SAT历年考试回忆(附答案选项)

2006.4 adversarial ascribed anachronistic dilatory equanimity exploitative forestalled thwarted unpremeditated vituperative
2006.6 abstruse allusion animosity antipathy buoyancy castigated chicanery debilitated demagogue dilapidated discreet disheartened expurgate galling gerrymandering hackneyed impermeable paradigm placid plasticity pounce recalcitrant redundancy synthesis unorthodox wrongheaded
2006.11 affable anguished antecedent aplomb apropos auspicious beleaguer compassionate conciliate craven deleterious exonerate fecund fortitude fleeting impasse implausible insurmountable libelous licentious noxious opacity pernicious profligacy propitiate sinecure squander triage triumvirate vacuous vertiginous
2006.12 confound decry
dirge diminutive economical flooding fluctuations hackneyed halcyon invoke oracular
palpitations prattle prudent quiescent raconteur renegade respite sanctuary synthetic truculent
2007.3
Sentence Completions 13/19
1. Marie Curie- minimized
2. Ambulance- celerity
3. rock- relief
4. penguins & global warming- harbinger
5. orangutan- retired
6. ban- moratorium
7. smile- belied
8. eccentric- idiosyncratic
9. Trade route-Cosmopolitan City
10. The new guy did not want to venture criticism at the risk of appearing presumptuous 11. Jazz musician working environment: Daunting
12. African American Actresses-Marginalized
13. Sensationalism in the media: lurid Passages: 14/48
Asian girl passage
1. little brother- unconcerned
2. "how could I compare my need to her intention?" - she couldn't respond
3. transition- disappointment to willed indifference
4. **"just like you only more asian"- purposeful flattery**
5. sentence structure- praiseworthy deed followed by snid e remark “Used to do charitable things… now she vacations in Hawaii with her boyfriend”
Founding Fathers passage
1. nods- recognizes
2. premise (first one) - just as capable as founding fathers
3. unduly laudatory
Photography passage
1. draws attention to the finger Monkey passage
1. registering- recording on
2. what didn't the monkeys do- mischief
Radio Passage
1. Revelation
2. father's response to question: not clear but helpful
Movie Star
1. Tom Cruise is an established (albeit raving mad) movie star
WR: Identifying sentence errors
1. attempt to rowing--attempt at rowing (A)
2. ancient city in Georgia (E)
3. learning French, as quickly as (E)
4. Compatible to -- should be compatible with
2007.6
Sentence Completions 19/19
1. Topography
2. Purifying/Contamination
3. Ravenous (After a long hike, a girl was exhausted and ate a lot)
4. Placate (Don’t try to placate aggressive groups –The more concession you make the more they’ll demand.)
5. Monotony/Droll
6. Developing/Changing
7. Discovered/Adorning
8. Divisive
9. Devours/Predation
10. Avarice/Beneficial
11. Pristine/Deterred (Amazon rain forest thing, Malaria, can’t cultivate the soil because of the deadly diseases)
12. Malaise
13. Spate (renewed interest in something, so spate Hollywood films)
14. Venturesome (An American girl likes to take risk)
15. Automatons
16. Moderation/Recklessness
17. Tutelage/Evidence (His tutelage is like university education, evidence from the guitar players who succeeded after playing with them.)
18. Innocuous (Candidate gave a speech so innocuous that his critics couldn’t find anything to hold against him.)
19. Lugubrious (because gloomy)
*prosaic (somewhere)
*tasteful (somewhere)
Passages: 19/48
Chinese woman passage:
1. last one - contacting people her mother knew in the past
2. main point of passage - difficult undertaking?
3. gift the mother gave to the author - freedom from disturbing truths
4. discovered why her mother was so unforthcoming
5. going to the store - everyday activity
6. why didnt the daughter ask the mother until adulthood - ?
Squid passage:
1. what is the purpose of the parenthetical - elaborating
2. knowing the squid exists but believing it doesnt - self conscious inconsistency
3. creatures of near mythical proportions
4. both passages - scientists had not found a living one yet
Motorcycle passage:
1. how does he view tv - disdain
2. twisting road - sense of control
3. congeniality
encyclopedia passage:
1. what is closest to the description of details - performance of a play? mission from space?
2. portrait? photo of building? pic of human heart?
