How does the final sentence of the passage develop the writer's ideas?

Nobody chooses the 11.40 night bus; it chooses you. It crawls out of the depot like a tired animal, its windows fogged and its seats worn smooth by years of damp coats. Yet I have come to love it. Between the shift workers dozing against the glass and the students arguing cheerfully about nothing, there is a kind of democracy you rarely find in daylight. Nobody is performing. Nobody is in a hurry, because the bus itself refuses to be. Last winter, when my own life had slowed to a standstill after losing my job, that unhurried vehicle felt less like transport than a refuge: a lit room moving through a dark city, where I was neither judged nor expected to be anywhere at all.

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: B. It moves from description to personal experience

  1. Step 1: Earlier sentences describe the bus and its passengers in general terms.
  2. Step 2: The last sentence turns personal, with the job loss, so it shows the real reason for the writer's attachment.
Answer
It moves from description to personal experience.
Why not the others: It repeats the opening sentence so the reader remembers the title of the passage: the final sentence adds new personal detail instead of repeating. It introduces a new topic about unemployment to replace the description of the bus: unemployment is used to explain the writer's feelings, not as a new topic. It summarises the arguments of the passengers heard on the bus journey: the passengers' arguments were only mentioned as background.

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