<p>In terms of its approach, Takakis
book is similar to Victor and Bret Nees
Longtime Californ (1972) because both
Line are media through which diverse Asian
5 American voices surface. </p>
<p>1.)As used in line 1, approach most nearly means
(A) beginning<br>
(B) technique<br>
(C) hypothesis<br>
(D) advance<br>
(E) style </p>
<p>2.)Among birds THAT FORAGE in tree trunks, nuthatches are the only ones that REGULARLY FEED with their heads facing downward, WHEN THEY OFTEN FIND food in bark crevices OVERLOOKED IN their upward search. No error </p>
<p>3.)In many large cities in the United States, the presence of a CULTURALLY diverse population HAS LED to repeated calls THAT curricula taught WHOLLY OR PARTLY in languages other than English. No error </p>
<p>I picked B because I don’t see any reason to use present perfect tense?</p>
<p>4.)OF ANCIENT ORIGIN , the game of checkers WAS PLAYED in Egypt DURING THE TIME of the pharaohs and IS MENTIONED in the writings of Homer and Plato. No error </p>
<h2>I picked D because the tense suddenly changed from “Was played” to “is mentioned”</h2>
<p>The migration and the winter
gathering of monarch butterflies are
among the most spectacular of all natural
Line phenomena, unique in the insect world.
5 Lincoln Brower wrote of his feeling on a
warm March morning as he watched tens
of thousands of these butterflies explode
from their resting places on the trees at
an overwintering site in Mexico: Flying
10 against the azure sky and past the green
boughs of the oyamels, this myriad of
dancing embers reinforced my earlier
conclusion that this spectacle is a treasure
comparable to the finest works of art that
15 our world culture has produced over the
past 4000 years. </p>
<p>5.)The quotation in lines 9-16 serves primarily as a
(A) detailed explanation of the cultural significance of a place<br>
(B) personal observation about artistic awareness<br>
(C) dramatic portrayal of an impressive event<br>
(D) scientific account of a rare phenomenon<br>
(E) conclusive argument for the artistic importance of spectacle </p>
<p>I picked B because it seemed like the best answer.</p>
<p>New York in the wake of World War
II was a city on the verge of momentous
changeseconomic, social, and political.
Line For almost a century it had been a
5 preeminent manufacturing and port city,
absorbing the unskilled millions who
flocked there from Europe, and had
yielded great fortunes for the astute and
daring. </p>
<p>6.)In context, the unskilled millions (line 6) apparently refers to people who</p>
<p>(A) made great fortunes<br>
(B) were unprepared for the Depression of the 1930s<br>
(C) took jobs in shipping and manufacturing<br>
(D) were uneasy about the U.S. economy<br>
(E) left New York to find work </p>
<p>I picked A because it said “the unskilled millions who flocked there from Europe, and had
yielded great fortunes for the astute and daring.”</p>
<ol>
<li><p>E. I picked a word to go in the blank before I looked at the answer choices, and mine turned out to be “style.” It works better than “technique” because technique usually refers to a specialized skill.</p></li>
<li><p>I’m sure “When they often find” is wrong, but unfortunately I don’t have a grammatical explanation for this one. I think it has something to do with the use of “when,” but to be honest it just sounds weird.</p></li>
<li><p>“That” should be “for” - you call FOR something to be established (in this case, diverse curricula). Present perfect is used correctly here because people have called for this repeatedly ever since the population began diversifying. These calls began in the past and continue in the present.</p></li>
<li><p>There is nothing wrong with a tense switch here, because it is possible for both to be true. The game of checkers WAS played in the past during a given era in Egypt, but IS mentioned in the writings of Homer and Plato, which are works of art and thus don’t have any real “ending” point. The answer is E.</p></li>
<li><p>C. What is Brower saying? He discusses how majestic the butterflies are, and how seeing them gather is like viewing a work of art. After reading that quote, you can picture what he’s describing in your mind. Is it included to further convey how beautiful the butterflies are, or to educate you on artistic awareness? Think about what you (as a reader) get out of that quote.</p></li>
<li><p>“For almost a century [New York] had been a preeminent manufacturing and port city, absorbing the unskilled millions who
flocked there from Europe, and had yielded great fortunes for the astute and daring.”</p></li>
</ol>
