Answer:
B. Galileo was an astronomer who discovered important facts about the solar system.
Explanation:
A summary is a shorter way of telling what happens in a story or article. It only tells the main events or details of the passage. This passage is about Galileo Galilei. The important details are that he was an astronomer and he discovered important facts about the solar system.
The part of the excerpt that supports the claim that Paine believed the
human cost of the colonists' armed struggle against the British was well
worth the struggle might be 'Let it be told to the future world, that
in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive,
that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth
to meet and to repulse it.'
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I think it would be in an oxford English Dictionary