Advertising affects our lives everyday. Brand names are common household words. We start each day using the toothpaste, soap, and breakfast foods promoted by advertisers. Ads have made the cars we drive signs of our success. Our choices of food, dress, and entertainment are swayed by ads. Not one aspect of American life is untouched by advertising. A. People would not be successful unless they drive a car.
B. The choices Americans make everyday are affected by commercials, or advertising.
C. Advertising is responsible for people eating badly.
D. If there was no advertising, people would not be able to buy any products.

B. The choices Americans make everyday are affected by commercials, or advertising.

Explanation:

The paragraph talks about everything that advertising affects a person's life. Advertisments make things seem more appealing to the human eye, making them want to buy and use them. Some things That are advertised may not be healthy or good for you but advertisers make them seem better than they are.

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

there you go thats what we are missing