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Shresth Joshi from Bishops School Undri, Pune
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 3

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Manaswin Nagpal from Sangam School of Excellence, Bhilwara
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 8

Read the passage and answer the question that follow.

The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light.

Alexander Adell and Bertram Lupov were two of the faithful attendants of Multivac. As well as any human beings could, they knew what lay behind the cold, clicking, flashing face -- miles and miles of face -- of that giant computer. They had at least a vague notion of the general plan of relays and circuits that had long since grown past the point where any single human could possibly have a firm grasp of the whole.

Multivac was self-adjusting and self-correcting. It had to be, for nothing human could adjust and correct it quickly enough or even adequately enough -- so Adell and Lupov attended the monstrous giant only lightly and superficially, yet as well as any men could. They fed it data, adjusted questions to its needs and translated the answers that were issued. Certainly they, and all others like them, were fully entitled to share in the glory that was Multivac’s.

For decades, Multivac had helped design the ships and plot the trajectories that enabled man to reach the Moon, Mars, and Venus, but past that, Earth’s poor resources could not support the ships. Too much energy was needed for the long trips. Earth exploited its coal and uranium with increasing efficiency, but there was only so much of both.

But slowly Multivac learned enough to answer deeper questions more fundamentally, and on May 14, 2061, what had been theory, became fact. The energy of the sun was stored, converted, and utilized directly on a planet-wide scale. All Earth turned off its burning coal, its fissioning uranium, and flipped the switch that connected all of it to a small station, one mile in diameter, circling the Earth at half the distance of the Moon. All Earth ran by invisible beams of sunpower.

Seven days had not sufficed to dim the glory of it and Adell and Lupov finally managed to escape from the public function, and to meet in quiet where no one would think of looking for them, in the deserted underground chambers, where portions of the mighty buried body of Multivac showed. Unattended, idling, sorting data with contented lazy clickings, Multivac, too, had earned its vacation and the boys appreciated that. They had no intention, originally, of disturbing it.
The Last Question by Issac Asimov

What is the figure of speech used in the phrase ‘when humanity first stepped into the light’?

ASimile
BMetaphor
CImagery
DPersonification


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Ashmi Narkar from The Shishukunj International School, Jhalaria Campus, Indore
Class : Class 8
plz explain if possiblei got confused between imagery and personification

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Aparna Rishika Misra from AECS 4, Rawatbhata
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 6

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Shivani from Lodha World School , Thane
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 9

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Aarav Kamdar from Global Indian International School, Singapore
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 7

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Pratishtha Ludhani from MGD Girls' School, Jaipur
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 6

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A Sha from ,
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 6

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Anwita L Bhat from Vijaya vittala vidyashala, Mysore
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 4

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Saarthak Joshi from Blue ridge public school, Pune
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 7

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Aditi from Bethany high , Bangalore
Class : Class 7

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Anuraaj Salunkhe from St Gregorios High School, Mumbai
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 10

Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.
The challenge of climate change is global, and it demands action on an international scale, such as the Paris Agreement. But a large part of the solution must be local, involving all of us in the way energy is produced and consumed. Very recently, there was a decision made that has allowed the Argentina population to now generate their own energy through clean and unconventional sources and add surpluses into the public grid. This is an important novelty in a country beginning a slow and difficult process, with a still uncertain end, to replace fossil fuels. A new law was born with the aim of increasing the generation and addition to the grid of clean energy by many small nearby sources, citizens and other private sectors, in what is known as distributed, dispersed or decentralised generation.
Argentina has had a hard time shifting to renewable power sources. They still represent a very small share of the electric grid, which is made up of 64 percent fossil fuel power plants; fueled by oil or gas. It is a global issue and other countries, such as the UK could also do more to encourage citizen generated electricity. In the UK, more people could support the energy transition, and share in the benefits, by storing power in batteries, electric vehicles and smart boilers. This enables the grid to draw power when it's cheap and plentiful, and temporarily lighten the load if there's a peak in demand. Here, since 2009, the price of solar panels has fallen by 80% and wind turbines by 40%. And it won't stop there. Renewable energies are becoming competitive with fossil fuels and new nuclear, but still out of reach of many of the regular citizens.
Renewable energies and supporting technologies, like storage, are advancing in leaps and bounds. The old energy companies have been sluggish in catching up so, although there is the ability to produce more electricity via renewable, investment is still being made in gas and nuclear power. With the right government policies in the UK there could be great potential for citizen-owned energy. Take Germany and Denmark as examples in how successful citizen-generated electricity has become. Recently, Germany produced so much electric power that prices were actually negative. As in, customers got paid to use the electrical system. However, the average overall percentage produced by renewables last year was 33%. Neighbouring Denmark already sometimes produces more renewable energy than the nation's citizens consume on a more regular basis with 40% of the national electricity being supplied by wind. They are currently 90% self-sufficient for their energy needs.
Electricity generation in Denmark has changed fundamentally over the past two decades and Denmark has a long tradition of setting ambitious national energy targets. By 2050, Denmark aims to be a lowcarbon society independent of fossil fuels. All in all, Europe is performing well in its organisation of renewables. In 2011, renewables created 21.7% of the EU's power. After three years, this figure has achieved 27.5% and is expected to grow to 50% by 2030. The EU's underlying endeavours in advancing the use of renewables encouraged this. Proceeded by the development, which brought down sustainable costs, renewables have now moved toward becoming cost-focused, and even sometimes significantly less expensive than fossil fuels.
Denmark has several days in the year when _______.

Aelectricity is free
Bthey don't need electricity
Cthe sun shines all day
Dwhole country needs to heat their homes


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