The answer is most likely D
Answer: 1. Audience
2. Chain
3. Litter
Explanation:
1. The (audience) seemed particularly attentive whenever she was on stage.
2. They pulled the car into an Italian chain restaurant.
3. Even puppies from the same (litter) may react differently when they are ill.
Note that:
Audience are the listeners in a play film etc.
Litters refers to young animals that are born to a particular parent.
It is pathetic because America is in debt. They don't want to "waste" money on something like education because they feel like students should not need to use so many products for school. If it was up to the government and only the government then schools would not have good desks, books, teachers, or food.
Nothing is underlined, but I assume that the underlined words would be either "to save" or "(not) to spend" or both. In any case, the correct answer would be C - infinitive phrase, because these verbs are in their infinitive form. "Gerund" and "participle" would end in -ing,