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The sentence that contains a participle is the second one - Falling slowly, snowflakes filled the air.
A participle cannot be used as a subject of a sentence, and since <em>Falling </em>in the first example is a subject, it is a gerund, not a participle.
The answer to your question, What statement below BEST compares these two accounts of life in London during the plague, is A. The worries of Daniel Defoe's fictional character closely resemble the real-life concerns about business and health that were recorded by Samuel Pepys in his diary.
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A. The effects of Hawking’s disease on his body have not stopped him from making discoveries that have changed the way we understand the universe.
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