1. PARTA: Which of the following describes the central idea of the text?
A The nose and tongue often send conflicting messages to the
brain that can make food taste bad.
B Humans have taste receptors that are unique to them and
will likely taste different things in food.
C The nose and tongue send messages to the brain to give
humans information about what they've eaten.
D Humans often eat without breathing through their nose and
miss out on the full experience of taste.

the eye wink at the hand; yet let that be / which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.

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it's a way for authors to communicate with reader in this time period. books from the past can teach us about life.

answer: the correct answer is that he still ridicules people that look different.

explanation: in "the nose"   by nikolai gogol, the author sets up a satirical view of russian society. the book is divided into three parts and tells the story of collegiate assessor ('major') kovalyov, who gets up one morning without his nose. he later finds out that his nose has developed a life by itself, and has apparently surpassed him by attaining the rank of state councillor. the short story showcases the obsession with social rank that plagued russia after peter the great introduced the table of ranks. by allowing commoners to attain hereditary nobility through service to the state, a large population was given the chance to move up in social status. this opportunity, however, also gave way to large bureaucracies, in which many of gogol's characters worked.

the answer is d

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