Read the passage. In many ways, life in the 1800s was much more difficult than it is today. Travel, for instance, was much slower. Instead of quick-moving airplanes, people traveled by horse, coach, and also by train. Just like slow travel, limited long-distance communication also added to the hardships of the people. Which transition would best replace the phrase just like? However Although As with In contrast

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive