Answer:
1) The description of the broken windows and dusty curtains in the first paragraph foreshadows the Time Traveller’s later discovery that the Eloi are a lethargic and unintelligent race that lacks initiative.
2)The Time Traveller thinks that the diet of fruit is an indication that the Eloi passively accept their lot.
Explanation:
<em>The time machine</em> is a book written by Herbert George Wells in 1895, often considered one of the first science fiction books dealing with time-travelling theme.
The main character is The Time Traveller, who invented a time machine and traveled 800,000 years to the future, where he discovered the humankind has evolved in two distinct races, the Eloi and the Morlocks.
Although the Traveler first meets the Eloi, it is only later in the book that we find out that the Eloi are completely passive, uninterested, lazy, apathetic, unintelligent, since they are being provided with food, clothes and everything else they need by Morlocks. As long as they can eat, play and mate, they are completely uninterested in their surroundings.
Morlocks practically breed them and feed them so they could eat them every once in a while. Provided with food and everything else, the Eloi passively accept this way of life, doing nothing to change it.
The correct answer is A.
The purpose of this passage is to inform the reader regarding the events of the witch trial. We are told that suspected witches were to be tried using the Scales, and that each suspected witch was first searched to see if they had anything heavy in their pockets.
This passage provides quite a bit of information about the witch trial; it is not trying to persuade, entertain, or debate -- the purpose of this passage is to inform.
What’s the story? It’s hard to help when there’s no context for the question.
