Read the passage below, and fill in the blank with a metaphorical expression that best completes the author's extended metaphor comparing the night sky to a collection of written records.
Cevap:The astronomer, Dr. Elena Vance, spent her nights peering into the depths of the Orion Nebula, where stars were born in clouds of dust and gas. To the untrained eye, the cosmos appeared to be an empty void, a silent vacuum devoid of history. But to Vance, the night sky was a vast, living 【library】 that preserved the remnants of ancient stellar events. Each beam of starlight that reached her telescope was a line of text, written millions of years ago and traveling across the vacuum of space to be read by anyone with the tools to decipher it. Observing a distant supernova was not a view of a current explosion, but a reading of a page written in the distant past. The telescope was her reading glass, and the observatory was her study. By analyzing the light spectrum, she was translating a story of cosmic evolution that had begun long before humanity existed.
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The correct answer is a noun representing a repository of written information, such as 'library', 'book', 'archive', or 'chronicle', which completes the author's extended metaphor comparing the cosmos to a historical text.
The correct answer completes the extended metaphor established throughout the paragraph. The author consistently uses textual imagery to describe the night sky, comparing starlight to a 'line of text' and the study of stars to 'translating a story.' A metaphorical noun like 'library,' 'book,' 'archive,' or 'chronicle' fits this context by framing the cosmos as a repository of historical written records.
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Identifying metaphorical expressions and completing an extended metaphor based on contextual clues.