Read the following excerpt from "Preludes" by T. S. Eliot: The winter evening settles down
With smell of steaks in passageways.
Six o'clock
The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
And then the lighting of the lamps.
What aspect of this poem most clearly marks it as a work of Modernism?
O A. It challenges the idea of city life as fast paced.
B. It conveys a sense of disillusionment with city life.
O c. It argues for the transcendence of the human spirit.
OD. It portrays a contemporary urban landscape

answer: b) bubbling its way

explanation: an adjective is a word or a group of words that modifies a noun (name, thing, place,

in this case, the first option "to heartily enjoy" isn't describing or modifying any noun, the third option "hiking along merrily" is describing an action but it doesn't modify any noun, the last option "beside us" is just a preposition that indicates position, so the correct answer is the second one: "bubbling its way" because it is modifying the noun "stream".

1. c. zone of saturation, water table, zone of aeration

2. c. condensation

3. b.   conservation and condensation

4. c. groundwater dips below the water table in an artesian well

5. d. oceans

6. c. geyser

7. d. groundwater

8. b. 70%

9. d. transpiration

10. c.   desalination

tessa’s film suffers when she refuses to deviate from her plan as obstacles arise.