The repetition puts emphasis on his thoughts, so A is your answer
For the first question, the answer would be D. (It supports the idea that living in a foreign country is the smartest way to learn a new language)
D: Language researchers found that students who lived in a foreign country learned the new language sixty-five percent faster than students learning at home.
The counterclaim is something that counteracts the statement. Therefore, for the second questions, the answer should be B.
B: However, learning to play an instrument has been proven to improve grades and test performance.
The beauty of a waterfall would be the most likely topic to have been focus of a poem during the Romantic period.
The Romantic period was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that emerged in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. Romanticism was characterized by its focus on emotion and individualism along with glorification of all the past and nature, preferring the medieval rather than the classical.
