4. PART B: Which quote from the text best supports the answer to Part A?
O A "By the time he was 20, he was an options trader. By
the time he was 25, he was a multimillionaire and
the head of an options trading company."
Paragraph 24)
OB "But in the third great arena of life, love, Len is an
abysmal failure. And the reason he was, was that Len
is a cold fish (Paragraph 24)
OC "And Len was wealthy enough to be able to afford a
Park Avenue psychoanalyst, who for five years tried
to find the sexual trauma that had somehow locked
positive emotion inside of him." ( Paragraph 25)
OD "He's not consigned to the hell of unhappiness, and
that's because Len, like most of you, is enormously
capable of flow. When he walks onto the floor of the
American Exchange at 9:30 in the morning, time
stops for him." ( Paragraph 26)

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.