Read the excerpt from the dark game.
the russian admiralty decided that their british allies could make better use of the codebook than they could, so it was sent to london. the codebook was a bonanza for the british code breakers. not only did it contain the columns of code "words"—groups of randomly selected numbers—on which the messages were based, but it also included a changeable key to the cipher systems used to obscure the coded messages.
which piece of textual evidence best supports the inference that the british had better code breakers than the russians did?
the russian admiralty decided that their british allies could make better use of the codebook than they could, so it was sent to london.
the codebook was a bonanza for the british code breakers.
not only did it contain the columns of code "words"—groups of randomly selected numbers—on which the messages were based
[b]ut it also included a changeable key to the cipher systems used to obscure the coded messages.

There is no doubt that Britain had masterminds of codebreakers during the Second World War. Bletchley Park is a typical example of that. Although Russians had great mathematicians over the years, cryptography was a different style of the field. The exact reality yields that the correct answer is the first sentence from the excerpt: The Russian admiralty decided that their British allies could make better use of the codebook than they could, so it was sent to London.

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”