D) I spoke to your african american receptionist before.
Prepositions indicate direction, time, location, and spatial relationships, as well as other abstract types of relationships.
Prepositions indicate relationships between other words in a sentence.
Many prepositions tell you where something is or when something happened.
As the name suggests they generally tell position if something. Like, behind, front, on, at etc.
Terrified and possibly awestruck. He could have died right then. His wife is down there somewhere, a woman who loves him unconditionally... Here he is out on a ledge literally about to throw his life away. Yes, success is wanted, but at what cost?
The answer would be C.
Since this isn't a flashback, first person, or doesn't lead to anything stressful.
It uses a lot of different words to add on the the terror of the "Death swamp," such as ooze, desperate, hopeless, or even viciously.