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What is Carson contrasting in this passage?

A
The way humans have shaped the world in the past and in the present
B
Earth’s vegetation and its animal life
C
The way nature affects living things, and the way living things affect nature
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What does Carson mean when she contrasts nature’s time scale to the time scale of human change?

A
Natural things have more weight than synthetic items.
B
Natural items are small and easily damaged, while human-created items are durable.
C
It takes nature long periods of time to adapt to dangers, but humans create new dangers quickly.
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Alchemy means “an unexplained transformation.”According to this excerpt, what does Albert Schweitzer mean when he says, “Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation”?

A
Humans spend too much time looking for problems in the world.
B
People cannot predict all of the consequences of their actions.
C
People are not as religious as they used to be.
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What does Carson mean when she writes that the poisoning is “irreversible”?

A
Chemicals or fallout stay in an organism until its death and are then passed on.
B
Chemicals have a temporary effect on the health of living organisms.
C
Living things are unable to process some chemicals, but they are not harmful.
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What is the best summary of this paragraph?

A
Nuclear fallout is by far the most damaging of all pollutants.
B
Chemicals are affecting some areas of the world, but if people do not drink unsafe water, they will not be harmed.
C
Humans are contaminating the air with toxic chemicals that have long-lasting and little-understood effects.
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According to Carson, Earth before human beings was a place that

A
had some hazardous elements.
B
was completely free of pollutants or harmful elements.
C
quickly removed any hazards from the environment through natural processes.
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Why does Carson think that living things cannot adapt to overcome the new chemicals that human beings introduce to the natural world?

A
New chemicals are produced so quickly that living things do not have time to adapt.
B
Living things cannot adapt to artificially created chemicals.
C
Chemicals are designed so that living things cannot adapt to them.
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Why does Carson think that the process of spraying for insects will never end?

A
Insects keep laying eggs every day.
B
New insects keep arriving from other environments.
C
Insects develop resistance to sprays, so stronger sprays must be created.

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