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Read this excerpt from The Time Machine. Then complete the sentences that follow.

And perhaps the thing that struck me most was its dilapidated look. The stained-glass windows, which displayed only a geometrical pattern, were broken in many places, and the curtains that hung across the lower end were thick with dust. And it caught my eye that the corner of the marble table near me was fractured. Nevertheless, the general effect was extremely rich and picturesque. There were, perhaps, a couple of hundred people dining in the hall, and most of them, seated as near to me as they could come, were watching me with interest, their little eyes shining over the fruit they were eating. All were clad in the same soft and yet strong, silky material.

Fruit, by the by, was all their diet. These people of the remote future were strict vegetarians, and while I was with them, in spite of some carnal cravings, I had to be frugivorous also. Indeed, I found afterwards that horses, cattle, sheep, dogs, had followed the Ichthyosaurus into extinction. But the fruits were very delightful; one, in particular, that seemed to be in season all the time I was there—a floury thing in a three-sided husk—was especially good, and I made it my staple. At first I was puzzled by all these strange fruits, and by the strange flowers I saw, but later I began to perceive their import.

The description of the broken windows and dusty curtains in the first paragraph foreshadows the Time Traveller’s later discovery that .

The Time Traveller thinks that the diet of fruit is .

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Answer:

1) The description of the broken windows and dusty curtains in the first paragraph foreshadows the Time Traveller’s later discovery that  the Eloi are a lethargic and unintelligent race that lacks initiative.

2)The Time Traveller thinks that the diet of fruit is an indication that the Eloi passively accept their lot.

Explanation:

The time machine is a book written by Herbert George Wells in 1895, often considered one of the first science fiction books dealing with time-travelling theme.

The main character is The Time Traveller, who invented a time machine and traveled 800,000 years to the future, where he discovered the humankind has evolved in two distinct races, the Eloi and the Morlocks.

Although the Traveler first meets the Eloi, it is only later in the book that we find out that the Eloi are completely passive, uninterested, lazy, apathetic, unintelligent, since they are being provided with food, clothes and everything else they need by Morlocks. As long as they can eat, play and mate, they are completely uninterested in their surroundings.

Morlocks practically breed them and feed them so they could eat them every once in a while. Provided with food and everything else, the Eloi passively accept this way of life, doing nothing to change it.