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It is clear from the passage that when Gulliver's Travels was first published,

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   it had a completely different title
   
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   a number of people believed that it described real adventures
   
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   it was popular with the English king and his court
   
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   it was disliked immensely by philosophers and scientists
   
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   it shocked almost everyone who read it
   

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   According to the passage, over the years Gulliver's Travels became
   

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   condemned because it contained too many exaggerations
   
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   more popular with adults than children
   
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   an enduring favourite with children
   
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   a well-respected travel book
   
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   less and less popular and was eventually forgotten about
   

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   We understand from the passage that, through his book, Swift
   

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   made a huge fortune
   
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   expressed his negative opinion of human civilization
   
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   got the idea of writing a number of children's books
   
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   told about his travel to an island where pygmies and giants lived together
   
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   annoyed philosophers and scientists as well as ordinary people
   

143 CYRUS FIELD (1819-92)
The businessman Cyrus Field, who had entered the paper business when he was 21, and who retired at 33 with a fortune, promoted the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable. He had no technical knowledge to qualify him for the task, but he was a brilliant and persuasive organizer. He also had a determination that helped him overcome repeated failures. The idea of laying a transatlantic cable was not new, but because of the great depths and distance involved, no one had promoted it. In 1854 a Canadian engineer interested Field in laying a cable from St. John's, Newfoundland, to the Canadian mainland. This would speed the receipt of European news by several days. While studying a globe, Field decided that the cable should be extended to Ireland. Laying the Canadian cable took two and a half years. By that time Field had organized companies in the United States and Great Britain to raise funds for an Atlantic cable between the two countries. The first four cables broke, causing heavy losses to investors. The fifth was completed on August 5, 1858. On August 15, Queen Victoria and President James Buchanan exchanged messages on the new cable. Soon, however, the signals became unintelligible, and in October they ceased. Undeterred, Field raised additional funds. After another failure in 1865, the fight was finally won on July 27, 1866.

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