Ridiculous SAT Sentence Completion Question

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<p>Having recently missed out on the matisse retrospective, which has taken paris and New York by storm, and on the tour of great paintings from Philadelphia’s Barne’s collection, London is becoming _______ in the competition to show _____ international art exhibitions.</p>

<p>A. Trend-setter … Major
B. An also-ran… blockbuster
C. A world-beater … itinerant
D. A mecca… Distinguished
E. A connoisseur … esoteric</p>

<p>This is question number 2 on a CR section in Barrons. My confidence in CR has taken quite a beating from Barrons, its saddening. Please explain your answers regardless of whether you think your answers correct/incorrect. I just want to get a sense of how you guys would approach this problem. Have fun. Ill post the answer later.</p>

<p>Edit: Please EXPLAIN your reasoning even if you think you’re wrong. It’ll benefit us all.</p>

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<p>Barrons is a joke. study real tests.</p>

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<p>C is it…?</p>

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<p>Bump. Don’t be afraid of the big bad SC monster. You can do it.</p>

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<p>D?</p>

<p>It says that it is missing out on exhibitions that are conveyed to be great or important.</p>

<p>I don’t know what the words of in option E are, but in D I can approve of one of them and the other one I don’t know, so I go for D.</p>

<p>The first word has to be negative and the second positive, therefore eliminating A, B, C.</p>

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<p>barrons ruins my confidence in Math, Critical Readin AND Writing. But i recovered as i started to do the blue book. </p>

<p>A piece of advice: do not do barrons math questions and the paragraph improvemnet questions, they screw you over</p>

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<p>^ I got an 800 in math using Barrons… I think they over-prepare, which is good.</p>

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<p>I’m pretty sure its B.</p>

<p>The first blank has to hint that London is falling behind in the race to show “popular” art shows.</p>

<p>As such also ran, or someone who is kind of out of the mix makes sense.</p>

<p>Blockbuster matches well with the prediction of “popular”.</p>

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<p>Its D. </p>

<p>London missed the competion thus its falling behind on the latest fashions. Thus it is becoming a mecca (something of the past, not new or up to date) in the world of fashion.</p>

<p>Understand?</p>

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<p>Its funny how cocky people can get simply because i asked for explanations. Sorry to break it to ya Zorro but i don’t think you understand. The answers B.</p>

<p>Rfern can you elaborate? the term “also-ran” is torture to my ears.</p>

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<p>It’s actually B</p>

<p>reword it as “london is becoming second-rate at showing great art exhibitions”.
also-ran is another way of saying “loser.” there is the winner and then there are people who ran but did not win.</p>

<p>think about how we remember all of the old US presidents but few of us could recall the “also-rans” who
lost past elections…</p>

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<p>I also got B.</p>

<p>The first blank has to show that they are falling behind since they have “recently missed out” on the exhibitions or w/e. So, eliminate “trend-setter”, “connoisseur”, and “mecca”. Now, I have no idea what “an also ran” is, but itinerent has to do with travelling (from itinerary)…so the answer has to be B. </p>

<p>Now time to look up those words!</p>

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<p>That helped a ton. Thanks for the clear explanation ChoklitRain! If i ever see “also-ran” ill remmber you. </p>

<p>I kid- but seriously, thanks a lot dude. Thank you all for your feedback, all of you except for Zorro get a cookie.</p>

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<p>this ones a toughie</p>

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<p>I would say E.</p>

<p>It would help if you used proper punctuation in the question.</p>

<p>…so London is mad that it missed out on the Matisse collection in Paris and NY, and is mad it missed a different one in Philly. Therefore, London is trying to become a connoisseur of ESOTERIC art. … something new for london, i guess.</p>

<p>edit haha i was wronnnng</p>

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<p>also-ran is used a lot in sports. I think it’s a horse racing term.</p>

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<p>Since London has missed out some great opportunities, it could be a loser or an ALSO-RAN. It’s B of course.</p>

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<p>So did you just make this one up, Quix?</p>

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<p>Uttaresh, can you read? </p>

<p>Its kind of like has-been. I thought those terms were colloquials… i just hope they don’t pull these tricks on sat.</p>

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<p>That doesn’t answer my question. Anyway, this is just too ludicrous to actually be tested on the SAT … so why bother? ;)</p>