For the following question, refer to the passage titled "The Scientist Experiments" on the Unit Test Reading Passages sheet. Answer the question to improve elements of the passage such as sentence structure, word choice, overall organization, tone, and voice.
Which of the following best replaces the word "it" in Sentence 16?

A. the health of the soil
B. the scientist's interest
C. the question
D. regular watering
E. sunlight

Time is not always change. time can also mean continuity, and it can mean keeping acknowledged truths in mind despite differences in circumstances.there is no better example of this in things fall apart than the retellings of the proverb about the bird named eneke, the language in both retellings is almost identical despite the length of time that has passed between their repetitions. in comparing the usages of the same proverb, achebe allows his readers to note the similarities and differences between the situations, and he them understand how this story can be applied to their own lives.

Which line in this excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock" by t.s. eliot uses synecdoche? shall i say, i have gone at dusk through narrow streets and watched the smoke that rises from the pipes of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows? i should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

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