Questions in Critical Reading workbook of Barron's

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<p>Look at the page 97.</p>

<p>The double-passage typical questions, yet I cannot answer for it.</p>

<p>Number 34.</p>

<p>Evidence in Passage 2 suggests that the speaker lives</p>

<p>(a)on an isolated farm(no way)
(b)in an urban slum(um…I think this could be the answer)
(c)in a housing project(unsupported surely)
(d)in the country(um…I think something of shoveling alludes this is the answer. Do I go for it?)
(e)near a big city(unsure but I think this could not be answer, not supported, think so)</p>

<p>Well, I narrow the answers in two, (b) and (d).</p>

<p>Why (d)? I don’t know what outdoor privy could do with this, and surely the speaker said she would like to bury the garbage, bud cannot affort the shovel. Yes, I agree with this, of course, but I don’t think this could be exclusive evidence to support (d), or does it?? </p>

<p>Do this two things elucidate that urban slum could not be answer?</p>

<p>I just check (b) that in an urban slum there could be some kind of easier way to find the hospital than to find it in the country side.</p>

<p>Please give me some advice on this. Is the answer supported ambiguously by this kind of evidence? </p>

<p>Checking back the answer explanation, this does not answer my query, exacty what I want to hear. So, maybe CCers could help me from this problem, easily//</p>

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<p>I don’t have this review book, but from your post I’m compelled to say that you can’t really bury garbage on your own in an urban slum. Urban slums are typically very poor ‘concrete playground’ like neighborhoods with a whole lot of gray and very little green. Apartments are more common than houses in urban slums, too. Basically there’s no place to bury garbage in an urban slum. In the country however, there’s plenty of open space to do so.</p>

<p>Hope that helps and I’m completely off target. Just working off what I gathered from your writing.</p>

<p>edit: Some more stuff you might find helpful to analyze your own reasoning:</p>

<p>Answers B and C are extremely similar, as well as E to a lesser extent. E and A are somewhat similar in meaning except for the key word ‘isolated’ which you saw.</p>

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<p>Thanks so much for your reply…similar answers cannot be the answer, I think…That’s the trick. I should have known.</p>