Which option best revises this sentence so that it uses parallel structure?
High school students should be required to do community
service in order to graduate because it helps them build
social awareness and helps them take a greater interest in
their communities, as well as gaining necessary job skills.
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A. High school students should be required to do community service
in order to graduate because it helps them to build social
awareness, taking a greater interest in their communities, and to
gain necessary job skills.
O
B. High school students should be required to do community service
in order to graduate because it helps them by building social
awareness, taking a greater interest in their communities, and lets
them gain necessary job skills.
O
C. High school students should be required to do community service
in order to graduate because it helps them build social awareness,
take a greater interest in their communities, and gain necessary
job skills.
O
D. High school students should be required to do community service
in order to graduate because it helps them by building social
awareness and to take a greater interest in their communities, as
well as gain necessary job skills

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant