Read the excerpt from a student’s essay. as the narrative opens, rainsford and whitney are discussing ship-trap island, approaching in the dark distance. rainsford strains to see the mysterious place, but cannot, while whitney relates how the sailors feel about the island. rainsford dismisses the sailors’ worries as silly superstitions, while whitney admits that he will be glad when they have passed the place, as he too feels a bit nervous. which revision would expand the ideas in the excerpt? adding more specifics about the sailors’ beliefs about the island adding the discussion rainsford and whitney have about hunting adding a description of the island’s inhabitants, zaroff and ivan adding the information about rainsford later going to the island

Adding more specifics about the sailors’ beliefs about the island.

Explanation:

In the essay, the student tells us that both Whitney and Rainsford are acquainted with the beliefs of the sailors. While Rainsford believes these to be silly superstitions, Whitney admits to being nervous about them. However, it is difficult for the reader to reach a conclusion because he knows so little as to what the beliefs of the sailors are. Therefore, in order to create a better essay, the student should include more details about the sailors' beliefs.

A) adding more specifics about the sailors’ beliefs about the island.

Explanation: in the given excerpt from a student's essay about "The Most Dangerous Game" we can see the description of a conversation between Rainsford and Whitney about the Ship-Trap Island, in this conversation Whitney relates how the sailors feel about the island, but in the essay the student didn't explain what were exactly the sailors' feelings, so to expand the ideas in the excerpt the student should add more specifics about the sailors' beliefs about the island.  

a. they have shared matter.