Your correct answer would be D!
Answer:
C) One passage provides objective economic data about the river while the others tell the story of two boys adventuring on its waters.
Explanation:
I believe the answer is C because the first passage provides factual information about the Mississippi River while the other simply uses the river as the story's setting.
Entertaining
At your aunt's retirement party, you would want to give a fun, entertaining speech incorportating a story about your aunt.
At a retirement party, you don't need to persuade anyone to do anything, since you knew about the retirement party, you would have planned a speech (so it would not be extemporanous and done spontasiously) and there's no need to inform anyone of anything at a retirement party.
I think the common noun is family and circus.