As an opening paragraph to an essay. EXPLANATION: the opening paragraph to an essay is to catch your readers attention and state your thesis. starting with a general idea or broad topic and coming into a specific idea or main point. Thus you have the name general to specific or particular. Hope i helped you learn!!
I would say A because going off the text it shows he is rushing for the station, for what? we do not know, so you must asume, so I believe it is A.
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no some punctuation are wrong the "45% is about to be 45% and after 5 years you shouldn't use comma. This much I don't see other mistakes!
D, to influence.
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