1. bob and his sister betty are co-owners of their late parents' business. bob actively manages the business; betty supplies capital from her inheritance but does not work in the business. they squabble over the distribution of profits from the business. bob likely sees his sister as a whereas betty views her brother as a(n)

"urban sprawl, the spreading of large developments of housing and shopping areas around a city’s center, has many negative cultural and environmental effects. " (from your link)

so, your answer is: it has a negative effect on the environment, otherwise known as c~hope this mate. 

the last option d is the answer.the reasons are clear.he wants to defend flying drones as an activity which does not invade people´s lives.in turn , after making the claim collin justifies the use of drones as a sport and mentions what it requires for doing so.collins also says that it should be advisable to have more organization for the ones who do this activity but never gives any evidence to support the claim that drones do not invade privacy.when collins tells about complaints against the time and place drones are used , he could be speaking about people being disturbed about the noise drones make or about using some public space meant for other activities and not exactly privacy.

the excerpt from the passage that best states the author's claim is: "why did people keep speaking of equality while profiting from slaves? "

when pierre lemerre the younger said in 1716 that all men were equal, slavery was reaching its crudest peak and either eastern europeans and africans were treated as objects from which powerful landlords could profit.