Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

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The Marrow County Public Library serves a town of fewer than 3,000 people, yet it stays busy all year. The library lends out not only books but also sewing machines, garden tools, and telescopes. ______, it runs a free tax-help desk every spring and a storytelling hour every Saturday morning.

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B. In addition. The sentence adds a second set of services to the ones already listed, so an additive transition is needed: "In addition" is correct. (A) "In contrast" wrongly treats the library's programs as opposed to its lending services, though both are examples of the same point. (C) "Therefore" wrongly presents the programs as a consequence of the lending, but nothing causes anything here. (D) "Instead" wrongly suggests the programs replace the lending services, when the library does both.

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A. In contrast — The tax desk and storytelling hour aren't opposed to lending sewing machines and telescopes; both are examples of the same point about a busy library, so contrast doesn't fit.

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C. Therefore — "Therefore" needs the second sentence to be caused by the first, but lending tools doesn't produce a tax-help desk — these services are simply added to each other.

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D. Instead — "Instead" would mean the programs replace the lending, but the library does both, so the relationship is additive.

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Answer: B. In addition

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