Read the passage from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England. Perhaps the most difficult thing to come to terms with is the scale of death. Influenza, for example, is an affliction which you no doubt have come across. However, you have never encountered anything like Elizabethan flu. It arrives in December 1557 and lasts for eighteen months. In the ten-month period August 1558 to May 1559 the annual death rate almost trebles to 7.2 percent (normally it is 2.5 percent). More than 150,000 people die from it—5 percent of the population. This is proportionally much worse than the great influenza pandemic of 1918–19 (0.53 percent mortality). The evidence in the passage is strong because it .a. is exciting to read. b. rephrases the topic. c. expresses an opinion. d. is relevant to the topic.

The evidence in the passage is strong because it d. is relevant to the topic.

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The topic of this passage is the mortality of influenza virus back in Elizabethan England. The writer's purpose is to show readers that the flu was much scarier and deadlier back at that time than it is today. To prove that, the writer uses numbers - 7.2 percent, 2.5 percent, 150,000, 5 percent, 0.53 percent - as evidence. Readers can compare death rates and clearly conclude that Elizabethan flu was more violent than the flu we commonly see or have nowadays. Therefore, the evidence in this passage is relevant to the topic, helping the writer prove it right.

english novelist and poet, the eldest of the three brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of english literature.

she enlisted in school at roe head in january 1831, aged 14 years. she left the year after to teach her sisters, emily and anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. in 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to haworth where the sisters opened a school, but failed to attract pupils. instead they turned to writing and they each first published in 1846 under the pseudonyms of currer, ellis and acton bell. her first novel the professor was rejected by publishers, her second novel jane eyre was published in 1847. the sisters admitted to their bell pseudonyms in 1848, and by the following year were celebrated in london literary circles.

brontë experienced the early deaths of all her siblings. she became pregnant shortly after her marriage in june 1854 but died on 31 march 1855, almost certainly from hyperemesis gravidarum, a complication of pregnancy which causes excessive nausea and vomiting.

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