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by shirando21 Sat Oct 27, 2012 5:11 pm

I picked C instead of D.

Can anyone explain?
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Re: Q3

by maryadkins Mon Nov 05, 2012 4:34 pm

The flux within Hawaiian society "has been integral to its heterogeneity" (keep reading through line 34). This means that whatever the flux is, it's led to diversity. If it were just referring to immigrants adapting, that would not be something that is critical to diversity; in fact, adaptation usually means kind of the opposite (you change to accommodate your context, right?). (D) actually uses the word "diverse" and gets at this.
 
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Re: Q3

by tennisboy12 Mon Mar 09, 2015 4:48 pm

Why not answer choice E? Thank you.
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Re: Q3

by maryadkins Sun Mar 15, 2015 10:04 am

This paragraph is not about changing attitudes of many immigrants toward their cultural norms...where do you see evidence for that? It's about HIS (Lum's) attitude, but not about others' attitudes. (E) doesn't match up for this reason.

As for the ones that haven't been covered in this thread:

(A) is off because the point of this phrase is not to highlight social tension created by mixed attitudes.

(B) is wrong because this paragraph isn't about the US.
 
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Re: Q3

by JorieB701 Fri Oct 27, 2017 8:51 pm

I basically always get these wrong and I'm like 20-30 tests deep into prep so I have a substantial amount of data to back up such a sweeping statement. lol.

Here, I fared no better. What am I missing with these? What are we generally looking for? And please, if there's another thread somewhere that answers such questions, feel free to direct me.

This one was hard for me and the above posters seems to just get it. In a timed PT I saw that the phrase in question was then said to be "integral to (Hawaiian Society's) heterogeneity." I was imagining here, something of a conditional nature. Diverse Hawaiian Society --> changes in Hawaiian society.

D seems to be offering a kind of cause/effect relationship. A diverse population led to the constantly changing Hawaiian culture.

Are these the same? Am I interpreting this correctly?
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Re: Q3

by ohthatpatrick Tue Oct 31, 2017 7:39 pm

This is Reading Comp, so get conditional logic out of here. :)

There's a general formula for RC question stems that end in:
in order to
serves to
primarily to

Since each answer begins with "to [verb]", it is expressing purpose. What was the purpose of this phrase / detail / example?

The formula is this
1. MOST COMMON - they're asking about some detail, and the purpose of that detail is to support or flesh out the previous framing idea

2. 2ND MOST COMMON - they're kinda just treating it like a "what does this word mean in context", and you just need to think about what which answer is the best replacement for meaning.

In general, you think:
- the correct answer will probably reinforce the FRAMING IDEA (the bigger idea) that came right before this detail (or, very rarely, right after this detail).

- the correct answer will reinforce the main theme of this paragraph, but doesn't need to tie into anything in other paragraphs.

- beware strong language


For this one, I don't see a great framing idea right before the phrase in line 33, so I'd expect something a little more like a #2. "Flux within Hawaiian society" refers to the active current of immigrants, which is key to Hawaii's diversity. Bigger picture of the paragraph is that Lum is trying to straddle the old/traditional identify and culture with the new/Hawaiian identify and culture.

(A) social tension / mix of attitudes = doesn't sound like what we were talking about. too extra.(B) deny = too strong to really keep reading
(C) this reinforces "the role of immigrants", but the phrase "flux within society" refers to the influx of immigrants that gives Hawaii diversity .... when did we talk about "the process by which immigrants adapt"?
(D) Sure. Change = flux. Diversity is the big idea attached to "flux". This reinforces the meaning of that phrase within this sentence.
(E) This phrase was just saying "Hawaii's a popular destination for immigrants. LOTSA immigrants. Very diverse place." This answer choice is talking about how immigrants in Hawaii change their attitudes about traditional norms. What? too extra.

On this one, I think you'd be risking getting it wrong by trying to be too smart / too tricky about it.

Read the sentence a few times and think about what it's talking about, and then just pick whichever answer sounds like the same conversation. If you couldn't understand the original phrase in context, lean on the bigger ideas in the immediate vicinity.

That's the formula for "in order to / serves to / primarily to", and leaning on "heterogeneity" would get you to the correct answer about "diversity".