Question

Read the excerpt from President Ronald Reagan’s Address at Moscow State University.

But progress is not foreordained. The key is freedom—freedom of thought, freedom of information, freedom of communication. The renowned scientist, scholar, and founding father of this university, Mikhail Lomonosov, knew that. "It is common knowledge," he said, "that the achievements of science are considerable and rapid, particularly once the yoke of slavery is cast off and replaced by the freedom of philosophy." You know, one of the first contacts between your country and mine took place between Russian and American explorers. The Americans were members of Cook's last voyage on an expedition searching for an Arctic passage; on the island of Unalaska, they came upon the Russians, who took them in, and together with the native inhabitants, held a prayer service on the ice.

In this excerpt, President Reagan expresses his opinion that the key to progress is freedom. This is

Answer 1

A) a substantiated opinion because Reagan quotes an expert.

Answer 2

A substantiated opinion because Reagan quotes an expert.

Step-by-step explanation:

In the excerpt , Reagan is expressing a substantiated opinion because he is quoting an expert, the expert being Mikhail Lomonosov, a Russian scientist and writer from the seventeenth century.

Reagan is quoting Lomonosov in order to add authority to his speech, so that his speech does not only express his own views, but also the views of a renowned person who had similar ideas.