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They Looked Out on the City That Hot August Day and Could See Evidence of the Heat on Themselves and on All the People Around Them.

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They looked out on the city that hot August day and could see evidence of the heat on themselves and on all the people around them. Beads of sweat glistened on everyone's brow. Shirt backs were soaked straight through The mercury of every visible thermometer was about as high as they had ever seen it. Some kids played in the spray of a fire hydrant that had been opened by the city in what seemed to the children like an act of mercy. And it was only noon. Maybe an afternoon thunderstorm would blow through to cool things down, though none was forecast. Incredibly, it was too hot to sell ice cream on the streets The scoops of ice cream seemed to melt away before the frustrated sellers could make change. Another enterprising street vendor was doing much better business selling bottles of ice water. Yes, this was a day to sell ice-cold water, and a day to buy some instead of lunch-it being too hot to eat. Surely they had lost a liter of water through perspiration already. In the passage, the author describes the heat of the city mainly in terms of A the humid air. B various liquids. C the record high temperature. D actions of the street vendors.

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The passage mainly describes the heat of the city in terms of various liquids (option B). It mentions sweat on people's brows, soaked shirt backs, melting ice cream, and the sale of ice-cold water.