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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.' The word 'Yet' at the beginning of the second-to-last sentence signals that the writer is about to

Asummarise the passage.
Bdescribe the village head.
Cintroduce a contrasting point.CORRECT
Dgive another example of the benefits.
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Why the answer is C, and why the others tempt you.
'Yet' is a contrastive connector; after listing advantages the writer uses it to turn to the weaknesses of the system. It does not introduce further benefits or a summary, and the village head is not mentioned again after the opening sentence.
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