_____ WILL MR. BROWN BE ABLE TO REGAIN CONTROL OF THE COMPANY .A....

55. _____ will Mr. Brown be able to regain control of the company .A. With hard work B. In spite of his hard work C. Only with hard work D. Only if he worked hardReading comprehensionEvery drop of water in the ocean, even in the deepest parts, responds to the forces that create thetides. No other force that affects the sea is so strong. Compared with the tides, the waves created by thewind are surface movements felt no more than a hundred fathoms below the surface. The currents alsoseldom involve more than the upper several hundred fathoms despite their impressive sweep. The tides are a response of the waters of the ocean to the pull of the Moon and the more distant Sun. Intheory, there is a gravitational attraction between the water and even the outermost star of the universe. Inreality, however, the pull of remote stars is so slight as to be obliterated by the control of the Moon and, to alesser extent, the Sun. Just as the Moon rises later each day by fifty minutes, on the average, so, in mostplaces, the time of high tide is correspondingly later each day. And as the Moon waxes and wanes in itsmonthly cycle, so the height of the tide varies. The tidal movements are strongest when the Moon is a sliverin the sky, and when it is full. These are the highest flood tides and the lowest ebb tides of the lunar monthand are called the spring tides. At these times the Sun, Moon, and Earth are nearly in line and the pull of thetwo heavenly bodies is added together to bring the water high on the beaches, to send its surf upward againstthe sea cliffs, and to draw a high tide into the harbors. Twice each month, at the quarters of the Moon, whenthe Sun, Moon, and Earth lie at the apexes of a triangular configuration and the pull of the Sun and Moonare opposed, the moderate tidal movements called neap tides occur. Then the difference between high andlow water is less than at any other time during the month.