AP English Language and Composition 10.1 Passage Drill
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AP English Language and Composition 10.1 Passage Drill. Which of the following best describes the author's intention?
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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]