<u>Answer</u>:
The text discusses the Chinese calendar by writing, "Dragons are included along with eleven real animals” which implies that dragons are real because all the other animals on the calendar are real.
Option D is the right answer.
<u>Explanation</u>:
In the excerpt, the author starts his search based on the words of wisdom by his grandmother. Her grandmother told her that one should believe in science but one should also believe in things which wasn't proven by science. He finds the mention of dragons in almost every culture and thinks they aren’t fictional. He finds them being mentioned in stories, folklore, in the entries of Marco Polo and in the Bible.
He also observes that the Chinese calendar comprises of twelve animals, eleven out of them are real ones. So he comes to this conclusion that there is a strong possibility that dragons did exist so it is as real as the other eleven animals in the calendar.
Universal is the correct answer.
Universal means something that is applicable in all cases, or can be shared by all people in general, which makes sense in the sentence since you are talking about something that is shared by a wide variety of people. As well, localized means a small group, archetypal means a certain type of person and current means now, none of these fit the description given. Therefore universal is the best choice.
36/24 or 1 and 1/2 because you need to change the fraction
