Excerpt from Requirements and Procedures for Firefighter Candidates
Tracy Wilson

5) In these events, you wear a 50-pound vest to simulate the weight of self-contained breathing apparatus and firefighter protective clothing. An additional 25 pounds, using two 12.5 pound weights that simulate a high-rise pack (hose bundle), is added to your shoulders for the stair-climb event.
Use context clues and other reading strategies to determine or clarify the meaning of the word simulate as it is used in the fifth section of the passage.

A) to mimic or imitate somebody or something
B) to feign or pretend to experience something
C) a computer model simulating the process of continental drift
D) to reproduce the essential features of something, e. g. as an aid to study or training

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explanation:

hygelac - beowulf's uncle, king of the geats, and husband of hygd. hygelac heartily welcomes beowulf back from denmark. hygd - hygelac's wife, the young, beautiful, and intelligent queen of the geats. hygd is contrasted with queen hope this

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.