Answer: A) … the brackish water itself, however nauseous to the rest of the world, was so greatly esteemed by these fowls, that they might be seen tasting, turning up their heads, and smacking their bills, with precisely the air of wine-bibbers round a probationary cask.
Explanation: A metaphor is a comparison between elements that aren't obviously related, it is often used to create an image in the reader's mind, it doesn't use the words "like" or "as" to make the comparison. From the given passages from "The House of the Seven Gables" the one that contains an example of a metaphor is option A, in the phrase "with precisely the air of wine-bibbers round a probationary cask" the speaker is comparing the fowls with wine-bibbers.
"What(or where) the rest of this passage is?"
It's a noun since noun means place ,people and things. Day is a noun.
School calendar should be changed.
Nowadays most school calendar is planned as one-year activity, in some countries the beginning of the calendar is around September (Europe), in other countries is February or March (Brazil). Because of this when a student moves from one country to another they lose a complete term or year, because is really hard to math this calendar.
Also when a student does not have a productive year they lose a full year, instead school calendar could be six-month period. That way students don’t feel so much pressure by the end of term because of accumulative pressure or content.