<p>@mercury09: its sth about when is the time he is nearest to the river
just ask a stupid qn, can someone remember the passage before the one which the guy joins a group of close-knit kids??? coz i am afraid i have not done that passage as i cannot remember anything about it! thanks!</p>
<p>CONSOLIDATED LIST:
Sentence completion
- TOPOGRAPHY
- PURIFYING … CONTAMINATION
- RAVENOUS
- PLACATE
- MONOTONY … DROLL
- DEVELOPING … CHANGING
- DISCOVERED … ADORNING
- DIVISIVE
- DEVOURS … PREDATION
- AVARICE … BENEFICIAL
- PRISTINE …DETERRED
- MALAISE
- SPATE
- VENTURESOME (because risky)
- AUTOMATONS
- MODERATION … RECKLESSNESS
- TUTELAGE … EVIDENCED
- INNOCUOUS
- LUGUBRIOUS (because gloomy)</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
On a moonless January night in 2003, Olivier de Kersauson, the French yachtsman, was racing across the Atlantic Ocean, trying to break the record for the fastest sailing voyage around the world, when his boat mysteriously came to a halt. There was no land for hundreds of miles, yet the mast rattled and the hull shuddered, as if the vessel had run aground. Kersauson turned the wheel one way, then the other; still, the gunwales shook inexplicably in the darkness. Kersauson ordered his crew, all of whom were now running up and down the deck, to investigate. Some of the crew took out spotlights and shone them on the water, as the massive trimaran-a three-hulled, hundred-and-ten-foot boat that was the largest racing machine of its kind, and was named Geronimo, for the Apache warrior-pitched in the waves.
Meanwhile, the first mate, Didier Ragot, descended from the deck into the cabin, opened a trapdoor in the floor, and peered through a porthole into the ocean, using a flashlight. He glimpsed something by the rudder. “It was bigger than a human leg,” Ragot recently told me. “It was a tentacle.” He looked again. “It was starting to move,” he recalled.
He beckoned Kersauson, who came down and crouched over the opening. “I think it’s some sort of animal,” Ragot said.
Kersauson took the flashlight, and inspected for himself. “I had never seen anything like it,” he told me. “There were two giant tentacles right beneath us, lashing at the rudder.”
The creature seemed to be wrapping itself around the boat, which rocked violently. The floorboards creaked, and the rudder started to bend. Then, just as the stern seemed ready to snap, everything went still. “As it unhooked itself from the boat, I could see its tentacles,” Ragot recalled. “The whole animal must have been nearly thirty feet long.”
The creature had glistening skin and long arms with suckers, which left impressions on the hull. “It was enormous,” Kersauson recalled. “I’ve been sailing for forty years and I’ve always had an answer for everything-for hurricanes and icebergs. But I didn’t have an answer for this. It was terrifying.”
What they claimed they saw-a claim that many regarded as a tall tale-was a giant squid, an animal that has long occupied a central place in sea lore; it has been said to be larger than a whale and stronger than an elephant, with a beak that can sever steel cables. In a famous scene in “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” Jules Verne depicts a battle between a submarine and a giant squid that is twenty-five feet long, with eight arms and blue-green eyes-“a terrible monster worthy of all the legends about such creatures.” More recently, Peter Benchley, in his thriller “Beast,” describes a giant squid that “killed without need, as if Nature, in a fit of perverse malevolence, had programmed it to that end.”
Such fictional accounts, coupled with scores of unconfirmed sightings by sailors over the years, have elevated the giant squid into the fabled realm of the fire-breathing dragon and the Loch Ness monster. Though the giant squid is no myth, the species, designated in scientific literature as Architeuthis, is so little understood that it sometimes seems like one. A fully grown giant squid is classified as the largest invertebrate on Earth, with tentacles sometimes as long as a city bus and eyes about the size of human heads. Yet no scientist has ever examined a live specimen-or seen one swimming in the sea. Researchers have studied only carcasses, which have occasionally washed ashore or floated to the surface. (One corpse, found in 1887 in the South Pacific, was said to be nearly sixty feet long.) Other evidence of the giant squid is even more indirect: sucker marks have been spotted on the bodies of sperm whales, as if burned into them; presumably, the two creatures battle each other hundreds of feet beneath the ocean’s surface.</p>
<ul>
<li>Something about the “dragons” etc –> they’re legendary creatures</li>
<li>Common to both passages –> no one has studied/documented a living squid</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>Something about comparing the 2 passages –> 2nd passage talks about how people view the creature described in 1st passage</li>
<li>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 </li>
<li>Asks what would happen if we did figure out the mystery about the squid –> loss as well as gain
-another word for realization –> accomplishment</li>
</ul>
<p>OK the developing one I got it correct:)) It’s too simple so guess I forgot it. About the devour…predation one- I have a vague feeling that I picked that choice but can’t recall the whole question, anyone remember it???
What’s about this one?
