By reading and finding the main thing they talking about
Answer A. Innate.
We do not know if it is a trait that all humans are born with (which would be innate), or if it's something that we develop as we grow older.
The other words wouldn't make sense in the place of innate.
The answer would be
C.Foreign policy on immigration, in regard to how many people can live in a country and still preserve its resources
Answer:
The central idea in this excerpt is:
As a young man, Washington participated in land surveying and fought in the military.
Explanation:
The reasons behind this are that the rest of the options only talk of one event of the mentioned. While this option speaks about both of them, signaling that when he was young he surveyed lands and the fought into the French and Indian war. Without focusing and one, unlike the rest. Thus, this is our correct answer. The rest focused on details and lost the chance to speak of the general idea because they provided complementary information instead of a general perspective.