which proposed article on the river thames would most likely differ from the purpose of this passage about the thames?
a) an article about how rivers are vital for commerce and communication
b) an article about how rivers can affect the course of a country's history
c) an article about how important rivers are in the development of a country
d) an article about how the health of river determines a population's health

I think the answer is D. HOpe this helps!

Explanation:

The river Thames is very polluted and since you don have the article up her, I have an article about river Thames and I don't know if it is the same or different but I know that the river Thames is polluted and dirty so it would affect the health of the people who are around it.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.