B) You should stress the second syllable, because it is a verb that means to be stricken by an illness.
Explanation:
As a verb,<em> to contract</em> is stressed on the second syllable, and it in this case it means to catch a contagious disease. In that matter, the woman is said to be afraid to catch polio.
The rest of the alternatives are incorrect because, in the the sentence, <em>contract </em>is used as a verb following the conditional <em>would. </em>Besides<em>,</em> according to the context, it does not mean to decrease in size o diminish.
Charles Darwin’s circumnavigation as ship’s naturalist on the second of three surveying voyages by H.M.S. Beagle.Darwin mediates scientific observation through the language of aesthetics which seeks to understand the convergence of disparate scales of geological and human history.
If it makes it easier, when trying to find the direct object in a sentence you have to ask yourself what the subject is receiving. What did Mr. west study?
