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Rationale: Choice D is
the best answer
because it most directly
describes how the term
"the anternet" is used in
the passage. uIn the
second paragraph, the
author notes that "the
anternet" is what
Gordon calls the
network of "simple
interactionssed by the
ants to perform more complex tasks."
Though he cannot ; in fact, its alternate name is the "Petrarchan
be credited with sonnet." Like the English, or Shakespearean,
inventing the form, sonnet, the Italian sonnet consists of fourteen
Francesco Petrarca lines.
1304-1374, known as
Petrarch, is most
closely associated with
"the Italian Sonnet" as
modern readers know
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it today
She has found out the ants Gordon calls this network the 'anternet' and
use simple believes the way it works could help us
interactions that can be understand how information spreads,
combined to carry out
much more complex
tasks. from how
data is transferred over
the internet to the
workings of our .
But only artists did that. Was he a closet artist, too?
Finally he moved back "Tell me about your work," he said.
and let out a long,
incredulous breath, and
it struck her that she
had been holding hers
as well.
This was hard. She had started painting two years ago, and had never
talked to anyone about it.
Even her parents didn't When they came for dinner, she removed the
know. canvases from the wall and hid them in her
closet.
She sprayed the room The act of painting was the first really risky thing she
with Eucalyptus Mist had done in her life.
and lit incense sticks so
they wouldn't smell the
turpentine.
Being at the gallery, she Her technique was crude—she hadn't taken classes and
knew how different her didn't intend to.
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work was from
everything in there, or in
the glossy art
journals.
She would probably Still, she came back from work every evening and
never amount to painted furiously.
much.
She worked late into She stopped inviting people over.
the night, light-
headed with the
effort to remember.
She made excuses She had to force herself to return their calls, and often
when her friends she didn't.
wanted her to go
out.
She ruined canvas She wept till she saw a blurry brightness, like sunspots,
after canvas, slashed wherever she looked.
them in frustration and
threw them into the
Dumpster behind the
building.
Then, miraculously, she Sometimes now, at 2:00 or 3:00, her back muscles
got better. tight and burning, a stillness would rise around
her, warm and vaporous.
Held within it, she
would hear, word for
word, the stories her
grandmother used to
tell.
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