Question 17: a. One afternoon, our seafood shop posted a note saying “no oysters today,” and my dad said the supplier had called off the del...

Question 17:

a. One afternoon, our seafood shop posted a note saying “no oysters today,” and my dad said the supplier had called off the delivery at the last minute.

b. Later I learned that small drops in pH can force young oysters to spend extra energy on building shells, especially after storms push runoff into the bay.

c. A local farmer explained this at a community meeting, showing damaged shells and a simple phone dashboard that flags risky hours for his hatchery.

d. That is why he sometimes switches to drawing water from a deeper intake, even though the pump costs more, because it keeps more larvae alive.

e. After hearing all that, I stopped treating the issue as a distant science topic and started seeing it as a chain of decisions that affects families’ income and what ends up on our plates.

A. a – c – b – d – e        B. a – b – c – d – e        C. b – a – c – d – e        D. a – b – d – c – e