5. The passage indicates that during the narrator’s swim at the time trial, he understood for the first time that:
Your Answer is
Correct Answer is C
Explanation
The question stem asks to select something that the author first became aware of during the time trial.
Located to L68-75 through the question stem, "What I understood – not later, but right then, in the water – was how little this swim added up to in the world. - - -When it was finished the world would be no different than before it began.- - - The swim was mine alone. It mattered because it was the task before me now, the thing I wanted now.”
Indicates that the author is in the water It was then that I realized for the first time that nothing would change in the world whether I won or lost a swim meet. Swimming is only about me. The significance of swimming competition is that it is my current multitasking and goal.
L75 to L86, "I had long understood - - -" indicates that the author previously believed that the goal he pursued was future rather than present. It is only now that I realize for the first time that swimming itself is the most important goal.
Item C: "Swimming is an activity that is only meaningful to the author himself" is in line with L68-75 positioning information.
Item A: L79, is the author's previous idea.
Item B: This is not the first time the author realizes that the world will not change no matter whether he wins or loses.
Item D: L75-76, which is also the author's previous idea.