The best way to become a better reader is to: a) study longer and harder in every subject. b) engage in a variety of extracurricular activities. c) enrich background knowledge and vocabulary. d) limit reading to books that are interesting.

The most appropriate answer option is c) enrich background knowledge and vocabulary.

Explanation:

The best way from the given options, in my opinion, to become a better reader is to enrich background knowledge and vocabulary.

Reading is, by nature, a private and individual activity that can be carried out at any place at any hour of the time. But to become a better reader, one should try to read by developing the understanding of the content which can be achieved by enriching one's vocabulary and background knowledge.

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.

fond of fighting is the answer