C. The text provides opinion with no evidence, and is disrespectful by saying people who support the ban of smartphones are not using their brain, and calling them "naive and uninformed".
In this excerpt the narrator is complaining about the way achievement test are and how up to that they measure someone’s knowledge. He uses the word bland to describe the right answer of this kind of tests which it means „lacking a strong or particular flavor; not interesting”, in this context can be used describing it as non-sense or not obvious answers. He also complains about how bad he is in this because he cannot find the logic in the answers. With this explained, we can infer that the right answer is D Tan believes that achievement tests give inflated measurements of language ability, because he kind of argues that the answers are not "valid" to measure it.
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American poet John Godfrey Saxe creating his own version as a poem, with a final verse that explains that the elephant is a metaphor for God, and the various blind men represent religions that disagree on something no one has fully experienced.
It seems that you missed the given choices of the question above which are the following:
A. the past is not something we can talk about.
B. there are no words to convey the pain of the past.
C. The battle of the sexes will go on forever.<span>
D. Men’s and women’s roles are deeply rooted in our species.
Anyway, the correct answer for the given question above would be option D. When the </span><span>author says in lines 40–41 that “I'm convinced the past, we must contend with is deeper even than speech,” he means that </span>Men’s and women’s roles are deeply rooted in our species. Hope this answer helps.
It is a reward. This will make your future a great one, this could affect your future by..say, helping you get a diploma.