Part A From the details in the selection from Silent Spring, what can you conclude about the town before the changes take place?
A. The town attracts visitors who enjoy outdoor activities.
B. The town is full of simple, poor, hard-working people.
C. The town is a settlement for recent immigrants.
D. The town is located in an industrial area.
Part B
Which of the following quotations from Silent Spring best supports the answer to Part A?
A. There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms...
B. Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half-hidden in the mists of the fall mornings.
C. The countryside was, in fact, famous for the abundance and variety of its birdlife, and when the flood of migrants was pouring through in spring and fall people traveled from great distances to observe them. Others came to fish the streams...
D. So it had been from the days many years ago when the first settlers raised their houses, sank their wells, and built their barns.