The answer is "WAS". Hope this helps.
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the correct format for this paragraph is as follows
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Explanation:
In 1965 he was 300 miles above the Earth and what no one - including Leonid Brezhnev - knew was that he was minutes from death. Fifty years on, Alexei Leonov, the first man to walk in space, explains what happened next.
Never before had a human being experienced a silence so absolute. “It was absolutely still,” says Alexei Leonov. “I heard the beating of my heart; I heard my heavy breath.” Below him was a planet without borders – the East and the West an unbroken stretch of land, the Iron Curtain invisible. “On my right, the Volga and the Ural Mountains. On my left Bulgaria, Greece, Italy. Then I looked up and I saw the Baltic Sea.”
Answer: From the very first paragraph, Santiago is characterized as someone struggling against defeat. He has gone eighty-four days without catching a fish—he will soon pass his own record of eighty-seven days. Almost as a reminder of Santiago’s struggle, the sail of his skiff resembles “the flag of permanent defeat.” But the old man refuses defeat at every turn: he resolves to sail out beyond the other fishermen to where the biggest fish promise to be. He lands the marlin, tying his record of eighty-seven days after a brutal three-day fight, and he continues to ward off sharks from stealing his prey, even though he knows the battle is useless.
Because Santiago is pitted against the creatures of the sea, some readers choose to view the tale as a chronicle of man’s battle against the natural world, but the novella is, more accurately, the story of man’s place within nature. Both Santiago and the marlin display qualities of pride, honor, and bravery, and both are subject to the same eternal law: they must kill or be killed. As Santiago reflects when he watches the weary warbler fly toward shore, where it will inevitably meet the hawk, the world is filled with predators, and no living thing can escape the inevitable struggle that will lead to its death. Santiago lives according to his own observation: “man is not made for defeat . . . [a] man can be destroyed but not defeated.” In Hemingway’s portrait of the world, death is inevitable, but the best men (and animals) will nonetheless refuse to give in to its power. Accordingly, man and fish will struggle to the death, just as hungry sharks will lay waste to an old man’s trophy catch.
Explanation:
Par. 2 each should do the best to save himself. Par 20 yet to see beings... so deeply moved is the passage that would give the best supporting detail. Hence, option A is correct.
<h3>What is supporting details?</h3>
Supporting details are the information that the author gives to support or to design the sentence in such a way that the audience get the exact imagination of the story.
Supporting details helps the reader to get the background of the story. Like in this, each should be doing best to save themselves but many of them are not able to detect.
Thus, option A is correct.
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Answer:C
Explanation:
two independent clauses together
