concern” - worry, in this case.
So yeah, I think E is right b/c it “challenges” the stereotype that regions with “fancy schools” and “APTs” are good. The whole passage seems to be lauding the rural view of Alaska.</p>
<p>B is the best answer. The “fancy schools to get into” and “apartments to compare” are those worldly concerns, possessions, and issues that affect the narrator. </p>
<p>E doesn’t cut it because you are extrapolating too much from the article. The article is lauding rural Alaska but it isn’t lambasting anything.</p>
<p>B sounds better than E to me. I don’t see any stereotyping there, and it seems like she includes that sentence to show how she longs for that idealistic world where there are no worries, such as getting into good schools or paying bills. Her including them shows that she worries about them.</p>
<p>You know, none of those choices accurately describe the passage. B is kind of a stretch. The SAT cr section is packed with vague and mismatched choices like that. And I’m not saying that as someone who is no good at it. I made an 800 on the cr section, but I still didn’t like the testing passages and choices.</p>
<p>no because there is no direct reference that the author was transported to a past scene in Alaska. It’s just Alaska as it is and there isn’t a reference of time in the passage. And even if there is a reference to time, there ins’t a mandate that says all present lifestyles involve fancy schools and apartments :)</p>
<p>The author didn’t say that just to challenge the stereotype of a particular place. That may be your own interpretation. The author’s purpose in putting that line is because she feels concerned about where she live. She prefer the simple, alaskan environment better. So it’s B</p>