Which sentence best shows the central idea of the excerpt? Read the excerpt The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England fro
m by lan Mortimer. Elizabethans do not understand infection and contagion as we do. It is not that they are completely ignorant as to how illnesses spread-physicians believe they know perfectly well—it is rather that their understanding is very different from ours. The principal ideas underpinning most Elizabethan medical thinking come from Galen, who lived in the second century A.D. Physicians will cite him as an unquestionable authority when they explain to you that your health depends on a balance of the four humors: yellow bile or choler, black bile, phlegm, and blood. If there is too much choler in your body, you will grow choleric; too much blood and you will be sanguine; too much phlegm and you will be phlegmatic; and too much black bile makes you "Elizabethans do not understand infection and contagion as we do." "It is not that they are completely ignorant as to how illnesses spread physicians believe they know perfectly well—it is rather that their understanding is very different from ours." O "The principal ideas underpinning most Elizabethan medical thinking come from Galen, who lived in the second century A.D." O "If there is too much choler in your body, you will grow choleric; too much blood and you will be sanguine; too much phlegm and you will be phlegmatic; and too much black bile makes you melancholic."
The sentence that shows the central idea of the given excerpt is <u>"Elizabethans do not understand infection and contagion as we do." </u>
According to the given excerpt, the narrator describes the Elizabethans as having a totally different understanding of infection when compared to most other people.
He notes that their understanding of infections is as a result of Galen's teachings who said that health is dependent on four humors: phlegm, yellow bile or choler, black bile and blood.
Therefore, the central idea or claim of the excerpt is that Elizabethans have a different understanding to infections than we do.
The two things that Beowulf and the Odyssey have in common are the language in which they are told reflects the grandeur, nobility, and scope of the subject matter and they both follow the exploits of a single hero. The correct answers are D & B.
