Keep control over friendship because the reason it hurts people is because she gossips. It is most likely that one of the people she gossips about is her friend, so now she'll have more control.
It is not keep friends longer because there may be other problems It is not never have problems because there can be other problems other than gossiping It is not always have the same friends because she may get more friends from quitting gossiping.
The answer is option D. Visual metaphors are used as a tool by a person so to explain a concept by a modified image. For example, someone can use an image of a melting ice cream (painted as the Earth) as a metaphor for global warming.