Which of the following quotations most clearly reinforces the point in Part A, showing that the “acknowledgment of responsibility” is often missing? A. Increasingly, the pinnacle of adventure tourism—the summit of Everest—comes at too steep a cost.
B. But shutting the industry down would anger the outfitters, clients, and, most of all, the Sherpas.
C. What's left instead [after a Sherpa's death] is a patchwork of charity, in which some families find help from climbers to send their kids to school and others don't.
D. "Our team is overwhelmed with sadness. Our prayers go out to his family at this extremely difficult time. Tea lights have been lit, we hang our heads in sorrow."

Select the correct text in the passage. which line in this excerpt from amy tan's "mother tongue" shows that tan changes her language depending on the audience? i was giving a talk to a large group of people, the same talk i had already given to half a dozen other groups. the talk was about my writing, my life, and my book, the joy luck club, and it was going along well enough, until i remembered one major difference that made the whole talk sound wrong. my mother was in the room. and it was perhaps the first time she had heard me give a lengthy speech, using the kind of english i have never used with her. i was saying things like "the intersection of memory upon imagination" and "there is an aspect of my fiction that relates to thus-and-thus"—a speech filled with carefully wrought grammatical phrases, burdened, it suddenly seemed to me, with nominalized forms, past perfect tenses, conditional phrases, forms of standard english that i had learned in school and through books…