Question

Which line from the text most clearly explains what made humans complacent in the last years of the nineteenth century?

a. Early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment
b. It is not only more distant from time's beginning but nearer its end
c. Its physical condition is still largely a mystery
d. Their assurance of their empire over matter

Answer 1

Provide text please?

Answer 2

The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells [1898]
But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be
inhabited?…Are we or they Lords of the
World?…And how are all things made for man?-
KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)

BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS
CHAPTER ONE: THE EVE OF THE WAR, excerpt
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.
Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer, up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all, beyond its earthly level. Nor was it generally understood that since Mars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from time's beginning but nearer its end.
The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has already gone far indeed with our neighbour. Its physical condition is still largely a mystery, but we know now that even in its equatorial region the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldest winter. Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans have shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slow seasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole and periodically inundate its temperate zones. That last stage of exhaustion, which to us is still incredibly remote, has become a present-day problem for the inhabitants of Mars. The immediate pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts. And looking across space with instruments, and intelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they see, at its nearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward of them, a morning star of hope, our own warmer planet, green with vegetation and grey with water, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility, with glimpses through its drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of populous country and narrow, navy-crowded seas.
And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to them at least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. The intellectual side of man already admits that life is an incessant struggle for existence, and it would seem that this too is the belief of the minds upon Mars. Their world is far gone in its cooling and this world is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regard as inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them.

Answer 3

Part A: Which answer correctly summarizes the factors that pushed the inhabitants of Mars to invade Earth?

A. The distance between Earth and Mars was not great.
B. Earth had many more riches than Mars.
C. The people of Earth seemed friendly and carefree.
D. Mars was not able to support them.

Part B:

Select two quotations that support your answer to Part A.

E. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves
F. Minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic
G. This world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's
H. The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has already gone far indeed with our neighbor
I. Its oceans have shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface
J. The creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to them at least as alien and lowly

Please enter the letters associated to your answers, in alphabetical order, into the blank provided. Please use commas to separate your letters, but do not include spaces. Example: A,E,F

Answer 4

i think the ans of first que is Its physical condition is still largely a mystery
ans of part a is A
ans of part b G,J

Answer 5

thanks!! I have this Question to it too if you don't mind:


What key idea does the text below suggest?
Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer, up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all, beyond its earthly level.

a. Earth's idea of intelligence is insufficient.
b. Humans are vain and pompous creatures.
c. Humans are blind to their own shortcomings and weaknesses.
d. Pride kept humans from imagining life beyond Earth.

Answer 6

i think d is appropiate ans

Answer 7

ok thanks ill look over them too btw cxxx

this is my last question i have to the passage::

To that high concept there can be no end save victory.
Assume you have been asked to develop an essay summarizing Roosevelt's speech. Write a paragraph of five to seven complete sentences in which you state a thesis for your summary and list the ideas that support your thesis.

Answer 8

ahh.....thats difficult one...

Answer 9

yeah…I know….do you think you know tho?

Answer 10

i dont think so..because i havent read the passage so carefully...

Answer 11

you ask from @shrutipande9

Answer 12

okieee oh I thought that was the last one i have this one too sorry…

What key idea does the text below suggest?
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.

a. Humans were observed as if they were insects under a microscope.
b. Humans were engaged in important but unnecessary work.
c. The advanced human society had the tools to detect those spying on them.
d. The creatures swarming in water are as visible as the Martian inhabitants were.

Answer 13

d...

Answer 14

I came across one more question but idk if it was the same was as before or not you want me to post it?

Answer 15

um..ok

Answer 16

Part A

What was Roosevelt's purpose in writing "That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb."?

A. To create a new vision of social order without the catalyst of war
B. To increase awareness of the history shaping his call to patriotic payment of taxes
C. To set the government Roosevelt described in opposition to the oppression in the world
D. To suggest tyranny can only be ended when people unite to create weapons

Part B

Select two quotations that support your answer to Part A.

E. For there is nothing mysterious about the foundations of a healthy and strong democracy.
F. The basic things expected by our people of their political and economic systems are simple.
G. A part of the sacrifice means the payment of more money in taxes.
H. To that new order we oppose the greater conception—the moral order.
I. A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.
J. Since the beginning of our American history, we have been engaged in change

Please enter the letters associated to your answers, in alphabetical order, into the blank provided. Please use commas to separate your letters, but do not include spaces. Example: A,E,F

Answer 17

ohh it was to a different passage this one and that previous one were want me to post the passage and see if you can help me with these last two i just posted?