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So sorry but I can't understand your question
C. D has nothing to do with anything in the passage, and A and B imply permanence, while the passage says the imprints were washed away.
Context clues are words that are used to help understand and define certain difficult words used in an article or story. Types of context clues include: Explanation, Restatement, Personal Experience, and Derivation or Inference.
The correct answer is b.
Hardly, as an adverb means "just", hardly, in this context is acting as a limiting modifier of the word ever. <em>Hardly ever</em> means very occasionally. We may use words like it to emphasize how infrequently an action takes place. You should note also that there could be other ways to give quite the same meaning, like when you use <em>rarely</em> or <em>seldom</em>, but, hardly ever has also a <u>negative</u> connotation.
If it's unclear you should read it and regdodize your mistakes then by the end you should have collected the mistakes and corrected them