Read the passage from "How Should One Read a Book?”
Yet few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.
The reader can conclude that the passage comes from a(n)
biography.
essay.
myth.
play.
Answer:
Essay
Explanation:
According to the passage from "How Should One Read a Book?”, the author talks about banishing preconceived notions about books and authors from readers before reading. She states that most people read books with a blurred mind and divided minds to enforce their own prejudices.
Therefore, the reader can conclude that the passage comes from an essay.
This is because, an essay is a literary writing that outlines the perspective of the writer about a certain topic, and from the passage, the author talks about his perspective on the prejudices of readers.
Answer:
A. The Bronx squirrels that eat nearly all of the trees' acorn in the New York Botanical Garden.
Explanation:
<em>The City Without Us </em>is a chapter of the book <em>The World Without Us</em> written by American journalist Alan Weisman. It tells about what would happen to the natural and built environment if humans suddenly disappeared.
<em>The City Without Us</em> gives us an image of what New York would look like without humans. Some of the details are presented in the options you were given.
It's expected that wild animals, wolves included, would enter the city if there were no humans. That's how nature works.
Money is a concept invented by the man, and it has no meaning if humans don't exist. It has nothing to do with nature.
The ocean is a large force and it's one of the obvious proofs of how powerful nature is. In the story, though, it has not yet broken the levees around New York City.
What remains are the squirrels. No one would think that squirrels could do something major. Without anyone or anything controlling their population, though, they could eat nearly every acorn in the New York Botanical Garden, thus preventing them from growing into new oaks. That way they would reduce the oak tree population in New York. They show that nature is even more powerful than it appears.
Answer:
<em>Little inferior; whom my thoughts pursue</em>
<em>With wonder, and could love, so lively shines </em>
and
<em>In them Divine resemblance, and such grace </em>
<em>The hand that formd them on their shape hath pourd.</em>
Explanation:
These two sets of lines show how Satan acknowledges the goodness of God. In the first set, Satan tells us that his "thoughts pursue" God, and he also talks about love and shine. In the second set of lines, Satan talks about God's "divine resemblance," and he tells us that he made his creations with "grace." All of these positive words show that Satan feels some kind of respect towards God.
