Mexico City has long been ranked among the world’s most polluted cities. The Mexican capital lies in a natural bowl surrounded by mountains, which trap air pollution. When pollution reaches critical levels, school and factory hours are changed to avoid exposing people to the worst of the pollution. Recently, the city has been making a big effort to improve air quality. Vehicles are tested every six months to make sure the exhaust gases are within safe levels. City laws require motorists to leave their cars at home one day a week and use public transportation.

Read the passage carefully. Choose a connection a reader could make between the text and the world.

A. I would love to travel to El Salvador.
B. This reminds me of our town’s pollution problems.
C. This reminds me of a book I read about how schools are built.
D. I understand that it is important to travel around the world.

Which sentence in this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich suggests that ivan ilyich aspired to be part of the elite in society from a young age? a.ivan ilyich was  le phenix de la famille  as people said.  he was neither as cold and formal as his elder brother nor as wild as the younger, but was a happy mean between them—an intelligent polished, lively and agreeable man.b.  even when he was at the school of law he was just what he remained for the rest of his life:   a capable, cheerful, good-natured, and sociable man, though strict in the fulfillment of what he considered to be his duty:   and he considered his duty to be what was so considered by those in authority.c.neither as a boy nor as a man was he a toady, but from early youth was by nature attracted to people of high station as a fly is drawn to the light, assimilating their ways and views of life and establishing friendly relations with them.d.all the enthusiasms of childhood and youth passed without leaving much trace on him; he succumbed to sensuality, to vanity, and latterly among the highest classes to liberalism, but always within limits which his instinct unfailingly indicated to him as correct.e.at school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them;