Read the excerpt from The Hot Zone. There she met Lieutenant Colonel Trotter, a stocky, dark-haired man whom Nancy had worked wi
th for many years. They put on their inner gloves and taped their cuffs. Nancy put a pair of hearing protectors over her ears. She had started wearing them a while back, when people had begun to suspect that the roar of air in your suit might be loud enough to damage your hearing. They hauled on their space suits and sealed the Ziploc zippers. They edged around each other as they fiddled with their suits. People wearing biohazard space suits tend to step around one another like two wrestlers at the beginning of a match, watching the other person's every move, especially watching the hands to make sure they don't hold a sharp object. This cringing becomes instinctive. Which best states the central idea of this excerpt?
The idea that wearing space suits and putting them on is a delicate thing to do and is a step by step process requiring putting ear plugs in the ears before putting on the head cover and avoiding sharp objects so as not to puncture the suit and requiring walking gingerly once the suits are on.
<span>The central idea of this excerpt is that space
suits are complex garments that consist of different parts, such as inner gloves
and hearing protectors, in order to protect the individual from external
hazards. Furthermore, while wearing the space suits, a person is still required
to be keen around their surroundings as to not damage the suit.</span>
Governments converting to democracy is a good news because it means that more countries are realizing that the power should not reside on a single person but on the majority of the people who are living in the country and providing the taxes and services.<span />
The use of his figurative langugae relaly gives us an understanding to how fragile he feels. Using "delicate as a dandelion" tells us how vulnerable he is, that anything can break him (or his character)
