501 Critical Reading Questions

b
, 
c
,
and 
e
reference ball games literally, but the author used the
term figuratively, so those choices are incorrect. Nielsen is the
company that gathers TV ratings, but high ratings have nothing
to do with whether they like a show or not.
31.
e.
Both passages show that there is a debate about Reality TV. In
Passage 1, the author is against it, but notes that it is popular
(lines 10 and 37). The author of Passage 2 likes it, and also rec-
ognizes that it gets a 
bad rap
(line 1). Although most of the
other choices are factual, they do not appear in both passages,
and are not illustrated by them.
32.
c.
The clue comes in Passage 1, which describes the swathing and
flower gluing as crimes against defenseless walls. Swathing is
therefore something done to a wall. The only choice that makes
sense is