<p>The “unskilled millions” (European immigrants) are one group, and the “astute and daring” (who made the great fortunes) are a very select few from those unskilled millions, NOT all of them. The answer is C because the sentence says New York specialized in manufacturing and shipping (from ports), and “absorbed” the European immigrants who flocked there to take those jobs.</p>
<ol>
<li>E</li>
<li>C</li>
<li>C</li>
<li>E</li>
<li>C</li>
<li>C</li>
</ol>
<p>Explanation for Question 1: The paragraph compares 2 different works of media and says that both are similar. So, the only choices that could make sense are (b) technique and (e) style. Since both are written works, <a href=“E”>b</a>style** would be the correct answer.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how else to explain it; this question was rather easy for me, so I can’t really give you a train of thought that led me to the answer.</p>
<p>Explanation for Question 2: “WHEN THEY OFTEN FIND” should be changed to “WHERE THEY OFTEN FIND.” The part of the sentence after answer choice C describes WHERE the food is found (crevices). So, that part of the sentence should be changed to “WHERE THEY OFTEN FIND.”</p>
<p>Explanation for Question 3: As it is, the sentence is a fragment. The presence of the word “THAT” means that the part of the sentence after “THAT” needs to be a complete thought, with a verb. Since there is no verb, the choice “THAT” is the correct answer.</p>
<p>“THAT” should be changed to “FOR.”</p>
<p>Explanation for Question 4: I’m not sure how to explain this, but I’ll try my best. The way I see it is this: </p>
<p>The time of the pharaohs happened in the past and is finished, while the writings of Homer and Plato still exist today. So, what happened in Egypt needs to be in the past perfect while the writings can be described in the present.</p>
<p>Explanation for Question 5: The answer is not B (as you had thought) because there is nothing in the paragraph relating to art; the paragraph is about butterflies. Brower is in awe of the butterfly migration, and he/she has a detailed quote about the awesome, dramatic event, which is answer choice C.</p>
<p>Explanation for Question 6: The part of the sentence before “unskilled workers” gives you the answer. New York is described as a “preeminent manufacturing and port city,” which is the city in which these unskilled workers found themselves in. Because NYC is a manufacturing and port city, you know these workers got jobs in the manufacturing and shipping industries–answer choice C.</p>
<p>The answer for number 1 is actuallly B, technique. I have no idea why though, cause it seems like the best answer is style to me too…</p>
<p>Is the second work mentioned (“Longtime Californ’”) a song? Because I <em>suppose</em> that a song really can’t have a “style” attributed to it. I’m not sure though; is this from the Blue Book?</p>
<p>^im assuming it’s barrons.</p>
<p>no it’s from the collegeboard’s online course. And Longtime Californ is a book… and I still don’t get how technique fits here. Here’s the whole paragraph.</p>
<p>In terms of its approach, Takakis
book is similar to Victor and Bret Nees
Longtime Californ (1972) because both
Line are media through which diverse Asian
5 American voices surface. The major
difference is in how they collected and use
the voices. The Nees identified and
selected representative personalities from
different segments of the Chinese
10 American community in San Francisco,
whom they laboriously interviewed
themselves over a two-year period, and
placed these lengthy, in-depth interviews
largely verbatim in their book with
15 minimal narrative and analysis. From the
analytical standpoint, the book broke no
new ground. But it succeeded in giving us
the sights, sounds, flavors, perspectives,
and feelings of the community that had
20 never before been permitted to surface.
For their labor, the book received lavish
reviews by the mainstream press.</p>
<p>Well, from the rest of the paragraph, it’s rather obvious that no style is really prevalent in either book; most of it is just quoted material. So, “technique” is, I guess, the best choice, since A, C, and D make no sense at all and B is just better than E is.</p>
<p>Weird question, I must say.</p>
<p>Remember: style is usually a distinctive quality form of something.
Technique is a method of accomplishing something.</p>
<p>This part of the paragraph indicates the latter over the former:
“The major
difference is in how they collected and use
the voices”</p>
<p>The operative word in those quotes is HOW, indicating a difference in technique.</p>