As Idrove on a peculiar change crept over the appearance of things. The alternations of night and day grew slower and slower, and so did the passage of the sun across the sky,until they seemed to stretch through centuries. This puzzled me very much at first. At last a steady twilight brooded 1 over the earth, a twilight only broken now and then when a comet glared across the dark sky.The band of light that had indicated the sun had long since disappeared; for the sun had ceased to set . rather, it grew ever broader and redder. All trace of the moon had vanished. The circling of the stars growing slower and slower had given place to creeping points of light. At last, sometime before I stopped, the sun, red and very large, halted motionless upon the horizon, a vast dome glowing with a dull heat.The earth had come to rest with one face to the sun Very cautiously, I began to reduce my progress.Slower and slower went the circling hands until the thousands dial seemed motionless and the daily dial was no longer a mere mist upon its display. Still slower, until the dim outlines of a desolate beach grew visible. I stopped very gently and sat upon the Time Machine, looking round. Overhead the sky was lurid - a deep red and starless, and south-eastward it grew brighter to a glowing scarlet where, cut by the horizon, lay the huge hull of the sun, red and motionless. The rocks about me were of a harsh reddish color, and the only trace of life that I could see at first was the onless. The rocks about me covered every projecting point on their southeastern face. It was the same rich green that 1516 171819 20 21 2223 24 25 2627 28 29 30 31 2. How do paragraphs 2-3 contribute to the description of the future? A. They describe changes in the air on Earth. B. They outline the benefits and drawbacks of the future. C. They describe changes in lighting and rotation of the Earth. D. They compare the future to other times the traveler has visited.