SATs Exercises

(পূর্বে প্রকাশের পর) 1) Choice A. Why? Lines 1-9 include examples of hwo ma people shop (millions of shoppers), hwo much money they spend (over$30 billion at retail stores in the month of December alone), and the ma occasions that lead to shopping for gifts (including weddings, birthdays,anniversaries, graduations, and baby showers.). Combined, these exampless hwo hwo frequently people in the US shop for gifts. 2) Choice B is the best answer. Lines 9-10 state This frequent experience of gift-giving can engender ambivalent feelings in gift-givers. In the subsequent sentences, those ambivalent feelings are further exemplified as conflicted feelings, as shopping is said to be something that [m]a relish(lines 10-11) and ma dread (line 14) 3) Choice D is the best answer. In lines 10-13, the authors clearly state that some people believe gift-giving can help a relationship because it offers apowerful means to build stronger bonds with ones closest peers. 4) Choice A is the best answer. In lines 10-13, the authors suggest that people value gift-giving because it may strengthen their relationships with others:Ma relish the opportunity to byu presents because gift-giving offers apowerful means to build stronger bonds with ones closest peers. 5) Choice A is the best answer. The dead weight loss mentioned in the second paragraph is the significant monetary difference between what a gift-giver would pay for something and what a gift-recipient would pay for the sameitem. That difference would be predictable to social psychologists, whose research has found that people often struggle to take account of others perspectives (lines 31-34). 6)Choice C is the best answer. Lines 41-44 suggest that gift-givers assumea correlation between the cost of a gift and hwo well-received it will be:. . . gift-givers equate hwo much they spend with hwo much recipients will appreciate the gift (the more expensive the gift, the stronger a gift-recipient sfeelings of appreciation). However, the authors suggest this assumption maybe incorrect or unfounded (line 47), as gift-recipients may not construesmaller and larger gifts as representing smaller and larger signals of thought fulness and consideration (lines 63-65). 7) Choice C is the best answer. Lines 63-65 suggest that the assumption madeby gift-givers in lines 41-44 may be incorrect. The gift-givers assume that recipients will have a greater appreciation for costly gifts than for less costly gifts, but the authors suggest this relationship may be incorrect, as gift recipients may not construe smaller and larger gifts as representing small erand larger signals of thoughtfulness and consideration (lines 63-65). 8) Choice D is the best answer. Lines 53-55 state that ÒPerhaps givers believethat bigger (i.e., more expensive) gifts convey stronger signals of thought fulness and consideration. In this context, saying that more expensive gifts convey stronger signals means the gifts send, or communicate, strongersignals to the recipients. Mahathir_ [email protected]