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Read the passage and answer the question. 'In many villages of Kwara State, the nearest bank is a two-hour journey away, and for years farmers kept their savings in clay pots or with the village head. The arrival of mobile money agents has changed that. A farmer can now sell yams at the weekly market, receive payment on his phone, and pay his children's school fees the same afternoon without touching a single naira note. The agents themselves are usually young people who had no work before; the commission they earn on each transaction has become a livelihood. Yet the system has its weaknesses. Network failures can lock a family out of its own money for days, and a few agents have vanished with customers' deposits.' In the sentence 'The arrival of mobile money agents has changed that', the word 'that' refers to

Athe two-hour journey to the bank.
Bthe commission earned by agents.
Cthe weekly yam market.
Dthe practice of keeping savings in clay pots or with the village head.CORRECT
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Why the answer is D, and why the others tempt you.
The pronoun 'that' points back to the situation just described, namely the old way of keeping savings at home or with the village head. The distance to the bank is the reason for that practice rather than the thing that changed, and the market and the agents' commission are mentioned only later in the passage.
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