Consider the article "Spidey Skin Power!" What makes spider silk an unrealistic material for fabrics? A Spider silk creates a fabric that is thin and easily torn, despite the strength of the fibers themselves.
B Spider silk is extremely costly because of the challenges involved in keeping spiders in captivity.
C Spider silk creates a type of fabric that is neither breathable nor comfortable and is therefore hard to sell.
D Spider silk is difficult and inefficient to obtain because each spider is relatively unproductive.

A Spider silk creates a fabric that is thin and easily torn, despite the strength of the fibers themselves.

critical thinking

answer: the correct answer is that he still ridicules people that look different.

explanation: in "the nose"   by nikolai gogol, the author sets up a satirical view of russian society. the book is divided into three parts and tells the story of collegiate assessor ('major') kovalyov, who gets up one morning without his nose. he later finds out that his nose has developed a life by itself, and has apparently surpassed him by attaining the rank of state councillor. the short story showcases the obsession with social rank that plagued russia after peter the great introduced the table of ranks. by allowing commoners to attain hereditary nobility through service to the state, a large population was given the chance to move up in social status. this opportunity, however, also gave way to large bureaucracies, in which many of gogol's characters worked.