The garden was untended and overgrown with weeds and dying plants.
which sentence best continues the description above?
a. i could smell the fresh flowers as i gazed upon it.
b. its orderly rows showed the care that it enjoyed.
c. rich, well-watered soil must lie beneath the lush array.
d. fallen leaves and blossoms spread out from its borders.

The correct answer is D) fallen leaves and blossoms spread out from its borders.

The sentence that best continues the description above is “fallen leaves and blossoms spread out from its borders.

The passage says that “the garden was untended”, which means that nobody look after it. Nobody takes care of it. Then, “overgrown with weeds and dying plants”. That means that the garden urgently needed water, the plants were dying and the grass needed to be cut. That garden is a mess. That is why the sentence that best continues the description above is “fallen leaves and blossoms spread out from its borders.

d: social contract theory