Which excerpt from Early Victorian Tea Set best expresses MacGregor’s viewpoint about tea?
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Which line from "Ghost House" summarizes the speaker’s overall perspective?
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Read the passage from "Song of Myself."You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.
Read the excerpt from Ship's Chronometer from HMS Beagle.Before long the whole of Britain was running by the clock, and the measurement of time had been severed from the natural cycle of days and seasons. The clock ruled every aspect of life — shops and schools, pleasure and work. As Charles Dickens wrote, ‘There was even railway time observed in clocks, as if the sun itself had given in.’ Nigel Thrift explains:The chronometer, an exceptionally accurate clock, meant that gradually an ever more accurate measure of time became possible, and that of course worked through other things in the nineteenth century to produce ever more standardized time. A good example of that is the railway, where standard time based on the meridian was first applied by the Great Western Railway in 1840 and gradually that standard time became general.
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Read this excerpt from "Choreographers of Matter, Life, and Intelligence."Clearly, we are on the threshold of yet another revolution. Human knowledge is doubling every ten years.What is the meaning of the underlined term?
Read the sentence.A decision was reached by scientists about when the experiment would begin.Which revision changes the sentence so that it uses the active voice?
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Which statement expresses a viewpoint?
Read the excerpt from A History of the World in 100 Objects.This thinning would materially change the sound of the drum, evidence that although it might continue to be used for its original purpose of music-making or calling people to arms, it would now do so with a different voice. A musical instrument had become a trophy, and the new carvings were in fact branding, a statement of the north’s political dominance over Central Africa and of allegiance to Islam.The drum had come to Khartoum at a critical moment in Sudanese history.
Read the claim and counterclaim.Claim: The marine chronometer was the most historically important artifact because it made it possible for international trade to flourish.Counterclaim: At the time the marine chronometer was invented, international trade was already taking place.
Read the excerpt from A History of the World in 100 Objects.What could be more domestic, more unremarkable, more British, than a nice cup of tea? You could of course put the question the other way round and ask what could be less British than a cup of tea, given that tea is made from plants grown in India or China and often sweetened by sugar from the Caribbean.
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