Mohamed Fawzy -SAT & ACT English We drive through parts of the city that I've never seen before, where the lights glow like melted butter and the girls on the sidewalks are wearing brimmed hats and high heels. Men smile and turn to watch our car passing: I watch back, hands pressed to the window. Then we race beyond the glowing streets they dwindle to a star-and the road ahead of us is long and dusty blue and smells like a warm, blue must., like the heat of a sheep's back. Mohamed Fawzy.-SAT & ACT English The selection of these photographic stills, plucked from films and enlarged to architectural proportions (one hundred feet in length for banners and forty feet in height for cutouts)was calculated to excite the public and nourish a "spectatorial consciousness,"what Roland Barthes, a French cultural critic who often wrote about photography described as the experiential quality of still photographic images. Barthes recalled being transfixed by still images from movies, but then losing all memory of them while viewing the film they came from . Our perception of a moving cinematic image, he explained, is always determined by the frames that both precede and follow it. In contrast, a single and isolated film still that stands alone can be viewed indefinitely and more carefully. Mohamed Fawzy -SAT & ACT English The main purpose of this paragraph is to: A) present the narrator's thoughts about the dusty streets she has traveled on several times before. B) describe the narrator's ; fascination with the street lights that glow hazily and brightly. C) illustrate the narrator's visual impression of the family's journey through the city and out of it. D) make clear the narrator's admiration for the clothing the girls on the sidewalks wear. The main point of this paragraph is that Barthes theorized that: A) a film still expanded to architectural proportions is more effective than a small still. B) careful viewing of film stills is essential to understanding full-length films. C) the experience of viewing a moving image is different from the experience of viewing a film still. D) a film still is easier to remember when viewed in the context of the entire movie.

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Mohamed Fawzy -SAT & ACT English We drive through parts of the city that I've never seen before, where the lights glow like melted butter and the girls on the sidewalks are wearing brimmed hats and high heels. Men smile and turn to watch our car passing: I watch back, hands pressed to the window. Then we race beyond the glowing streets they dwindle to a star-and the road ahead of us is long and dusty blue and smells like a warm, blue must., like the heat of a sheep's back. Mohamed Fawzy.-SAT & ACT English The selection of these photographic stills, plucked from films and enlarged to architectural proportions (one hundred feet in length for banners and forty feet in height for cutouts)was calculated to excite the public and nourish a "spectatorial consciousness,"what Roland Barthes, a French cultural critic who often wrote about photography described as the experiential quality of still photographic images. Barthes recalled being transfixed by still images from movies, but then losing all memory of them while viewing the film they came from . Our perception of a moving cinematic image, he explained, is always determined by the frames that both precede and follow it. In contrast, a single and isolated film still that stands alone can be viewed indefinitely and more carefully. Mohamed Fawzy -SAT & ACT English The main purpose of this paragraph is to: A) present the narrator's thoughts about the dusty streets she has traveled on several times before. B) describe the narrator's ; fascination with the street lights that glow hazily and brightly. C) illustrate the narrator's visual impression of the family's journey through the city and out of it. D) make clear the narrator's admiration for the clothing the girls on the sidewalks wear. The main point of this paragraph is that Barthes theorized that: A) a film still expanded to architectural proportions is more effective than a small still. B) careful viewing of film stills is essential to understanding full-length films. C) the experience of viewing a moving image is different from the experience of viewing a film still. D) a film still is easier to remember when viewed in the context of the entire movie.

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## Step 1The first part of the problem is a multiple-choice question that asks us to identify the main purpose of the paragraph. The paragraph describes a journey through a city, focusing on the visual elements such as the lights, the girls on the sidewalks, and the road ahead. ## Step 2The second part of the problem is also a multiple-choice question, but this one asks us to identify the main point of the paragraph. The paragraph discusses the theory of Roland Barthes, a French cultural critic, who argues that the experience of viewing a moving image is different from the experience of viewing a still image.## Step 3To solve these problems, we need to understand the main idea of each paragraph and match it with the correct option.

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