Answer:
Tom couldn't attend the meeting because of a previous engagement.
Tom has been hunting for a job since he lost his previous job last year.
Tom connected the TV to the antenna that the previous owner of his house had mounted on the roof.
Explanation:
In my opinion, the second main argument in "The Human Drift" is that human wandering across the planet, back and forth, has always been fueled by fear, while motivated by the search of food (as the first argument says). It is a primal fear that, if you don't eat, you will end up in someone else's stomach. Here is a nice excerpt that illustrates this argument: "Dominated by fear, and by their very fear accelerating their development, these early ancestors of ours, suffering hunger-pangs very like the ones we experience to-day, drifted on, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, wandering through thousand-year-long odysseys of screaming primordial savagery, until they left their skeletons in glacial gravels, some of them, and their bone-scratchings in cave-men's lairs."
Answer:
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Explanation:
This is part of Tom's plan to entice the other boys into painting the fence for him. He plays on their emotions in order to convince them that painting the fence is a "fun" thing to do.
Based on the additional features the answer is "B"