The best answer would be A.
The entire excerpt describes the speaker's admiration of the structure, not just of its physical beauty but the history that came with it. This first part of the excerpt details the "recent rust". It is old and a bit rundown, but still very familiar to the speaker. The last part describes how the speaker is trying hard to imagine what the great house looked like when it was newly built --"early shine".
The phrase that best explains the purpose of the underlined text is C. to focus the reader’s thoughts on Stalin’s personality.
<h3>What is a Text Purpose?</h3>
This refers to the central theme of a text and how it is used to convey a thought or idea to an audience.
Hence, we can see that from the complete text, there is the use of narration to show the details of Stalin's actions and there is an underlined phrase that shows the type of man that Stalin was, as it showed his personality.
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