NB ELPA Reading Practice Questions - New Brunswick English Language Proficiency Assessment - Reading (ELPA-R), Anglophone Sector Exam

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Read the poem. "The lighthouse keeps its stubborn post while all the harbour sleeps, and sends its pale revolving ghost across the shuttered deeps. No thanks are asked, no wages drawn — it only counts the ships at dawn." The speaker's attitude toward the lighthouse is best described as

fearful of its power over ships admiring of its quiet, dutiful reliability pitying because it is old and useless amused by its strange behaviour

Correct Answer:

admiring of its quiet, dutiful reliability

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