Simon is sincere and believes the stories that he tells. This is the answer because of the word play shown such as " impressive earnestness and sincerity" "he regarded it as a really important matter" this is the only[ answer that makes sense to me.
A. is correctly punctuated.
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B. "Do you have the time?" she asked. B would be wrong because it doesn't have a comma.
C. "Do you have the time" she asked? C would be wrong because it doesn't have a question mark and comma in "Do you have the time", it should be "Do you have the time?,"
D. "Do you have the time," she asked? D would be wrong because it has a question mark at the end instead of a period.
<span>1. That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation</span>