3. history and literature - narrow and biased
4. future generations - overestimate the breadth of their knowledge
biographer passages: No information
short passage:
1. how did he view their lifestyle - close-knit
black female history:
1. topic/ramifications/process of the essay
WRITING:
no error:
1. the sir guy and queen elizabeth
2. indigo
3. the biologically and chemically insect one
4. the taxes disadvantaged
1. senior employees being worried about the new employees - they
2. gel IS extracted from the leaves, corrected from ARE
3. employees - they
4. snow and visiting the college - dangling modifier problem
5. carb question - verb disagreement
6. the cities has museums - have museums
7. know actions are detrimental, but are unwilling to change it - change it was wrong
8. competition between my sister and i - should be sister and me
braces, fixing the paragraph:
sentence to delete -
1. what do "things" represent - "unsightly contraption"
2007.11
Sentence Completions 19/19
1. Guy on the cover of Time Magazine was RECOGNIZED for his GROUNDBREAKING work.
2. Guy mistook a woman for a man and was thus ERRONEOUS
3. Indefatigable = SLEEP
4. Nothing affects her = PLACID
5. Verve = PANACHE
6. Art = EPITOME
7. Teachers/students = COMMENDABLE/EXEMPLARY i think those were the choices
8. Blood pressure = IMPAIR/MINIMIZE
9. APOCRYPHAL because the writing was of dubious authenticity
10. Person's temperament changed from EFFUSIVE to RETICENCE
11. DISPROVE...REFUTE
12. CURTAIL - I believe because of a lack of funds
13. INDIGENOUS
14. SCORN ..DEIGN (They SCORNED her because she didn't have a PhD and would not DEIGN to look at her work
15. ADVOCATES...CRITICS
16. RESISTANT .. POPULAR (had to do with acid rain and glass)
17. FOREBODING .. ELATION (answer called for a pair of antonyms. SC had to do with a person who moved from one place to another)
18. George Eliot did a PROFOUND analysis
19. COMPARATIVE .. ABSOLUTE (had to do with the concept of best seller)
Passages: 44/48
Mexican Girl Marta who asked for her father's permission to go to HS..
1.Resignation when he talked with the fisherman
2.Dumbfounded when fisherman is consulted on something so important
3. Father is sociable-reserved
4.Final sentence makes story significant by showing Marta fulfilled her promise
5. Earnest when asking father initially to go to school
6. Urgency = fear that she lost attention of her father
Mini-Pair on advertising on the internet versus advertising on TV
1. Passage 1's quote is to bring up a relevant research finding
2. Both passages deal with the strategic placement of ads
3. Second passage shows people avoiding ads
4. Passage 1 would learn from passage 2 by not placing internet ads on unpopular websites
One Paragraph about the writing of Chesnutt 1. The quotations (he was "fresh" and "vivid") are typical reactions of Chesnutt's contemporaries
2. The figurative language (ie like an wit like an ax) was forceful and penetrating
One Paragraph about what is natural
1. Purpose is to dispel a misconception
2. Colloquial statement "Vaccine ain't" = to back up assertion
Passage about the architecture of a museum 1. Kahn's quote introduced the central dilemma of museum design
2. Crass social consumerism or something like that = theme park
3. Competition makes museums do things they arent suited for
4. Building's fundamental character = the spirit
5. "circumstantial requirements" = Legal height of building
6. Center of museum = the art on display
7. List of places in museum = to show museum's
many facets
8. Most museums don't take old, unrecognized works and display them
9. Ornate museum would be a put-off to society
10. Museum = civic = responsibility to society (unlike private)
Passage about the adversarial nature of US justice system
1. European courts = prevent manipulation of facts
2. Critic said that people would lose confidence in societal institutions
3. Claim = assertion
4. Author feels that American courts = problematic practice
5. Author = respectful toward critic M-M
6. Passage is best described as a criticism against the American legal system
7. New York District of Appeals and DC = attempted to reduce the severity of the problem 8. Ideal court system would uncover the truth and not focus on winning lawsuits
Paired Passage about the nature of the human brain
1. Take = outlook (a modern outlook)
2. Two authors both felt dualism was "appealing but inaccurate"
3. Ending sentences = cautionary v. stirring
4. Descrates dignified --> added credibility to as
a philosopher
5. Brain passages both referenced influential historical figures
6. Copernicus = humans' place in the universe
7. Growing up = realization based on scientific findings
8. Something about humans thinking that their brain = overemphasize their distinctiveness in the universe
9. Special = exceptional
10. Genome free of bodies = dualism of mind/body
11. First author was sympathetic to Descartes (he was very human)
12. The awe and wonder about the mind is not dependent on Descartes' view of dualism --- last sentence
Writing
1. Were we to change = correct --- currently under debate
2. Diction error = insure --- assure
3. the editor "would have followed her instincts and run the story if not for the legal trouble" The problem gave "ran", but it needs to be "run" since it goes with "have"
