Read the excerpt from "Let Bindi Have the Limelight." Some people wondered whether Bindi was reentering the spotlight too soon after her dad's death. . . . "I think she's doing great," Discovery Channel executive producer Wendy Douglas told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in January 2007. "She's fine . . . and I really hope that people, you know, hear that when I say -- and when other people who are close to her [say] -- she's having the time of her life because she does want to share with people singing and dancing about animals and about respecting them . . . that's what she really, truly loves doing." Why does the author most likely include this information in the article?

A. to send the message that children need a lot of time to heal after a tragedy

B. to send the message that respecting animals can help people get through life

C. to show that children give great performances when they follow a passion

D. to show that people can overcome difficult life events by doing what they love

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds.beyond the pit stood the little wedge of people with the white flag at its apex, arrested by these phenomena, a little knot of small vertical black shapes upon the black ground. as the green smoke arose, their faces flashed out pallid green, and faded again as it vanished. then slowly the hissing passed into a humming, into a long, loud, droning noise. slowly a humped shape rose out of the pit, and the ghost of a beam of light seemed to flicker out from it.forthwith flashes of actual flame, a bright glare leaping from one to another, sprang from the scattered group of men. it was as if some invisible jet impinged upon them and flashed into white flame. it was as if each man were suddenly and momentarily turned to fire.then, by the light of their own destruction, i saw them staggering and falling, and their supporters turning to run.which options accurately describe how the author develops the plot in the excerpt? (select all that apply.)the war of the worldsthe narrator does not react at first as he watches the men with the flag and hears the sounds in the pit. his inaction decreases the tension in the plot because the narrator is simply standing by.the narrator does not react at first as he watches the men with the flag and hears the sounds in the pit. his inaction keeps the tension steadily increasing as the narrator comes to realize the men are being killed.the narrator is distracted by his own observations of the men with the white flag and the humming sound, so he doesn't react as quickly as he should when the men are killed, thus extending the tension in the plot.the narrator is attentive to the men with the white flag and the humming sound, so he immediately understands what has happened when the men are killed, increasing the tension in the plot.