Lesson: Reading Comprehension Basic - 08t01

Separating Fact From Opinion

One final one for good measure. Fact, opinion, or combination of both? Click Continue when you think you know.

It is misleading to say that advances in communication have made it possible for people to be "better informed" about world events than was possible in the past. There's a limit to how much total information any person can absorb; the only result of better communications is that, whereas people used to know a great deal about the few places that concerned them directly, now they know very little about a great many places.

Fact

Opinion

Combination

OPINION. The statement expresses a view about the nature of information and man's capacity to absorb it.

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