Reading Comprehension & Answers

If you cant articulate your bid in simple English, pls do not bid. If you cant provide the answers, pls do not bid. *Looking for someone with critical reading experience to form questions and answers to passages provided.* The questions can be formed along SAT Reading Comprehension style, or in the following way: 4-context based qn, 4-inference qn, 1-author tone, 1 figure of speech (if the passage has it), 1-main idea, 1-concluding idea. I will provide the passage (of 900-1200 words). You will have to craft the questions and provide the answers in long form. This task encompasses 100 passages. Each project will be 5 passages. Your bid must reflect 5 passages. Complete each set in 1 wk. *To qualify*, pls provide answers to the 4 questions at the end of the passage. *Passage* Those who doubt that human activities have the ability to change the Earth’s climate should look to the melting Arctic, and shiver. There is no need to pore over records of Earth’s temperatures and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. The process is starkly visible in the shrinkage of the ice that covers the Arctic Ocean. In the past 30 years, the volume of ice present in the summer has fallen by three quarters. At this rate of change, the Arctic Ocean will be largely ice-free in summer by 2040. To avert such a catastrophe, we would have to limit the increase in the global average temperature, ideally, to 1.5°C – a mammoth task, to say the least. Current efforts to meet this goal will likely be futile: not only are some key players still unconcerned, but policy reforms have also been too conservative and are being implemented at a glacial pace. Some evolutionary psychologists have offered the sobering view that humans could be hardwired to lose the fight against climate change. The same instincts that once helped us survive by helping us to focus only on what was most essential to our immediate well-being are working against us today. Viewed through the lenses of survival, our current propensity to hoard and exploit the Earth’s riches for ourselves seems much more rational than rationing them for the benefit of our distant descendants. This is compounded by the famous ‘bystander effect’, which also arises out of a survival instinct: we tend to believe that someone else will deal with a crisis because in the past if every single member of the group were to spring into action to deal with a threat, they would all be put in danger. It was better to wait for a leader to step up to save the tribe. Today, however, this instinct leads us to assume that our leaders must be doing something about the climate crisis. They are not, and we cannot afford to wait. Crucially, for us to stand any chance of avoiding a climate catastrophe, we must thoroughly reconsider our understanding of what it means to progress. People today tend to measure progress exclusively in materialistic terms. This vision of ‘progress’ is almost unthinkingly accepted, seemingly immune to criticism, and promulgated with great fervour – it is the religion of the modern world. Championing alternative visions of progress would be tantamount to political suicide: continual economic growth is assumed to lead to better standards of living and is thus often the yardstick by which political parties seeking power are measured. Woe betide any party that dares suggest that we step away from our fixation with perpetual economic growth. 1 Explain the author’s use of the word ‘shiver’ in line 2. 2 When the author writes that current efforts to meet this goal will ‘likely be futile’ (line 8), what does he imply is needed to achieve success? Use your own words. 3 From paragraph 2, explain how our instincts are working against us in the fight against climate change. Use your own words. 4 Explain how the vision of progress in materialistic terms is like the ‘religion of the modern world’. Use your own words