Read the excerpt. Then choose the correct way to complete the sentence. The purpose of this excerpt is to_.

Address the concerns of a distrustful audience.

Explain why he launched military action in the south.

Explain that no one can tell what the future will hold.

Attack those who represent the southern states.

Aman lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. in the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator -- or if it was raining that day -- he goes back to his floor directly. otherwise, he goes to the tenth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to his apartment.