Find the sentence with the active voice.
a. it was voted by the legislature to pass.
b. the chairman told me that the legislature passed the bill.
c. i was told by the chairman that the bill was passed by the legislature.
d. the bill was passed by the legislature

The sentence with an active voice in following sentence is letter B: The chairman told me that the legislature passed the bill. The rest of the choices are in passive voices. It is a passive type of a sentence if the meaning of the subject is indirect, with comma, or uses ‘by’ or in this case ‘with’. In A, C, D, the verb used is past while in active sentence, the verb used is in present tense and is direct in giving out information which is the case for latter B.

The answer is d. prior knowledge. she breaks it into parts in order to figure out what other words have the same parts to the word and put the meanings together.