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Surajalok Posted 17 years ago
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During ellen's three mounths at sea MacAurther negotiated deadly icebergs, gigantic waves and gale force winds. She enduredthe freezing cold of the antarctic and suffered the bilstering heat of the windless doldrums. Racing conditions ment sleeping in 10 minute bursts, a survival suit that stayed on for weeks at a time and hands covered in sores and cuts.

The writer suggests that one caise of disconfort for ellen at sea was: A her failure to sleep B extremes of temperature Why can answer A be the right one "sleeping in 10 minute bursts"

what does bursts means.
  

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-- 'Bursts' = short, dynamic occurrences

  • -- 'Bursts' = short, dynamic occurrences
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what does bursts means.-- 'Bursts' = short, dynamic occurrences
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does this mean that she had a 10 min short sleep .

then the answer should be A but that is incorrect why

can anyone explane dynamic and occurrences because i have always had problem understanding there meening. i searched in a dictionary but it didn't help
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Not 'A'. She had many short periods of sleep.

Try these [url=http://www.onelook.com/?w=dynamic&ls=a] DICTIONARIES[/URL].

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