Explanation for Question 9 From the Reading Section on the 2017 May Sat
Question nine says based on the passage, the reason the narrator was amazed that 2 the suite had called him skip was most probably that the narrator did. 3 What? So let's look back here an after that little encounter 4 where the sweet calls him skip and see what the narrator has to say. 5 So it says, I know I can't believe it. 6 And I did feel almost as wonderfully singled out as I had the one 7 time before at the age of 10, when the suite had got so personal 8 as to recognize me by the playground nickname I'd acquired because of the two 9 grades I'd skipped in grade school. So we can see here that it's just 10 kind of like the element of being on a personal nickname basis with someone 11 that they admired so much. Like if you imagine the person that you admire 12 the most and them calling you a nickname, because they're that familiar with you, 13 you can see how that would be like kind of a surreal thing to 14 happen. 15 So it's just that element of the personal nature. 16 So if we look at the answer choices here, 17 we can see that a says that the narrator thought adults 18 should refer to each other by their formal names. And this case that would 19 have kind of like a negative view of the Swede calling him this nickname, 20 like, oh, I don't want him to call me that. I want him to 21 call me Nathan Zuckerman. And this case he's like fascinated by that. 22 He's really liking the fact that the Sweden called him by the nickname. 23 So answer choice a would be incorrect if we...