Pretty sure it’s D
D makes the most sense
Answer:
Explanation:
Everyone knows about the plague.
The paragraph turns its attention to sweating sickness that has two major outbreaks: 1485 and about 70 years later in 1556. It's a terrifying disease because it acts almost as quickly as a poison. The fact that it could come and go kept people on edge.
We moderns likely do not know what it is and what controls it. Certainly speaking personally, this the first time I've heard of it and maybe that's not a good yardstick. After running across 6000 questions, you might think it would have come up once.
The paragraph you quoted only records two instances. After that people just worried about it. Today only medical historians really know what it is.
Answer:
A: A new blood test makes it easier-and safer-to detect concussions.
Explanation:
The main idea of the passage is A new blood test makes it easier—and safer—to detect concussions.
Notice the phrases question the use of and proposed an alternative way. They suggest that the main idea involves a possible solution to a problem. Here, the main idea is that the problem of detecting concussions without radiation could be solved by a simple blood test.
B. It suggests that there is something flawed about the colonized people and their culture
Answer:
Metaphor
Explanation:
A metaphor is defined as "a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable." This means that saying "She *IS* a typing machine" is a metaphor because it is simply not literally possible. The word "is" will be your hint that a sentence like this is a metaphor and not a simile. A simile usually has the keyword "like" in the sentence (For example: She was *like* a typing machine."
The main difference is that a metaphor claims that two things are the same while a simile claims two things are similar (you can remember this by the "simil" in both of these words!).
