Why does Kunsang want to go to the metropolitan city?

the present continuous is a verb tense which is mainly used to indicates that an action is in progress at the moment of speaking.  

it is formed using: person + verb to be (am/is/are) +verb + - ing form  

example: i am studying at this moment .

in addition, the present continuous is also used in order to express things that will or will not happen in the near future.

example: i am having dinner with some friends tonight.

the speaker sometimes   uses it   to express that an action is repeated and it causes irritation on the part of the speaker

example: my sister is constantly complaining about everything.

the answer is a)   a sentence of death costs the state "almost three times as much as a sentence of life in prison" (delon 147)

conclusions made on the basis of unstated or stated evidence are called inferences