9. What is an example of a positive element of New York City's ecosystem that is identified in the passage?
A. Noise pollution
B. Central Park
C. Vehicles spewing toxic carbon monoxide into the atmosphere
D. Skyscrapers block the sun's rays which help build the levels of Vitamin D.

~story is called Walking Around town by micheal stahl

Read the excerpt from "a pair of silk stockings." but she went on feeling the soft, sheeny luxurious things—with both hands now, holding them up to see them glisten, and to feel them glide serpent-like through her fingers. which best describes the underlying tone of the excerpt created by the connotations of the words “soft,” ”luxurious,” “glisten,” and “serpent-like”? 1. gloom 2. temptation 3. forgiveness 4. suspicion