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Predict the Answer and POE: Drill 2 1a the passage below, mark the reftence window for each question, where appropriate. Then, UNDERLINE ( paraphrase) your preicred answer fr cach question, Wete down the linesyou undeiined in che space below the ‘uestion. Trefllonng passage adapted for 2010 short tory sbouta woman comes backto thet ‘tater Ining er our yeas nope By the tine as 22, ny good bome seemed ike there fori county, no the language or eves he people, bt tht combintion cfr and fxr in tht combination, Sensedmy-own closed inden and open hertednes all atonce Thad my way off and Tahaveto tea anewone o come here. {Rss that you can aver eal be tome ina foreign county tat your national eign are slashed to youlikeSngerpeint Ando cours, ‘von poop ace conversing eas and lyin "langage you may never erect yout onthe outside and they on the ise eit now what it means tobe onthe cts, wes born and aed na place ht Could not be nore Amerie, bt oe those four college yas every tine stepped out of my front door eld fel ysl eng sow ‘hota of irent dents longed bere stanich as anyone Lik aloe, could tsa the lection fed ih on my tel shoothe homeless man wth dierent {lo every day the park wth sar of dasseal ‘clare, andthe former government bulings that now sold American dectronicy at huge matap. embraced the strangeness, walking down thesteet wih ny eyes and eas aspen as ast orways embraced the way hat sving my ‘sparment, in prt of newspapers in soothing, Fin Engl or reas ro ight and Bly they snighte been made from hs ever fe ke tnering one foreign counry, bur like entering toy ofthe, wath al th woes and races represented ina panoply of oefonts ‘etasants, languages clothing and people Imagine rinbove with tre times many color normals Bat my days onthe alsbow were short-lived 40 was four yeas altogether, my four yeas of cllege fs in London then i Pals, ust my ‘schools commencement, which fl ike an ironic fame when ll cou fel waste end Team ‘ack to Viegai that July and after months of 4 Kicking and seaming tat aid not belong here snymare, could hep feeling that Fad never Jef both loved and hated this feeling Tl ike ‘sang ina very falar lind, a Thad been bod to playa ficult role that only L ould py 50. My etseter persona from college would be appalled she knew tha thisis what waited for ber ater her travels. wanted to make the United Sates espectaly my litle comer of Virgins, find memory an object of nostalgia ater than 5 areal home, aspen theres of my days Bore: stead, here Twas in the car with my parents rding nthe pasenge seats Tad ‘wen Las teenage, and tere hey all were behind every familiar doos, every adres plaque, 6 every twist and turn of the deveways all the ‘people that [knew from my youth were here and Tooled odly the same, but Hooked lke them, 100. “tow docs tel to come back” asked my 65 father and after moment of consideration (a Fong momen, for my father i never in hurry) Tne tht “ome Dace” had diferent mean forthe two of us For him, twas "back home™ the pace that he and I would lays return t, 7 but forme vas"back i times ad alays Jagined my fatuze to be on the other sie ofthe ‘Alantic Ocean, ‘My hometown —fo that much it surely lies just to the wesfthe Shenandoah Valley. “Thetown isting, maybe 500 people aogier, but eared on our drive back fom the airport fn Washington, D.C, that my “hometows” has ‘much noe capaci borders than Thad ever realized. The majestic Shonandoaks tower above se the scenery, and you can take them in from maty ales aay Once you eee the D.C. suburb in 6. Virginia, you can feel the warmth of communities that historically had only ther om resources on which wo rely. Every tip here was trip “back 45 asonly afew techaological updates made eet changes within a visually unchanged landscape. ” Twas coming hack nt only to my own home bit alsoto the homes of many others before me. 1 wanted to be like all my favorite American 9 expatriates from the 19205, and maybe could have been. But my’ereumstances brought me ‘ack here should consider ita great privilege 1. rather than an insersbe burden that E Ina nothing to escape rom, 0 why pretend 5 otherwise? I could've made in Pai think but ‘now finaly realize that can us aswell make t here; too. didi have tobe a foreigner to fel like yy, ‘myself Ths community dest have to swallow everything shat makes me a india hewn o> take me is and inf, tcan give me the feedom to bemyselfina way thatthe hun snd busts, = 99, the true unfair, of Paris an London never could. At home| can be slocel ova stranger as | plese a 12, Thecentral conteastin the passage is between 2. 13, Inthe passage, the narrators concerned puimarily with 14, Astieused in fine 10,the word "finger Prints isa smile for 15. Paragraphs 3 and7 are similar in the way they 0 | Pesos et Whig Wane farte SAT ‘Which choice provides the est evidence forthe answerto the previous question? In context, the phrase ‘ny days onthe rainbow” (line 39 refers mainly oa time that the naretor was Lines 47.49 CT both. play") are 90- {able for their deseription of Inline $8, the word “they” refers ta Inline 85, "secret" most ney means “The narzator’ description ofthe “warmth (line 82 ciety reveals her Tin lines 92.95 CL shoul. otherwise) thenarrtor poses a question that primarily [Now compare cach answer choices your undedined prediction and use POE, "The central contrast inthe passage between A) anger and redemption, 3) foreignness and sophistication. (©) maturity and cidshness. ) familia and wafamaiariy. PERRET ea Inthe passage, the narrator is concerned primarily with AA) extending «hented disagreement with her parent, 8) seting reluctantly into a shocking new reality. (C) reminiscing bout the most ficult period other lite ) characterizing her acceptance of «change in Me. Asi is usedin line 10, the word "fingerprints Is asm for A) manual labor 3) criminal proceedings. (©) snexcapble marks D) exlebratory gestures, Lines 2226 the homeless... markup") are ‘mila to lines 59-60 (every fair

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