Answer:
"The price a consumer is willing to pay for a garden hose—its “perceived value”—is a lot higher in Germany than in the United States."
"These extra costs to businesses get passed along to the consumer in the form of higher prices."
Explanation:
Answer:
b. unimportant
Explanation:
extras are usually background characters who are insignificant to the story
Answer:
D. In Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns
Quite worriedly toward the disaster
Explanation:
Brueghel's Icarus refers to a painting made by Pieter Brueghel, which puts the spotlight on the townsmen who were around during Icarus' mythological fall from the sky since he flew too close to the sun. It depicts the indifference of the witnesses, who were busy engaging with their pursuits to bother paying attention to the fact that Icarus had just fallen. Since Auden's poem is written in honor of the painting, (D) would be the best answer if the painting instead depicted the witnesses' concern over what is happening instead of indifference.
