Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

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group this summer?" "What is it?" I asked. "You never what a junior achievement group is. me. "Is it good?" teach a course in general science in our Ridgeville Junior High School, and another in general physics in the and swished the contents. Foam which I'm sure many educators must Senior High School. It's a privilege mounted to the rim and spilled over. "And that's our best grade of Ridgeville water," he pointed out. "Hardest envy, teaching in Ridgeville, for our new school is a fine one, and our my students work for the Commission academic standards are high. On the and a constant awareness of the Commission and its work pervades the full of parked automobiles, and the barn itself rather full of people, including two policemen. Our Ridgeville police are quite young men, but in uniform they still look ominous themselves. town. It is an uneasy privilege then, about commerce and industry. They this?" group do?" "What does a junior achievement "Are you Henderson?" the larger like polishing waxes and sell them "Oh, please, Mr. Henderson, come "Of course not. I'd just tell the outside where it's quieter and tell me sell from door-to-door, would you?" should tell me." "You mean you don't know, honestly? almost nonexistent. Commercial Department to help out in the Memorial Fountain basin do it?" "Yes," she said, "yes, if it's something We've had to watch such things rather closely for the last ten—no, eleven years. Back in the old Ridgeville, fifty-odd miles to the south, we had our home almost paid for, when couldn't have kept on living there even if the town had stayed. When Ridgeville moved to its present site, so, of course, did we, which meant starting mortgage payments all over "Yes, of course. Who would ever "Mice?" with those cute furry tails?" Well, after a while things quieted table with five boys and girls lined up along the sides. This was to be our headquarters and factory for the summer—a roomy unused barn belonging to the parents of one of give me a serious warning against down. They had to. The police left their story, or whatever it is they do. job here is only to advise, and I'm You're going to decide what to do, and if it's safe and legal and possible in any way I can. This is your meeting." I'd be dealing with. The three who who had proposed the group in the I should explain, perhaps, that I conference. She listened and asked right, if you promise me they can't and of modulated voice. And average, extroverted, well adjusted shipping. the seemed to be elected. "Well, Mr. Henderson, a junior achievement group is a bunch of kids who get together to manufacture and sell things, and maybe make some Courier "Is that what you want to do," I asked, "make money?" "There's something wrong with making The usual products, of course, with a wonder. other hand, the fathers of most of frames. "Hi," he said. "You're Donald Henderson, right? My name is McCord—Jeff McCord—and I work in the Patent Section at the Commission's in the country." downtown office. My boss sent think I'd have come anyway. What are you doing to get patent protection on Ridge Industries' new developments?" I got my back unkinked and dusted off my knees. "Well, now," I said, me over here, but if he hadn't, I or one fifty. The other three are hard to classify. They have some of the "The thing to do," Tommy offered, "is to figure out what people in Ridgeville want to buy, then sell it to them." "I'd like to make something by shouldn't be done, but I know what they need." it? You worry about the filing and final fees. That's sixty bucks per in the electronics field. A hi-fi sub-assembly of some kind." "How about a new detergent?" Hilary offered to license the design. Result, put in. Jeff McCord was there, and the whole brand new synthetic detergent. I've got an idea for one that ought to be "Well, now," I said, "organic synthesis "I am," he replied, "in a cautious legal sense, of course. Hilary and I literature and a few standard "Some," said Hilary, "and I've got a home laboratory." "How about you, Doris?" I prompted. "Do you have a special field of interest?" spot. If we do get protection, you've despondency. "I'm not very technical. got a real salable property." "That's fine, Mr. McCord," Hilary Just sort of miscellaneous. But if the "No." She shook her head in mock said, "but it's not very important." incredulously. thought about it. "Are they a pure strain? One of the recognized laboratory right strain," I explained to Tommy, "might be sold to laboratories. I have an idea the Commission buys a supply every month." "No," said Doris, "these aren't laboratory "What is it?" "A whisker stiffener. It makes each "So I perceive. What is it?" "Well, now," I admitted, "the market chemistry. Cysteine thiolactone an after-shave lotion? Denatured alcohol, "I see. Just a mixture of stuff. And inquired, "How do you sell it?" if we're going to break the hearts of use cosmetics and junk, but if they a loan." "What on earth for? We have over "What would that be?" I asked. only it's a permanent magnet. Then cup. agreed to underwrite lunches at the found a place over a garage on Fourth Street that we can rent for winter quarters. Oh, yes, and Jeff is and that, according to all the incorporated." to such groups. It's standard practice to be a company officer. Of course a young boy who doesn't know any better, may wind up a sales manager. nominating company officers, won't put in more than a few hours a week during the school year." "Even so, it's child labor, isn't it?" "Child labor nothing. They're the employers. Jeff McCord and I will be the only employees—just at first, anyway." naturally. On the other hand, they make. name for the organization, without that they'd each do what came Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact &amp Fiction Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. standard lines. threaded part, then send it home with Hilary, reluctantly forsaking his the general form of a kidney bean. sort of professional look about it. sometimes." "Why it would have to, wouldn't that. "Where's Tommy?" "Oh, sure, but don't you think it would be better to borrow from a a big deal. Half the guys in the bank had to be called in to listen to the proposition. The account's in your name, Mr. Henderson, and you'll have to make out the checks. And they want you to stop in at the bank and yes, and cosign the note." dealings with banks except in the for a two-hundred-and-fifty-dollar note—over two weeks salary. I made a mental vow to sign very few checks. "So then I stopped by at Apex Stationers," Tommy went on, "and ordered hadn't picked a name yesterday, but I figured what's to lose, and picked one. Ridge Industries, how's that?" Everybody nodded. "Just three lines on the letterhead," he explained. "Ridge Industries—Ridgeville—Montana." I got my voice back and said, "Engraved, I trust." who by mutual consent, was our authority on sales, didn't want to sell any until we had, as he put it, enough

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What is the Commission?

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A The Commission is a group of elected officials that run the town of Ridgeville.
B The Commission is a metallurgy company and the main employer in Ridgeville.
C The Commission is a chemical company and the main employer in Ridgeville.
D The Commission is a laboratory and the main employer in Ridgeville.

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D