The event that allowed Collins to pursue her career dreams was
Soon before she finished college, the Air Force started training female pilots.
Explanation:
The space exploration program had been going on for a long time and the man had been to the moon before the NASA thought of training and sending women to the space too.
This changed by the time that Collins graduated which was lucky for her as if it did not happen she would have had to choose a career different from her dreams.
She was chosen for the training program recently started after she graduated and then became one of the contenders for the mission.
Wallace places emphasis on the word "adjust" because he is addressing our realities and way of thinking as "default." He expresses the importance of paying attention to your surroundings, and adjusting to other perspectives and ways of thinking. He compares our ignored experiences to the water fish swim in but were never taught to notice.
When I read a story with a dialogue, I start to get an understanding on what the plot of the story may be. Foreshadowing is also something that happens in dialogues that you must pay attention to, it gives you clues.
Also, sometimes if a paragraph is long, the reader can get thrown-away from the story or get bored. So a dialogue may interest the reader again.
I hope this helps!
After his arrival in Britain, Hastings and his interests were largely ignored by the British businessmen. Through this hyperbolic remark by Hastings, Twain tells the reader that English society at the time was generally unsympathetic toward foreigners.
I would go with D for the first one and B for the second one.
