Read the excerpt from "The Darkling Thrush."The tangled bine-stems scored the sky, Like strings from broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh, Had sought their household fires. Which option accurately uses the word scored as it is used in this sentence?A. The soccer player ran swiftly and dodged the opposing team; skillfully, he scored the team's first goal.
B. Her gymnastics routine was filled with both skills and grace, and the judges scored her appropriately.
C. The band's first song was an instant hit; following its release the band scored numerous awards and promotional deals.
D. Cracks scored the concrete sidewalk, forcing the boys to skateboard carefully to school.

D. Cracks scored the concrete sidewalk, forcing the boys to skateboard carefully to school

Explanation:

The Darkling Thrush” is the article introduced in this question — it is a poem by Thomas Hardy the English poet and novelist.

The poem paints the picture of a world that is desolated, with the poem’s narrator and such focused on the cause of despair and hopelessness. 

The phrase ‘The tangled bine-stems scored the sky like strings of broken lyres’ is on the 5th and 6th line of the poem.

The use of the word ‘scored’ tells us what writer of the poem sees is destruction — as he stares at the ‘bine-stems. A simile indicating article "like" is key that helps compares the ‘bine-stems’ to ‘strings of broken lyres’ implying that that there is despair, no happiness, hopelessness or no music. Seems everything is just dead

Substituting "scored" with "like" in the context above we see that a"Cracks on roads like sidewalks does call for skaters to be careful.

ludwig van beethoven (/ˈlʊdvɪɡ væn ˈbeɪt(h)oʊvən/ (about this soundlisten); german: [ˈluːtvɪç fan ˈbeːthoːfn̩] (about this soundlisten); baptised 17 december 1770[1] – 26 march 1827) was a german composer and pianist. a crucial figure in the transition between the classical and romantic eras in classical music, he remains one of the most recognized and influential of all composers. his best-known compositions include 9 symphonies; 5 piano concertos; 1 violin concerto; 32 piano sonatas; 16 string quartets; a mass, the missa solemnis; and an opera,

fidelio. his career as a composer is conventionally divided into early, middle, and late periods; the "early" period is typically seen to last until 1802, the "middle" period from 1802 to 1812, and the "late" period from 1812 to his death in 1827.

beethoven was born in bonn, then the capital of the electorate of cologne and part of the holy roman empire. he displayed his musical talents at an early age and was taught by his father johann van beethoven and composer and conductor christian gottlob neefe. at the age of 21 he moved to vienna, where he began studying composition with joseph haydn and gained a reputation as a virtuoso pianist. he lived in vienna until his death.

by his late 20s his hearing began to deteriorate and by the last decade of his life he was almost completely deaf. in 1811 he gave up conducting and performing in public but continued to compose; many of his most admired works come from these last 15 years of his life, commonly known as his "late" period.