Skim the passage and find key words. if you have a word bank or vocab list, find them and highlight or underline them. look for repeating words and try to figure out why they appear often. usually the repeating words are important to the passage.
I'm not sure what your options are, but here's what I've come up with:
The reason for our tardiness was because we got stuck in traffic.
The theme of the oval portrait is Fatal love, the wife in the story loves an artist but he loves his art. so by the time he was done it happened that she had died by his side.
Answer:
I strongly believe that this questions answer is B
Explanation: When we talking about the past we must say that a lot of vocabulary are changed. Because thanks to time we forgot same vocabulary. We need to check a usage dictionary and a dictionary to get vocabulary which one used in the past. Some words means are same and some words look like same but they haven't same means for this we should check dictionary.