2. Read the following passage from "The Swimming Contest" in which the narrator spontaneously decides to take a holiday in an Arab village. "That evening I was invited to join the family at supper, and Abu-Nimr introduced me to the people who sat round the table: his round-faced bustling wife, who smiled into space without resting her eyes on me; his sons, aged thirteen and fifteen, who attended high school in the city; his plump, white-skinned daughter, married to a policeman who was away from home all week, and who came home loaded with a wicker basket containing a trussed pigeon.

a. fond reminders of events past

b. taking comfort in familiar food

c. sudden memories of a forgotten friend

d. building bridges across cultural differences