Which phrase from the paragraph best the reader understand the meaning of the underlined sentence?

for a couple of years, beverly put out food for the cat next door. she thought her neighbors didn’t feed their cat enough or pay much attention to it. even though the neighbors had moved a few weeks before, beverly continued to put food out. she found it hard to change her behavior, but she told herself, “old habits die hard.”

a.
continued to put food out

b.
pay much attention to it

c.
had moved a few weeks before

d.
hard to change her behavior

Read the excerpt from "politics and the english language" by george orwell. by this morning’s post i have received a pamphlet dealing with conditions in germany. the author tells me that he "felt impelled” to write it. i open it at random, and here is almost the first sentence that i see: "[the allies] have an opportunity not only of achieving a radical transformation of germany’s social and political structure in such a way as to avoid a nationalistic reaction in germany itself, but at the same time of laying the foundations of a cooperative and unified europe.” which statement is correct? orwell uses an example and statistical evidence in this excerpt. orwell uses an example and a quotation for evidence in this excerpt. orwell uses hypothetical and factual evidence in this excerpt. orwell uses hypothetical and statistical evidence in this excerpt.