1 Which sentence from the article BEST explains why James' mother had confidence in him? (A) She said she knew after the first mile that he would get the job done. (B) "He's been swimming almost every day, six, seven days a week since he was 8." (C) Mom's biggest worry originally was he might abandon the trip after a few hours if it became monotonous. (D) "When he started this whole open water thing and he told me, 'Mom, I want to swim from Alcatraz,' and we kind of laughed in his face," she said.