Read the following passage carefully before choosing your answer.
"The speaker’s voice cascaded through the headphones—a torrent of syllables, names of cities, and trade figures that Maya scrambled to convert, her fingers hovering uselessly over her notebook. Half a second behind, then a full second. The air in the translation booth grew warm, smelling faintly of old carpet and ozone. She captured 'tariffs,' missed 'subsidy,' and stumbled over a compound German noun that seemed to block the path of her thoughts like a fallen tree. The speaker did not pause; his words rushed on, a relentless conveyor belt of information. But within Maya's mind, the frantic tempo suddenly collapsed. The hum of the ventilation system grew loud, filling her ears with a static drone. She watched a single drop of condensation slide down the glass of her water tumbler, its progress agonizingly slow, mapping a path through the dust. The speaker's voice became a distant, muffled tide, unimportant compared to the micro-movements of that tiny bead of water. For three seconds, five seconds, the entire global summit ceased to rotate, suspended in the bead's descent, before she drew a sharp breath and plunged back into the rush of the next sentence."
Which of the following best describes how the change in narrative pacing in the second half of the passage reflects Maya's internal experience?
- It slows the temporal progression of the narrative to mirror Maya's psychological retreat into hyper-focused sensory isolation under stress.Cevap
- BIt summarizes the chronological sequence of the summit's events to show that the presentation was temporarily paused.
- CIt represents the author's direct intervention to critique the hectic pace of modern global summits.
- DIt establishes that the speaker paused his speech to accommodate Maya's struggle to translate.
- EIt introduces a chronological flashback to a time when Maya was not working under high-pressure conditions.