Answer:
D
Explanation:
I think it just sounds better, sorry if im wrong!
I believe that you should definitely set your own example by not laughing or deriding that other student. If they do something wrong, you shouldn't laugh at them or mock them, but rather try to help them. What you can do as well is ask that other student nicely to stop deriding other students because of a mistake they may have made.
Seize because usually that means forcefully take over
In my life for the first time [and,] the image made me believe [of] my mother that I could change [were] the way things *were*.
remove and & of because it makes no sense in the context of the sentence and move were to the end of the sentence.