Rather than allowing developers to tear down old buildings simply to put up new ones, local governments
could enact ordinances to preserve their area's architecture.

Why is this sentence important to the passage as a whole?

A. It summarizes the writer's attitude toward government involvement in architecture.

B. It concludes the writer's discussion of modern architecture.

C. It begins to introduce solutions to the problems the writer raises.

D. It begins to describe the problems the writer wants to highlight.

the turtle carries new life, oat seeds, over to the other side of the highway and plants them there.

imparadis't in one anothers arms  

the happier eden, shall enjoy their fill  

of bliss on bliss, while i to hell am thrust,  

where neither joy nor love, but fierce desire,  

among our other torments not the least,  

still unfulfill'd with pain of longing pines;  

yet let me not forget what i have gain'd  

from their own mouths; all is not theirs it seems:  

one fatal tree there stands of knowledge call'd,  

forbidden them to taste: knowledge forbidd'n?  

suspicious, reasonless. why should their lord  

envie them that? can it be sin to know,