Jason rifled through his backpack. Looking for the article. Getting it to the Daily Learner News office before the noon deadline. That was essential. He had worked on it for weeks. Now it was time to turn it in. To be sure he had not left it in his bedroom. Jason double-checked. Seeing his approaching bus through the window. He began to panic. Quickly retracing his steps in his mind. Jason remembered that he had left it on the printer. He ran through the house with the article in hand. Catching the bus in the nick of time. How many sentence fragments exist in this paragraph?

A. 

4

B. 

5

C. 

6

Read this passage from alan weisman's "the city without us": he props his running shoe against the whitish bark of a chinese amur cork tree, growing among the last of the hemlocks. "this may sound blasphemous, but maintaining biodiversity is less important than maintaining a functioning ecosystem. what matters is that soil is protected, that water gets cleaned, that trees filter the air, that a canopy regenerates new seedlings to keep nutrients from draining away into the bronx river." now read this passage from jared diamond's "the ends of the world as we know them": both the shoguns and the japanese peasants took a long-term view: the former expected to pass on their power to their children, and the latter expected to pass on their land. . today, despite having the highest human population density of any large developed country, japan is more than 70 percent forested. what common theme of green literature is most strongly evident in both passages? a. in order to thrive in coming centuries, people must find viable alternatives to fossil fuels, such as coal. b. with careful and intelligent management, ecosystems can still thrive after human beings have changed them. c. in order meet their goals, environmentalists must people develop a personal desire to protect nature. d. there is no excuse for damaging the natural world, and anyone who does so will pay a steep price.