4. Life as a Dog: I think no error - "had he adopted an adult POV" is correct as is
5. raised over the last 150 years = has risen TWO NO ERRORS
2007.12
Sentence Completions: 19/19
1. Timidity…Newspaper
2. Burgeoning,/Paucity
3. Blight…Chestnut Trees
4. Meticulous…Woodrow Wilson
5. Diffident/Assertive…guy with friends
6. Innocuous…jellyfish
7. Immersed…medieval sin
8. Indomitable
9. Conjectural/Reconsider…scientific evidence
10. Temper…the optimism
11. Trust/Naïveté
12. Spurred/Redress…progressive grievances
13. Sparring/Effusive…praise
14. Monumental
15. Insightful/Recognize
16. Extinction?
17. Legendary/Mythic (Houdini)
18. Insignificant/Influential (in advertising insignificant points can lead to influential results)
19. Exonerated (she insisted on her innocence and demanded to be exonerated)
Passages: 46/48
Dennis Passage
1. evocative.....why was the paragraph one word
2. dismay(?) awe (?).....shadow
3. riotous moment.....the chickens in the house
4. not involving family.....social activism
5. exaggerated regard.....the mother's repetition of the name dennis
6. shows excitement.....zoo/circus house
7. permitted.....what did "allow" mean
8. important.....fixing the tv was not "high" on the mothers list
9. the power structure.....what did the system refer to
Governess Passage
1. show immediate effects.....what was the point of the final paragraph
2. showed extend of pretending (?).....why did the boy howl
3. she wasn’t settled.....what did her suitcase symbolize
4. she lied to get what she wanted.....coyness
5. other men had done this before.....Edward falling in love at first glance
6. she wanted to sneak out.....the hinge making noise
7. to support herself.....why was she a teacher
8. because governesses are supposed to teach students.....irony
9. symbolic(?) overstatement(?).....what was the fame, power, wealth line
10. onerous.....hard
11. she didn’t apply herself at ck of mastery of math, etc
12. she knew the opportunities it brought?
13. movie goers are no longer impressed by special effects when they learn how they are done.....analogous to her reaction
Puerto Rico Passage
1. to reject a widespread practice as inaccurate.....separating the English and Spanish journals
Internet Passages
1. glib(?) scholarly(?).....tone of passage (could there have been two different questions?)
2. companies lost investments.....what do both agree on
3. would be millionaires.....entrepreneurs
4. dissatisfaction.....5% return
Shakespeare Passages
1. he conceded to that point.....indeed
2. misguided(?) idealistic(?).....conception
3. cannot determine identity.....why is the logic in passage one flawed.
4. dramas.....what would not be a qualification for passage one
5. people can find stuff out in books.....what would most discredit the argument of passage one
6. profitable plays.....based on passage one, which would shakespeare not need
7. absurd.....fantastic
8. an authors personal morals are reflected through his writing.....guy going to prison for a few shillings
9. taking a logical argument to the extreme....."nobody" wrote shakespeares works
10. passage two refutes passage one
11. too narrow in focus.....what would passage two think about passage one
12. passage one failed to see that the knowledge shakespeare had was superficial
Scientific Theories Passage
1. easily tested and observed....."easy" theories
2. impossible to measure in the physical world.....crazy theories
3. st paragraph
4. praising own work is counterproductive
5. give an example?
