If a poet writes, "the soil / is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod", the best paraphrasing is a. the earth is worn bare from man's use. b. feet that wear shoes often hurt. c. the soil is ruined by people planting. d. dirt doesn't feel good to walk on.

I think its a  the earth is worn bare from man's use.

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isaac newton first proposed that earth was not perfectly round. instead, he suggested it was an oblate spheroid—a sphere that is squashed at its poles and swollen at the equator.

the idea of the earth being a flat disc is also inconsistent with the fact that a given lunar eclipse is only visible from half of the earth at a time. the only shape that casts a round shadow no matter which direction it is pointed is a sphere, and the ancient greeks deduced that this must mean the earth is spherical.

the navigation act prevented the colonies from exporting to countries other than britain and it prevented the importation of goods by other countries as well. so i believe the correct answer is d. other nations could not deliver goods to the colonies.

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