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A. to attach importance to
B. to measure how heavy people are
C. to place a heavy object on top something
D. to consider the consequences of something
"When his life had ended I
began to wonder about that life and also, in a new way, to be apprehensive7
about my own.
I had not known my father very well. We had got on badly, partly because we shared, in our
different fashions, the vice of stubborn pride.
When he was dead I realized that I had hardly ever spoken to him, When he had been dead a
long time I began to wish I had. It seems to be typical of life in America, where opportunities,
real and fancied, are thicker than anywhere else on the globe, that the second generation has
no time to talk to the first. No one, including my father, seems to have known exactly how old
he was, but his mother had been born during slavery. He was of the first generation of free
men. He, along with thousands of other Negroes, came North after 1919 and I was part of that
generation which had never seen the landscape of what Negroes sometimes call the Old
Country."
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The best phrase that matches the meaning of "weight" in this context is:
D. to consider the consequences of something.
In this paragraph, "weight" refers to the significance or gravity of the thoughts and reflections the narrator is experiencing about life, legacy, and relationships, particularly relating to his father. Hence, it aligns well with the idea of considering the consequences or implications of one's life and choices.
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