Question 13: a. Nina: I chose customers first, because if they proved they would pay for greener packaging, I would have stronger ground in...

Question 13:

a. Nina: I chose customers first, because if they proved they would pay for greener packaging, I would have stronger ground in front of investors.

b. Omar: In that pitch, who did you try to persuade first—the investors pushing for faster profit or the buyers asking for cleaner products?

c. Omar: Fair point. If customers move first, investors can still complain, but they can no longer say the green idea has no market.

A. a – b – c        B. b – a – c        C. c – b – a        D. b – c – a

Question 14:

a. Ethan: Not by cuteness. I compare extinction risk, ecosystem role, and whether our action still has a real chance.

b. Ethan: I count that after the science, because a quiet species may still hold the whole food web together.

c. Maya: We can fund only one rescue plan, so how do you choose between the river dolphin and the mountain fox?

d. Maya: Right, so your choice is based on urgency and impact, not popularity.

e. Maya: What about public support, since that often keeps a project alive?

A. c – e – a – b – d        B. c – b – e – a – d        C. c – a – e – b – d        D. e – b – d – a – c

Question 15:

Dear Hana,

I hope your semester is going well. How is your new dorm?

a. That changed me, because the debate stopped being abstract and became a question of whose hardship we ignored.

b. Last Friday, our district asked residents to choose between 1,000 low-cost flats and the city's last forest patch.

c. The answer still felt uneasy, yet it seemed fairer than keeping the forest by forcing poor families farther out.

d. I finally backed housing, but only with rooftop gardens, better buses, and legal protection for a smaller woodland nearby.

e. I expected people to defend the trees, but cleaners and drivers described sleeping in crowded rooms far from work.

Best,

Linh

A. e – b – a – d – c        B. b – e – a – d – c        C. b – a – e – c – d        D. e – a – b – d – c

Question 16:

a. Still, consent means little if citizens must surrender everything forever, especially when future governments or private contractors may reuse the data for unrelated control.

b. When a coastal country announced an AI system that could predict floods and landslides 72 hours early, many people cheered.

c. I would agree only if the data were minimized, independently audited, deleted quickly, and shared through strict emergency rules rather than permanent surveillance.

d. I would not reject the system outright, because early warnings could save villages, hospitals, and evacuation routes that usually lose time in confusion.

e. The excitement cooled when officials admitted the model needed location histories, messages, search patterns, and health records from nearly everyone.

A. d – b – e – a – c        B. b – d – e – c – a        C. b – e – d – a – c        D. b – e – a – c – d

Question 17:

a. Friends called her reckless, because she lost her apartment, delayed medical treatment, and spent months traveling by bus to meetings that rarely covered her costs.

b. That is why I cannot call her a fool; wisdom is not only protecting your comfort, but choosing a loss that prevents a deeper loss for others and for the future.

c. Our science club still talks about Ms. Elin Park, the engineer who resigned from a profitable plastics company after learning that one factory had been dumping waste near a mangrove coast.

d. Yet those sacrifices changed more than her own life: the evidence pushed regulators to inspect the site, local shops cut single-use packaging, and students began copying her refill model at weekend markets.

e. Instead of moving quietly to another high-paying job, she used her savings to help fishing families document the damage and build a small refill business with washable containers.

A. c – a – e – d – b        B. e – c – a – d – b        C. c – e – d – a – b        D. c – e – a – d – b