B. monopoly
Since that company bas almost all of the long phone service, it means that the company is a monopoly because it has exclusive control over phone service in general. There's little competition, so the company can do almost anything it wants to (even raise prices they charge their customers).
Everyone behaves as a distributive pronoun
Answer:
D. The city can choose to get rid of benefits now that proposition 3 has passed.
Explanation:
The other answer choices simply seem more negative than D. The option of "choice" gives the statement a mild sense of optimism, which can make you think that this can easily be resolved. It's the most neutral, unlike the other choices that continue to just put down the city's decision with negative words like "shouldn't", "can't", and "isn't".
I would say that "constant cry" and "Chesterton's cat" are the obvious ones. However "echoed in our ears" is a pretty subtle one that you can definitely make a solid argument for.