Answer:
I believe letter <u>B. historical records</u> is the best choice.
Explanation:
"Exhalation" is a short sci-fi story by author Ted Chiang, narrated by a character who belongs to a race of air-driven mechanical beings. The narrator-character decides to dissect his own brain and study it, which might lead us to believe the best answer is letter A. However, there is a whole reason behind such dissection that permeates the story even more than readers can grasp at first. The narrator is fascinated by the fact that memory is so fragile. Every time someone "dies" - runs out of air - in his word, when brought back to life, they forget who they are. Their memories are erased. Also, history has only began to be recorded by these mechanical beings quite recently, so their distant past is mystery to them.
After dissecting his own brain, the narrator comes to understand how it functions and why memories are easily erased from it. He also realized his race will be extinct due to change in pressure. Thus, he chooses to record his findings so that himself, his race, and their history won't be lost:
<em>Which is why I have written this account. You, I hope, are one of those explorers. You, I hope, found these sheets of copper and deciphered the words engraved on their surfaces. [...] through the act of reading my words, the patterns that form your thoughts become an imitation of the patterns that once formed mine. And in that way I live again, through you.
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<em>Your fellow explorers will have found and read the other books that we left behind, and through the collaborative action of your imaginations, my entire civilization lives again.</em>
Answer:
C. The long, detailed sentences slow the pace and provide background information.
Explanation:
<u>Pacing is the speed at which the narration takes place, or a story is told</u>. It can be fast-paced or slow-paced but it does not include the speed of the story, but just the narrative voice.
In the given excerpt from "Lather and Nothing Else", the author Hernando Tellez provides the narrative voice through the character of the barber. A certain Captain Torres had come to the barbershop owned by a revolutionary to get himself groomed, at which the barber had an internal conflict to whether kill the captain and save his revolutionary comrades or do his work and hide his true self from the captain. And as given in the passage, the <u>barber describes how the captain's beard had grown and begun a bit by bit slow-paced description of the captain's face and the preparations he did to get the lather worked up</u>. These<u> long and detailed sentences slows the pace of the story and at the same time provide background information.
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Thus, the correct answer is option C.
He has been in the same class as Peter last year
Does she do her homework at weekends?
The dishwasher broke a couple glasses today
We know about the problem for a long time
Lea teaches English in a private school.
Our son is eleven and does not believe in Santa Claus now
I will make dinner when she arrives
Those dogs bit people a few times
She will be absent from class yesterday
I see her now
They told Mary what happened yesterday
The sun shines every day that summer
At 6 o’clock I eat dinner
I think anyone who smokes cigarettes are crazy
Hope this helps *smiles*