<p>ClassicLays – The ENTIRE point of that passage is that the author came to the question you raised after extensive thought. The specific sentence was before this when she was still discussing the widely held view, and was used was something like:</p>
<p>“we think of the bee as the subject and the flower as the object”</p>
<p>kind of an analogy to nouns in grammar. definitely agent.</p>
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<p>specific passage. and it was a guy who wrote it. lol at sexism</p>
<p>Okay, sorry that it took me so long after the comment, but I read through all of the answers on here. And I really think “Churlishness” was actually langour.
Because the description was sullen and sad, which is similar to langour.
However, churlishness means like offensive and vulgar…
I don’t think that fits.</p>
<p>It’s churlishness. The sentence completion was about a child who acted out or something similar.</p>
<p>@pdawggy, I just found earlier sentences that help support me: "But the longer I garden, and watch the bees at work beside me, the more I think that that grammar is completely wrong. No doubt the bee, too, thinks he’s got the better of the blossom, but the truth is that the flower has cleverly manipulated him into hauling its pollen from blossom to blossom. "</p>
<p>I don’t remember the exact question so I’m not sure what I was looking for again lol, if you can, please remind me.</p>
<p>And an “agent” can’t really be substituted for “subject” in my opinion. However, many of my high scoring friends got agent so I’m a bit torn apart between the two choices.</p>
<p>What was the exact question about agent/recipient?</p>
<p>I choose the plants; I harvest the crops. It’s a world of subjects and objects, and here in the garden, as in nature generally, we are the sovereign subjects.</p>
<p>what does subject mean here? clearly he is drawing an analogy to english grammar with subjects (ones who perform an action, agents) and objects (recipients of an action). you are correct in that he ultimately changes his perception, but in context, agent is clearly correct.</p>
<p>Hmm, hard to decide because directly after your sentence comes my sentence. If only we remembered the question we could go back and see what context it was used it in.</p>
<p>But I see why it could be agent now. I thought of an agent in a different way, instead of someone who performs an action. </p>
<p>I guess we’ll have to wait till CB releases the answer/tests. This is one of the two questions that has garnered a lot of debate, the other being heartfelt/actual. Those are the two that I believe I might’ve gotten wrong. I really hope I got 700+, we need more collaborations to finish the “answer sheet”, I forgot all about the passages but remember the answers :)</p>
<p>Trust me that one was churlishness.</p>
<p>The sentence was talking about someone who “lacked civility.”</p>
<p>I do remember the question. I just said it.</p>
<p>The question was what does “subject” mean in the sentence i posted. so your sentence is irrelevant. stop trying to rationalize it, and move on. the whole point of the vocab in context questions is to see if you understand how words can be used in ways besides there primary definition, so it is predictable that the answer would be something like agent, where the word conjures a different image/definition.</p>
<p>@bandwagon i got 5 cs to end the passage.
Let’s get an answer key!</p>
<p>The question on the Indian Girl - Why did the author use “shade” (or something) in reference to the aunties?</p>
<p>Was that because of dramatic intensity or whatever?</p>
<p>@levinel<br>
thats what i got too</p>
<p>Idiosyncratic or iconoclast?</p>
<p>idiosyncratic</p>
<p>idiosyncratic ^</p>
<p>What was the question/some answers for the impasse fill in?
Thanks!</p>
<p>Their debate had reached an -------; neither side was willing to concede any new points.</p>
<p>To get a sense of the what the curve what might be, what is everyone’s raw score right now (based on consensus answers)?</p>
<p>I’m at -1. Maybe -2 if definition through illustration is incorrect.</p>
<p>the hush of the aunties was dramatic intensity right?</p>
<p>I’m at -2</p>
<p>For the genuine question, can someone give an argument that explicitly disproves “natural” as an answer? I was stuck between natural and heartfelt, and I thought heartfelt sounded a little too extreme based on the context of the passage.</p>
<p>I put “natural” as well.
I don’t know why we’re not debating between “heartfelt” and “natural.”</p>