The source is dated but still useful, B
Answer: b.Choosing and packing the right amounts and types of items for the trip was a difficult yet important task
Explanation:
This is based on the journey American pioneers to the West had to take.
Food was a very important consideration for the journey and planning for it was difficult because taking it lightly could mean the difference between life and death.
If insufficient food was packed, it could run out before the migrants reached their destination which would lead to starvation.
If food was too much, the animals would be overburdened. On top of that one could not rely on substituting packed food with foraging because that was unreliable.
This all goes to painting a picture of a very difficult decision to make when packing food because it has to be just the right amount.
if you are referring to the excerpt that goes "Where four decades ago there was rubble, today in West Berlin there is the greatest industrial output of any city in Germany—busy office blocks, fine homes and apartments, proud avenues, and the spreading lawns of park land. Where a city's culture seemed to have been destroyed, today there are two great universities, orchestras and an opera, countless theaters, and museums. Where there was want, today there's abundance. . . . From devastation, from utter ruin, you Berliners have, in freedom, rebuilt a city that once again ranks as one of the greatest on earth. . . .
In the 1950s, Khrushchev predicted: "We will bury you." But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind—too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor."
The answer is C. Democracy leads to greater prosperity than Communism does.
