Question

Read the excerpt from "The Darkling Thrush."The tangled bine-stems scored the sky, Like strings from broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh, Had sought their household fires. Which option accurately uses the word scored as it is used in this sentence?A. The soccer player ran swiftly and dodged the opposing team; skillfully, he scored the team's first goal.
B. Her gymnastics routine was filled with both skills and grace, and the judges scored her appropriately.
C. The band's first song was an instant hit; following its release the band scored numerous awards and promotional deals.
D. Cracks scored the concrete sidewalk, forcing the boys to skateboard carefully to school.

Answer 1

Answer:D. Cracks scored the concrete sidewalk, forcing the boys to skateboard carefully to school

Explanation:

The Darkling Thrush” is the article introduced in this question — it is a poem by Thomas Hardy the English poet and novelist.

The poem paints the picture of a world that is desolated, with the poem’s narrator and such focused on the cause of despair and hopelessness. 

The phrase ‘The tangled bine-stems scored the sky like strings of broken lyres’ is on the 5th and 6th line of the poem.

The use of the word ‘scored’ tells us what writer of the poem sees is destruction — as he stares at the ‘bine-stems. A simile indicating article "like" is key that helps compares the ‘bine-stems’ to ‘strings of broken lyres’ implying that that there is despair, no happiness, hopelessness or no music. Seems everything is just dead

Substituting "scored" with "like" in the context above we see that a"Cracks on roads like sidewalks does call for skaters to be careful.