The answer is not D or A. Probably B, Compare and contrast.
As of July 2017, the Ark Encounter company has not released how it is doing financially. Mr Ham who owns and operates the company has declined to provide attendance records or how much has been made. There are numerous news articles stating declining visitors and that the Ark Encounter is failing.
To be in the progressive tense, a verb must have a "ing."
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Jill, one of triplets, becomes involved in the problems of her family--her widowed, hypochondriac mother, daughter Daisy, workaholic brother John, and over organized sister Julie, who runs off with a lecherous priest.
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