b) to mountain-bike
since the sentence follows along with to run and to swim the answer has to be "to mountain-bike".
Answer:
Marco Polo
Explanation:
Usually the title is a pretty revealing thing. My guess is that a passage titled <u>Marco Polo Middle Eas</u>t is about Marco Polo
Personification
The ship has human-like characteristics. The sentence is talking as if the ship has the brains to decide it can sigh and hesitate.
You can remember by seeing that the word "person" is in "personification".
D is the answer since the paragraphs give a before and after type beat