The plot is about how middle schoolers evolve. The setting of the school shows the everyday life of the main middle schooler going through the struggles of being a preteen and the preparation for high school. (If this doesn’t help google the plot of the story and think about the setting and the the relation.)
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At the end of paragraph 1, when the author says “First, we must develop many different ways of putting the waste from these nuclear and chemical substances in, on, and around the earth” it helps shape the reader's perception of the text as by starting to go into more details and more ideas on poisoning the Earth.
I think you should go with A
