<span>B. to provide evidence that the age of discovery is concluding</span>
Answer:
You should be asking 2 things, how can I use it in my own writing and what is the meaning and effect of this technique
The sentence that is correctly hyphenated is "The beauty of Mount Fuji's near-perfect cone shape has enchanted people for centuries."
Near-perfect is correctly hyphenated because in this context it is a compound modifier, it modifies Mount Fuji's appearance.