4. Read this excerpt from Paragraph 1. Kay's statement can apply to all sorts of fields of innovation. For example, if an
sure to be correct if she invents that car herself.
sinventor predicts that in five years a cheap, gasoline-free car will be invented, she is
A
B.
Is this an example of sound reasoning?
Yes, because it appeals to the experience of an authority in the field.
Yes, because it supports a claim with a clear and appropriate example.
No, because it underestimates the difficulty of inventing new technology
No, because it fails to describe the process of the inventor in the example.
C.
D.

the correct answer is the following.

one of the groups i belong to is the boy scouts. this is a problem-solving group because it has tasks that we need to solve in order to other people in different activities such as the rescue of lost pets, or elder people in need.

the other group i belong to is kids pro environment, and is an information-sharing group that tries to create conscience about the risks and problems that generate pollution in our cities. we share information to other students and parents on the importance of keep our communities clean and our skies clear.  

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.