PT 18 S3 Q11

     A recent generation of historians of science, far from portraying ... ...

The use of the words "any serious-minded and informed person" (lines 35-36) serves which one of the following functions in the context of the passage?
(A) to satirize chronologically earlier notions about the composition of water
(B) ...
(C) ...
(D) ...
(E) ...

*This question is included in Practice Set: History & Humanities Mix 1