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Lesson 10: Reading Comprehension - Worked Examples- Law passage overview | Cosmic Justice (paired passages)
- Main point | Law passage | Cosmic Justice
- Recognition | Law passage | Cosmic Justice
- Inferences about views | Law passage | Cosmic Justice
- Inferences about info | Law passage | Cosmic Justice
- Principles | Law passage | Cosmic Justice
- Analogies | Law passage | Cosmic Justice
- Law passage overview | Copyright
- Main point | Law passage | Copyright
- Purpose of reference | Law passage | Copyright
- Applying to new contexts | Law passage | Copyright
- Humanities passage overview | Music (paired passages)
- Main point 1 | Humanities passage | Music
- Main point 2 | Humanities passage | Music
- Recognition | Humanities passage | Music
- Inferences about views | Humanities passage | Music
- Principles and analogies | Humanities passage | Music
- Additional evidence | Humanities passage | Music
- Primary purpose | Humanities passage | Music
- Science passage overview | The Sun
- Recognition 1 | Science passage | The Sun
- Recognition 2 | Science passage | The Sun
- Organizing info | Science passage | The Sun
- Inferences about views 1 | Science passage | The Sun
- Inferences about views 2 | Science passage | The Sun
- Inferences about views 3 | Science passage | The Sun
- Inferences about info | Science passage | The Sun
- Social science passage overview | Wool
- Main point | Social science passage | Wool
- Recognition 1 | Social science passage | Wool
- Recognition 2 | Social science passage | Wool
- Inferences about info | Social science passage | Wool
- Inferences about attitudes | Social science passage | Wool
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Recognition | Humanities passage | Music
Watch a demonstration of one way to approach a "recognition" question for a humanities passage in the reading comprehension section. Created by Dave Travis.
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- I follow the reasoning behind choosing this answer. However, the question asks for a common item linked to positive musical experiences. The selected answer, complexity, is mentioned in both passages but as a cause of negative emotion.
On the other hand, answer A (continuous sound) is mentioned as a positive experience in the first passage and could be taken as familiarity which is the positive requirement for passage B.
Is it enough to find a word mentioned in both passages and ignore the question part about "positive musical experiences"?(5 votes)- No, if you look closely, they both speak of complexity in positive regards.(2 votes)
Video transcript
- [Teacher] Which one of
the following concepts is linked to positive musical
experiences in both passages? So, okay, we're looking for
positive musical experiences in both passages, so questions like this require you to have a good recollection of what you read. You're gonna need to go find those things if you don't remember it enough. So, let's see what we can remember and see whether we can
connect any of these choices to being in both passages or
maybe just being in one passage 'cause wrong answers will
either not be there at all or maybe just featured in one passage. So, continuous sound, I think only one passage mentioned, you know, continuousness
versus discontinuous sounds, but we can confirm that when we go up. Tension, one passage was
very specific about tension, I don't remember the
tension being mentioned in the first passage. Language, one of the passages talked
about music and language, I don't remember the second
passage mentioning that, but we can check. D, improvisation, did not appear, that's
definitely not the answer. Complexity, complexity is looking good, I think I do remember that word
showing up in both passages, but let's go up and see and have a look for
continuousness, tension, language and complexity and uh, see if we can find our answer. Passage A, certain
complexity, here's complexity. Positive effect, so what we could do is we could then just look for complexity in the second passage. Not in this paragraph. Not in this paragraph. Third paragraph, here's complexity. We take into account that
complexity is it positive? Depending on how much complexity there is, it could be pleasurable and then we have complexity down here. Who can, trained listeners
prefer more complex melodies, we have our answer. On questions like these, it's important to move on to questions that might take you longer. So if you find your answer
and you're confident of it, circle it and move on. There's no need to go back and make sure that the
other choices are incorrect. We'll see that language,
tension and continuous sound are all just in one passage. Here's human language, doesn't show up in the second passage. Here's the continuous
discussion in the first passage, it does not show up again. And here's the focus on
tension that we discovered in the second passage. So we have a lot of of confidence in E.