Photography Passage
1. self-expression.....photography
2. suggesting an approach.....putting a personal thing in the picture
2008.3
Sentence Completions
1. unaffected***
2. Duplicitous
3. Pristine...quixotic
4. Conundrum
5. Diffident
6. Inquisition
7. unaffected
8. Admirer...declined
9. ineffective against...not exceed
10. flourish...central
Passages: 28/48
ROBERT FROST
1. satisfied about eluding question
2. extend (to what degree)
3. amount (measure)
4. letters confirmed suspicion
POLITICAL
1. articifical construct***
2. gross understatement
3. statistical data
4. challenges the underlying assumption
5. negative connotation***
MOTHER'S BOX
1. marigold reminded of bad memories
2. more comfortable with kids
3. wrestling showed intensity
4. recognized error in ways
5. mother felt item still belonged to her
6. disapproved yet sympathetic
7. direct narrative
DECOMPOSITION
1. playfully skeptical
2. teacher
3. meticulous
4. pulverized
5. statement to make a change
6. unconventional way to introduce scientific idea***
7. importance of natural decomposition
PASSIONATE LETTER-WRITING GUY
1. overwrought
2. universal truth
BOTANIST
1. versatile***
COMPUTER TRANSLATION
1. more optimistic
2. less effective than hoped to be
200806
Sentence Completions 19/19
1. Longevity
2. Characterize .. mountainous
3. Ameliorate .. exacerbate
4. Remuneration
5. Abstemious
6. Malicious
7. Controversial .. hypothesis
8. Suspended .. suffered
9. Obstinate
10. Olfactory
11. Obstreperous
12. Iconoclast .. skewered
13. Nuance
14. Deceit .. willing
15. underestimated .. complexity
16. undaunted by
17. parity
18. synthesize .. interweaving
19. Vitriolic .. savor
Passages: 28/48
Non-traditional Alternative Medicine:
1. Passage 1 describes a phenomenon and Passage 2 provides a specific example
2. Passage 1 was more critical, Passage 2 more enthusiastic
3. Proponents of the first would support the practioners.
African Queen mother:
1. Told why the issue couldn't be resolved
2. Conclusions were speculative
Another version:
1. Her status is an issue that cannot be resolved
2. All scenarios are speculative
Gneiss:( One Paragraph on an old rock)
1. The rock made him feel relatively young
2. He uses an analogy to explain a difficult concept
3. Thread goes to the moon and back 9 times = makes an analogy
Ballet
1. Steps = movement
2. A digression...paradox
3. Fully present = engagement
4. The studio was unlike her neighborhood
5. A list of rules and regulations
6. The curtsy showed respect for authority
7. Some rules at home didn't make sense
8. Difference between individual achievement and an art form
Wolves:
1.) Gently mocking attitude
2.) Coyotes returned to underdog status
Vandalism is Peace Freedom:
1. Graffiti artists co-opted by professional artists
2. Anxious = uneasy
3. Notes on the fridge = absurd narrative
4. The peasants were self-deprecating(自贬自谦) humor to criticize a position
5. He mentions the Ronin statue to establish a parallel between him and the youth
6. The lost art of using the home to convey ideas
Second Generation Chinese Father
1. Dictionary = author's lack of understanding of Chinese
2. Painstaking = Arduous
3. Swatch (布料等的样品) = ignorance
4. Riddle and Fable = Enigmatic and edifying
200811
Sentence Completions 19/19
1. Trust
2. Alter .. Environment
3. Metaphor
4. Parallel .. Disparity
5. Zealous .. Ameliorate
6. Copious .. Acerbic
7. Solicitous
8. Noted .. Discrimination
1. Adhere .. authenticity
2. Loquacious
3. Thrive .. Antediluvian
4. Misplaced .. unsavory
5. Unique
1. Elite .. Function
2. Discern
3. Provisional
4. Virtuosity
5. Precluded
6. Wrongdoing .. Chicanery
Passages: 39/48
Bioluminescence short passage
1. Foolish because hiding in the dark with a light is paradoxical
2. passage showed ways bioluminescence could be beneficial to sea creatures
Packaging Food
1. Industry was eager to continue using its new technologies
2. Foods were "absurd"
Comic Strips
1. passage 2 elaborated on passage 1
2. author of passage 1 talked about his experiences
3. author of passage 2 wanted comics to be an accepted art
4. comics used as an educational resource
Artistic Elephants (Long Double)
1. personal anecdote/general overview
2. sori had drawn them herself/himself
3. authors agree that elephants deliberately paint
4. "right" means "direct"
5. Ruby can't be used for experiment because he/she learned to paint in captivity
6. substance is "reality"
