Answer:
b. The text highlights exciting events to keep the reader’s attention.
c. The text indicates that the story is moving toward a key event in the text.
Explanation:
The Space Race
The wonderful space race, beginning in 1955 and lasting until 1975 was a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union where they were trying to achieve superiority in spaceflight. The competition between the U.S and the Soviet Union began in 1955 when the U.S announced their intention to launch artificial satellites, and four days later the Soviet Union announced that they would also be launching a satellite(s) “in the near future”
In October 1957 the USSR achieved the first successful satellite launch, as well as in April 1961 sent the first human into orbit beating the U.S in first human into orbit which took place in May 1961. Shortly after the U.Ss first human launch, John F. Kennedy proceeded to raise the stakes and asked the U.S Congress to commit to the goal of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely. Both the U.S and the Soviet Union then proceeded to develop super heavy lift launch vehicles, and later in July of 1969 Apollo 11 proceeded to launch and land man on the moon, the USSR pursued two crewed lunar programs but failed to beat the U.S in first man on the moon, and later began to concentrate on Salyut which was the first space station program.
Hauting America
In a century of inventions and discoveries, such as Charles Darwin's theory or the implementation of the telegraph, there was a parallel world, another life that was taking place in the USA.
Although the supposedly ghosts which were photographed were proved to be a fake (a smart trick of double images was used to create them), there actually existed unexplained facts connected to the supernatural.
Wandering spirits were seen or heard, or simply felt, by ordinary people while they were leading their ordinary lifes. Sounds of chains, mourns and creepy places began legends that we still keep in our culture.
Haunting America in the nineteenth century was a chain of events that arouse the interest of past beliefs related to life after death. However, above all was the cradle of several literary works and film productions.
Answer: B
Explanation:
Eccentric: (of a person or their behavior) unconventional and slightly strange.
