tailieunhanh - Acing The Gre phần 9

Tham khảo tài liệu 'acing the gre phần 9', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | ----------- GED LITERATURE AND THE ARTS 61. d. It is ironic that in a place where there are so many ways to describe one food indicating that this food is a central part of the culture Thomas is hungry. The passage does not mention the language of the reservation so choice a is incorrect. The sentence does not show any measure of how hungry Thomas is so choice b is incorrect. The sentence does not describe fry bread or make it sound in any way appealing so choice c is also incorrect. The passage tells us that it was Thomas s hunger not the number of ways to say fry bread that provided his inspiration so choice e is incorrect. 62. c. The author tells us that the new house was in the best neighborhood in town and the neighborhood s prestige outweighed its deadliness lines 5-8 . There is no indication that their old house was falling apart choice a or that they needed more room choice b . The neighborhood is clearly not great for children it was not a pleasant place to live especially for children so choice d is incorrect. The author tells us that business was going well for his father so well in fact that he could pay for the house in cash but that does not mean the house was affordable choice e . In fact if it was in the most prestigious neighborhood it was probably expensive. 63. a. The author tells us that his father was always a man of habit so much so that he forgot he d moved and went to his old house into his old room and lay down for a nap not even noticing that the furniture was different. This suggests that he has a difficult time accepting and adjusting to change. There is no evidence that he is a calculating man choice b . He may be unhappy with his life choice c which could be why he chose not to notice things around him but there is little to support this in the passage while there is much to support choice a. We do not know if he was proud of the house choice d . We do know that he was a man of habit but we do not know if any of those habits were bad .