<p>how cant I recall that ‘preparation’ sentence? Can you give me more details? </p>
<p>Oh, how can I become a junior member in 2 days?? (another stupid question @.@ )</p>
<p>@zdragon: no… certainly not. I mean biography is ‘a larger set’ (biography = writing about people’s lives) and paragraph 2 (which is about only writing about ONLY writers’ lives) is a smaller ‘set’ of the ‘larger set’… I hope I can say more clear. You got it?</p>
<p>well I just dont see anything like a subset of biography in this passage. I take a subset of biography something that belongs to the category of biographies. (like “biography about the famous” or “biography of the ordinary.”)</p>
<p>hester – if i have to guess, i think it’s around #8 of section 10. its on the 2nd page of sec 10, on the right column, somewhere in the middle (like i said, i have a pictorial/visual memory :))</p>
<p>junior/senor member depends on the number of posts.</p>
<p>do you have yahoo? or AIm?</p>
<p>kaitlin, that’s exactly where it was!</p>
<p>Yeah agree with xhy0921, and P2 talks completely about biographies and biographers- and biographies only talk about lives, don’t they??? What else could they talk about^^
And subset here really means a particular kind of biographies. But how many kinds of biographies there are? I think there’s only 1</p>
<p>on the biography debate:</p>
<p>Let’s put it this way (since I think we all agree about the writers specifically vs. biographies in general), what would be a more appropriate word to describe the relationship?? </p>
<p>(a) are biographies of writers a subject of biographies
(b) are biographies of writers subsets of biographies</p>
<p>Ah wait… what’s the rest of the choice containing “subset”? May be it’s easier to discuss</p>
<p>It’s like “Passage 1 speaks of biographies in general/as a whole, whereas Passage 2 examines a subset of biographies.”</p>
<p>I don’t know it verbatim, but you get the idea.</p>
<p>yeah that’s the prob:)) P1 does not talk about biographies GENERALLY- it only talks about how lives don’t fit into biographies and how biographers invent things about lives to put into their writing</p>
<p>ok, perhaps I got that one wrong. I said I was not 100% sure… haizzzz</p>
<p>@kaitlin: wow… but I have no pictorial memory 
however, now I remember that there was a question including ‘preparation for…’ or something… but I cant recall my choice 
About my contact, I will send you a pm. :D</p>
<p>can anyone remember if “subject” choice is letter B? and “subset” choice is letter E??</p>
<p>Sentence completion
-renewed interest in something, so ____ Hollywood films–> spate
-Amazon rain forest thing, malaria, can’t cultivate the soil. Because of the deadly diseases –> pristine/deterred
-Exaggerated gloom–>Lugubrious
-Malaise
-Automaton
-Topography (there’s another choice: cartography)
-“Greed is good”----->Avarice/beneficial
-“The candidate’s remarks are so…. That the critics can’t find anything to use against him”----Innocuous
-An American girl likes to take risk—Venturesome
-After a long hike, a girl was exhausted and ate a lot—Ravenous
-Don’t try to…… aggressive groups- The more concession you make the more they’ll demand—Placate
-monotony/droll
-tutelage/evidenced</p>
<p>Chinese origin
-author’s “equanimity” caused by? –> mother’s manner of speaking
-why did the author not ask until she was an adult –> the mother’s attitude succeeded in stifling her questions
-what was the reaction of the author to her mother’s indifference—indifference (1st question from that passage) –> E. The other choices were like she became curious about mother’s motivation, wanted to learn chinese/about relatives, etc
-Why did the mother not talk about her past –> coz didn’t wanna remember/past is painful (what’s the exact wording?)
-Why did the author say it’s like a “map” etc (referring to the list of names and phone numbers her mother gave her before she died)–> road to help her figure out her mother’s “essence” (there was a word essence…)
-Quoted a line about “my mother probably felt bad…”, why did the author assume that the mother felt bad –> points to mother’s efforts to help? Is this final?