7. quote: nuance and complex
8. numerous and unrecorded*
9. handler in passage 1 saw elephant's drawings as an art form*
Uncle's book
1. solemn
2. mutual acquaintance
3. relief
4. overjoyed
5. book held her captive
6. composed
7. book was reliable escape from life's chaos
8. "quarrelling friends" explained father's attitude
9. passage in general showed past experiences
10. personification**
Hiking/Artifact
1. significance of personal experience
2. ball in the undergrowth矮树丛
3. to show how old the object was
4. map was misleading (no water)
5. imaginative speculation*
6. "settle" means rest*
Poetry:
1. "famous" is ironical
2. statistical evidence was misleading
3. paradoxical situation
4. bemoaning a trend
5. students referred to specialization of poetry
6. principal audience
2008.12
Sentence Completions 13/19
1. toady
2. unfettered
3. reprobate
4. misanthropic
5. mitigate
6. interloper
7. sedentary
8. prophetic
9. capricious
10. ornate
11. unfettered
12. channel (NOT chasm)
13. deplorable (not equivocal)
14. twins
15. Canada
16. Halle Berry
17. asked me and him
Passages: 17/48
short passage-lady and writing about the future
1. respectful of the insights the future provided (2nd ques)
short passage-something about a greek guy and an ugly statue
1. the statue was probably ugly (2nd ques)
Chinese one
1. broach - trying to draw off
2. "MO ws jealous that the other students liked the other guy"
3. constrast the diff between students in Mo's class and the other guy's class
navigation
1. landmark....open sea
2. discovery/...calculated(i got wrong)
3. why did they intervene (royal intervention)
4. umm why did it take so much for the guy to get his money ...(heavily paraphrased) dilatory something(i got wrong)
5. umm importance to people(heavily paraphrased)... they don’t know the hard work it took to discover latitude
6. globe as a kid.. fleeting passions
Korean Mother/Hands
1. tender= soft
2. hands, intellectual---doctor
3. soothing lullibies...familiarity
Nature/Gardening
1. Traditional philosophers have used nature as.....
2. free of human influence? complex?
Privacy
1. technology has a dark side....meaning.....morbid? mysterious? concealed? ( was that a choice even?)
200903
Sentence Completions 11/10
1. florid
2. malfeasance
3. pastoral
4. intemperance/inimical
5. mellifluous
6. guilt/compunction
7. superficial/compromising
8. commended/invited
9. stark/cerebral
10. controversy
11. innuendo
Passages: 37/48
Old china being valued years later
1. sheer light heartedness –showed they didn’t value it
2. amused disbelief
3. reason for being valued is passage of time
4. future values them b/c they’re unaccustomed to it
Big leaves
1. factor driving it is breaches in the canopies
2. destroys natural habitats
other 2 questions???
Lion – 2 passages
1. both say that humans are prey
2. relationship – expanded upon insight
3. first passage made use of personal anecdote
4. owning not renting –metaphor/warn readers??
Dinosoaur museum – 2 passages
1. adm ires the dinosaur exhibits b/c they’re everything she’s not
2. beneficial and important
3. ultimately problematic
4. soemthing-uh-saurus – bewilderment??
5. dogmatic scientists see it as heresy –strong objection
6. character = nature
7. scientists doubt the public would appreciate the process
Chidlren & media
1. it was not ever thus – crystallize his point
2. to draw attention ??
3. children’s perceptions are determined by pop culture
4. children are ironists - learn that the media will just be thrown out
5. how author’s view differed from one mentioned in passage .. disagree b/c?
6. pulp = inferior form of lit
7. graphic violence/media being disposable ???
8. acknowledged the scientists’ work but irrelevant to his argument
9. advertisements were shrewd
Indian computer programmer gone novelist 1. changed from unselfconscious pleasure to respect for challenges of the creative process 2. italicized each and every –redundancy or qualifiers or pervasive phenomenon???
3. profound – difference between lightning and lightning bug
4. having his work read aloud was significant but discomforting
5. mark twain - pertinent observation
6. list of differences showed his rich diversity
7. analogy: artist recording her single over and over
8. elaborating
9. received = understood
10. different interpretations
11. attributed his surprise that writing could be taken in different ways to - ???
