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B. The government is trying to clean the lakes and make their water safe for drinking again.
D. The people of China are insisting on the use of renewable energy.
These are the two sentences in the passage that talk about China's efforts to curb environmental degradation. The beginning of the passage states that China is a major pollutant, and that this has caused a lot of damage to its ecosystems. However, towards the middle part of the passage, the text discusses what things are changing in order to reduce this problem. The first strategy that is discussed is how the government is trying to clean lakes and rivers. The second one is that the population is protesting the use of fossil fuels and trying to encourage the use of renewable energy.
Tennessee
The State of Franklin was an unrecognized and autonomous territory which is located now in Tennessee. Franklin was created in 1784 from parts of the Appalachian Mountains that were offered to North Carolina as a cession to Congress to pay off debts from Revolutionary War. It later became the state of Tennessee.
The Mexican-American War was in the period 1846-1848. The main causes of the Mexican-American War were mainfest destiny (Americans believed that thye have the right to expand westward and conquer territory despite the rights of the indigenous people already living on that land), westward expansion, economics, and slavery
40x = number of pages
you multiply 40 by the number of days she reads them (x)
