It could be ex peculated that after confronting the teacher, Marcus would back down because he might feel threaten. The teacher asked him if he knew that "Zero - tolerance mean" and that could be taken as a tense situation, he might have to options. To apologise to him or face the consequences within this "zero tolerance" atmosphere. <span />
In order to use more precise language, the underlined phrase entitled (7) should be changed to A: inaugural.
Then, the proper phrase would be:
Olympic marathoner Jeff Galloway won the inaugural race in 1970 when traffic was not even blocked off for the race, and runners had to run in the far right-hand lane.
