Psychologists suggest that to cure cruelty

1. We understand that

D) Sue and Anne were not far from home

1. 
   a building was damaged when the tree was blown down
   
2. 
   on this particular occasion, Sue and Anne were lucky
   
3. 
   the falling tree barely missed landing on Anne and Sue
   

2. At first, the wind

1. 
   blew down the tree Sue and Anne were sheltering under
   
2. 
   made it impossible for Anne and Sue to hear each other
   
3. 
   prevented Sue and Anne from continuing their journey
   
4. 
   appeared to be with Sue and Anne
   

3. From Sue's first statement - "The wind's with us!" - it's clear that

1. 
   Sue was much braver than Anne
   
2. 
   the wind was blowing in the direction they were travelling
   
3. 
   the wind wasn't as strong as they'd originally thought
   
4. 
   she was trying to stop Anne from becoming too frightened
   

Science and technology are getting a bad press these days. Increasingly scornful of the materialism of our culture, some people speak about returning to a simpler, pre-industrial, pre-scientific day. They fail to realize that the "good old days" 1 were actually horribly bad old days of ignorance, disease, slavery, and death. They I fancy themselves in Athens, talking to Socrates or watching the latest play by Sophocles but never as a slave brutalized in the Athenian silver mines. They imagine themselves as medieval knights on armored chargers but never as starving peasants. They also ignore the fact that, before modern technology, the full I flower of art and human intellect was reserved for the few. It was the technical advances that brought many of the marvels of mankind to even the poorest.

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