-Quoted “I started answering/returning the calls of my mother’s past” –> started contacting
-What does removed mean?----Detached
-new appreciation –> “motivation…unforthcoming”
-the first question, about what the author is doing in the passage –> describe a difficult undertaking
-quoted “describe her past like going to a supermarket”, what does the author assume about the act of going to the supermarket –> everyday occurrence</p>
<p>Byzantine passage
-close knit
-what did the author think of those stuff she enumerated that the other kids thought were weird/different –> prosaic</p>
<p>Biography
-difference between the 2 passages –> subjects of biographies and one is about the biographies
-first author of one would respond to the other’s question –> Biographers do not attempt to make exact recreations of their subjects’ lives
-second author of one would respond to the other’s question –> may distort the truth
-was there a question asking what the lives of writers are like?? Can’t remember the exact question for this answer… –> 'life is not the right material for good fiction?</p>
<p>Encyclopedia
- Some quote about the future generation scorning upon the wrong data in the encyclopedia and filling a new one with their own nonsense. What does this suggest about the future generations–> They give themselves too much credit
-"why did the author list those stuff he/she found in the encyclopedia (it was a whole paragraph, second one I think) –> to show variety of topics - author’s opinion about the literary information in the encyclopedia (historical/literary parts) –> they’re excessively narrowed and biased
-the main point of the passage –> author talks about his pastime to make some observations
-‘X-ray…dissection…inside out’ is an illustration of –> circulatory system?
-exquisite details, what does exquisite mean –> meticulous</p>
<p>Motorcycle
- father twisting through the blahblah, you don’t get swung around (like when in a car) in the 2nd paragraph –> freedom…
- What does it suggest about those people who give short responses –> too busy to care about strangers
- What does it suggest about those people who greet them, etc –> They are fully immersed in the present
- How does the author view the “frame” (first paragraph when he was criticizing TV stuff) –> lack of active participation
- The last question asked what the author meant by saying “puzzling” –> we don’t see those stuff directly in front of us, the obvious (or something like that)
- author’s attitude towards “TV” in the passage about a father riding a motorbike –> disdain
-in the last paragraph, there was something quoted, around 2 words, describing the common conception of cities as the place to be etc. Question is on why the author used those two words –> to show the misconception
-primary characteristic of the author’s description of a certain scene- the scene in which the author stops to ask his way and talks, very long, with the people walking on the way.–>‘congeniality’ - there’s an answer with “immediacy” in it I think? Anyone remember the question?</p>
<p>Squid
- Something about the “dragons” etc –> they’re legendary creatures
- Common to both passages –> no one has studied/documented a living squid
- The one about the book that described the squid attacking stuff, what would the author of passage 2 infer –> that before it there are detailed descriptions about the squid (there’s the word prescribed)
- Something about comparing the 2 passages –> 2nd passage talks about how people view the creature described in 1st passage
- In the anecdote part, the captain said he didn’t know how to react and then there was another quotation from the 2nd passage (it was a question, the first sentence in a paragraph I think … and starts with “can”), what do these quotations suggest –> the squid’s unbelievability
- Asks what would happen if we did figure out the mystery about the squid –> loss as well as gain
-another word for realization –> accomplishment</p>
<p>hi guys, are you guys still on? is this discussion going on right now? uhh i’m kinda new to this. just made an account :p</p>
<p>uhm… anyways,
for the biography passage, the qn about the difference one, most of my friends and I chose the answer “passage 1 wsa about the novelist’s craft and the other was about the biographer’s craft”… We thought the first one talked about how novelists find biographies boring because they don’t have the fictional materials. and the second one talked about how the biographers carve them so they’re more interesting. </p>
<p>also for the writing section, i have a couple of qns.
- the preparation one, I think this was mentioned, but I put 'in preparation to become something somethin…" I think it was choice D?</p>
<ol>
<li><p>this was in the williams one. It was a sentence about an actor? or a director? and it started with “Emigrated to the United States” and I first chose A (emigrated to) because I thought it had to be immigrated to, but I chose NE because it kinda made sense. Not sure on that one.</p></li>
<li><p>There was this qn about a mayor? it was like As a member of the commitee, the mayor worked for the good for the society but never lost blah blah blah. I was between chosing NE or but never, because I thought there had to be a comma before but… </p></li>
</ol>
<p>I thought writing was realllyyyyyy hard. :(</p>
<p>the answers on the previous post are what u guys have discussed? gosh I think Im just gonna flunk it :-(((</p>
<p>I knowwwww
some of their answers don’t match with mine :(</p>
<p>and SC answers are incomplete? can anyone post more cuz I don’t recalled most of them :'(</p>
<p>ooh
i remember one of the sc answer was ‘divisive.’ it was about a bill or something.</p>
<p>for the squid passage
wasnt there a question like “what is the purpose of the (_______)” and in the parenthesis were the process of how squids attack etc.
was the answer to elaborate?
i dont remember other choices</p>