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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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what's the answer please

.........., which he became the first European to see.

A) The source of the Nile was discovered by John Hanning Speke

B) In 1795, the Scotsman Mungo Park set out from Gambia to explore the Niger River

C) The British General Eliphistone was killed in Afghanistan in 1840

D) In the year 1099, Jerusalem was conquered by the knights of the First Crusade

E) Lake Tanganyika was explored in 1856 by Richard F. Burton

my teacher said there is not right answer for that question and the question sentence is meanigless with every answer . But I dont know he is right. My answer key is (b) but i don't know it right. help me pleaseeee!
  

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The answer you choose has to end with a thing that someone could see because it says he was the first to see it -- whatever it was. Also, the answer you choose has to mention a man because the pronoun he is used. Only answer B has these characteristics.

  • The answer you choose has to end with a thing that someone could see because it says he was the first to see it -- whatever it was.
  • Also, the answer you choose has to mention a man because the pronoun he is used.
  • Only answer B has these characteristics.
  • The thing is the Niger River.
  • The man is Mungo Park.
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The answer you choose has to end with a thing that someone could see because it says he was the first to see it -- whatever it was. Also, the answer you choose has to mention a man because the pronoun he is used.

Only answer B has these characteristics. The thing is the Niger River. The man is Mungo Park.

CJ

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