Referring to Mary Shelly's Frankenstein
I believe the answer is: The coming of spring with its colors and smells
Ever since the monster is created, he always hated himself for his existence, and so do other people who judge the monster from his appearance alone.
But in the story, the author mentioned that the monster always find solace in soft colors and smells of a springtime forest, which help him to survive his suffering.
The answer is D
Tû’s descendants became the Mâori, the humans who are able to master anything that they decide to conquer.
The t-shirt that they give only to people who finish is a big reason that so many people take up the challenging race.
This paraphrase presents the same information as in the sentence, but since it should be a bit more of a summary, it takes out the specific detail of how many people actually run the race, which can just be paraphrased into 'so many'.
I think the answer is rate of speech.
