Question

Read the excerpt from The Dark Game.

The Russian admiralty decided that their British allies could make better use of the codebook than they could, so it was sent to London. The codebook was a bonanza for the British code breakers. Not only did it contain the columns of code "words"—groups of randomly selected numbers—on which the messages were based, but it also included a changeable key to the cipher systems used to obscure the coded messages.

Which piece of textual evidence best supports the inference that the British had better code breakers than the Russians did?

The Russian admiralty decided that their British allies could make better use of the codebook than they could, so it was sent to London.
The codebook was a bonanza for the British code breakers.
Not only did it contain the columns of code "words"—groups of randomly selected numbers—on which the messages were based
[B]ut it also included a changeable key to the cipher systems used to obscure the coded messages.

Answer 1

Answer:

The piece of textual evidence from this excerpt from The Dark Game that best supports the inference that the British had better code breakers than the Russians did is the first one:

"The Russian admiralty decided that their British allies could make better use of the codebook than they could, so it was sent to London."

Explanation:

In those lines, the reader can easily understand that the Russian admiralty sent the codebook to London because, there, it was going to be more useful. If it was going to be more useful in London, we understand that it is because they had better code breakers, since that was the objective of having the codebook: breaking the codes it had.

Answer 2

Answer:

A

Explanation: