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Verbal·Standard English Conventions·Form, Structure, and Sense

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In the list “Things That Make One’s Heart Beat Faster” from Sei Shōnagon’s Pillow Book, the author delights in a cloudy mirror, rain on a window, and scented robes. So shrewd an observer is Shōnagon, a lady-in-waiting to Empress Teishi, that her book’s musings on tenth-century Japanese courtly life __________ readers a thousand years later.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A

fascinate

B

has fascinated

C

is fascinating

D

fascinates