Answer:
The word "protracted" means lasting longer than expected, or unusually long, so what protracted most clearly means based on the context of the excerpt is how the time period of celestial motion studies must have lasted unusually long.
<span>The Rumble In The Jungle between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali
</span><span>The 1968 Summer Olympics
</span><span>Equatorial Guinea’s African Cups Of Nations
</span><span>The 1982 African Cup Of Nations
</span><span>The 33rd Chess Olympiad
</span><span>Dennis Rodman’s All-Stars
</span><span>The Rebel Tour Of South Africa
</span><span>The 2015 European Games
</span><span>The 2022 Qatar World Cup</span>
Answer: B
Explanation:
I don't know much about gerunds and I'm not very good at explaining but a gerund is a form that is derived from a verb but it functions as a noun.
There are five elements of a plot: Exposition, conflict, raising action, climax, falling action and Resolution. From these elements, the one that approaches best to that excerpt is Resolution. The word "finally" can be a signal word that denotes the ending part and Resolution means that the conflict has been solved and indicates the ending, which it really makes sense, since after all the things happened in Jake's life, at the end "I expect we'll need three servings of bacon today" refering maybe to a happy ending.
