(23) The fascinating city of Coober Pedy has become a popular destination for both tourists and filmmakers. (24) The citizens of Coober Pedy have certainly found a creative way to beat the heat; and the world has taken notice.
Which of these ideas could best follow and support sentence 23?
A)
B)
More than 150,000 people visit the small town each year, and a host of
movies, including Kangaroo Jack, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, and Opal
Dream, have been filmed there.
Coober Pedy residents now make their livelihood in both the tourism
industry and opal-mining industry, and this keeps most of the people
working and able to provide for their families.
Today the people in this town get the vast majority of their water from
underground from a source 24 kilometers away that has to be pumped in
via an underground pipeline.
Since February of 1915, many of the highest quality opals in the entire
world have been found in Coober Pedy, in fact, Coober Pedy is sometimes
even referred to as the opal capital of the world.
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D)