7. DISCOVERED … ADORNING
I remembered I picked adorning but can’t remember where that came from…</p>
<p>anyone remember the malaise question??? plz someone</p>
<p>everytime I come to this discussion form, not a lot of internationals seem to be online</p>
<p>@zdragon
yeah me too I don’t seem to remember discovering…adorning question either…</p>
<p>i remember the malaise question has sth to do with unease…</p>
<p>discovering adorning one was something like: “the Archaeologists have ____ many examples of roman mosque with different style ____ them” I think. And the malaise one was about like doctors? and how their uneasiness was a malaise caused by the society or something.</p>
<p>hi guys do you notice that we still miss one passage?
can someone remember that passage coz i am nearly going to freak out if i find out that i havent done that one ):</p>
<p>I am soo sorry guys
but do you remember what other choices were there for malaise
I can’t recall the question
although i know what the word malaise means</p>
<p>for everyday occurence
i just remembered the exact word was like
epitomizing occurence
doesn’t really help but I dunno it just came out of nowhere hehe</p>
<p>wow kipling, thanks for the passage!!</p>
<p>** Sentence Completion **
- TOPOGRAPHY
- PURIFYING … CONTAMINATION
- RAVENOUS
- PLACATE
- MONOTONY … DROLL
- DEVELOPING … CHANGING
- DISCOVERED … ADORNING
- DIVISIVE
- DEVOURS … PREDATION
- AVARICE … BENEFICIAL
- PRISTINE …DETERRED
- MALAISE
- SPATE
- VENTURESOME (because risky)
- AUTOMATONS
- MODERATION … RECKLESSNESS
- TUTELAGE … EVIDENCED
- INNOCUOUS
- LUGUBRIOUS (because gloomy)</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
-indifference (1st question from that passage): what was the reaction of the author to her mother’s indifference—> E (I think this was something about also not caring about the past/indifference…?). 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 (?)
-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 –> to epitomize the everyday</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 this question currently under debate; we all have different answers
-how would the author of passage 2 respond to the author of passage 1 (quoted line was the last one in passage 1, something about how biographers end up writing about something not factually correct) –> Biographers do not attempt to make exact recreations of their subjects’ lives
-how would the author of passage 1 respond to the author of passage 2 –> biographers 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, the second one) –> 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… anyone remember any other clue word for this answer?
- 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’
-the author’s attitude towards riding a motorbike on the freeway, what does he like best about it –> the immediacy </p>
<p>** Squid **</p>
<ul>
<li>“fire breathing dragons and the Loch Ness monster” –> they’re legendary creatures</li>
<li>Common to both passages –> no one has studied/documented a living squid</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>Something about comparing the 2 passages –> 2nd passage talks about how people view the creature described in 1st passage</li>
<li>Quoted “’It was enormous,’ Kersauson recalled. ‘I’ve been sailing for forty years and I’ve always had an answer for everything-for hurricanes and icebergs. But I didn’t have an answer for this. It was terrifying.’” 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 </li>
<li>Asks what would happen if we did figure out the mystery about the squid –> loss as well as gain
-another word for realization –> accomplishment
-there was a question with “Architeuthis” in either the question or the answer choices… anyone remember??
-Quoted "a terrible monster worthy of all the legends about such creatures” and “killed without need, as if Nature, in a fit of perverse malevolence, had programmed it to that end” –> something about how people view the squid/ common conceptions (?? I can’t remember the answer, but I think there was such a question…)
-what is the purpose of the (___) and in the parenthesis were the process of how squids attack etc. –> to elaborate on a previous assertion</li>
</ul>
<p>i remember an answer in squid is like a psychological need
again, someone remember the short passage with 2 qns???</p>
<p>for the chinese origin passage ‘map’ question, i remember there was “guide” in the answer.</p>
<p>i think what we’re missing is the one with the byzantine, close knit passage… it’s the one on the same page on the left side… right??</p>
<p>do you remember anything about the question for the “psychological need” answer?</p>
<p>ya! on the left side of the byzantine, i am really braindead and cannot recall the passage 
i forgot the question for that also, i remember its sth like why is there a contradiction (really not sure) and i am quite sure that it is out of human’s psychological need</p>
<p>Wait I think I remember … It’s something referring to the Mark Twain quote in the end of passage 2? Why does it have to remain mysterious or something? But I do remember answering something with “psychological need”…</p>
<p>Sorry, I can’t remember much anymore either. :(</p>
<p>heyy…does anyone remember an answer like 2192 for the grid-ins??</p>
<p>Yep it’s like
The average of x+7 and x+9 is 2200, what is x???</p>
<p>We’ve got 1 question from Chinese origin passage, 2 questions from an unknown short passage and 4 questions from squid passage left to solve:)) anyone got an idea?</p>
<p>I remember the answer “something that satisfies a psychological need” too, and I believe it refers to Verne‘s description of the squid in his novel, 20,0000 Leagues Under the Sea?(not sure though)</p>