Read the excerpt from"early victorian tea set.”

what could be more domestic, more unremarkable, more british, than a nice cup of tea? you could of course put the question the other way round and ask what could be less british than a cup of tea, given that tea is made from plants grown in india or china and often sweetened by sugar from the caribbean. it is one of the ironies of british national identity – or perhaps it says everything about our national identity – that the drink which has become the worldwide caricature of britishness has nothing indigenous about it, but is the result of centuries of global trade and a complex imperial history.

what is the author’s viewpoint in this excerpt?

indian tea is more delicious than tea from china.

drinking tea is very popular in the caribbean.

many people around the world now drink tea, but britain was the one to make it popular.

it is ironic that tea is the symbol of britain when tea does not come from britain at all.

It is ironic that tea is the symbol of Britain when tea does not come from Britain at all.

Explanation: The first two options are completely inaccurate, since the text only mentions India and China as the main sources of tea and the Caribbean as the main source of sugar. The third option, while true, is simply a well-known fact and not the point that the writer is trying to make. The fourth option summarizes the author's viewpoint effectively by explaining the irony in few words.

The answer is

D) It is ironic that tea is the symbol of Britain when tea does not come from Britain at all.

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.

the correct answer is a "it describes nora and mrs. linde's relationship". opcions b and d are not related to the content of the passage in any way. option c could be appropiate but it does not fully capture the effect of the dialogue, while option a is quite appropiate, since the dialogue not only exemplifies the relationship between the characters, but it also captures the effect in the excerpt. we get to know that mrs linde bosses around and already knows nora.