<span>Average farmers such as Nathaniel Cole halted their livelihood to witness George Whitfield speak because they believed that the spirit of God was within him and that he was powerful due to this, as stories of many people converting to Christianity were being passed around.</span>
The correct sentence is A) My car is old and gets bad gas mileage. Having bad gas mileage is an ongoing thing that will never change unless you get a different car, so none of the other choices make sense.
It shows how humans have threatened the life of reptiles while they have lived, by also giving an example of turtles being stuck in the nets. That makes the passage more dramatic and gives the reader an effect of shame, and has left an impact/influence.
Soon his study ivory stride was heard as to and fro he paced and his old rounds upon planks so familiar to his tread that they were all over dented like geological stones with the peculiar mark