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Sat reading comp and vocab skill bulder to rent or buy ea 6 16-12
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Exercise licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Only. Rights to the article belong
to the Wall Street Journal and reprint rights can be secured by contacting the newspaper.
“To Rent or To Buy? That is Not the Question” by Katy McLaughlin.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303665904577450603559739944.html
Pre-reading vocabulary:
Demoralizing
Exorbitant
Broach as a verb (broach the topic)
Amortization
Salvo
Tenor (changed the tenor of)
Peripatetic
Emigrated versus immigrated
Pinnacle
Superficial
Allusion versus illusion
Comprehension Questions
1. Summarize the article in 3-5 sentences. Include general idea, structure of the article,
and tone.
2. What did the writer and her husband think they were arguing about? What did it turn
out that they were arguing about?
3. What kinds of evidence does each try to use to make the case at first? How does the
argument change when the other couple becomes involved?
4. Why do you think the writer and her husband missed seeing something that she
concludes should have been “so obvious”? Do you think the differences should have been
obvious?
5. The article’s title is an allusion. To what playwright’s famous lines does it allude?