Answer:
Both the poem and the story is expressing how humans impact nature and how we feel about it. In Cervantes's poem, the theme is humans destroy things for no reason but for our own personal gain. In Hurd's story, the theme is we are as insignificant to nature as it is to us.
(B) The people of the town were amused by their new loony's unusual appearance and seemed to take delight in his performance on the minibus.
This is the best summary of the ideas of the passage, because transforming into the loony and the experiences that follow are all collected in this statement.
<span>Some of the students
<u>h</u><u>ave been</u> applying to out-of-state colleges.
It cannot be 'had' because it says <em>apply
ing.
</em>It cannot be 'has been' either because it says <em>
Some of the student
s. </em>(Has doesn't match plural verbs)<em>
</em></span>