Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of The Travels of Marco Polo.They have plenty of ambergris, because whales abound in these seas, and also cachalots. And since they catch great numbers of both, they are never short of ambergris; for you know it is the whale that produces ambergris. They have leopards and lynxes and lions also in great numbers. Other beasts, such as harts, stags, and roebuck and such-like game animals, are also abundant, besides game-birds of many kinds. There are also many ostriches of huge size. The great diversity of birds, quite different from ours, is truly marvelous.
Answer
A
“They have plenty of ambergris, because whales abound in these seas, and also cachalots.”
B
“They have leopards and lynxes and lions also in great numbers.”
C
“Other beasts, such as harts, stags, and roebuck and such-like game animals, are also abundant, besides game-birds of many kinds.”
D
“The great diversity of birds, quite different from ours, is truly marvelous.”
Explanation
The phrase “quite different from ours” directly compares the birds in the place Marco Polo describes with the birds familiar to him. The other choices list animals or explain the abundance of ambergris, but they do not make a comparison with his own experience. So the sentence about the diversity of birds is the clearest example of a subjective response.
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