Answer:
to solve problems and make life easier for humanity
Explanation:
The main basic purpose of nearly all technology is to solve problems and make life easier for humanity. This I think would be considered the basic purpose even thought it is very simplified. Technology also has the purpose of helping humanity expand our capabilities by allowing us access to information and abilities that would otherwise be considered impossible. These abilities and knowledge greatly increase our knowledge allowing us to pursue more complicated endeavors.
The use of personification is present in this sentence= My shoes crunched on the gravel and I hear crickets laughing, and humans laugh, crickets don’t and there is the usage of personification, hope this helps
<u>Answer</u>:
The text discusses the Chinese calendar by writing, "Dragons are included along with eleven real animals” which implies that dragons are real because all the other animals on the calendar are real.
Option D is the right answer.
<u>Explanation</u>:
In the excerpt, the author starts his search based on the words of wisdom by his grandmother. Her grandmother told her that one should believe in science but one should also believe in things which wasn't proven by science. He finds the mention of dragons in almost every culture and thinks they aren’t fictional. He finds them being mentioned in stories, folklore, in the entries of Marco Polo and in the Bible.
He also observes that the Chinese calendar comprises of twelve animals, eleven out of them are real ones. So he comes to this conclusion that there is a strong possibility that dragons did exist so it is as real as the other eleven animals in the calendar.
The correct answer is B. The students did the experiment in the lab on Wednesday.
All other possible answers keep it in the passive form, only B is active.