The writer wants to add a sentence after sentence 11 to conclude the passage with a quotation that effectively restates and reinforces the overall argument. Which choice best accomplishes this goal?


In the words of literary critics David Rejeski and Robert Olson, “to be human is to ponder the future.”

In the words of literary critics David Rejeski and Robert Olson, “to be human is to ponder the future.”

According to English professor John Huntington, “If we in the present are going to think about the future in any scientific way, we have to reason from the experience of the past.”

According to English professor John Huntington, “If we in the present are going to think about the future in any scientific way, we have to reason from the experience of the past.”

As University of Glasgow lecturer Gavin Miller argues, “Science fiction does not invite us to be prophets, but anthropologists making sense of a complex and troubling foreign culture—which we may eventually come to recognize as our own.”

As University of Glasgow lecturer Gavin Miller argues, “Science fiction does not invite us to be prophets, but anthropologists making sense of a complex and troubling foreign culture—which we may eventually come to recognize as our own.”

As political scientists Joseph Coates and Jennifer Jarratt observe, “Today is the best indicator of tomorrow, but today decreases in value for points further in the future.”

As political scientists Joseph Coates and Jennifer Jarratt observe, “Today is the best indicator of tomorrow, but today decreases in value for points further in the future.”

As science fiction writer Orson Scott Card puts it, novelists must imagine fantastical and sometimes terrifying possibilities, “so that if the worst does come, we’ll already know how to live in that universe.”