Answer:
The trip is delayed because all the fees have not yet been collected.
Explanation:
It explains why the trip delayed without adding too many words in the sentence, making the sentence short and easy to understand.
I cant see the rest of the passage, but im taking a guess that it is no.2!
Annotating is the closest technique in the process of close reading.
Annotating the process of writing detailed notes around said paragraph. It doesn't just mean to take notes, you could also be highlighting or underlining some terms. I can't clearly describe it because you can practically do anything here.
If you do a Google search for the definition of annotation, you get...
<em>"a</em><span><em> note of explanation or comment added to a text or diagram."</em></span>
The producer was a woman
Hope this helps ^^