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Read the passage.
As the belated traveller makes his way through the monotonous plains of Australia, through the Bush, with its level expanses and
clumps of grey-blue gum trees, he occasionally hears a singular sound. Beginning low, with a kind of sharp tone thrilling through a whirring
noise, it grows louder and louder, till it becomes a sort of futtering windy roar, if the traveller be a new comer, he is probably puzzled to the
last degree if he be an Englishman, country-bred, he says to himself, Why that is the bull-roarer." [..]
The instrument which produces the sounds that warn women to remain afar is a toy familiar to English country lads. They call it the
bull-roarer. The common bull-roarer is an inexpensive toy which anyone can make. I do not, however, recommend it to families, for two
reasons. In the first place, it produces a most horrible and unexampled din, which endears it to the very young, but renders it detested by
persons of mature age. In the second place, the character of the toy is such that it will almost infallibly break all that is tragile in the house
where it is used, and will probably put out the eyes of some of the inhabitants
(rom The Bull-Re" by Andrew Lang)
Which phrases from the passage most effectively show the author's bias toward adults?
O1. monotonous plains, level expanses
O2 sharp tone whirring noise
3. new comer, probably puzzled
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most horrible, detested by