The tour de france is a true test of athletic ability. no other race in the world challenges an athlete's endurance, strength, and skill to the same extent. the tour de france is a bicycle race across more than 2,000 miles of road in france. the cyclists ride for many hours in a day. the race lasts for three weeks. a large part of the race is uphill. in fact, the cyclists have to maintain speed while pedaling up many steep hills. only the best athletes with the most physical and mental strength can compete in such a race.

the author's bias is that the
a.
cyclists are not physically fit enough to finish the race.
b.
roads in france are too flat to challenge the racers.
c.
tour de france is the toughest race in the world.
d.
tour de france is not fair to the amateur athletes.

(C) The author bias is that Tour De France is the toughest race in the world.

Explanation:

For such a tough race one must have the sufficient physical and the mental strength to win the race. Thus, it is important to check the endurance and the strength of the cyclists to recognise whether they deserve to participate in the race or not. There are various challenges in the competition of Tour De France and thus they check the mental and the physical ability of the participants at its best.

the hunger games, written by  suzanne collins, is fiction in the young adult genre, which is not my age group, but i found myself unable to put it down. its combination of nerve-racking tension, thrilling action, and engaging love story kept me up until the wee hours. i was surprised at how completely engrossing the plot was. like  brave new world, this story is set in a future where the government oppresses its people, but the book also borrows ideas from the greek myth of theseus and the minotaur.

divided into 12 districts, ruled by an oppressive government located at the  capitol. katniss everdeen, a 16-year-old girl from district 12, takes her younger sister’s place as one of 24 “tributes” selected every year to participate in the hunger games at the capitol.

while i found this book absolutely enthralling, i was surprised it was aimed at an audience of young adults. it seems extremely intense for anyone younger than 16 or 17. for example, there is a scene where one young tribute is slowly eaten alive by wolf-like creatures all night long, and katniss has to finally throw a weapon at him to end his misery. i found this a little too disturbing when i considered the age of the character.

the intensity of the action was something one would find in a more mature book, but the age of the characters and the simplicity of the prose were aimed at a much younger audience. in addition, this book was written in present tense, which i found annoying, but that’s more of a personal preference than a stylistic fault. it was also edited somewhat poorly, but that rarely distracted from the plot. for example, the author often spoke in sentence fragments to describe how katniss felt, which might have been an attempt to reflect on her thought process, but i found it disorienting to read a lot of really short sentences all together. it would have been better to vary the sentence length on occasion, but the story was still coherently.

overall,  the hunger games  was an excellent, enthralling read that i highly recommend. if it was more clearly marked for older teens, it would have been better, but it was a fantastic book with a wonderfully creative plot.

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