2009.6
alstair interconnected genes
dramatic then anticlimax
enigmatic
biased
distressed/opposed
expectation and reality
direct quotes
more historical
expression/intensity of need
perturbed
attitude toward students
impassioned
eating nutrients
dailiness everyday life
solid "state" = form
edison practical intelligence
prestigious endorsement
whale painting astonishingly friendly and fluid democratic
poke fun
protean (not virulent)
Empathy
negligent, essential
engagement = involvement
naivete
destroying/instill
conviviality
infinitesimal
stagnant = unchanging
Agatha mystery novel=emphasize a point Ingenious
Unchanging
credulous
urgent
summation/complement
difference between passage 1 and 2: talking about students
reading books: all the answers had to do with finding emotional needs and such
accuracy of memory
rocket ship=obsolecence
contradiction: rejecting research of company integrity of universities: limit company freedom to publish or not to publish research
first two lines about caravan: dramatic statement to anticlimactic humor
passage two was more historical
overstated similarities for blogg comparison alistair greatly affected by experiences
tactile=touch
Still in debate:
1. scientifically inclined or philosophical
2. tropical ocean or volcano
3. even the most solid objects aren't impervious to water/no essential differences between natural and manufactured objects
200911-1
Sentence Completions 9/19
altruism
prescient
elites/latitude
compilation/commemorate uncorroborated/ephemeral
histrionics
gregarious
taciturn
informs
Passages: 30/48
MACHU PICCHU
1. water = moistened
2. layered = levels of zones or something
3. task = like carrying a rock up a mountain
4. something followed by personal hypothesis/theory
5. lines 7-9 (details) to illustrate the importance of the site
6. patches = plots
7. to study a variety of plants
hydrogen
1. independence from foreign energy even if coal is less efficient
2. passage two gives benefits/drawbacks while passage 1 gives praise or something
3. both agree that engine is less efficient
4. yield = produce
5. lines "3 times longer with same energy"-->application of fuel cell
6. doubtful in the end?
7. unequivocal
8. ready
fate
1. rattling of chain video games
1. videogames = diversion
2. first line presents theory that author challenges
BSO conductor
1. tone = admiring
2. musicians worked as hard as he did
3. his appearance and something
4. dolce = beautiful musical qualities
5. overbearing with other composers
6. obstinacy
7. Bethoven = ethusiastic about new work
8 featuring soloists raises revenue
lang
1. mothers appreciation of lang
2. tabernacle临时房屋, trespasses = rich history
3. childish vocab should be abandoned
4. perpetuate history whenever people speak
200911-2
Sentence Completions: 14/19
1.hubris
2.seminal
3.intransigent
4.given to...platitude
5.antithetical...adulatory
6.embezzlement question: complicity in
7.maya angelou: versatile
8.an island!
9.calm guy=measured
10.innovative…beneficial
11.immobility for spider
12discredit
13.impetus
passion/perfection
Passages: 38/48
rainy day reading
1. author used words playfully
2. author valued reading more than her sisters did
Double Short Passage Walking
1. tone of walking passage: contrary
2. interconnectedness
3. use of scenery
4. ONE THAT WAS LIKE WHAT DO BOTH OF THESE PASSAGES DO???
Japanese Girls Passage
1. characterization of Maria: extremely naive
2. The primary focus of the passage -Changed perception
3. what does it mean by ocean-She sees herself losing something that is irreplaceable
4. why does Maria mention the times- to articulate a meaningful point across
5. Tsumugi's tone when she talks to maria-indigant rebuke
6. maria feels something for Tsumugi-she finally understands tsumugi
7. previous thought of tsumugi: never exprienced loss/sadness.
8. losing something and gaining something is central for exchange/change
9. tsumugi has vulnerability
10. honest=frank
11. continuity under apparent contrasts
12. assumption of shared feelings of ocean
Art Forger Passage
1. mantle=appearance
2. special techiniques of forger are attributes
3. historian had "admiration and disdain" for forger
4. historian was detective
5. forger had great ability and productivity
6. other forgers were caught for following the masterpieces too closely
TV, Reading Passage
1. fifth, seventh, and ninth grade ==> different experience
2. hard to deny TV to children
3. "literature attitude"=the ability to think critically about what you read/skepticism
4. countering the author's point: skills needed to understand programs geared towards children are different from the skills needed for adult
5. barrier between children and adult: demarcation between readers who can think critically
6. reading is a hierarchy
7. Communication is going back to old times before reading
Political Scientists Passage
1. environmentalist activism motivated by anger
2. first environmental passage "accepting a trend"
3. “two hatters” biologist and monkeys。