IV. Choose the word (A, B, C or D) that best fits each blank space in the following passage.
Running an advertisement in The New York Times on Black Friday telling people “Don’t Buy This Jacket?” is quite difficult to understand at first. But, in fact, it is meaningful to our surroundings. First published in 2011, the advertising campaign encourages everyone to shy away from the shopping (17) ______, businesses to make (18) ______ things but of higher quality, and customers to think (19) ______ before they make any purchase.
Why? Each (20) ______ of clothing, whether it’s organic or uses recycled materials, emits a certain amount of greenhouse gases, generates at least another half garment’s (21) ______ of scrap, and draws (22) ______ copious amounts of freshwater now growing scarce everywhere on the planet.
(Adapted from Don’t Buy This Jacket, Black Friday and the New York Times on www.patagonia.com)
