I believe the missing excerpt is from Midsummer by Derek
Walcott, which is as follows:
With the stampeding hiss and scurry of green lemmings,
midsummer's leaves race to extinction like the roar
of a Brixton riot tunneled by water hoses;
they seethe toward autumn's fire—it is in their nature,
being men as well as leaves, to die for the sun.
So, based on the excerpt, the speaker thinks that the
riot was somewhat inevitable.
To add, Midsummer is a sequence of 54 lyrics that record one
year's passing in the poet's life from summer to summer.
I think I would choose D but I’m not really sure
The correct answer is Quoting Similar Texts.
Mohandas K. Gandhi, in his autobiography used many sources and quoted several philosophers to support his argument. He revealed that the three major inspirations in his modern life were Leo Tolstoy's 'The Kingdom of God is Within You', John Ruskin's 'Unto This Last' and the poet Shrimad Rajchandra.