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The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (adapted excerpt) Select the correct answer from the drop-down menu. As they made no effort to communicate with me, but simply stood round me smiling and speaking in soft cooing notes to each other, I began the conversation by pointing to the Which phrase best completes the writer's explanation? Time Machine and to myself. Then, hesitating for a moment how to express Time, I pointed to the sun and at once a quaintly pretty little figure in chequered purple and In the novella The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, the narrator expects that the future will be more advanced, but he instead encounters simple creatures. "As they white followed my gesture, and then astonished me by imitating the sound of thunder. made no effort to communicate with me, but simply stood round me smiling and speaking in soft cooing notes to each other." However, I would propose that For a moment I was staggered, though the import of his gesture was plain enough. The perhaps the creatures' communication was more advanced. Perhaps they question had come into my mind abruptly: were these creatures fools? You may hardly understand how it took me. You see, I had always anticipated that the people of the year Eight Hundred and Two Thousand odd would be incredibly in front of us in F no longer had any need to communicate knowledge, art, everything. Then one of them suddenly asked me a question that showed him to be on the intellectual level of one of our five-year-old children-asked forgot how to speak but were happy. me, in fact, if I had come from the sun in a thunderstorm! It let loose the judgment I had evolved beyond the need to communicate using words. suspended upon their clothes, their frail light limbs, and fragile features. A flow of disappointment rushed across my mind and for a moment I felt that I had built the Time eventually regressed in language ability. Machine in vain