easy · Enhanced ACT english
A biography of a pioneer aviator contains the following sentence: [Amelia Earhart’s first flight lasted only ten minutes, but it changed her life forever.]
The writer wants to add a phrase that emphasizes her 'immediate and intense' reaction to the flight. Which choice best accomplishes this?
- The moment the wheels left the ground, she knew with absolute certainty that she had to spend the rest of her life in the air.
- She had never flown at such an altitude before and thought the farmland below looked remarkably small and distant.
- Every single person watching from the ground that afternoon could immediately tell she was destined to become a pilot.
- She realized right away that flying was a thrilling new hobby that she would want to pursue again very soon, whenever she got the chance.
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