English · Drill 41
English practice 41
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I appreciate your effort, but I need to flag a critical issue: the PASSAGE text you've provided appears to be severely corrupted or incomplete OCR output. Key phrases are fragmented, words are missing or malformed, and the logical flow is broken. For example:
- "no way for them to now" (incomplete)
- "onally / bastens 200aeo an" (gibberish)
- Multiple orphaned words with unclear context
Without a legible, coherent passage, I cannot accurately:
1. Identify which text corresponds to each question number
2. Determine the exact underlined portions (the answer options suggest coherent phrases, but the passage doesn't match)
3. Preserve the original meaning while adding markup
**To proceed, please provide:**
- A clean, readable version of the passage (re-OCR'd or manually transcribed if needed)
- Confirmation of which words/phrases should be underlined for each question
Alternatively, if you have the original PDF or image, I can work from that source to ensure accuracy.
thousands of years ago for believing in astrology—there was simply 
any better. But it’s honestly incredible to me that, after all the knowledge science has given us about how the universe really works, there are still millions of people who eagerly read their horoscopes in the paper every morning and actually expect 
to mean anything. 
We’re all familiar with the twelve signs of the zodiac and the 
born under different signs: a Pisces is emotional, a Taurus is stubborn, an Aquarius is clever. The problem, of course, is that these vague qualities can appear to apply to anyone. Who isn’t emotional or stubborn at times? And all people think they’re clever—even when they aren’t! If only astrology made 
a little more specific, we might be rid of it by now. For example, if “the stars” predicted that all Sagittarians would be left-handed, or that all Libras would have 20/20 vision, we would be able to test these claims, and astrology would fail. But since the only “test” involves people who want to believe in it 
whether to apply broad compliments like “brave” or “insightful” to 
astrology probably won’t be going away anytime soon.
it was logical for heavenly bodies to “influence” events on Earth, but the funny part is that the math is all wrong. All of the star charts on which astrology is based were drawn up when people still thought that the Earth, rather than the sun, was at the center of the solar system. Plus, as Einstein figured out 
the stars’ apparent positions aren’t really where they are, because the light they emit is bent by gravity before it reaches our eyes. So even if astrology were true, it would be full of mistakes! Luckily for 
all a bunch of nonsense, so nobody ever noticed.
always enjoy meeting people who believe in it at a party. Once someone brings it up, I know it’s only a matter of time before he or she asks me what my sign is, and my answer is always the same. “Well, you’ve been talking to me all night,” 
“Shouldn’t you be able to tell?” 