”When I worked at Riverdale High School 7 years ago, they struggled with low test scores.” We cannot prevent circumstances from changing over time, but we can increase the semantic accuracy of our messages if we verbally recognize the reality of change by the statements we make. A.
dating
B.
overgeneralizing
C.
interpreting
D.
none of the above

C

Explanation:

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.