AP English Language and Composition 10.1 Passage Drill

repeatedly uses the phrase land ethic. usually when someone says something four

or five times well it's important. like the ninth time your mom asked you to [land ethic circled in a written passage]

take up trash. now in this age of soybeans and vegan oxygen bars ethical

land use may not seem radical but in the 40s it was revolutionary stuff. but does

the author explicitly call for new environmental laws no not so much he's

no lawyer just writes like one. and he's not telling people where to spend their

money or promoting developmental mechanism, and although attention to

farming methods could be a part of a new land ethic it's not the focus here. in

fact the author seems to have a weird antagonism toward hydroponics. maybe he's

got a bad batch of our lettuce once. and well as bad things can happen. really [man frowns]

what we have here is more a general set of new ideas a new concept about how to

use land ethically, so b is the correct answer. now if only the author were alive

today you can see how far we've truly come. although you might not be happy

about all the starbucks. [man yells in front of starbucks logo]