Question

My Ship and I

Answer 1

Answer:

The ship is on such a long journey that features of the natural world have taken on shifting and interchangeable characteristics.

Explanation:

We know for a fact that they are not on an actual cloud, especially when they are traveling by boat. "Hardly has the rock of Gibraltar turned to cloud when one's foot is on the soil of an almost unknown Africa." This sentence proves that since they were on such a long trip, their surroundings have taken on different forms, which leads them to "see" a cloud. "The air of the unforeseen blows on one from the roadless passes of the Atlas." This sentence also does so, the long trip creates a sense of illusion.

Answer 2

Answer:

The correct option is D: The ship has sailed away, and the rock has become so distant as to be indistinguishable from a cloud on the horizon.

Explanation:

The correct option is D: The ship has sailed away, and the rock has become so distant as to be indistinguishable from a cloud on the horizon. The explanation is related to the narration which is telling us how is to travel from the Spanish community Algeciras to the Moroccan one. It is well known that the strait of Gibraltar is the geographic zone that marks the border between Spain and Morocco, two different countries (even continents). Following this, we can understand why the narrator thinks it is like to travel to another world: the cultures and societies as such different that everyone could feel impressed. Back to In Morocco narration, the author tells us that they’re most and most far from the rock of Gibraltar, which only could mean that they are moving away from Spain border and this is why the rock is almost indistinguishable.

• Option A: The ship has approached the rock, which is so large that it appears to be a cloud filling the sky cannot be the correct one due to they are not approaching to the border limits, to the contrary, they are travelling to Morocco.
• Option B: The ship is at sea during a storm that has made objects in the distance looks like clouds is not operable because the narration never tell us that they, while travelling, were experimenting wheatear trouble as raining or something else, so it is impossible to us to affirm that the ship was at sea during a storm.
• Option C: The ship is on such a long journey that features of the natural world have taken on shifting and interchangeable characteristics is also not correct because besides they are travelling to a different and mysterious new country, the description of the rock of Gibraltar is not working as a metaphor of their mood.