Answer:
Past Continuous Tense indicates an action began before another action in the past and probably continued after it
Explanation:
D. a science article about how talking directly on cell phones changes brain waves
This one.
"No change came over the old face. As though vast calculations were going through her head, she watched all the pattern shifts."
The status of the scientist is that she watches the patterns shift.
Allusion.
Both examples come from the Bible. The first comes from the Old Testament and the second from the New. You have to be a little knowledgeable of the Bible to catch on to either one of them (or be good with Google).