The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells [1898]
But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be
inhabited?…Are we or they Lords of the
World?…And how are all things made for man?—
KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)

BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS
CHAPTER ONE: THE EVE OF THE WAR, excerpt

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.

Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer, up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all, beyond its earthly level. Nor was it generally understood that since Mars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from time's beginning but nearer its end.

The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has already gone far indeed with our neighbour. Its physical condition is still largely a mystery, but we know now that even in its equatorial region the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldest winter. Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans have shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slow seasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole and periodically inundate its temperate zones. That last stage of exhaustion, which to us is still incredibly remote, has become a present-day problem for the inhabitants of Mars. The immediate pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts. And looking across space with instruments, and intelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they see, at its nearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward of them, a morning star of hope, our own warmer planet, green with vegetation and grey with water, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility, with glimpses through its drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of populous country and narrow, navy-crowded seas.

And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to them at least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. The intellectual side of man already admits that life is an incessant struggle for existence, and it would seem that this too is the belief of the minds upon Mars. Their world is far gone in its cooling and this world is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regard as inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them.

What does this line tell you about men in the last years of the nineteenth century?

With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. (4 points)


They lacked direction.

They felt bored.

They did important work.

They felt superior to anything else.

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1. My sisters (be) …………….a singer.
2. My friends (go) ………………to school by bus.
3. She (not, be) ……………from Italy.
4. I ( like)………………films.
5. We ( be ) …………………Spanish.
6. My brother ( watch)………………..TV twice a week.
7. She ( be, always ) ………………....late for work.
8. Mr Pike ( not , work) …………………on Sundays.
9. He ( usually, buy) …………………food in the market.
10. Mary ( ,not, study)………………….English three times a week.

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Rewrite this passage as old information begins each sentence and new information follows the old.
Two aims-the recovery of the American economy and the modernization of America into a
military power-were in the president's mind when he assumed office. The drop in
unemployment figures and inflation, and the increase in the GNP testifies to his success in the
first. But our increase in involvement in international conflict without any clear set of political
goals indicates less success with the second. Nevertheless, increases in the military budget and a good deal of saber rattling pleased the American voter.

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1. What is the opposite of vindictive?
malicious
evil
deceptive
virtuous

How is The Great Gatsby representative of both realism and modernism?
Select each correct answer
A)Gatsby's failure to win over Daisy represents the loss of the American Dream.
B)The unrestrained desire for money leads to more conflict among social classes
C)Fighting in World War I has contributed to Nick's cynicism toward contemporary society
D)It highlights how the focus on materialism often leads to spiritual decay

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What is stress?
A. how you respond to tense or frightening situations
B. an event or situation that causes feelings of tension and pressure
C. an event or situation that can cause feelings of joy and release
D. when the body produces adrenaline

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One of the following words will most likely co-occur with the word butter

A. Rancid
B. Bitter
C. Sour
D. Rotten

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We hardly forgot the golden past_?

In 1876, the telephone ______ first introduced by Bell and Watson.

how the definition of these terms determine then way you see yourself as a person?

Which plot development would most likely occur in a fantasy story?
A. Two cowboys on a cattle drive must fight off raiders to make it to
their destination.
B. A fairy-human must locate a magical goblet to restore the rightful
ruler of the land.
C. A family moves into a house and discovers it is haunted.
D. A kooky detective uses his skills to solve mysteries nobody else
can.

What are three qualities of precise language

A weather __________is the boundary between two air masses that differ in their temperature and moisture. *

On the Great Gatsby:
Which of the following characters is not disillusioned
Select one:
a. Tom
b. Jim
c. Amanda
d. Laura

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Explain the meaning of the

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creating the music to film requires you to be very familiar with the film's story. After watching "Pay Day", write a 5-8 sentence summary where you discuss the plot of the film. You may include any specific details that stood out to you.

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PART A: How does the symbol of grass develop the theme of section 6?
B
It reveals that life and death are cyclical and connect everything.

6.
PART B: Which quote from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

A
"A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; / How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he." ( Stanza 11)
B
"Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, / A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropt" ( Stanza 13)
C
"What do you think has become of the young and old men? / And what do you think has become of the women and children?" ( Stanza 20)
D
"They are alive and well somewhere, / The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, / And if ever there was it led forward life" ( Stanza 21)

Choose a bit subordinating conjunction

Is an ELEMENT a
pure or non-pure
substance?