Read the Paragraph Below and Answer the Questions That Follow

question 21

Multiple Choice

Read the paragraph below and answer the questions that follow.
(1) Mexico City is a fascinating mixture of modern and traditional ways of life. (2) The city boasts sleek skyscrapers, such as the famous Latin America tower. (3) However, it also proudly displays its graceful Spanish colonial palaces and public buildings, many of which are 300 years old. (4) Glittering stores line the main shopping streets, offering the latest in international styles of clothing and house furnishings. (5) Yet old fashioned street markets fill the city, from the great food market of the Merced to stalls in small plazas selling such piñatas and paper Christmas decorations. (6) Huge modern factories in the northern section turn out most of Mexico's clothing, steel, cement, appliances, and electrical supplies. (7) In contrast, craftspeople line the city's streets with their handmade baskets, pottery, metalwork, and textiles.
Does this paragraph compare, contrast, or both?

• A) compares only
• B) contrasts only
• C) compares and contrasts

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Definitions:

Electron Transport

A series of chemical reactions within a cell that transfers electrons from donor molecules to acceptor molecules, creating energy.

Photosystem I

A complex of proteins and pigments in chloroplasts that absorbs light during photosynthesis, playing a key role in the light-dependent reactions by passing electrons to a series of electron carriers.

Photosystem II

A component of the chloroplasts in plants and algae involved in the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis, particularly in water-splitting and oxygen production.

Cyclic Electron Pathway

Alternate form of the light-dependent reactions in photosynthesis that does not produce NADPH.