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A. <span>by professing his love for Gwendolen and promising to buy a house for her</span>
Answer: Despite-First-These-Recent-A 2020-Based
Explanation: If you zoom in you should be able to see it better.
It's an idiom because (It's) pretty good; (it's) not as unpleasant as one may have originally thought.
If we study the yearly reports on accidents that took place in the USA, the common percentage that is displayed every year rounds about a thirty percent of the total accidents. However, there is always a slight shift of 0.2 to 2.0 percent for the same, every year. So it is almost clear that 30% of the total accidents (in a year) occur due to alcohol.
Therefore, the blank must be filled with the word that is mentioned in bold and is underlined:
Alcohol use, .... pedestrian, was ..... almost <u>one-third </u>of all ... crashes involving ... fatalities.
In my opinion, this is the best-suited answer without any options provided.