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The answer is a A) Mashenka, amazed and frightened, went on packing; she snatched her things, crumpled them up, and thrust them anyhow into the box and the basket. Now, after this candid avowal on the part of Nikolay Sergeitch, she could not remain another minute, and could not understand how she could have gone on living in the house before.
Answer: "The (1846) crack" is what both sentences have in common, therefore we can combine them like this:
Since it could not be fixed, the Liberty Bell has had that crack in it ever since.
Because people have lost common sense these days.
Trenches... Idk... I hope this is right in not 100% sure
The repetition of the word devices makes the reader feel like all of technology is the same, lumped into one category. He doesn't separate television from cell phone, and this makes the reader feel like all technology is meant to accomplish the same goal, no matter what it says its purpose is. Also, the word "device" shows that the people behind it have an agenda, that they are using these pieces of technology as "devices" to achieve a goal.
