The best answer would be A.
The entire excerpt describes the speaker's admiration of the structure, not just of its physical beauty but the history that came with it. This first part of the excerpt details the "recent rust". It is old and a bit rundown, but still very familiar to the speaker. The last part describes how the speaker is trying hard to imagine what the great house looked like when it was newly built --"early shine".
A. answers the question best because it backs up your statement where the other claim that newspapers will not disappear.
The correct answer for this question is: D) A violent storm
The answer is: b. dead members of the community in their graves.
In the excerpt from "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," the author Thomas Gray makes reference to the dead people from the village who are buried in their graves in the churchyard. By the word <em>rude </em>he suggests the tombs belong to simple villagers -not impolite or disrespectful people- who lived in the hamlet, which is a small settlement.
