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The objection to the wind turbines is that they spoil the view. So they do, if the view is the point. But the same hills carry pylons, a reservoir, a quarry, and a road, none of which anyone now sees, because each was there before the objector was born. The landscape we defend is simply the landscape we grew up in, and in fifty years the turbines will be part of it.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
- A. What people count as spoiling a landscape is largely what is new to them, and the turbines will in time be accepted like earlier intrusions.Correct
- B. Wind turbines do not affect the view.
- C. Pylons and quarries should be removed.
- D. The hills have never been altered.
Answer: A. What people count as spoiling a landscape is largely what is new to them, and the turbines will in time be accepted like earlier intrusions.
We defend the landscape we grew up in.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Wind turbines do not affect the view.
- 'So they do.'
- C. Pylons and quarries should be removed.
- Not proposed.
- D. The hills have never been altered.
- They carry pylons, a reservoir, a quarry, and a road.
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