Based on this passage, select the best answer:We got our bearings and hurried to the car, shivering to the core. As we drove through the streets of Rochester, I looked out the window and saw a city covered in white. (page 118)

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Based on this passage, select the best answer:"We got our bearings and hurried to the car, shivering to the core. As we drove through the streets of Rochester, I looked out the window and saw a city covered in white.” (page 118)

A	It is a land of cold and snow.
B	It is a terrifying place of violence.
C	It is a place of beauty and peace.
D	It is a place where all their dreams are coming true.

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Also, find one’s bearings. Figure out one’s position or situation relative to one’s surroundings. For example, She’s still new to the company and needs time to find her bearings, or I’ll be along soon; just wait till I get my bearings.

Detailed explanation-2: -to succeed in becoming familiar with a new situation: It takes a while to get your bearings when you start a new job. This is yet another burden for new teachers who are still trying to get their bearings in the classroom.

Detailed explanation-3: -The meaning “direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen or is moving” is from 1630s; to take (one’s) bearings is from 1711. The mechanical sense of “part of a machine that ‘bears’ the friction” is from 1791.

Detailed explanation-4: -: to become lost. The ship lost its bearings in the fog. often used figuratively. I feel I’ve lost my bearings and do not know what I want to do in my life.

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