Answer:
life goes by much too quickly
Explanation:
I think the words underlined once are the subjects, and the words underlined twice are the predicates.
I believe it's persuade. You want to persuade schools to offer better food. B is wrong because you are not entertaining anyone. Inform is wrong because you would just be stating facts. A is wrong because you are not telling someone to do something. Hope this helps! ;)
I believe that your answer is the first option due to how late the crying is, and unlike in "The Tell-Tale Heart" where the heart is constant and represents the slow descent of madness, the cry of the cat only appears at the end.
The portion of the story where it shows the speaker's madness is actually his looking for and finding similarities in the second cat and wishing to kill it.
Hope this was helpful.