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concern (Question:151497.5)

why it should not be anger

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DIRECTIONS: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below them. Certain words or phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions


We no longer destroy great works of art. They are treasured, and regarded as of priceless value; but we have yet to attain the state of civilization where the destruction of a glorious work of nature, whether it be a cliff, a forest, or a species of mammal or bird, is regarded with equal abhorrence. The whole earth is a poorer place to live in when a colony of exquisite egrets or birds of paradise is destroyed in order that the plumes may decorate the hat of some lady of fashion, and ultimately find their way into the rubbish heap. The people of all the New England States are poorer when the ignorant whites, foreigners, or negroes of our southern states destroy the robins and other songbirds of the North for a mess of pottage.


Travels through Europe, as well as over a large part of the North American continent, have convinced me that nowhere is nature being destroyed so rapidly as in the United States. Except within our conservation areas, an earthly paradise is being turned into earthly hades; and it is not savages nor primitive men who are doing this, but men and women who boast of their civilization. Air and water are polluted, rivers and streams serve as sewers and dumping grounds, forests are swept away and fishes are driven from the streams. Many birds are becoming extinct, and certain mammals are on the verge of extermination. Vulgar advertisements hide the landscape, and in all that disfigures the wonderful heritage of the beauty of nature today, we Americans are in the lead.


Fortunately, the tide of destruction is ebbing, and the tide of conservation is coming in. Americans are practical. Like all other northern people, they love money and will sacrifice much for it, but they are also full of idealism, as well as of moral and spiritual energy. The influence of the splendid body of Americans and Canadians who have turned their best forces of mind and language into literature and into political power for the conservation movement is becoming stronger every day. Yet we are far from the point where the momentum of conservation is strong enough to arrest and roll back the tide of destruction, and this is especially true with regard to our fast vanishing animal life.

The narrator’s tone in the passage is one of _____.

Options:
A) apathy
B) anger
C) Concern
D) Sarcasm
E) Symbolism
Solution:

Ans: (c) The entire passage echoes the concerns of the narrator with regard to the indiscriminate ways nature is maneuvered in North America, (a) is ruled out since the narrator is all the way concerned about our apathy towards nature. (b) is unconnected. although the narrator occasionally vents out his anger through some of his eloquent expressions. (d) is incorrect since the narrator doesn’t rely on sarcastic tones or undertones to express his concerns. (e) is irrelevant as the narrator doesn’t take recourse to a symbolical style In his expressions. The narrator’s tone Is one of concern. 

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