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Many works of the Greek mathematician Archimedes (3rd century BCE), including his text on optics, Catoptrica, have been lost to time. Antiquarians        to read one of Archimedes’s extant works—not one known only through references to it by other authors, that is—might instead procure a copy of his Psammites, a treatise on mathematics and astronomy.

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

A

hope

B

hoping

C

hoped

D

have hoped