October ACT English Thread

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<p>so many mixed results with the international cultural center one. i may be weird, but i put internationally cultural center because it didnt sound weird to me at all. i kept saying it aloud (*whisper) and i didnt find it awkward. but when i said international cultural center with the sentence, it didnt seem right at all. i have my bets on internationally cultural center, but thats me. i guess no one will ever know the answer to that one haha.</p>

<p>another reason why i put internationally is that i kept seeing that word when reading the newspaper concerning international stuff. i told myself that if it appeared in the newspaper like that, then it could be right. but then again, it couldve been in different context so u never know…</p>

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<p>For the passage about the architect Pei, there was a question in the end that asked about the passage as a whole: “if the authoer’s goal was to write about certain building types did he succeed” or something. Was the answer “No, because the passage describes Pei’s biography and some of his works” ?</p>

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<p>yes </p>

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<p>^ Yeah thats what I put</p>

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<p>international cultural- international is an adjetive. you don’t say something is “internationally”, it’s “international”. so it’s “international”.</p>

<p>I really don’t know about the celebration thing, but I do have other questions:</p>

<p>1) Regarding the last one for the Pei question, where it was something like “its…excellence” (and excellence was underlined for another question) was the blank supposed to be “Pei’s…something rigorous” or “rigorous hardwork of Pei’s” or something like that? I put Pei first because he was the subject of the sentence but I’m not sure.</p>

<p>2.) For the one regarding Pei as a “naturalized US Citizen” and the fact that he recieved a Medal of Honor, was it “yes because it specifies the contribution”? That’s what I put…but it could have been “no because earlier in the passage it says Pei was born in China”</p>

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<ol>
<li><p>Yeah I think I put something with “Pei______”</p></li>
<li><p>I put no cause the Medal of Honor had like nothing to do with the architecture</p></li>
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<p>Btw: There was a question asking whether someone being born “in a farm” was necessary</p>

<p>I put yes but was that correct?</p>

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<p>But the Medal of Honor was a contribution beyond architecture, and that was what the previous statement was about. It said “Pei’s greatest achievements/contributions lie outside his something of architecture.” And Medal of Honor does like outside of architecture and is a great, noble award for duty, right?</p>

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<p>That’s what I thought but idk it seemed kinda random to me. Like the rest of the paragraph never mentioned it again.</p>

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<p>being in a farm was necessary</p>

<p>because the next line was talking about how she lived a simple life or something</p>

<p>you woudn’t have understood what it meant if you didn’t know she lived on a farm</p>

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<p>No don’t include it because it said that what he did there wasn’t the only contribution he had to architecture</p>

<p>i’m positive. i read that paragraph like 5 times</p>

<p>you don’t include it because the audience was not ready for it</p>

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<p>agree with ashe on both posts</p>

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<p>Yeah, but the sentence said “beyond architecture”. So though it may seem random, it was beyond architecture in the fact that it had nothing to do with architecture. It was also a greater achievement. It also specifies what teh author was meaning by “beyond architecture contribution”. That’s what I thought at least.</p>

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<p>it didn’t say beyond architcture</p>

<p>it was still related to architecture, but it was beyond the way he used the spirits</p>

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<p>really? it said something about beyond, I remember that specifically.</p>

<p><em>sighs</em> this one and the celebration one were really confusing… :(</p>

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<p>^ the way the sentence worded was like this- “Pei’s greatest contribution to architecture lay outside his famous buildings…” So while the next sentence should have mentioned something he was recognized for, it should have still been architecture-related.</p>

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<p>I put that it should not be added b/c the reader is not prepared, but my reasoning was different.</p>

<p>The preceding sentence mentioned his contributions, while the following sentence just talked about the award he received because of his contributions, not the actual contributions themselves, so that’s why I put the reader wasn’t prepared</p>

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<p>I put that for the exact same reason DAP</p>

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<p>Snow - I agree with you on both.</p>

<p>I spent an awful lot of time on the celebration/chance to experience one. I read the directions over and over and acknowledged the POSITIVE emphasis, but 2 answers were negative and 2 were positive… and the chance to experience was exactly what the intentions of the game were, it matched up perfectly.</p>

<p>I put the addition SHOULD be made. Because it was talking about what ELSE he has done outside of architecture. I think I got at least one of those two right…</p>

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<p>^ No, it wasn’t talking about what he had done outside of architecture. The sentence read “Pei’s greatest contribution to architecture lay outside his famous buildings…” Which means that the next sentence should still have something to do with architecture- just not buildings. And since the medal of honor has nothing to do with architecture, I said that it shouldn’t be added because it did not fulfill expectations or whatever.</p>

<p>And I still have no idea who is right on the celebration question. We’ll just have to wait until November 10 I suppose.</p>

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<p>What was the one that said which sentence would best introduce the third paragraph on the dumpster passage?</p>

<p>I put D, which said something about the person being amused.</p>