The king, who delighted in music, had frequent concerts at court, to which i was sometimes carried, and set in my box on a table to hear them: but the noise was so great that i could hardly distinguish the tunes. . my practice was to have my box removed from the places where the performers sat, as far as i could, then to shut the doors and windows of it, and draw the window curtains, after which i found their music not disagreeable.

the passage above describes an interaction between gulliver and the king of brobdingnag. which excerpt indicates best that the king of brobdingnag has not recognized the needs and feelings of gulliver?

“the noise was so great that i could hardly distinguish the tunes”
“the king, who delighted in music”
“frequent concerts at court, to which i was sometimes carried”
“my practice was to have my box removed”

The correct answer is “the noise was so great that I could hardly distinguish the tunes.” Because the king didn't really care about Gulliver's needs and feelings because if he did, he would try to do something about the music so that Gulliver can hear it better. He was to concern in listening to the music that he didn't even noticed Gulliver.

A) “the noise was so great that I could hardly distinguish the tunes.”

Explanation: In the given excerpt from "Gulliver's Travels" we can see the description of how the King of Brobdingnag wanted to share with Gulliver his love for music, but the King didn't recognized the needs and feelings of Gulliver because he didn't realize that the music was so loud for Gulliver that he couldn't appreciate it, in fact, it was almost unbearable for him. The sentence that express this, is the corresponding to option A.

i think its a.

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