Answer:
А. New architecture development is causing historic buildings to be destroyed
Explanation:
Option A is the claim in the given passage.
This is true because looking at the passage, we discover that the philosophy of "out with the old, in with the new" is actually being abused. It is stated that across United States, there is the destruction of historic architectural work in order to build malls, high-rise apartments, etc. This means that new architecture development is actually causing historic buildings to be destroyed.
The destruction of such historic buildings is done with the mindset that it is the property that holds the value and not the structure that sits on it. Therefore, the craftsmanship and painstaking details employed during the construction of such structures are ignored.
Option A is the correct answer.
Answer: But, Mephistophilis, My blood congeals, and I can write no more
Explanation:
Here's the excerpt:
FAUSTUS: [Writing] Ay, so I do. But, Mephistophilis, My blood congeals, and I can write no more. MEPHASTOPHILIS: I'll fetch thee fire to dissolve it straight. (Exit) FAUSTUS:What might the staying of my blood portend? Is it unwilling I should write this bill? Why streams it not, that I may write afresh? FAUSTUS GIVES TO THEE HIS SOUL: O, there it stay'd! Why shouldst thou not? is not thy soul thine own? Then write again, FAUSTUS GIVES TO THEE HIS SOUL.
The part of this excerpt from the play provides evidence that Faustus's human soul is predisposed to shun evil can be deduced where it was written that "My blood congeals, and I can write no more".
MOTHER is the answer to the question.
I would agree with you, artifice seems to be the correct answer, because those could be all the materials used to deceive us into thinking the actor is much older than he/she really is.