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Fie yen is researching and analyzing the history of environmental laws. She reads this paragraph about the 1990 updates to the clean air act and makes the inference the some people feared the law would be to difficult to enact quickly. Read the paragraph and then answer the question.

To achieve environmental gains within a reasonable timeframe at the lowest feasible cost, the new law will take hold in . . . stages, with most controls fully in effect by 2005. What specifically, are some of these gains? Emissions that caused acid rain (sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides) will be cut to roughly half of 1980 emissions levels. More than thirty million tons of noxious air pollutants will be removed from the air each year. Every part of the country finally will have means to attain healthy air on a realistic schedule and the rush from toxic air emissions will be cut by three- fourths.

Which evidence from the paragraph supports Fei Yen's inference?
A. And the risk toxic air emissions will be cut by three fourths.
B. More than thirty million tons of noxious air pollutants will be removed from the air each year.
C. Every part of the country finally will have means to attain healthy air on a realistic schedule
D. Emissions that cause acid rain (sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide) will be cut to roughly half of 1980 emissions levels.

in the short story the slip-over sweater by jesse stuart, the main character and narrator shan is friends with grace, an intelligent girl he has known since childhood and with whom he used to be in love.

at the beginning of the story, shan believes he’s no longer in love with grace, but loves jo-anne instead. in order to buy a slip-over sweater and have jo-anne wear it so that the other students would know she loved him too, shan takes a loan at the bank.

while jo-anne is wearing shan’s sweater, his friend grace starts to wear another popular boy’s one, roy’s sweater. because of that, the other students begin to pay attention to grace and compliment her perseverance and effort. they admire her for walking 5 miles to school every day, despite the weather, and still getting the best grades. shan, who knows all of that for a fact, says, as the narrator, ‘and i knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak.’ he compares his friend’s strength – not only physical, but also of character – to an oak tree, whose wood is known for being sturdy.

as the story goes on, shan changes his behavior out of concern for the debt he has to pay at the bank. his new girlfriend jo-anne never asks him what is wrong nor offers any sort of . instead, she breaks up with shan for not being as fun as she thought he was supposed to be. grace, however, not only asks about shan’s problem, but him make the money he needs. shan can’t but notice how different the girls are and what a wonderful person grace is.   even though he used to find jo-anne prettier at the beginning of the story, he now says, ‘grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in april, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy.’ his comparing grace to a mountain or something that exists on a mountain (such as a mountain oak or daisy) certainly has important meaning since shan loves the mountain and everything about it and he knows the mountain thoroughly. shan also loves and knows grace as completely as he does the mountain.

2. list two reasons why fossil fuels should no longer be used as a source of energy in america.

●intensive purposes is the correct answer