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in the previous installments, we took apart a reading comprehension passage. the passage is of medium length, and you will usually get a couple of these on the sat. typically, passages of this length have no more than six questions. as this is a tutorial of sorts, i\u2019ve decided to milk the passage for ten questions. my aim is to go through a variety of different question types, so i will need to go over the usual limit of six.<\/p>\n

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direct reference<\/h2>\n

this question type will direct you to a specific part of the passage. in this case, the first paragraph. a direct reference should not be confused with a line reference question, which gives you the specific lines. the method for both questions, however, is similar. with the question below, we want to read the first paragraph, keeping in mind the question.<\/p>\n

once we read the passage we want to answer the question ourselves. that\u2019s right \u2013 do not dive straight into the answer choices thinking they will offer salvation. the answer choices are meant to trick you and corrupt your interpretation of the passage. next thing you know, you imagine the passage is saying completely different from your mini-narrative<\/a>.<\/p>\n

once you have an answer match with answer choice. good luck!<\/p>\n

i recently dug up a photograph of myself from freshman year of college that made me smile. i have on the wrong shoes, the wrong socks, the wrong checkered shirt tucked the wrong way into the wrong slacks. i look like what i was: a boy sprung from a middlebrow burg who affected a secondhand preppiness. i look nervous. compare that image to one from my senior-class dinner: now i am attired in a gray tweed jacket with a green plaid bow tie and a sensible button-down shirt, all purchased at the yale co-op. i look confident, and more than a bit contrived.<\/p>\n

what happened in between those two photographs is that i experienced, then overcame, what the poet meena alexander has called \u201cthe shock of arrival.\u201d when i was deposited at the wrought-iron gates of my residential college as a freshman, i felt more like an outsider than i\u2019d thought possible. it wasn\u2019t just that i was a small chinese boy standing at a grand wasp temple; nor simply that i was a hayseed neophyte puzzled by the refinements of college style. it was both: color and class were all twisted together in a double helix of felt inadequacy.<\/p>\n

for a while i coped with the shock by retreating to a group of my own kind\u2014not follow asians, but fellow marginal public school grads who resented the rah-rah yalies to whom everything came effortlessly. aligning myself this way was bearable\u2014i was hiding, but at least i could place myself in a long tradition of underdog exiles at yale. aligning myself by race, on the other hand, would have seemed too inhibiting.<\/p>\n

i know this doesn\u2019t make much sense. i know also that college, in the multicultural era, is supposed to be where the deracinated minority youth discovers the \u201cperson of color\u201d inside. to a point, i did. i studied chinese, took an asian american history course, a seminar on race politics. but ultimately, college was where the unconscious habits of my adolescent assimilation hardened into self-conscious strategy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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1.\u00a0in the first paragraph, the change the author observes in his former self can best be described as one from<\/p>\n

(a)\u00a0 uncertainty to despair<\/p>\n

(b)\u00a0 confidence to conformity<\/p>\n

(c)\u00a0 insipidity to mediocrity<\/p>\n

(d) awkwardness to poise<\/p>\n

(e)\u00a0 immaturity to jadedness<\/p>\n

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explanation: in the first paragraph the author is looking at two pictures \u2013 one of himself as a freshman at yale, the other as a senior. as a freshman he is wearing, \u201cthe wrong socks\u2026shirt\u2026slacks.\u201d he notes that he is nervous, aware that he doesn\u2019t fit in.\u00a0 in the senior photo he is wearing \u2013 with confidence – a suit and shirt bought from the yale store.<\/p>\n

answer (d) awkwardness to poise best captures this transition. (e) is in wrong because the jadedness is too extreme. to be jaded is to be bored from something that you\u2019ve had too much of. (c) mediocre doesn\u2019t work either, because he is focused on his dress, and how his dress shows that he has gone from this awkward, out-of-place freshman, to one who fits in to the yale mold by wearing the \u201cright\u201d clothes.<\/p>\n

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