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deauty or the canyon. leave it as it is. humans cannot
improve on it, not a bit. the ages have been at work on it, and
humanity can only mar it. what you can do is to keep it for
your children and your childrens children, as one of the great
sights that every american, if he or she can travel, should see.
keep the grand canyon of arizona as it is. we have gotten
past the stage, my fellow citizens, when we are to be
pardoned if we treat any part of our country as something to
be skinned for two or three years for the use of the present
generation. whether it is the forest, the water, or the scenery,
handle it so that your childrens children will get the benefit of
it. handle it that way.
if it is irrigation, apply it under circumstances that will make it
of benefit, not to the speculators to profit off of it for two or
three years. handle it so that it will be of use to the civilian; to
the people who live here and to the children after them.
handle it so as to be of use to them and those who come
after them. keep the forests in the same way. preserve them
for that use, but use them so that they will not be
squandered. so that they will be of benefit to the arizona of
1952 as well as the arizona of 1903.
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1. as it is used in paragraph 8, the phrase

\to be skinned\ means to —
a. strip of resources.
b. map the surface of.
c. make something ugly.
d. make something stronger.
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Explanation:

The context emphasizes preserving natural spaces/resources for future generations, opposing exploiting them short-term. "To be skinned" here refers to taking resources from a place quickly for present gain, matching option A. Other options don't fit the conservation-focused context: mapping (B) is unrelated, making ugly (C) doesn't align with resource extraction, and strengthening (D) contradicts the negative tone of the phrase.

Answer:

A. strip of resources.