What is the author's purpose of writing this passage?
A. To change the behavior. or the thinking of its readers towards body-image.
B. To convince people that it is harmful to be obsessed with superficial beauty.
C. To persuade people to pursue more valuable things.
D. To analyze why people pay so much attention to physical appearance beauty.
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According to the passage, unemployment rate
A. by no means represents the actual unemployment.
B. somewhat represents the relative health of the economy.
C. is usually 4 percent regardless of the relative health of the economy.
D. is an estimate of the percentage of people without a job.
That summer I drove west with a friend, and we ______ a little money doing odd jobs and as
A. picked up
B. stepped up
C. put aside
D. set aside
Lillehammer's opening ceremonies featured a giant Olympic Torch burning biogas produced by rotting vegetation. During construction, builders were threatened with $7,500 fines for felling trees unnecessarily. Rare trees were carefully transplanted from hillsides. Food is being served on potato-based plates that will be fed, in turn, to pigs. Smoking has been banned outdoors as well as in, with enforcement by polite requests.
Environmentalists have declared partial victory: though Coca-Cola's plan to decorate the town with banners has been scaled back, there are still too many billboards for strict green tastes. Perhaps, but after the Games, athlete housing will be converted into vacation homes or shipped to the northlands for student dormitories. Bullets will be plucked from biathlon targets and recycled to keep the lead from poisoning ground water. And these tricks won't be forgotten. Embarrassed by environmental protests, the I. O. C. claims that green awareness is now entrenched—along with sport and culture—as a permanent dimension of the Olympic Charter.
Indeed, Sydney was successful in becoming host for the 2000 Summer Games in part on the strength of its endorsement from Greenpeace. Aspiring host cities are picking up the code. Salt Lake City, bidding for the 2002 Games, may opt to use the bobsled run that Calgary built for the '88 Games. After that, who could deny that recycling is an Olympic movement?
Which of the following countries has not paid enough attention to the "green" issues?
A. Norway.
B. France.
C. America.
D. Australia.
He stood in the door-way, his wet cloak ______ water on the rug, and waited for some sign
A. drip
B. dripping
C. dripped
D. drips