Incident in a factory that employs illegal Mexican immigrants. When the border police arrive the factory boss tells the workers to run. Soto's workers are forced to run for their lives, so his use of the word jogging is meant tongue-in-cheek.
I believe the correct answer is to help the reader visualize a view where water and sky are difficult to tell apart.
The author is trying to portray an image where the water and the sky are somehow blending into each other - you can't tell where one ends and the other one begins, because both items are colored similarly - various shades of blue.
1=A) Washington's key battle strategy...
2=B) Washington became commander in chief...
3=A) President Washington made a good choice...
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