<p>Okay I did this section today and I got a lot of them wrong. Most of them, I knew them and did wrong second guess (yeah sad sad sad) but there are 3 that I don’t really have any good idea to get the answer.</p>
<p>I’ll GREATLY appreciate explanations for these.</p>
<li>In line 11, “progress” most nearly means
a) evolution
b) improvement
c) prosperity
d) promotion
e) advance</li>
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<p>“The voice reminded me a little of the way radio announcers used to introduce a piece of classical music or describe the progress of the Royal Family to Westminster Abbey on one of their royal occasions.”</p>
<li>The words “dodging and shrinking” (line 34) primarily suggest that the narrator was
a) somewhat bothered by the children in the audience
b) initially overwhelmed by the information being presented
c) unable to admit to some troubling feelings about astronomy
d) refusing to acknowledge the implication of space travel
e) unwilling to believe the studies being discussed</li>
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<p>“A bright bug took off from the Earth, heading for Jupiter. I set my dodging and shrinking mind sternly to recording facts. The mass of Jupiter two and a half times that of all the other plants put together.”</p>
<li>In lines 40-43 (“Moonless…Sun”), the narrator’s comment about the “arrangement” demonstrates a preference for
a) irony
b) inventiveness
c) symmetry
d) ornamentation
e) ambiguity</li>
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<p>“Atmospheric pressure ninety times ours. Moonless Mercury rotating three times while circling the Sun twice; an odd arrangement, not as satisfying as what they used to tell us ------ that it rotated once as it circled the Sun. No perpectual darkness after all.”</p>
<p>Thank you!!</p>