June 2008 CR Compilation (SC's Completed)

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<p>With the exception of those that are deliciously controversial (I’m talking to you, enigmatic and puzzlement), let’s see if we can compile a list of all the CR answers.</p>

<p>Sentence Completion</p>

<li>Longevity</li>
<li>Characterize … mountainous</li>
<li>Ameliorate … exacerbate</li>
<li>Remuneration</li>
<li>Abstemious</li>
<li>Malicious</li>
<li>Controversial … hypothesis</li>
<li>Suspended … suffered</li>
<li>Obstinate
10 Olfactory
11 Obstreperous
12 Iconoclast … skewered
13 Nuance
14 Deceit … willing
15 underestimated … complexity
16 undaunted by
17 parity
18 synthesize … interweaving
19 Vitriolic … savor</li>
</ol>

<p>Passages:</p>

<p>Alternative Medicine:
1.) Passage 1 describes a phenomenon and Passage provides a specific example
2.) Passage 1 was more critical, Passage 2 more enthusiastic
3.) Proponents of the first would support the practioners</p>

<p>Queenmother:
1.) Told why the issue couldn’t be resolved
2.) Conclusions were speculative</p>

<p>Gneiss:
1.) The rock made him feel relatively young
2.) He uses an analogy to explain a difficult concept</p>

<p>Ballet
1.) Steps = movement
2.) A digression…paradox
3.) Fully present = engagement
4.) The studio was unlike her neighborhood
5.) A list of rules and regulations
6.) The curtsy showed respect for authority
7.) Some rules at home didn’t make sense
8.) Difference between individual achievement and an art form</p>

<p>Wolves:
1.) Gently mocking attitude
2.) Coyotes returned to underdog status</p>

<p>Vandalism is Peace:
1.) Graffiti artists co-opted by professional artists
2.) Anxious = uneasy
3.) Notes on the fridge = absurd narrative
4.) The peasants were self-deprecating humor to criticize a position
5.) He mentions the Ronin statue to establish a parallel between him and the youth
6.) The lost art of using the home to convey ideas</p>

<p>Chinese Father
1.) Dictionary = author’s lack of understanding of Chinese
2.) Painstaking = Arduous
3.) Swatch = ignorance</p>

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<p>for me: 2 wrong sc, 1 omitted. mehh</p>

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<p>um. im pretty sure the wolves one was openly hostile, not mocking. he was being pretty condescending toward them</p>

4

<p>he wasnt attacking them. he mocked them in passing in one sentence.</p>

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<p>Alternative medicine</p>

<ol>
<li>Passage 1 more critical while passage 2 more enthusiastic</li>
<li>Second passage was a specific example of something that the first passage discussed in general terms</li>
</ol>

<p>Wolves
Tone was gently mocking</p>

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<p>6-7 wrong!!!OMG :(</p>

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<p>i agree with seamonster… what about the ballet passage?</p>

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<p>Do you remember the other choices for the critical one?
I can’t remember what I put; it was early in the test.</p>

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<p>1 omitted, 1 wrong. :(</p>

<p>Aren’t you missing the salutory/ebullient question? Which one was that?</p>

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<p>I think that salutary was an answer to an experimental section (had passages about memory, was actually REALLY interesting). Ebullient was an incorrect choice for the “nuanced” question.</p>

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<p>Alright. I don’t remember the salutary one - I can’t figure out what experimental section I had at all!</p>

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<p>can anyone tell us the question and answer choices for “olfactory”?</p>

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<p>Olfactory one - </p>

<p>Each squirrel has a unique smell. A scientist realized they could smell each other because they have good ____ skills.</p>

<p>The choices all pertained to one of the five senses, I think, like auditory blah blah</p>

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<p>Are we allowed to discuss yet?
Was the suspended…suffered question experimental? I don’t remember seeing it</p>

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<p>are you sure about the first Alt. Med. question? Im in agreement with u on everything else.</p>

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<p>bright eyes - same here. Anybody remember the sentence? Also, what was the answer to last question of the Chinese passage? The one where the author mentioned the physicist. Was it an analogy or an explanation of a concern?</p>

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<p>i put an analogy because he was comparing the memories and feelings to the physicist’s.</p>

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<p>That’s what I thought as well</p>

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<p>JteH i also put an analogy!</p>

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<p>in context, it was erroneous, not speculative</p>