-        Studies of Insects in Suriname

- Author was everything except -> gullible not 'stymied’
- What did great mean? -> eminent
- studies in Suriname were -> more problematic
- Casual look -> superficial (not spontaneous)
- scale -> dwarfed by her environment
- what was meant by lines 12-14 -> less successful than her customary methods of research
- Why does author use all this descriptive language -> to convey a setting


-        Cairo

Purpose of Passage -> Formative Period of development "A" not “E” “profound regrets”
Salt in Water -> Effortless Activity
Teachers saw him as a prodigy because of -> Extraordinary Intellect (not conduct)
Action of the headmaster -> specific instance of general pattern
He felt -> Sense of Entitlement (not Grandeur )
Mother viewed Son -> Autonomy
Aftereffect -> melancholy (not dread)
Last paragraph describes him as -> Nomadic

-        Apollo 8

- Purpose of passage -> describe experience
- Picture time? -> diligent by inflexible
- The spaceship was a tank -> provide a sense of the challenge
- Anders initially felt - disoriented
- Final Paragraph -> unrealistic expectations
- craters and hills -> support a generalization
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Double Long Passage:

-        Clasical Music Passage

- "Signs" -> indications
- Both passages focus on -> how classical music is regarded
- How do passages differ -> Passage 2 supplies different perspective
- Passage 1 reacts to first line in passage 2 -> non-judgmental way of categorization?
- Passage 2 -> Provides different opinion (nothing explicitly stated in passage 2 bashes passage 1)
- Who is most like the unconverted? -> culturally literate
- What do listings in magazines show? -> unfortunate dichotomy
- Cult -> pretentious
- hold TV Orchestras -> support
- Quote in Passage 2 -> shows a specific opinion about the topic
- songs were example of something that was -> “personally meaningful”
- Both passages talk about -> how people regard a specific type of music
- Question about what would author of passage 2 say about death of classical music ->
ongoing but not ominous
- Question with diner mood or shoppers: No consensus***
(imo it's the diner's mood)

it talked about the death of true classical music
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-        Short Passages:

-        Grandma

Grandma -> eccentric
Chrysanthemums and tea -> more suitable activities

-        Culture

primary purpose -> cultural identities not preestablished
quotation marks -> either "antiquated usage" or "legitimacy of terms", no consensus**
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Double Short Passages:

-        Happiness:

- What would author of passage 2 say about people who are happy -> They didn’t seek it.
- What would author of passage 1 say about “condition” -> can only be achieved through increasing stimuluation
- Author of passage 2 agrees with 1 because happiness doesn't last
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Sentence Completions:

- the person's _____ style of writing and pompous way of speaking that made him come off as _____
correct answer:- "stilted...affectation"
- "sanguine... resilience" correct
- about comets and meteors "emanates" correct
- "facsimiles...credible" correct
- "inane...arduous" correct
- "redress...palliative" correct